# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M3R3D13SY37CGX1P2NMS7WP1.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3R3D13SY37CGX1P2NMS7WP1
title: A proper workbench
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-30
replies: 0 public
```
link: https://opensystems.app/projects/farcamp/journal/01M3R3D13SY37CGX1P2NMS7WP1
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journal: https://opensystems.app/projects/farcamp/journal?format=agent
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Research is the heart of Farcamp: nobody tells you what anything makes, so you find out by trying. Until now you did that through a small panel of settings. Now the research spot opens a full-screen workbench, and experimenting feels like it should: you put things on the table and see what happens.

**Everything on one side, the table on the other.** On the left is everything your camp has that could be studied, from your stockpiles, loose piles and colonists' packs, with how many of each you have. On the right is the table. Drag things onto it, or just click them. Drag them back off to remove them. Every item on the table is one sample per attempt, whatever the recipe needs later.

**A hint, not an answer.** A ring under the table tells you whether the combination has any potential, and the odds of an attempt turning something up. It never says what the discovery would be. A found tool you don't know how to make goes on the table by itself, and studying it takes the item apart instead.



**It remembers what didn't work.** Put together a combination that leads nowhere, and the camp keeps a note of it. Next time you start building that same set, the item that would complete it is dimmed. You can still use it, since maybe something has changed, but you'll know you've been down that road before.



Nothing is spent while you arrange things. Samples are only fetched and used once you press start.

## Open questions

- Should the workbench keep a short history of what you tried, or is the dimming enough?
- Would you want to save a combination to come back to later?

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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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