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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M6PZN3R5ETMXG5YE4NJDJ6R9
title: A rabbit that screams when you surprise it
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-11-06
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
A rabbit in Farcamp now has a voice that reacts to you. Walk a colonist towards one and it starts to squeak from about 20 metres away. The closer you get, the louder, higher and quicker the squeaks come. At the distance where the rabbit bolts, the last squeak turns into a scream.

The scream is not a build-up. If a colonist is suddenly close, or the rabbit is hit, it screams at once, with no warm-up. A hit also leaves it panicking harder than a scare does, and then it runs.



## One throat for every animal

The rabbit does not play a recording. Its sounds are made on the spot by one shared model of a throat, driven by a few numbers: how hard it is pushing, how tight it is, how open its mouth is. A recording of a real animal was used to measure those numbers, but the game plays none of it.

The owner's direction for all of this was that every creature's voice should come from that one model, with the same way of expressing feeling shared across species and only a few constants differing per animal. The design notes put it in the owner's words: "pigs squeal like mad when they get hit, or less so when they get scared". The rabbit is the first animal to have it in the game. The rule that does the work has no rabbit in it. Another species gets the same escalation from its own numbers.

Think of one violin played by one player. A whisper and a shriek use the same instrument; what changes is how hard it is bowed. Scared rabbits, hurt rabbits and calm rabbits are one voice, bowed differently.

## What changes as you get close

Three things happen together as a colonist closes in: the squeaks get louder, they get higher, and the gaps between them shrink. It is one slope, not three separate sounds.

- **A sudden scare** skips the slope. If the rabbit goes from not noticing to a colonist right there, its first squeak is already the scream.
- **At the bolt distance** the loudest squeak of the approach becomes a held scream.
- **After a hit**, the rabbit is pinned at the top of the slope for a few seconds. Its hurt cry is still the loudest sound it makes, and the alarm calls that follow go past the top of anything a scare produces.

## Open questions

- Does the slope read the same with several rabbits in a meadow at once, or does it become a wall of squeaks?
- Only the rabbit has this in the game so far. Will the same throat model, with its own few numbers, give a believable boar or deer?
- Should a hit that comes from a predator, not a colonist, sound the same?

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