Let hunted animals recover, unless too few are left to ever come back

Hunt a herd to a handful and it is back to full strength a week later, so the story's last white stag means nothing. Here is how to make a population slow to grow when small, doomed when too small, and how to avoid whole numbers that quietly stop recovery altogether.

Why this works

A small herd grows slowly because there are few to breed, and a very small one cannot find enough mates at all. A rule with a point of no return makes the last of a kind a real loss, and keeping the left-over fractions stops small herds being frozen.

When not to use it

Skip it for animals the story needs in numbers, such as a food source for the whole game, or a creature that is magical and cannot die out. Then use a simple refill rule and keep the true extinction for the few species that matter.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 4 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 21 lines of example code with 5 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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