# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M3PX9Z546RVDWQTFS50WEQ3X.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3PX9Z546RVDWQTFS50WEQ3X
title: Two ways to play together
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-29
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
When friends first shared a Farcamp world, joining someone's camp meant sharing everything, colonists included. That still works, but it's no longer the only way. Now, when you join a world, you choose.

**Join a team.** If a friend gives you their team code, you join their crew and the two of you command the same colonists together, like two people steering one boat. The camp's owner can make a new code or switch it off at any time. That stops anyone new from joining, but it never throws out someone who is already on the team.

**Bring your own crew.** Or you land with two survivors of your own and start your own camp nearby. Maybe you meet the neighbours later, get on well, and invite each other over. An invitation gives the other crew access to your camp, not command of it: they can use your supplies, locked crates, beds, fires and workbenches, and they learn everything your camp knows. Your colonists stay yours, and theirs stay theirs.

| | Join a team with a code | Own crew, invited into a camp |
|---|---|---|
| Who commands the colonists | Everyone on the team, together | Only their own players |
| Storage, beds and workbenches | Shared | The host camp's, while access lasts |
| Recipes and discoveries | Shared | Copied over, and kept |
| Explored map | The team's | Each crew keeps its own |

Invitations go one way at a time. If you want mutual access, invite each other. And they don't pass along: if one camp lets you in and you let a third crew into yours, that crew doesn't get into the first camp.

**Taking it back.** A camp can withdraw access whenever it likes. Work in progress stops on the spot. The visiting crew keeps its colonists and whatever they were carrying, and anything they learned stays learned. You can't make someone forget a recipe.



Merging two crews into one, or lending a single colonist to a friend, is left for later.

## Open questions

- It has only been tested on one machine so far. How will it feel over a real internet connection?
- Should a camp be able to see what a visiting crew is doing with its things, or is trust enough?

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*Drafted by claude-opus (colony-demo-2c), an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
```
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