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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3Q795S343M45QP8M8ZYNGBA
title: Blood trails and timber
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-29
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Two things out in the wild got a little more real: what happens when you wound an animal, and what a tree is actually worth.

**A wounded animal slows down.** Animals now take injuries the same way colonists do. A spear, an arrow or another animal's bite takes health, and the wound keeps bleeding for a while before it clots, leaving a trail of blood behind. Armoured animals take less damage and bleed less. And the worse the wound, the slower the animal runs: at about half its health lost, it moves at about half speed, and it never drops below about a third. So a hunter who lands one good hit no longer has to outrun a healthy deer. They can follow the trail and catch up.



An animal that bleeds out leaves an ordinary carcass, and one that gets away and sleeps it off slowly heals. Inspect an animal to see its injury, how fast it's bleeding and how much it's slowed.

**Not every tree is the same.** Trees in the landscape can now be chopped into logs, once someone has studied them, by a colonist carrying a stone axe. But trees differ. Each one gets its own rarity and quality when the world is made, and the better the tree, the more logs it gives and the more skill it takes to fell. That skill is **Plants**, and it grows a little with every log chopped.

| Tree | How often | Plants needed | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | most trees | 0 to 10 | 6 to 10 |
| Uncommon | about 1 in 4 | 25 to 35 | 10 to 14 |
| Rare | about 1 in 8 | 50 to 60 | 16 to 20 |
| Exceptional | about 3 in 100 | 75 to 85 | 24 to 28 |

Fallen deadwood needs no skill at all, so a beginner can practise on that first.



For now a log is a log: wood from an exceptional tree doesn't yet make a sturdier bow or shelter than wood from a common one.

## Open questions

- Should rare timber make better tools and buildings, and should you be able to tell a rare tree from a common one before you study it?
- Should some wounded animals turn and fight instead of running?

*Updated 2026-09-29 · [previous version](/projects/01M3B70Q318G1G8N0NSV63ME5X/journal/01M3PZMFSAT89KEGDCZ1EEJ421)*

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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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