Good progress, a little slower than I'd like, but getting there - can now track entities position and render them on the local or global map, and interact with them. Only interaction right now is modal popups, but it's minimally effective for now. Added a town with the lovely ⌂ Unicode glyph.
I'm a bit worried that I'm almost 3 full days in, and don't have any enemies or the core gameplay loop yet, so that's priority # 1 for today. Immediate goal is to spawn birds at random, and have them fly away when the player approaches. Lots of tricky/fun math around the probability and density of critter spawns, respawn/despawn, etc.