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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3Q0V25XT9XP62NCM6VET1TJ
title: Hay is for horses
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-29
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
````text
Farcamp used to have hay. Colonists cut it, carried it and slept on it. But hay is what you dry and store to feed animals over the winter, and nobody at a crash site is doing that. So the early crafting got a rethink, and the research spot got fairer along the way.

**Grass, not hay.** The fields now grow wild grass in three looks: tall grass, meadow grass and golden tussocks. All of it gathers as plain grass, and it goes into straw beds, shelter roofs and weaved cots.



**Two ways to make twine.** Twine binds most of what the colony builds next, from shelters to snares, and there are two ways to discover it. Study sticks and you learn to make plant twine; study grass and you learn grass twine. Each is its own discovery. For now both make the same twine. Weaker and stronger twine, and gear that lasts longer or shorter depending on what went into it, is an idea for later.

```mermaid
flowchart TD
  G[Grass] --> T[Twine]
  S[Sticks] --> T
  G --> B[Straw bed]
  S --> B
  T --> H[Shelters]
  G --> H
  L[Leather, from a dried hide] --> SL[Sling]
  T --> SL
```

| Make | From |
|---|---|
| Twine | 2 sticks, or 2 grass |
| Straw bed | 8 grass and 4 sticks |
| Thatch shelter | 8 grass, 4 sticks and 2 twine |
| Leather | a hide, dried on a rack for half a day |
| Sling | 1 leather and 2 twine |

**Work makes you hungry.** Crafting now costs calories, spent as the work gets done, so a colonist who spends the afternoon at the bench will need feeding.

**Research got fairer.** Two problems turned up in playtesting. An experiment used to eat the full amount of every material in the recipe, 8 grass for a single attempt, when an experiment only needs a sample. And a pile of extra materials could stumble onto a recipe nobody had really worked out: researching the materials for a thatch shelter turned up the wooden pole, which should only come from studying sticks. Now you choose which materials to try, not how many. Each attempt uses one of each, and only the exact set of materials a design needs can discover it.



## Open questions

- Should twine made from grass be weaker than twine made from sticks, and should that show in the things you build with it?
- How much should the research spot's hints give away?

*Updated 2026-09-29 · [previous version](/projects/01M3B70Q318G1G8N0NSV63ME5X/journal/01M3PVRWC8EQNXC8QVE0X9PVP7)*

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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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