# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M3F3387G3SY4G4TGX9F0M111.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3F3387G3SY4G4TGX9F0M111
title: Don't eat the blue berries
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-26
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Research made colonists curious. This part made them hungry and unsure. The land is full of food, and you can't tell which of it will make you sick.



## Food you can't trust

Plants are now made fresh for every world, each with its own colour, fruit, shape and qualities. Some are good food. Some are poisonous. Nothing about the look gives it away, so a blue berry bush that was safe last game may not be this game.

To keep a little memory across worlds, every plant the game invents is saved, and new worlds mix some of those back in with brand-new ones.

Until someone identifies a plant, all anyone knows is what it looks like: an *unknown blue berry bush*. Obvious food like berries can still be picked without studying the plant first, which is where the risk comes in. If someone eats them and gets sick, the colony learns something, just not enough: it's now an *unknown poisonous blue berry bush*.



By default, colonists only eat food they know is safe. When they're starving, that's your call: order them to eat the unknown berries and hope.

## Studying things takes brains

Everything now has a value: how rare it is and how much it's worth. The richer a plant, the sharper the mind needed to identify it. A colonist who isn't clever enough simply can't. It's meant to push you into hard choices, not let you study everything and play it safe.

The same idea shapes research. Simple recipes made from common materials are easier to discover than complex ones, and a better research table, built from logs, improves the odds and unlocks harder discoveries.

## Clues, not answers

The research spot used to list how many discoveries were possible from a combination of materials, which gave the game away. Now it gives a hint instead: this looks promising, or it's hard to see a useful next step with these materials.



And when someone does discover or identify something, you know about it: a pop-up tells you what was found, with a short sound, whether it came from research or from studying something out in the world.

Next: hunting.

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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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