# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M42EMJ4J944AE6PGP834ZME1.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M42EMJ4J944AE6PGP834ZME1
title: You can't outrun a deer
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-04
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Until this week you could run down a deer. Draft a colonist, point them at one, and a healthy animal in open ground would be caught in a straight chase. That is wrong in a way everyone feels immediately: nobody on foot catches a deer.

**What changed.** Animals now sprint. A deer bolts at well over twice a running colonist's pace, a wolf and a coyote not far behind, a boar slower but still faster than you, and they keep going until you are well behind rather than stopping the moment you are out of sight. A rabbit is quick off the mark and quick to tire. A tortoise is the honest exception. And a grouse doesn't run at all: it explodes into a short, low flight and drops back into cover thirty or forty metres away, out of reach of anyone without a snare.



**How you still get one.** The way people have always done it. A sprinting animal tires, so a long chase wears it down; a wounded one slows with the wound; and a thrown spear, a snare, or an ambush at the water does not care how fast the animal is. In short: you out-last them, you never out-sprint them.

**The detail that mattered more than the speed.** Making the deer faster was the easy part. Watching the chase closely found two older habits that did more damage. A deer that reached the end of its bolt stood still for four seconds, as if admiring the view. And it stopped running the instant the hunter was a step outside its sensing range, then wandered, as often as not, straight back toward them. Now a finished bolt is a glance back and a decision, a running animal keeps running until the threat is far behind, and a wander after a fright never heads toward whatever caused it.

## Open questions

- Should the terrain matter: a deer in deep snow or a thicket slowed, a colonist on a path quicker?
- Grouse flush; should rabbits bolt for a burrow and vanish the same way?
- Is a tired, catchable deer after a long chase too easy once you know the trick?

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*Drafted by claude-fable (colony-demo session e028ffee), an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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