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so i was thinking what if nichelings with around 4+ digging can dig burrows to protect baby nichelings from the blue bird and maby add a bit of camouflage. the burrrow takes 5 nesting material to build and will collapse after 7 *days and the nicheling inside will have to be dug out. every day the nicheling is inside the collapesed burrow they will take 1 day of damage, after 5 *days the burrow will begin to fall apart and you can fix it by using 2 nesting material. Edit: I changed turns to days ( that's what i originaly ment)

This just came to my mind after I read a steam post where a Nicheling was stunned for ten days until it died because the coconuts kept falling. So here we go: once your Nicheling is stunned if you don't pick up the coconut no new coconut wil fall and the Nichling can be free again while only taking one point of damage.

I wanted to suggest the idea of adding other stray tribes.They will have to meet much less often than ordinary single niches.The number of them from 5 to 10-15.You can unite tribes for 30-50 units food (in dependence from kolichestva tribe).To propose to unite the tribes need the alpha male/female(after the unification of the tribes, alpha of a stray tribe will be Beth).Of course you can offer to leave your tribe and join your tribe a separate niche. Sorry if I accidentally stole someone else's offer)

Electric reel The Electric reel is a combination of an Electric eel and an Electric ray. They spawn in oceans and Jungle rivers. They are quite uncommon. Movement: Electric reels often stay under the sediment during the day, making them hard to see, however they sometimes move, but at night, they rise out of the sediment and hunt for their prey, using their shock ability to kill and eat fish Habitat: Electric reels live in the ocean and in rivers in jungle biomes(but no easy islands or medium islands) Hunting: when you attack or step on it, it unleashes its electric shock(will shock the predator even if not in water), the shock will paralyze anything that doesn't die from it(crabbits, fish, and rabbils die instantly) for 3 turns and deals 1 damage in a 3 tile radius in the water, this shock takes 3 turns to recharge, it will also flee when attacked, they drop 35 food when killed However, a special gene can be unlocked called shocking tail that gives immunity to electricity and an ability to make shocks to paralyze attackers for 3 turns after the stun, which also make the attacks pierce defense Gene: Shocking tail +Electrical resistance +1 swimming with water body -1 cold resistance +Power shock(when attacking, the target gets stunned for 3 turns, this also pierces defense) unlock conditions: kill and eat an electric reel Lifespan: They live for 75 days. Diet: Electric reels eat fish, clams, worms and crabbits Abilities: 4 swimming 1 cracking 1 attack 1 defense 2 eyesight 4 smelling 2 hearing electroreception(ignores all stealth, odor disguise and camo as long as it is in water) Thunderstruck(a powerful shock that requires 3 turns to recharge) Size: slightly larger than a nicheling Cleaner Crab The Cleaner crab is a combination of a cleaner shrimp, ghost crab and swimming crab(there are 4 swimming crab hind legs on its rear), they spawn around coral(in warm oceans, occur in reefs) or on beaches, they are quite uncommon on the beach, but very common near rock reefs or coral Movement: The cleaner crab often moves around if spawned on a beach, they mostly scuttle along, looking for food, or they swim/walk around corals/healing plants if they find them, they move when you move, they also move 3 times at night Habitat: Cleaner crabs live in the ocean and beaches surrounding most biomes except for mountain biomes and easy islands Hunting: when attacked, it will attack for 1 damage and bolt at high speed, often into water or animal burrows to escape, however, this isn't worth it because they remove parasites and only give 3 food when killed, they will also eat healing plants to restore their health Lifespan: they live for 30 days each Diet: these crabs feed on clams, carcasses, nuts, coconuts, water ticks, leeches and sea lice Predators: Smelling and hearing apes(one shot it), however it will flee from them Abilites: 4 speed(often walks at 2, runs at 4 when attacked/threatened) 4 swimming(often swims at 2, sprints at 4 when threatened/attacked) 1 cracking 1 attack 4 defense Distasteful appearance 3 eyesight 3 smelling 2 hearing Size: crabbit sized Sea lice Sea lice are a combination of sea lice and a normal sucking louse, they rarely(5% everyday) randomly spawn in the deeper parts of the ocean or rarely in rivers(1% everyday) Habitat: Rivers and Ocean, however, they are quite rare and never spawn on easy islands or medium islands Movement: Sea lice hardly move at all on their own, they often wait for a host to come by in a 6 tile radius, then they bolt to it with their 5 swimming, they act like more annoying leeches, they also can terrifyingly enough, walk around on land(2 speed) and latch onto hosts and begin to feed Hunting and prevention: Sea lice are ravenous and occur in swarms of 5-10(all fit in the same tile), making them hard to catch without being eaten alive, armored body creatures are immune to their effect, but they will wait until a more suitable host comes along such as a fish, however having poison or venom will kill the lice when they attack, and distasteful scent will make them ignore the entity, then they can be taken if the creature can catch fish/insects cleaner crabs can and will eliminate entire swarms in one turn, even if attached to another creature Notable Characteristics: When they attack, they may give the host heavy bleeding the next day and inflict the Sea lice status effect(until it is cured by the ways to hunt them above), which functions like poison Diet: anything and everything with no defense, poison or distasteful scent, also carcasses, however, they prefer carcasses and will only attack living hosts after 3 days of not finding any food Lifespan: one swarm lasts 20 days, but every time one of their hosts dies, a new swarm is created unless it was cured by cleaner crabs Size: one individual is slightly smaller than a leech Water tick Water ticks are a combination of a water spider and a tick, they can live in waters anywhere, but are most common hiding in algae clumps in cooler seas and occur in swarms of 2-3 Movement: Water ticks rarely stray from the grass or algae clump they stay in, but hop onto any suitable host(no defense, poison or distasteful scent) Habitat: grass and plants around rivers, algae anywhere except easy islands Hunting and prevention: Creatures with collecting can remove the ticks, flying creatures can also eat these ticks without getting hijacked, the ticks will also die from high heat like that in the Savannah biome, or extreme cold, like that in mountain biomes(not around rivers) and will be readily eaten by cleaner crabs Diet: Mammal blood(aka things like walrus deer, nichelings and rabbils) Notable Characteristics: 2.5% of the time, Green Water ticks will spawn in a swarm, these transmit lyme disease, making a creature have one less action point and die after 10 days of infection, which can be cured by eating any sort of healing plant or by not moving 2 days in a row, also Lyme disease can never be caught by a creature twice once it is cured, they also give the debuff called tick infestation, which will lower the creatures speed, swimming and flight by 1, which can be removed by grooming, and cleaner crabs Lifespan: one swarm lasts 30 days before natural causes catches up, but they come off within 5 days of sucking, die and make 2 new swarms Size: one individual is about as large as a leech One thing though, all these creatures don't spawn in easy islands

Before you read: I plan to post here more stories about the non nicheling creatures that inhabit the world of niche, writing from their point of view, so I would love to see what you think, so feel free to comment! Also if you want, you could try to re create part of the story in game! It was a dark day on the mountains, some time ago, a balance bear had separated a pregnant nicheling from her tribe. She managed to gain some distance and hide behind a rock. The bear lost her tracks, but the snowstorm was cold and relentless. She built a nest in desperation, using some of the white flowers she had, and she curled up to endure the cold. The next day, as the sun escalated the mountain, it revealed the frozen remains of the mother, and a snow white baby with grey ram horns sleeping by her side. Suddenly, a three mysterious creatures started rushing to their location. Three ramfoxes.- Well well well, what do we have here- Alpha, said. -Looks like lunch, lets feast!- Kevin exclaimed as he rushed to the baby, but Betty, the beta of the pack, stepped in front of him. -Wait- she whispered -Just look at him, does he not remind you of a baby ramfox?- Betty murmured in a sweet tone. -I do not care!- Kevin yelled as he lunged himself to the baby, sinking his teeth deep in its soft flesh... Or thats what he was thinking would happen. Instead, the baby just stared at him as he struggled to get a good bite in the nicheling's ultra hard body. - Don't you see it has armored body?- Alpha laughed. -Damn it, at least the mother does not have armor- Kevin insisted. -The mother is too cold to eat,- Betty replied. -Besides, if we can't eat the baby, why don't we keep him? We wont gain anything by just leaving him. -Have you gone mad!?- Kevin yelled. - How are we supposed to feed it? -Betty has a point- Alpha continued.- There are plenty of rabbils here, and one gives sufficient food for the four of us. Kevin started screaming. -DONT YOU SEE HE IS A NICHELING!!! Those greedy beasts invade our homes and steal our food! We have to always hide, and when we are so desperate that we are forced to eat their babies, they just kill us!- Betty kept her usual calm expression. -He wont become like the other nichelings if we raise him in the ways of the ramfox. He will grow as a ramfox and hunt with the pack, he would be a valuable hunter with his speed, and maybe he could even help us reason with the nichelings in the future.- Her words managed to really calm down kevin, and suddenly, he felt a warm touch in his tail. The baby hugged him firmly with a wide smile on his face. -Tata!- The baby smiled, forcing a smile on kevin's face too. -Yep, he fell for the baby already.- Betty whispered. As the seasons passed, the baby nicheling, Tata, grew up strong and adventurous, hunting with the ramfoxes, he was a valuable member of the pack, and being widely accepted. Alpha and Betty had two sons, Rascal and Scout. Those two, along with their adoptive brother Tata, became great hunters, but they kept getting in trouble. Rascal was the clown of the group, always joking, while Scout tried to befriend basically every mountain dweller, which worried his parents, but Tata showed a great interest for the nicheling tribe established in the mountainside. One day, the three of them got too close to nicheling territory while chasing rabbils. When they were about to catch their prey, they heard a terrified call. -RAMFOXES! Protect the babies! RUN! Warriors, please save us!- The brothers realized that the nicheling's nest was close, as a proud brown nicheling stumbled down the snowy mountain with a menacing claw. -Guys, I think we should go.- Rascal said as the warrior walked closer. -I may not be able to take you on alone- the warrior said,- but my partners will come. Tata stepped between the nicheling and his brothers. -This is just a misunderstanding.- He said confidently.- We mean no harm. -Hah!- The warrior laughed. - What a joke! You helping these beasts!? Just come help me kill them.- He pushed Tata aside and raised his claw. The foxes stepped back, but he swiped with extreme speed! However Tata managed to shield them with his armored body, causing the claw to bounce off. -YOU BARBARIC IDIOT!- The warrior roared. -If you are with these beasts, then you will perish too! Come here Bertha!- As he called, a great beast surged from the snow. The most terrifying thing a ramfox could ever see. A hybrid, with white fur and blood red eyes, the legs and head of a bearyena, and the speed of a nicheling, clearly old and close to expiring, but still fearsome and agile, it started rushing toward them. -HAH!- Rascal yelled.- That thing cant get past Tata! - Actually...- Tata whispered.- I think we should run. -FUDGE!- Rascal screamed as they started running. The chase was desperate. They were fast, but the hybrid started getting closer and closer. -Follow me!- Scout said. - I know of a place where we will be safe!- They made a sharp turn and started running by the mountainside, but the hybrid climbed up. As they neared a humongous pile of snow, the creature surprised them from above and jumped in front of them, getting between them and the giant snow pile. Dusk was transforming into night, and the old hybrid made her move. Showing her razor sharp teeth, she let out a war cry and pounced to them with meteoric force! BUT THE MONSTROUS SNOW PILE BURSTED TO LIFE! A great paw knocked the hybrid out of the air, and the balance bear revealed itself! With the strength of the mountain the bear roared as it crushed the beast beneath the snow. The king of the mountain let out a victorious snarl, as he turned towards the brothers, Scout being the only one not paralyzed by fear. The bear just smiled. -Let me guess- Tata realized. -Its one of your friends.- Yep- Scout said with a satisfied smile. -Lets go home bros, and thanks Snowflake. -Youre WeLcOmE!- The bear growled.

this is a question for the developers of the game: after playing and having trouble with the genders and immunity genes as usual, i looked at the family tree and started thinking, and here is the question: does the game decide the gender and immunity genes by looking at what the tribe has or the generation? if it does look at the whole tribe i think that the trouble with gender and immunity genes starts there, like if you have a lot of old females the game will try balance it out by having more boys but the females being older will probably die before long and you are stuck with more males than females and thus the cycle starts anew, and i think it is the same with the immunity genes. so if i'm right i would like an option for the thing that decides those things to look ate the generation, if i'm wrong well, that's life. and the reason i don't post it in feature request is i'm not sure about it

@LordOfCider Or maybe an island that has only ports and water

So I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if certain creatures had affinities with each other in a pack? How it would work: There would be 5 different affinities. "hate" "dislike" "Neutral" "like" and "love" Nichelings would automatically love their parents. Niches that breed together may up their affinities with each other. Two niches that have a high affinity for each other may have a better chance at procreating. Two niches with hate or dislike for each other have more issues procreating successfully. Niches gain affinity from the pack by hunting food, berry picking, and becoming alpha. A niche creature with "hate" affinity from multiple pack members may be automatically forced from the pack, though this would be a VERY RARE occurrence! And you can win back your member with 5 food like a wanderer, and their affinity would be reset! Thats just my idea! I think it would help add on to the importance of collecting food, and also help give the game a sort of pack hierarchy aspect besides the alpha, beta, and omega roles. It would also be a good aspect to the Rping part of the game :3

Hi all! This is the first time making a suggestion so here goes. Many animals feed on insects so why not nichelings? Potential food sources could be the bug swarms already in game, logs, and termite mounds. Logs would be found in grasslands and maybe jungles too. They would function like berry bushes, yielding a certain ammount of insect food and replenishing their supplies overnight. Termite mounds would be found in the savannah and can be cracked open, respawning two days after initially being destroyed. Like carnivorous plants, they can spawn as hostile or non-hostile. Non-hostile termite mounds can be cracked open and gathered from safely. When a nicheling gathers from or cracks open a hostile termite mound, they will be swarmed. The termite swarm must be licked off by another nicheling before the day ends or the nicheling will be bitten and take damage. I have designed an insectivore head inspired by anteaters and pangolins. I call it the Sticky Tongue! I imagine it would give 3+ insect collecting and 3+ smell. And perhaps the beak gene could give 2+ insect collecting.

Apparently nobody has suggested this. Why raise water nichelings when water biomes are so BORING? there is not enough to explore down there. I feel like maybe these suggestions will make it a little more intresting? More fish: I know we have alot already, but it would be cool if we had fish for deep oceans and rivers. So here are my fish ideas! River fish: Salmon. Just an ordinary salmon that goes up stream and then dies. dead body kinda like the clown koi. Deep ocean: Bass. Litteraly a bass. Troop, A trout that swims in groups of 2/3 Tropical fish: Colorful fish that just swim around like a fish. Now sea plant life! Corals: Corals can come in colors of Purple, pink, red, orange, and yellow. Seaweed: It grows very tall and has tons of nesting material. Very common deep in the ocean. Squids: Little squid that ink you if you attack them. the inking takes away one turn for three days. they give 3 food. Pufferfish: They give 2 food and once attacked they puff out and deal one attack to surrounding nichelings. Bubble columns: They randomly start blowing at dig sites at least 5 tiles deep into the ocean. They launch your nicheling up into the air for about 1 second before they come back down. And yeah.. Thats it.

So there are genes like derp snout and deformed paw, but there isn't a bad body gene. It's name would be Deformed body or some other name like Hunched body or Cripple Back. It would come with -1 speed, -1 attack, and -1 collecting because the hunched/crippled/deformed body would restrict the nicheling's ability to do actions a normal bodied nicheling would be able to do. While all of this sounds really bad, the chance of getting it would be low because it would be rogue exclusive, non-mutatable, and a recessive gene. Also it would give +1 Distasteful Appearance because of how ugly they would look, and I doubt a carnivore would want to eat them

I know this was voted on last time as well, but I didn't get to vote for it so hopefully we get it this time. I would love to be able to have a nichling with both a green and blue eye or any other colors. Vote if you think this is a good idea as well ^~^

I really wanna play closed alpha. 1. auto decoupler. 2. drones after launch doing thier stuff ;] 3. resource ship go away ;] 4. mother hive drone stars dig 5. mother hive destroyed 6. groud drone destroys first hive 7. groud drone destroys another hive this is ultimate drone for all type of quests. What i need to do is get rid of explosiv enamies using pushing beam. Game Ended. Was a great fun. But witch all new content will be a continious fun.!! Can i get key to closed alpha? PLEASE. BTW: sorry for my bad english ;]]]

I love this idea!❤️ I hope it gets implemented into the game. I have 3 questions: Would it give strength because you have to be strong to cut down trees? Would the trees have a ragged stump look, because if you have ever seen a trees that was cut down by a beaver, you would know they don’t cut it down cleanly. Would it give +x smelling, and if so, how much?

Yes, 5 damage in a 5 tile radious is too much, but maybe there could be shock resistance

thanks for cheering me up 😀 Also you know why I made the sea lice attack basically anything on sight? Warning: not for those who are squeamish Link also my cousins get nipped by them

I have a feeling that the cleaner crabs are gonna be my best friends. Maybe all these creatures wont spawn on easy islands?

I knew that was an 'issue' though I never really understood how people were actually annoyed by it but I use my mouse so I never did that anyway ^^

Even of you think the game is hot, yet it's just a warm-up

Great idea, this would fit well with the water-based genes. Webbed paw + webbed hind leg + swimming tail + brown fur + beaver teeth= Beaver. I will name him Chipper 😃

Maybe a bee pattern or body(a yellow nicheling with black stripes) could also be added as well as a stinger gene? The stinger gene could be unlocked after attacking a hive a certain amount of times, and causes a small amount of damage to another creature. The damage it causes would be maybe 1 or 2, but it the enemy causes to flee a short distance away from the pain. The bee pattern/body could be unlocked after reaching a medium or killer island where a hive is present, or just by traveling to harder islands. It would serve as a way to trick the bees by confusing them and allows you to avoid being stung by bees altogether. I think having this pattern/body would cause the honey glutton to be more aggressive or passive towards you as well though.

I think this is already adequately represented by the fertility genes. An unsuccessful mating might be because there weren't enough gametes, or it might be because the zygote/embryo/fetus wasn't viable, or because the mother was unable to sustain it. Perhaps there's some reason to miscarry if the pregnant mother takes damage, but it's not something I'm excited to see added.

That's what I was suggesting What I mean by the body thing was similar to flying. A big bodied nicheling with wings can't fly very far (due to weight), so a big bodied nicheling would probably be too heavy to walk on snow (thus making the snowshoe paws cosmetic instead of useful). I wasn't suggesting a new body type.

Actually no bat species is blind, they just dont see well

And we added a new enemy for the lava biome today The Hammerhead!

@Tarruvi We didn't manage to add them in time. So I'm not sure we're still adding them. Depends on what the next update includes I think.

Same XD

Another thing that should be toggleable, because some people use WASD to move their camera and their nichelings end up being called Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. I move my camera with a mouse, so I would use the old way of renaming nichelings

When you get the "new gene unlocked" message, there's no indication of which gene it was. Would it be possible to show that in the message?

I tried to name my creatures like warrior cats once and I could never keep up with those x)

Maybe there could be some islandsthat don't dissapear sprinkled around that could let your creatures rest for a second. Some like really tiny islands like the one you get when you travel in the tutorial for the first time.

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I would love to be able to name Nichelings through the info window again. It would be so much easier if you play with a no genetics challenge or just rename your creatures all the time like with the warrior cats challenge

You're welcome. Steering via numpad. Kassakohl's Tictactoe.nimbatusdrone

if anything, you would find a fossil instead

I like this idea! One time, I made a tribe in the 0.4.1 version of Niche and I started naming dodmingos. It resulted in a royal family of dodmingos! However, I do think that you should be able to rename wandering nichelings and rogue males from the info window as well as other entities.

Due to the creation of this post since you would have multiple allies: As well as having multiple friendly bearyenas at the same time, I would like to propose giving gems to friendly bearyenas (and any other allies like the ones described in the suggestion above). You would be able to change them just like your own creatures as well to keep track of all of your bearyenas. You could also change the name of your friendly bearyenas as they could appear in the family tree just like any other creature. Somewhat related, I think having wanderers not have gems before you invite them would be great. I think that gems could be seen as a symbol of being apart of the tribe and since wanderers don't follow the 3 energy rule, it would make sense for them not to have gems. They would look like the nichelings you can create with the nicheling explorer you can find here: http://niche-game.com/nicheling-explorer/

wait the "leech disease" was a glitch where leeches would eternally drain hp from a creatures, even if it was removed also I made an idea for the jungle biome called the parasitic worms debuff, nichelings with this disease consume two food a day, have no stealth and will suffer from a status effect called internal bleeding, which functions like poison, the worms come from tiles labeled; infected mud, and are transmitted when a nicheling rolls or eats a dead carcass on that tile, to cure, a nicheling must eat a healing flower(will also eliminate internal bleeding) or be licked by a venomous creature or lick a poisonous creature(side effect of licking or being licked by toxic creatures is that other than killing the parasites, will cause the nicheling to lose 1 day of life if it is not venom resistant) also Venomous or poisonous creatures are immune to this disease

I was thinking of getting some more horns, since they seem to lack in numbers and are really cute and helpful. Leaf Horns: help provide shade for those in the Savannah that are hot, like the new acacia trees. The leaves could look like big Elephant Ear plants, or Palm Leaves. +1 Shade -1 Movement (since so heavy) +2 Heat Resistance

Thanks!

Woohoo! I didn't know about the Cracker Jaw thing, but I can't wait to see what my female Peacock-tailed creatures look like!

Man I would LOVE a good underwater adventure to send my little tiger sharks into! Pufferfish could also be interesting as a poisonous food source.

I agree. We do need more water related things. Perhaps even a mostly underwater island. Like a beach, with a thin strip of land that tapers off deep into the ocean.

Yes, I think we need more water stuff! And it would be awesome if it were colorful too. Beautiful coral reefs *-*

@The Mad Katter Yeah like maybe a shark type thing? Shorca, a mix of a shark and orca. They could come up to breathe every five turns, coming up near the shore. Spawning around the bottom of the ocean and dropping 7-10 food? They could also steal your food too.

Ooh, I like this! It would also be cool to have underwater predators of some kind (in specific hard or killer biomes) and underwater caves to hide from the predators and raise young.

In old Niche it had the new unlocked gene as blue. Then it was removed with the old mutation menu

Well, there are 4 (I think) different ear types in the game. All of them are upright ears. You're suggesting that fluffy ears would be upright too, right? It's just that if these were implemented and designed like you suggested, there would be 5 upright ears. I just thought floppy ears or something similar would be a nice change.

I would like fluffy ears, too. However, maybe they could be more like a lynx's tufted ears, or the ears of an arctic fox, and not like cuddly dog ears? That's just my opinion, though.