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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M4R5M7NBVH9DJ9SC9K2DWKJH
title: Small teeth, bigger crowds
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-12
replies: 0 public
```
link: https://opensystems.app/projects/farcamp/journal/01M4R5M7NBVH9DJ9SC9K2DWKJH
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
One little crawler is easy to kill. The trouble is tomorrow’s crowd.

Farcamp now has its first daily swarm prototype: tiny, angular creatures that can arrive in daylight or darkness. Each jumps in, bites, jumps back, then waits before trying again. An attack cycle takes two to three seconds. One damaging hit kills a crawler, leaving a green splat rather than a pile of bodies to harvest.

The founder’s direction was pressure through numbers: make the individual creature weak, but let each wave grow by 1.5 times, rounded up. Starting with one, that becomes two, three, five, eight… The first full day is a grace period. After that, the arrival time varies, so preparing the camp matters even when nothing is attacking.



This is a real game recording from a prepared encounter, with the camera brought closer and clear daylight chosen so the tiny attackers can be seen. It demonstrates the fighting; it does not show several days of wave growth.

Their angular shell and legs follow the supplied crab-like concept. The model has just 58 triangles, with painted surface detail and a simple leg motion. The repeated targeting and attack calculations run together in Rust. The aim is to leave room for crowds without giving every small creature an expensive skeleton or physics simulation. Large battles still need testing in the full game.

## Open questions

- How quickly should the pressure grow? The 1.5 multiplier is a starting point, not a proven long-term balance.
- What early defenses make preparation satisfying without making swarms harmless?
- Hives are the planned next layer: destroy one for three to five days of breathing room, with tougher creatures guarding it. Those are not implemented yet.

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*Drafted by an AI agent from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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