Harbinger tree

Harbinger tree

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.

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.

Base Stats

Type

Plant – Tree

Beauty

-10 (-10)

HP

230

Flammability

0%

Path Cost

42 (24%)

Building

Minifiable

False

Passability

pass through only

Cover Effectiveness

25%

Blocks Wind

True

Ingestion

Nutrition

2

Plant Stats

Time to grow

10 days (18.46 days)

Min Fertility

50%

Fertility Sensitivity

50%

Min light to grow

50%

The Harbinger tree is a tree added by the Anomaly DLC. It is capable of consuming corpses and meat placed around it. It can eat both rotten and fresh corpses, as well as all forms of meat (insect, human, twisted). When cut down, it provides a small amount of twisted meat as well as wood. It does not appear to be dangerous in any way.

Growth

The growth rate of a harbinger tree scales with the amount of corpses and nutrition scattered around it. Upon reaching maturity, a harbinger tree has a chance to spawn another harbinger tree nearby.

Harbinger seeds can be acquired as a quest reward.^{[Other ways?]}

Analysis

Harbinger trees provide a low-tech, no power method to get rid of corpses without using fire or an Electric crematorium.

This is vital for tribal or low-tech settlements who want to reduce the number of potential Shamblers on the map during a Deathpall 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.

Eating twisted meat provided by the trees triggers a -10 mood thought, however non-cannibal colonists eating raw human meat from corpses provides a -20 mood thought. Therefore, the tree can be used by non-cannibal colonies to recycle human meat into less-negative twisted meat by feeding it corpses if food is dire.

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 Fleshbeasts.

Version history

• Anomaly DLC Release - Added.

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Plants

Domesticated plants

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Decorative plants

Dandelions • Daylily • Rose • Bonsai tree

Wild plants

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Trees

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Special

Anima tree • Gauranlen tree • Polux tree • Harbinger tree

Tree stumps

Burned stump • Chopped stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger ) • Smashed stump (Gauranlen , Anima , Polux , Harbinger )