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title: Torus case study · simbolik
description: "Torus, an encyclopedia for X4: Foundations built on the same design system as simbolik.ai. 1,745 entries, 8 tools, and every count derived from the game's own files. Nobody commissioned it."
project: Torus
statement: Every count across its 1,745 entries is worked out from the game's files, none typed by hand.
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  alt: "The Torus logo beside a Xenon H destroyer among asteroids, under its encyclopedia card: the ship's tags, loadout and compare, and its description."
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  - src: images/work/torus-gallery-image-1.webp
    alt: The 8 Torus tools as cards, each marked alpha or beta, around a chart of wares ranked by margin, meat first at 58%.
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    alt: "The Torus home page: the encyclopedia's search, its categories around it."
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    alt: "A Torus entry, the Xenon H destroyer: its picture, its contents and its data record."
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  title: Building dashboards, tables or catalogs?
  lede: I build the design system they need, and set it up so your AI tools can build from it too.
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# Torus. 1,745 entries, no count typed by hand.

Torus is an encyclopedia for the space game X4: Foundations, built on the same design system as simbolik.ai. Nobody commissioned it. I built it to test the system away from home, under dense data.

## The same system, *a different job.*

### The question

- A design system only proves itself away from the site it was made for
- Far more data than a studio site, and tools that compute from it

### The build

- Data extracted from the game's own files, so every count on the wiki is derived, never typed
- 8 interactive tools on that data: station production calculator, ship loadout, production chain explorer, research planner, equipment browser, ware profit finder, map explorer and compare tool
- A consistency checker that fails the build on one broken link, or when 2 copies of a fact disagree

## Check it yourself.

The wiki is live, and every number above can be checked on it.

[Open Torus](https://torus.simbolik.ai/x4/)