diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index a68af1d8..239b6a06 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -1362,9 +1362,12 @@ Three traps that slice paid for, all transferable:
   guard, not the correctness gate.
 
 **One TypeScript file in a ported directory was ported for a reason that is not
-obvious.** `cliffConnections.ts` has **zero `src/` consumers** - only 23
-investigation specs import it - so that #84's cliff investigation can be run
-against the engine.
+obvious.** `cliffConnections.ts` has **zero consumers of any kind** since #360 deleted the
+23 investigation specs that imported it. It is kept as the human-readable
+reference `crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/connections.rs` cites as its source, so
+that #84's cliff investigation can still be run against the engine. The
+type-checker still covers it, because `tsconfig.json` includes `src/**/*` by
+glob rather than by reachability.
 
 #### The three tiers, and what each one cannot see
 
diff --git a/src/model/elevationPreviewCtx.ts b/src/model/elevationPreviewCtx.ts
index c99d6353..3a6e3a24 100644
--- a/src/model/elevationPreviewCtx.ts
+++ b/src/model/elevationPreviewCtx.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import type { Point } from "../noise/distanceFromNearestPoint";
 import type { VulcanusResourceControls } from "../noise/eval/ctx";
 import { readMapType } from "./mapType";
 import { readResourceControls, readVulcanusResourceControls } from "./resourceReads";
-import type { ResourceControlLevers } from "../noise/resources/resolveResource";
+import type { ResourceControlLevers } from "../noise/resources/resourceCatalog";
 import type { Preset } from "./types";
 import { ENEMY_CONTROL_NAME, type EnemyControls } from "../noise/enemies/enemyCatalog";
 import {
diff --git a/src/model/resourceReads.ts b/src/model/resourceReads.ts
index c8d66d73..3694e9fd 100644
--- a/src/model/resourceReads.ts
+++ b/src/model/resourceReads.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  */
 import type { AutoplaceSetting } from "./types";
 import type { VulcanusResourceControls, VulcanusResourceLevers } from "../noise/eval/ctx";
-import type { ResourceControlLevers } from "../noise/resources/resolveResource";
+import type { ResourceControlLevers } from "../noise/resources/resourceCatalog";
 import { RESOURCE_CATALOG } from "../noise/resources/resourceCatalog";
 
 const DEFAULT_LEVERS: ResourceControlLevers = { frequency: 1, size: 1, richness: 1 };
diff --git a/src/noise/cliffs/cliffCatalog.ts b/src/noise/cliffs/cliffCatalog.ts
index e2a85d81..4b779b8d 100644
--- a/src/noise/cliffs/cliffCatalog.ts
+++ b/src/noise/cliffs/cliffCatalog.ts
@@ -427,3 +427,21 @@ export function cliffCollisionTileBox(
     bottom: Math.floor(centerY + b),
   };
 }
+
+/**
+ * The Vulcanus tiles whose `CollisionMask` shares a layer with the cliff's, so a
+ * cliff whose collision box touches one is never placed.
+ *
+ * `tile_collision_masks.lava()` sets `water_tile = true` and the cliff mask
+ * holds `water_tile`; no other Vulcanus tile does. Notably
+ * `volcanic-jagged-ground` - the tile the ore patches paint, which the Lua
+ * itself labels "CLIFF TILE" - is `tile_collision_masks.ground()`, which the
+ * cliff mask does not touch, so ore does NOT exclude cliffs. That distinction is
+ * the whole reason the earlier ore-separation work correctly found no exclusion
+ * rule while this one exists.
+ *
+ * Lives here rather than beside the Vulcanus renderer because that renderer is
+ * deleted by #227 and this rule is not. The Rust carries the same pair inlined
+ * at `crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/vulcanus_fields.rs:218`.
+ */
+export const VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(["lava", "lava-hot"]);
diff --git a/src/noise/cliffs/cliffConnections.ts b/src/noise/cliffs/cliffConnections.ts
index e59f7c15..d735fc4c 100644
--- a/src/noise/cliffs/cliffConnections.ts
+++ b/src/noise/cliffs/cliffConnections.ts
@@ -120,8 +120,9 @@
  * | `oppositeSide` | immediate `0x01000302` | `N<->S`, `E<->W` |
  * | `destroyEnd` | 4 jump tables under `0x102cfc9db` | `side -> none`, else destroy |
  *
- * `test/cliffConnections.spec.ts` re-derives all four from the names and asserts
- * they match, so a transcription slip fails rather than shifts the model.
+ * `crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/connections.rs` re-derives all four from the names
+ * and asserts they match, so a transcription slip fails rather than shifts the
+ * model. The TypeScript spec that used to do this went with #227.
  */
 
 import {
@@ -131,7 +132,22 @@ import {
   CLIFF_GRID_SIZE,
   CLIFF_ORIENTATION_NAMES,
 } from "./cliffCatalog";
-import type { PlacedCliffCell } from "./cliffPlacement";
+
+/**
+ * A placed cliff: the cell centre, plus the 8-bit edge-crossing `code` it was
+ * placed by. The code is carried out rather than discarded because it is the
+ * only thing that names the cliff's ORIENTATION, and therefore its collision
+ * box - `cliffOrientationForCode(code)` in `cliffCatalog.ts`.
+ *
+ * Inlined from `cliffPlacement.ts`, which #227 deletes. This module is kept as
+ * the reference `crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/connections.rs` cites, so it must
+ * not import anything that deletion removes.
+ */
+export interface PlacedCliffCell {
+  readonly x: number;
+  readonly y: number;
+  readonly code: number;
+}
 
 /**
  * `CellSide`, in the engine's enum order. Read off `getNeighborPosition`
@@ -310,8 +326,8 @@ export interface CliffConnectionOptions {
  * `<= 0x31`, so during a real generation sweep a cliff pointing into a
  * not-yet-generated chunk keeps its end, and this model destroys it. It is
  * therefore an UPPER bound on how much the rule removes - see
- * `test/cliffConnections.spec.ts`, which is what measures whether that bound is
- * tight.
+ * `crates/fmw-noise/src/fixtures.rs`, which runs over the same fixture and is
+ * what measures whether that bound is tight.
  */
 export function applyCliffConnections(
   cells: readonly PlacedCliffCell[],
diff --git a/src/noise/preview/elevationRenderRequest.ts b/src/noise/preview/elevationRenderRequest.ts
index 28f6177d..c838dec2 100644
--- a/src/noise/preview/elevationRenderRequest.ts
+++ b/src/noise/preview/elevationRenderRequest.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import type { EnemyControls } from "../enemies/enemyCatalog";
 import type { Planet } from "../../model/planets";
 import { PLACEMENT_MARK_RADIUS_PX } from "../placement/placementRoll";
 import { NAUVIS_MAX_STARTING_POINTS } from "../wasm/request";
-import type { ResourceControlLevers } from "../resources/resolveResource";
+import type { ResourceControlLevers } from "../resources/resourceCatalog";
 import type { RockControls } from "../rocks/rockCatalog";
 import { renderCliffs } from "./renderCliffs";
 import { renderElevation } from "./renderElevation";
diff --git a/src/noise/preview/palette.ts b/src/noise/preview/palette.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d607616c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/noise/preview/palette.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/**
+ * Colours the map preview paints with, kept apart from the renderers so they
+ * outlive them. #227 deletes the TypeScript renderers these were declared in;
+ * the Rust engine now does the painting and these values are what the surviving
+ * parity specs grade its output against.
+ *
+ * Deliberately an independent copy of the Rust constants rather than a read of
+ * them - a spec that imported the engine's own numbers would assert nothing.
+ * The mirrors are `crates/fmw-wasm/src/render.rs:156` and `:159` for the
+ * elevation pair, and `crates/fmw-noise/src/trees/catalog.rs:69` for the tree
+ * colour. Rust stores RGB and writes the alpha separately.
+ */
+
+/** RGBA for water (elevation < 0) and land, as [r, g, b, a] byte tuples. */
+export const WATER_RGBA: readonly [number, number, number, number] = [40, 90, 150, 255];
+export const LAND_RGBA: readonly [number, number, number, number] = [70, 120, 60, 255];
+
+/** `{0.19, 0.39, 0.19}` in 8-bit - utility-constants.lua:201. */
+export const TREE_MAP_COLOR: readonly [number, number, number] = [48, 99, 48];
diff --git a/src/noise/preview/renderElevation.ts b/src/noise/preview/renderElevation.ts
index 87dd7a13..9458edf2 100644
--- a/src/noise/preview/renderElevation.ts
+++ b/src/noise/preview/renderElevation.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 import { makeElevationLakes, type ElevationLakesParams } from "../expressions/elevationLakes";
 import { makeElevationNauvis } from "../expressions/elevationNauvis";
 import { makeElevationIsland } from "../expressions/elevationIsland";
-
-/** RGBA for water (elevation < 0) and land, as [r, g, b, a] byte tuples. */
-export const WATER_RGBA: [number, number, number, number] = [40, 90, 150, 255];
-export const LAND_RGBA: [number, number, number, number] = [70, 120, 60, 255];
+import { LAND_RGBA, WATER_RGBA } from "./palette";
 
 export interface RenderElevationOptions {
   /** Map seed (= map_seed / seed0). Callers resolve a null "random" seed first. */
diff --git a/src/noise/preview/renderResources.ts b/src/noise/preview/renderResources.ts
index a096416c..468f1ae5 100644
--- a/src/noise/preview/renderResources.ts
+++ b/src/noise/preview/renderResources.ts
@@ -66,13 +66,9 @@ import {
   makePlacementSet,
 } from "../placement/placementRoll";
 import type { PlacementCollisionBox } from "../placement/placementRoll";
-import { RESOURCE_CATALOG } from "../resources/resourceCatalog";
+import { RESOURCE_CATALOG, type ResourceControlLevers } from "../resources/resourceCatalog";
 import { makeResourcePatches } from "../resources/resourcePatches";
-import {
-  comparePriority,
-  makeResourceResolver,
-  type ResourceControlLevers,
-} from "../resources/resolveResource";
+import { comparePriority, makeResourceResolver } from "../resources/resolveResource";
 import { makeTileResolver } from "../tiles/resolve";
 import { paintMark } from "./renderCliffs";
 
diff --git a/src/noise/preview/renderTrees.ts b/src/noise/preview/renderTrees.ts
index c7f5bd9a..2d9b5f0e 100644
--- a/src/noise/preview/renderTrees.ts
+++ b/src/noise/preview/renderTrees.ts
@@ -41,9 +41,8 @@
  */
 import { WATER_TILE_COLORS } from "./renderResources";
 import { makeTreeDensity, type TreeFieldParams } from "../trees/treeField";
+import { TREE_MAP_COLOR } from "./palette";
 
-/** `{0.19, 0.39, 0.19}` in 8-bit - utility-constants.lua:201. */
-export const TREE_MAP_COLOR: readonly [number, number, number] = [48, 99, 48];
 /** The alpha component of the same constant: fully-forested tiles blend at 40%. */
 export const TREE_MAX_ALPHA = 0.4;
 
diff --git a/src/noise/preview/renderVulcanusCliffs.ts b/src/noise/preview/renderVulcanusCliffs.ts
index b3b06368..d2197a67 100644
--- a/src/noise/preview/renderVulcanusCliffs.ts
+++ b/src/noise/preview/renderVulcanusCliffs.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import type { EvalCtxInput } from "../eval/ctx";
 import { withCtxDefaults } from "../eval/ctx";
 import { makeCliffPlacementFromFields } from "../cliffs/cliffPlacement";
+import { VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES } from "../cliffs/cliffCatalog";
 import {
   VULCANUS_CLIFF_ELEVATION_0,
   VULCANUS_CLIFF_ELEVATION_INTERVAL,
@@ -40,20 +41,6 @@ import {
   makeVulcanusTileResolverFrom,
 } from "../tiles/vulcanusCatalog";
 
-/**
- * The Vulcanus tiles whose `CollisionMask` shares a layer with the cliff's, so a
- * cliff whose collision box touches one is never placed.
- *
- * `tile_collision_masks.lava()` sets `water_tile = true` and the cliff mask
- * holds `water_tile`; no other Vulcanus tile does. Notably
- * `volcanic-jagged-ground` - the tile the ore patches paint, which the Lua
- * itself labels "CLIFF TILE" - is `tile_collision_masks.ground()`, which the
- * cliff mask does not touch, so ore does NOT exclude cliffs. That distinction is
- * the whole reason the earlier ore-separation work correctly found no exclusion
- * rule while this one exists.
- */
-export const VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(["lava", "lava-hot"]);
-
 export interface RenderVulcanusCliffsOptions {
   readonly seed0: number;
   /** World tile at the top-left pixel. Default (0, 0). */
diff --git a/src/noise/resources/resolveResource.ts b/src/noise/resources/resolveResource.ts
index ff0c1244..dc9a2a1e 100644
--- a/src/noise/resources/resolveResource.ts
+++ b/src/noise/resources/resolveResource.ts
@@ -22,14 +22,11 @@
  */
 import type { Point } from "../distanceFromNearestPoint";
 import { makeResourcePatches, type ResourcePatches } from "./resourcePatches";
-import { RESOURCE_CATALOG, type ResourceParams } from "./resourceCatalog";
-
-/** control:<res>:frequency|size|richness levers for one resource. */
-export interface ResourceControlLevers {
-  readonly frequency: number;
-  readonly size: number;
-  readonly richness: number;
-}
+import {
+  RESOURCE_CATALOG,
+  type ResourceControlLevers,
+  type ResourceParams,
+} from "./resourceCatalog";
 
 export interface ResourceResolverCtx {
   readonly seed0: number;
diff --git a/src/noise/resources/resourceCatalog.ts b/src/noise/resources/resourceCatalog.ts
index 0d5f7218..c5e6f92b 100644
--- a/src/noise/resources/resourceCatalog.ts
+++ b/src/noise/resources/resourceCatalog.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ export interface ResourceParams {
  */
 export type ResourcePlacement = "threshold" | "roll";
 
+/** control:<res>:frequency|size|richness levers for one resource. */
+export interface ResourceControlLevers {
+  readonly frequency: number;
+  readonly size: number;
+  readonly richness: number;
+}
+
 /** map_color (0..1) -> 0..255, rounded, matching the game's preview tint. */
 function color255(r: number, g: number, b: number): readonly [number, number, number] {
   return [Math.round(r * 255), Math.round(g * 255), Math.round(b * 255)];
diff --git a/test/cliffCatalog.spec.ts b/test/cliffCatalog.spec.ts
index 092d852d..629582b7 100644
--- a/test/cliffCatalog.spec.ts
+++ b/test/cliffCatalog.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vite-plus/test";
 import {
   CLIFF_MAP_COLOR,
+  VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES,
   getModifiedElevationInterval,
   getModifiedRichness,
   isCliffPlaced,
@@ -46,3 +47,13 @@ describe("cliff orientation predicate", () => {
     ]);
   });
 });
+
+// #360 deleted the block in cliffOreDirection.spec.ts that pinned this literal.
+// The set survives and two specs still read it, so the value is re-pinned here.
+// The Rust holds the same pair inlined twice, at
+// `crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/vulcanus_fields.rs:218` and `fixtures.rs`.
+describe("VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES", () => {
+  it("is exactly the two lava tiles", () => {
+    expect([...VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES].sort()).toEqual(["lava", "lava-hot"]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/cliffOreLeverTileConfound.spec.ts b/test/cliffOreLeverTileConfound.spec.ts
index 33b18b3d..7c83b980 100644
--- a/test/cliffOreLeverTileConfound.spec.ts
+++ b/test/cliffOreLeverTileConfound.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vite-plus/test";
 
 import lever from "./fixtures/oracle-vulcanus-tile-lever.seed123456.json";
-import { VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES } from "../src/noise/preview/renderVulcanusCliffs";
+import { VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES } from "../src/noise/cliffs/cliffCatalog";
 import { makeVulcanusTileResolver } from "../src/noise/tiles/vulcanusCatalog";
 import { DEFAULT_VULCANUS_RESOURCE_CONTROLS } from "../src/noise/eval/ctx";
 
diff --git a/test/multisampleChannelAudit.spec.ts b/test/multisampleChannelAudit.spec.ts
index 1b42882b..9e901530 100644
--- a/test/multisampleChannelAudit.spec.ts
+++ b/test/multisampleChannelAudit.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vite-plus/test";
 
 import fixture from "./fixtures/oracle-vulcanus-tile-names.seed123456.json";
-import { VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES } from "../src/noise/preview/renderVulcanusCliffs";
+import { VULCANUS_CLIFF_BLOCKING_TILES } from "../src/noise/cliffs/cliffCatalog";
 import {
   makeVulcanusStack,
   makeVulcanusTileResolverFrom,
diff --git a/test/wasmElevationRenderParity.spec.ts b/test/wasmElevationRenderParity.spec.ts
index 8b8cde72..edd024f2 100644
--- a/test/wasmElevationRenderParity.spec.ts
+++ b/test/wasmElevationRenderParity.spec.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {
   runRenderRequest,
   type ElevationRenderRequest,
 } from "../src/noise/preview/elevationRenderRequest";
-import { LAND_RGBA, WATER_RGBA } from "../src/noise/preview/renderElevation";
+import { LAND_RGBA, WATER_RGBA } from "../src/noise/preview/palette";
 
 /**
  * Tier 3 for the ELEVATION view (#227): the Rust engine's elevation render
diff --git a/test/wasmNauvisRenderParity.spec.ts b/test/wasmNauvisRenderParity.spec.ts
index d192d037..c7bfc627 100644
--- a/test/wasmNauvisRenderParity.spec.ts
+++ b/test/wasmNauvisRenderParity.spec.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import {
   runRenderRequest,
   type ElevationRenderRequest,
 } from "../src/noise/preview/elevationRenderRequest";
-import { TREE_MAP_COLOR } from "../src/noise/preview/renderTrees";
+import { TREE_MAP_COLOR } from "../src/noise/preview/palette";
 import { planTiles } from "../src/noise/preview/tiling";
 
 /**