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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M3Q9Q810DSKAFJPFKER137GJ.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3Q9Q810DSKAFJPFKER137GJ
title: The year turns
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-29
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Farcamp has a calendar now. A new world starts on the first morning of spring, and the year runs through summer, autumn and winter before coming back round. It's a short year: each month lasts ten days, one turn of the moon, and each season is two months, so a whole year is eighty days.



**Warm and cold.** The seasons show up first as temperature. Summer is warm and dry, autumn cools, and winter drops well below freezing. That feeds straight into what colonists already worry about: staying warm at night, and how fast food goes off. Summer has its own cost, too: above 26°C, colonists get thirsty faster.

**Everything grows at its own pace.** Grass and food plants regrow over time, fastest in spring and slower as the year cools. Each plant species also has its own feel for the cold, which you find out by studying it. Cold-hardy plants keep growing through winter, warm-season plants nearly stop, and temperate ones sit in between.

**And then it snows.** When the weather turns wet in the freezing months, the rain becomes snow. Slow flakes drift down and dust the ground and the tops of trees and plants.





For now the snow is only for looking at: water doesn't freeze, and deep snow doesn't slow anyone down. If you'd rather not have it, it can be switched off or turned down in the graphics settings. And in this first version spring, summer and autumn look the same on screen: the difference between them is in the temperature and the growing, not the colour of the land.



## Open questions

- Should the land change colour with the seasons, green in spring and gold in autumn?
- Should winter freeze the lakes, and let food keep for longer in the cold?
- What should deep snow do: slow colonists down, hide tracks, bury what's left outside?

*Updated 2026-09-29 · [previous version](/projects/01M3B70Q318G1G8N0NSV63ME5X/journal/01M3PQNZKFFZ36Z9VN90BH6BXB)*

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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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