Editing Harbinger tree

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{{Infobox main|plant
| name = Harbinger tree
| image = Harbinger tree.png
| description = A gnarled tree that grows a flesh-like covering. Harbinger trees are capable of feeding on corpses and raw meat, and will consume those placed nearby. If well fed, the grove will continue to grow.<br/>In a tribal myth, these trees are the emissaries of a mad, shapeless god who rules an endless black ocean. The myth ends after the shapeless god reaches up from the water and tears down the sky.
| type = Plant
| type2 = Tree
| path cost = 42
| passability = pass through only
| blockswind = true
| cover = 0.25
| minifiable = false
| hp = 230
| flammability = 0
| beauty = -10
| beauty outdoors = -10
| grow days = 10
| yield = 25
| min fertility = 0.50
| fertility sensitivity = 0.50
| nutrition = 2
| livesin_temperateforest = True
| livesin_temperateswamp = True
| livesin_tropicalrainforest = True
| livesin_tropicalswamp = True
| livesin_aridshrubland = True
| livesin_desert = True
| livesin_borealforest = True
| livesin_coldbog = True
| livesin_tundra = True
}}
The Harbinger is a type of tree added by the Anomaly DLC. Harbinger trees can spawn randomly due to an event, or can be planted via a [[Harbinger seed]] which can be acquired as a [[quest]] reward or bought from traders.

Harbinger trees consume corpses and meat placed around them. They can eat both rotten and fresh corpses, as well as all forms of raw meat (insect, human, twisted). When a harbinger tree is selected with the mouse, a UI Button for creating a corpse stockpile will appear. This button will create a dumping stockpile within the consumption radius of the tree, and defaults to accepting all non-mechanoid or unnatural corpses.

When fully grown and harvested, they provide {{Icon Small|Twisted meat|30|30}} Twisted Meat and a base amount of {{Icon Small|Bioferrite|30|15}} Bioferrite. Trees that are not harvested and destroyed through other means will drop twisted meat but no bioferrite. The amount of twisted meat dropped is unaffected by difficulty setting and pawn plants skill, but the amount of bioferrite harvested is affected by both.  A harbinger tree is not dangerous in any way and despite the flavor text does not cause any events or phenomena beyond consuming corpses.

The growth rate of a harbinger tree will increase up to a maximum 150% during the day while it is actively consuming meat. Each individual harbinger tree tracks the nutrition it has consumed, and upon reaching 100, it will spawn a new sapling, regardless if the original tree is fully grown. Upon reaching maturity, a harbinger tree has a chance to spawn another harbinger tree nearby. A body size 1 human corpse provides a harbinger tree 5.2 nutrition, meaning that ~19.2 corpses are needed to force a second harbinger tree to sprout. A single piece of meat has a nutrition of .05, requiring 2,000 meat total to spawn a new tree.

Despite both being [[dendrovore]]s, [[thrumbo]]s will not eat harbinger trees, while [[alphabeaver]]s will. 

== Analysis ==
Harbinger trees provide a low-tech, no power method to get rid of corpses without using fire or an [[Electric crematorium]]. All gear worn by consumed corpses is destroyed, similar to cremation.

This is vital for tribal or low-tech settlements who want to reduce the number of potential [[Shambler]]s on the map during a [[Death pall]] or similar event, as there is no limit to the number of times a corpse can be turned into a shambler. Note that shamblers can still reanimate from corpses in the process of being consumed by harbinger trees, however said shamblers will be weakened since non-vital bodyparts digested by harbinger trees will not regenerate on reanimation. 

Later on, harbinger trees can be used as a source of [[Twisted meat]] for mid and late game recipes like the [[juggernaut serum]] without having to fight and butcher dangerous entities like [[fleshbeast]]s. It is impractical to farm harbinger trees using meat farmed from ranching or hunting, although colonies experiencing massive raids may be able to meet their serum production needs off the yield from harbinger trees alone. A single [[Fleshmass nucleus]] produces significantly more twisted meat in a more consistent manner, but requires regular suppression and defeating a [[Fleshmass heart]] to acquire.

Harbinger trees will not consume [[pemmican]] or [[meals]] of any type.

== Gallery == 
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== Version history == 
* [[Anomaly DLC]] Release - Added.

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