You wake about 4 m from the camp ring, and it is no longer an empty circle lost in knee-high grass. It holds a cold lay of 8 sticks, with 3 sticks, tinder and chert beside it, on a trampled bare patch (a 2.5 m disc), so the stones and the laid sticks show from where you stand. The lay and the kit belong to the camp, like the ring: you still start with empty hands.
Press E on the ring and you gather the tinder and a stick and kneel to the drill. Tap E to spin it, or work A and D as before; the tinder nest now shows beside the board. In a check run, E alone lit the fire 15 s after the first tap. R and Shift+R still work. The fire burns on dirt inside the stones instead of in dry grass, and every fire ring clears the same patch.
Walk 30 m or more from a lit fire and its smoke column keeps rising and fading, where it used to vanish after about 50 seconds.
Still rough: the edge of the clearing is sharp, the kit beside the ring is hard to make out from where you wake, and up close the flames still read as sheets over a hard-edged gray bed. A round of experiments on the fire’s look is built and switched off.
