Colony Pulse
Colony Pulse
The Colony Pulse is the colony's warning and follow-up feed. It gathers problems, hints, reminders, and cleanup notices so players can respond before small issues become full den theater.
What Pulse Can Warn About
Pulse notices may include:
- Low food, spoiled supplies, unsafe water, or storage problems.
- Sickness, injury, quarantine pressure, healer shortages, or herb shortages.
- Wet bedding, dirty dens, pests, predators, or hygiene pressure.
- Pregnancy, kits, nursery warnings, elder care, or old-age passing context.
- Unresolved remains, deceased-care needs, contamination, or graveyard follow-up.
- Territory, raids, perimeter defenders, or siege aftermath.
- Fishing, travel, ecology, and resource-pressure handoffs.
- Chaos, rituals, cleansing, or strange vague warnings.
- Snail mourning, Caucus stasis, or snail-system reminders where supported.
Dismissal
Dismissing a Pulse notice hides it for the player. It does not fix the underlying issue.
If the water is contaminated, dismissing the notice does not make the water apologize and become clean.
Clearing Notices
Some notices clear when the underlying problem is fixed. Others may remain as history, reminders, or follow-up context until dismissed.
Backlog and Cleanup
Pulse cleanup tools help remove stale, duplicate, repaired, or already-resolved notices. The goal is to keep the warning feed useful instead of letting it become a haunted corkboard.
When to Check Pulse
Check Pulse:
- After daily rollover.
- After raids, deaths, travel outcomes, or fishing decisions.
- When weather has been harsh.
- When sickness, rot, unsafe water, or nursery trouble appears.
- Whenever the colony hub looks suspiciously calm. Suspicious calm is a woodland dialect.
Related Pages
Echo Note - Pulse versus logs
Pulse is for warnings and follow-up. Activity logs are for records of what happened. Faux messages are for direct system notices. News is for broad site updates. The same event may touch more than one trail.
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Echo Note - Diet and food warnings</b]
Pulse may warn about low food, spoiled food, unsafe food, species diet mismatch, rot pressure, pests, predators, or contamination. Food quantity alone does not guarantee every pet can safely eat what is stored.
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[b]Echo Note - Territory warnings</b]
Pulse may warn about decaying tiles, neglected patrols, hostile pressure, dangerous scouts, occupied territory, or useful tiles that need attention. Territory problems rarely stay politely inside one map square.
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[b]Echo Note - Repair and upkeep warnings</b]
Colony Pulse may warn about damaged dens, wet bedding, unsafe sleeping space, broken defenses, missing materials, or builder-related upkeep needs. These warnings often connect to sickness, weather, raids, and nursery safety.
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[b]Echo Note - Adoption warnings</b]
Pulse may warn when a newly adopted pet creates pressure around food, water, beds, sickness, nursery space, age restrictions, or other colony care needs.
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[b]Echo Note - Role and leadership warnings</b]
Pulse may warn when leaders, healers, caretakers, builders, keepers, wetnurses, or reserves are missing, unavailable, dead, or unable to cover important colony needs.
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[b]Echo Note - Weather warnings
Pulse may warn about heat, cold, storms, damp bedding, unsafe water, spoilage, sickness pressure, nursery risk, elder risk, or dangerous travel caused by weather.
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Echo Note - Pulse is not the archive
Pulse warns about problems. The Archive and Diary preserve important history. Fix the warning first, then let the colony remember the dramatic squirrel-shaped consequences if needed.
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Echo Note - Diplomacy and defender warnings</b]
Pulse may warn about diplomacy pressure, NPC colony tension, occupied tiles, missing defenders, raid danger, or social/world systems that are starting to affect colony safety.
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[b]Echo Note - Confirmation and lock warnings
Pulse may warn when something is held, locked, waiting on a decision, unsafe to ignore, or tied to a serious action. Warnings are not decorations. They are little bells with consequences.
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Echo Note - Collapse pressure warnings
Pulse may warn when collapse pressure is building from hunger, thirst, sickness, deaths, unsafe dens, leader loss, raid damage, bad water, spoilage, territory loss, or unresolved remains.
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Echo Note - Pest and contamination warnings
Pulse may warn about pests, predators, rot, unsafe water, spoiled food, dirty bedding, compost trouble, tainted remains, scavengers, or contamination spreading through the colony.
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Echo Note - Herb and healer warnings
Pulse may warn about low herbs, withering herbs, unavailable healers, quarantine supply pressure, medicine shortages, or sick pets waiting on treatment.
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Echo Note - Achievement progress is not a warning
Achievements track progress. Pulse warns about problems. Sometimes both may notice the same event, but they are not the same system.
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Echo Note - Pulse links
Colony Pulse may point toward pages that help explain or resolve a colony issue. If a Pulse link seems wrong, check the related feature hub or report it.
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Echo Note - Ruin warnings
Pulse may warn when ruin exploration leaves behind injury, sickness, contamination, lost supplies, unsafe finds, or recovery follow-up.
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Echo Note - Training warnings
Pulse may warn about training injuries, unsafe training conditions, unavailable pets, weather closures, cooldowns, or pets who need recovery after an incident.
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