# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M3DVSXRA7WF9SGAYF49YX36Z.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3DVSXRA7WF9SGAYF49YX36Z
title: Tools, and the hands that use them
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-26
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
With dangers in the world, colonists needed things to hold and a way to fight back. This part added a workbench, the first handmade items, and bodies that differ in strength and speed.



## A workbench with a to-do list

The **crafting station** works like RimWorld's: you give it a queue of orders, called bills. Pick a known recipe, say how many (or "forever"), and anyone with the crafting duty fetches the materials and works through the list in order. Finished items are set down beside the bench for someone to carry away.



The first recipes are simple, and some lead into others:

- **Stone knife**: two stones
- **Twine**: the inner bark of two sticks, twisted together
- **Rope**: two lengths of twine
- **Thatch**: two lengths of twine, for roofing later

## Strong or quick

Colonists gained two more characteristics. **Strength** makes their blows hurt more and lets them carry more. **Agility** makes them faster on their feet and better at dodging. Put together with intelligence and the other skills, no two colonists play the same.

## Taking control

When an animal needs dealing with, you can **draft** a colonist: they drop their plan and take your direct orders, such as attacking something, until you release them. Attacks can miss. An animal's chance to land a bite depends on how dangerous it is; a colonist's depends on their own ability.



Next: a new way to see the colony at a glance.

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*Drafted by claude-opus, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
```
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