diff --git a/day21/example1 b/day21/example1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd0db6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/day21/example1
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+...........
+...........
+...........
+...........
+...........
+.....S.....
+...........
+...........
+...........
+...........
+...........
diff --git a/day21/notes.org b/day21/notes.org
index c507e83..6a769b3 100644
--- a/day21/notes.org
+++ b/day21/notes.org
@@ -18,3 +18,24 @@ maybe if i directly pass references to prev and current,
 and manually set 'prev' to target new it will be collected?
 
 and then elements after these steps <em>26501365</em> would fit into memory?
+** i guess maybe it would help if i had 'fully saturated' field
+as my minimal 'skipping' thing
+** so. store FieldCoord(fieldRow, fieldCol) for fields which were fully saturated at current step.
+
+filter out neighbors, no need to enter fully saturated fields
+
+when counting
+on odd - around the S, on even - with S
+
+but the neighboring fields would potentially (likely?) be in different phases
+
+but i guess they are necessarily in different phases?
+or. if width odd - necessarily
+if width even - then what?
+
+then S is not in the center
+
+my input is 131 chars of width.
+so neighboring are necessarily of different phase.
+could compute phase of (0,0)
+and adjust from that
diff --git a/day21/stepCounter.go b/day21/stepCounter.go
index 7178fb4..9c62b78 100644
--- a/day21/stepCounter.go
+++ b/day21/stepCounter.go
@@ -22,14 +22,13 @@ func Run() int {
 	// 	field.PrintCoord(reachableBySteps, 1)
 	// }
 
-	steps := 1000
-	reachableBySteps := field.ReachableBySteps(steps, map[Coord]any{
-		Coord{Row: field.RowStart, Col: field.ColStart}: struct{}{},
+	steps := 100 
+	reachableBySteps := field.ReachableBySteps(steps, map[FieldPoint]any{
+		FieldPoint{
+			InField: Coord{Row: field.RowStart, Col: field.ColStart},
+		}: struct{}{},
 	})
 
-	log.Print("reachable after steps : ", steps, len(reachableBySteps))
-	field.PrintCoord(reachableBySteps, 1)
-
 	return len(reachableBySteps)
 }
 
@@ -44,12 +43,16 @@ type Field struct {
 }
 
 type Coord struct {
-	Row, Col           int
-	FieldRow, FieldCol int // 0 by default is good
+	Row, Col int
 }
 
-func (f Field) ReachableBySteps(n int, startingAt map[Coord]any) map[Coord]any {
-	if n % 100 == 0 {
+type FieldPoint struct {
+	InField   Coord
+	MetaField Coord
+}
+
+func (f Field) ReachableBySteps(n int, startingAt map[FieldPoint]any) map[FieldPoint]any {
+	if n%100 == 0 {
 		log.Println("going step: ", n)
 	}
 	if n == 0 {
@@ -57,43 +60,48 @@ func (f Field) ReachableBySteps(n int, startingAt map[Coord]any) map[Coord]any {
 	}
 	// else collect directly available
 
-	oneStepExpanded := make(map[Coord]any)
+	oneStepExpanded := make(map[FieldPoint]any)
 	for cur := range startingAt {
 		for _, neighbor := range f.Neighbors(cur) {
 			oneStepExpanded[neighbor] = struct{}{}
 		}
 	}
 
+	if n < 4 {
+		log.Print("reachable after steps : ", n, len(oneStepExpanded))
+		f.PrintCoord(oneStepExpanded, 5)
+	}
+
 	return f.ReachableBySteps(n-1, oneStepExpanded)
 }
 
-func (f Field) Neighbors(c Coord) (resut []Coord) {
-	closeCoords := []Coord{
-		{Row: c.Row + 1, Col: c.Col, FieldRow: c.FieldRow, FieldCol: c.FieldCol},
-		{Row: c.Row - 1, Col: c.Col, FieldRow: c.FieldRow, FieldCol: c.FieldCol},
-		{Row: c.Row, Col: c.Col + 1, FieldRow: c.FieldRow, FieldCol: c.FieldCol},
-		{Row: c.Row, Col: c.Col - 1, FieldRow: c.FieldRow, FieldCol: c.FieldCol},
+func (f Field) Neighbors(c FieldPoint) (resut []FieldPoint) {
+	closeCoords := []FieldPoint{
+		{InField: Coord{Row: c.InField.Row + 1, Col: c.InField.Col}, MetaField: c.MetaField},
+		{InField: Coord{Row: c.InField.Row - 1, Col: c.InField.Col}, MetaField: c.MetaField},
+		{InField: Coord{Row: c.InField.Row, Col: c.InField.Col + 1}, MetaField: c.MetaField},
+		{InField: Coord{Row: c.InField.Row, Col: c.InField.Col - 1}, MetaField: c.MetaField},
 	}
 
 	for i, close := range closeCoords {
 		height := len(f.symbols)
 		width := len(f.symbols[0])
-		if close.Row == height {
-			close.Row = 0
-			close.FieldRow += 1
+		if close.InField.Row == height {
+			close.InField.Row = 0
+			close.MetaField.Row += 1
 		}
-		if close.Row == -1 {
-			close.Row = height - 1
-			close.FieldRow -= 1
+		if close.InField.Row == -1 {
+			close.InField.Row = height - 1
+			close.MetaField.Row -= 1
 		}
-		if close.Col == width {
-			close.Col = 0
-			close.FieldCol += 1
+		if close.InField.Col == width {
+			close.InField.Col = 0
+			close.MetaField.Col += 1
 		}
-		if close.Col == -1 {
+		if close.InField.Col == -1 {
 			// log.Printf("moving COL to lefter field from %d to %d", close.Col, width-1)
-			close.Col = width - 1
-			close.FieldCol -= 1
+			close.InField.Col = width - 1
+			close.MetaField.Col -= 1
 		}
 		closeCoords[i] = close
 		// but this is not it. i need to store the XX and YY
@@ -101,8 +109,8 @@ func (f Field) Neighbors(c Coord) (resut []Coord) {
 	}
 
 	for _, close := range closeCoords {
-		if f.ValidCoord(close.Row, close.Col) {
-			symb := f.symbols[close.Row][close.Col]
+		if f.ValidCoord(close.InField.Row, close.InField.Col) {
+			symb := f.symbols[close.InField.Row][close.InField.Col]
 			if symb == '.' || symb == 'S' {
 				resut = append(resut, close)
 
@@ -158,7 +166,7 @@ func ReadField(filename string) (result Field) {
 	return
 }
 
-func (f Field) PrintCoord(coords map[Coord]any, expandByField int) {
+func (f Field) PrintCoord(coords map[FieldPoint]any, expandByField int) {
 
 	for fieldRow := -expandByField; fieldRow <= expandByField; fieldRow++ {
 		lines := make([]string, len(f.symbols))
@@ -166,8 +174,8 @@ func (f Field) PrintCoord(coords map[Coord]any, expandByField int) {
 
 			for rowNum, row := range f.symbols {
 				for colNum, col := range row {
-					_, marked := coords[Coord{Row: rowNum, Col: colNum,
-						FieldRow: fieldRow, FieldCol: fieldCol}]
+					_, marked := coords[FieldPoint{InField: Coord{Row: rowNum, Col: colNum},
+						MetaField: Coord{Row: fieldRow, Col: fieldCol}}]
 					if marked {
 						lines[rowNum] += "O"
 					} else {