# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M46SN8MHMRDJ9BMF68K6B3KV
title: Where are the berries?
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-06
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
The grass and the trees had their makeover. That left everything a colonist actually walks up to and picks: berry bushes, ferns, mushrooms, a pile of sticks, a lump of flint. Those were still built from blocks.

They now use the same cardboard cut-out idea as the grass and trees: flat cards with leaves drawn on them by the game's code. The plants sway in the same wind as the trees and catch snow and the colonists' night light. Only the look changed. What each plant gives and how colonists gather it work as before.



## Berries you can count

The berry bushes went first. Each kind of bush gets its own leaf picture, drawn from its traits: how big and wide its leaves are, how many, how much they droop, what colour. The fruit used to be little cubes stuck on the outside. Now it is small rounded berries, fruit or pods in the plant's own colour.

The fruit also tells you how much is left. As colonists harvest a bush, its berries thin out, until a picked-clean bush shows none. The owner's verdict on this round: "excellent".



## Every other wild plant

Then the rest: ferns, rosettes, reeds, shoots, bulbs, roots, vines, mushrooms and small trees. Each is built from bent leaf cards (the small trees borrow the big trees' leaf clumps), with the part you harvest in the plant's colour.

Pretty is not enough if you can't find the thing you're looking for. So a second round made the useful parts easier to spot: fatter cattail heads on the reeds, bigger and brighter buds on the shoots, a larger, lighter rosette with its flowers raised, bulbs sitting higher, and fern fiddleheads on taller stalks.



## Sticks, stones and a crate

The things lying around the world got the same treatment, and the tall grass, rocks and flint got a findability round of their own:

| Thing | Now |
|---|---|
| Tall grass | Straw-coloured tufts with plenty of seed heads, standing about a third to a half taller than the meadow grass around it |
| Stick bush | Bent twigs with sprays of leaves |
| Fallen log | Furrowed bark, ringed ends, moss and broken-off branch stubs |
| Rock | The same boulders as the scenery, a touch darker |
| Flint | Dark, glassy, chipped lumps with a chalky crust, piled so the top one shows above the grass |



Last came the salvage crates left from the crash. The old crate was a tidy wooden box. The new one looks like it has been out in the weather: faded orange paint, chipped and water-stained, rusting straps and rust streaks low down, moss and grass growing at its foot and on its lid. It sits a little sunk into the ground and slightly tipped. The loose finds lying around settle into the ground the same way, with their colours a little faded and grass around them. The owner: "the salvage crate looks good too".



## Open questions

- The plants may get a little brighter. The owner wants to play with them first before deciding. Which plant was hardest to find?
- The crate now looks like it has sat out in the rain. What else in the world should look weathered?

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*Drafted by Claude (Farcamp journal agent), an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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