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My list of the hardest biomes! Hardest: anything to do with the jungle Easiest: Everything else

@Condorflight The error "Fatal error in GC,Too many heap sections" means that the game ran out of memory. The only thing you can do to make Niche use less memory, is to set the Animal Pattern Resolution to the minimum in the graphic settings, this will make the Nichelings look a bit blurry but the game should use much less memory because it does not have to store large textures. I hope this helps!

Little late to the party, but I wholeheartedly agree that the purr snout in it's current state is creepy :D Someone said it kinda looks like a fox for than a cat. I love cats and hope to see that soft adorable kitten look someday in Niche... For me the whiskers look kind of jarring, like to poor things have been victims of porcupine attack! D:

I'm always hesitant to breed Purr Snout in, not because of what it does (it's very useful,) but it's because it spooks me. Just... look at this... It's even scarier with black eyes x_x I'm sure a lot of people don't find it scary, I just thought this would be an interesting discussion: does anyone else think Purr Snout is spooky?

This thread is only for the male voting! Head to the female thread to vote for the male nichelings! Original Thread v https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/4073-missmister-niche-for-toxic-people/ Female Voting v https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/4110-toxic-miss-niche-voting/ THREE CREATURES WILL BE GOING INTO THE FINALE! (ANY GENDER MIX-UPS WILL GO INTO THE CORRECT FINALE CATEGORY IF THEY WIN)

This thread is only for the female voting! Head to the male thread to vote for the male nichelings! Original Thread v https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/4073-missmister-niche-for-toxic-people/ Male Voting v https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/4111-toxic-mister-niche-voting/ THREE CREATURES WILL BE GOING INTO THE FINALE! (ANY GENDER MIX-UPS WILL GO INTO THE CORRECT FINALE CATEGORY IF THEY WIN)

So... I just wanted to say we should have winter tails. Since we already have medium tails it would only make sense to have a winter tail to keep the nichlings warmer (Kinda looking like a fox tail). Possibly tiny tails- like a little Bobcat tail. I dunno. It would be cute. ...

The tribe is heading across the archipelago. Along the way, they bump into the most beautiful not-pink nicheling they have ever seen. Her name is Dragon Tear II (since her pattern is off OOF) and she knows the archipelago well. Bostonlobstah asks her if she could help to guide them to the next island. Dragon Tear II says yes, so she leads them to the last island in the archipelago chain. Meanwhile, the Forgotten Ones who were left behind on the first island have grown old without Bostonlobstah's magic. Pippin is the first fatality after 74 days. After saying goodbye to everyone being left behind, 10 nichelings move on to their first Medium-level island: Adam 2.0, Bostonlobstah, Stacey, Sense, Sensibility, Snowchild, Avrie, Adeline, Poozie and Frosty. The tribe finds themselves in a strange new land--with a huge and odd--looking port on the side.

seems legit

In our studio, @Micha was the lucky one to pick number 3 and find the king

The king was hiding in piece number 3 You guessed correctly @Aetherskye! Would you like a Niche or a Nimbatus Steam key?

Unrelated, but you need our help, eh? Attention all Niche Gamers, Bostonlobstah is in great danger, and she needs YOUR help to get out of the island loop. To do this, she needs the island directions so she can mortalize Bostonlobstah again. To help her, all she needs is your credit card number, the three numbers on the back, and the expiration month and date. But you gotta be quick so that Bostonlobstah can secure the bag, and achieve the epic H O M E I S L A N D F L E X

I can't survive any snow islands. Die of hunger. And any other island that has a low food source.

Maybe the head would allow you to howl, which you can do at a tree stump, just like calling. Instead of attracting a mate, however, It could scare off larger predators and rogue males, or decrease the spawn rate of them for a short amount of time. Also, I personally think that the smelling should only be +3 smelling, since the big nose is canine-like and only gives you +3 in that stat.

HOW DARE YOU INSULT MAH CAT BABIES Why do my bears keep giving birth to cats?!

Perhaps choose the jungle, But i'd recomend just shutting the game off, and then turning it back on then getting away from console. Perhaps just try to survive on home island w/out home isle immunity? (Just to pass some time, I find that works) I've never had that weather glitch (Probably because I rarely check the antennae forecast) but the jumpto weather command WONT WORK it'll just break your game even more I think it'll register as winter no matter what so just try that??? (Purely theory)

I once messed with berry bush spawnrates and the deadly hills were nearly empty. Some island might really just react in ways others don't. Hadn't thought of that, thanks.

@Condorflight That sounds bad Sorry for the problems! I will look into it with our programmers as soon as possible and will get back to you. Thanks for tagging me @Skysplash8!

I chose Long Winter to be harder because there's only one tile of water and the rabbil glitch. Summer Mountains because there's more grass(which is easier. Overgrown Jungle has no water, and in the Deep Jungle creatures can catch fish, cool down or grab a water healing fruit to escape from an ape. And Home Island is sort of hard if you start on it, because Adam's tribe members always steal the food (unless your nichelings have cracking ability). Just so you know I made this list quite quickly, so there might be times where I put an easier island under a harder island.

1: Peaceful Meadow (the reason i put this higher than tiny green is because it's literally tiny green but bigger, so there's more food) 2: Tiny Green 3: Crossing 4: Archipelago 5: Grass Adventure 6: Grass Mingle 7: Whale Island 8: Summer Mountains 9: First Snow 10: Home Island 11: Jungle Gate 12: Swampy Hill (unless the tribe have poison resistance) 13: Oasis 14: Deadly Hills 15: Rainforest 16: Sleepy Reeds (same as Swampy Hill, much easier with poison resistance) 17: Burning Savanna 18: Frost Lands 19: Long Winter 20: Deep Jungle 21: O V E R G R O W N J U N G L E

As much as I hate it, when my nichelings get a derp snout, I think it's important for the gameplay. As the derp snout is no health or functional issue, only a beauty problem, we have to choose, whether we want to get rid of the derp snout or rather blindness, crippled paws or hemophilia. That makes the game challenging and let us think about, what is more important to us, beauty or functional issues.

Don't you get frustrated if those delicious moles burrow right before you? Would you like some more use for your digging skills? If so, then i' suggest the possibility to dig up burrowed moles (sorry, i don't know what they're called ingame). This would be a possibility for any Nicheling standing next to the hole. Success however depends on the digging skill and could be guaranteed for digging 4+. Digging it up would/ might not kill the mole though, so you need another action for that. [Edit:] So if you don't kill it, it will either just reburrow, or maybe try to flee towards the next hole. Obviously this is not the best strategy, as it is much less efficient than attacking before it burrows, but it would open up additional use for Nichelings with high digging skills.

Alright, so I've seen some suggests asking for some type of creature creator/demo mode or whatever. I have been working on this for a while and I thought I'd make a new post since there's a lot more than just "A demo mode". This is gonna be mostly made up of pictures from what I call "Tutorial Mode" and I'll leave a link to a page with pictures without the text from tutorial mode. So first you can access this mode from the home screen like so: And then you would start at the creature creator (and to turn on tutorial mode you do this first (tutorial mode can be either be functional just with the yellow text or an example that goes away after you click)): Which can take you to either the creature list or the select mate screens which look like (also note that the scroll on the right on all screens is not accurate, and is just there to display its existence): (Where you can import creatures from save files like this: ) And confirming a breed brings you to the offspring list which is: Where there are trait statistics and custom filters (list of traits made by @Aysling here: https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/626-nicheling-sort-filter-and-select/&page=0#comment-2030) : Or you can go to the punnett square: And from anything outside of the creature lists, you can go to the gem colors (which you can find individually here: https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/646-customizable-and-programmable-gem-colors/) And the color cycle looks like this: And after all of that, you could use the creatures you used to start in sandbox mode like this: (Picture in production) So yea, that's all of it. Please let me know of any mistakes I might have made since this was a lot or of any logical inconsistencies. If you want to see the pictures without the text from tutorial mode, you can go to this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16dVKParfTHqHpSsuPD_UA_6cozEJ94_4Wtxpff6lIsE/edit?usp=sharing

Right now albinism in niche is a desirable gene due to it's beutiful looks, even tough it removes all camoflauge. In real life albino animals have a really small change of surviving. They lack protection from UV and have bad eyesight. I have had rats with red eyes, and they all had bad eyesight. (I haven't had an albino rat, but many colors like marten come with red eyes.) So my suggestion is to edit following stats on albino nichelings: remove all heat recistance make it so that albino nichelings can only have blind or shortsighted eyes This is just to make the game more realistic. Albinism is currently too easy to survive with. If a lot of people don't want it, we could make it a sandbox option! Related suggestions: GO VOTE ALL OF THEM!!! https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/3201-albinism-and-melanism-give-camouflage-stats/ https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/3173-piebaldism-in-niche/ https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/2160-albino-wildlife🐁/&page=0#comment-6490 https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/2801-albinos-have-pink-noses/&page=0#comment-10564 https://strayfawnstudio.com/community/index.php?/topic/2297-albinismmelanism-in-mutation-menu/&page=0#comment-7357

Ahhh 3-4 nichelings in the lead. That's going to be so close!!

SHRIEKS omg yo she looks like one of Dragon Tear's sisters! (When I had that tribe, Dragon Tear had many sisters and no brothers) I'm sure that sister's name was Setan but I can't remember very well (rip save file) I actually remember Setan's backstory aswell. YOOOOOO time for a story. Setan was born three turns before Dragon Tear. Setan, the one with the best genes at the time, was crowned to be the next matriarch of the tribe. Once Dragon Tear was born, however, that title was stripped from Setan and given to Dragon Tear. Setan became extremely jealous and began to constantly try to prove herself to her parents so she could gain her title back but she never did. She was jealous of Dragon Tear for nearly everything pretty much and always tried to sabotage her whenever she got the chance, but always did a sloppy job. Once Dragon Tear grew up more, Dragon Tear realized that being matriarch isn't what she wanted. She saw how much pain her sister Setan was in and decided to give up the rank back to her sister. Setan, still overwhelmed with jealousy and hate for Dragon Tear, was shocked at the sudden offer for matriarch. Due to Setan basically losing her sanity, however, she declined rather forcefully and ran off into the jungle never to be seen again. (She actually survived and had a family with a rouge male along the beach, she had twins). The rank for matriarch was then passed on to the second youngest sister (Dragon Tear is the youngest, by the way). The second youngest sister's name was Termagant I think. I just ranted oof ENJOY A BACKSTORY LMAO

#1: Stinger Tail ((Name by Redknight910!) - Adds +1 strength and poison damage! [nicheling on the far right] #2: Prehensile Tail - Adds ability to climb trees, which would increase sight more than standing on a tree trunk. Or, I suppose, add +1 gathering? [nicheling on far left] #3: Flashy Tail (Name by Redknight910!) - Adds intimidation to scare away predators/rogue males/wanderers/rabbils/dodomingos. [nicheling on the far right] #4: Tricky Tail - When you are being attacked, the first hit does no damage. (Maybe if the enemy is blind, it will either not be fooled or be fooled so good no attacks do damage?) #5: Blubber Tail - This is modeled after leopard geckos, and it would give them three days of not starving when there's no food before they start to starve. #6: Sweet Tail (Or Berry Tail? Or Bush Tail?) - This is my idea for a tail that would look kinda like a berry bush in order to attract whatever npc's are attracted to berry bushes, like rabbils and wanderers. To really get that berry bush look, it'll have a color scheme separate to the nicheling, being either brown (drought bush/withered bush) or green (healthy bush) randomly like how the Toxic Body is random colors, always having pink spots to represent berries. I also couldn't decide what shape (berry bush or withered bush) to use, so I used both; let me know which one you like better!

These are actually old posts for the first community voting, this is the post where those tails actually originated.

Snow islands are pretty easy, I’ll say that. Long Winter can be a pain in the neck though if the game bugs out on ya or something else happens. (I.e. nothing spawns, no permanent nests, etc.)

i know r i p I try to replicate patterns with fail every time You'll see what I mean soon

artic = arctic I can spell megaloceros 1 try but not arctic... >.< mah bad

Anything with bearyenas i'm good... Just no balance bears, Digging trucks, or artic ramfoxes... I HATE THE COLD *Starts to sneeze but can't*

ok its update time ignore the fact its been roughly 999868472.69 years so heres oranges kid peppermint, hes cool and has cool recessive genes fudge and brownie are just gonna eat coconuts for the rest of their lives I think midnight's still stunned from the coconut im letting chocolate have her kid because why not today's a pretty normal da- waIT HOLD UP gingerbread got her and she's called dusty, im gonna say shes midnights sister chocolate prepares to do the only thing that will ever be useful to the tribe: have a kid yay midnights back! also the new baby is kinda cute I called him pesto gingerbread's back in her special spot to have her kid this is the moment I realised pesto and dusty could have kids and peppermint couldn't so uhh they go on an adventure and find a dead body. time to film it and post it on youtube, im sure people will enjoy that also gingerbread got rogue male'd so she had this kinda cute kid next day, everythings pretty normal except for this adorable kid. I might not force her to eat the poison berries we found a cute wanderer, but im not inviting him because food dUSTY NO atleast hes purple so I decided the other kid of midnight and gingerbread, blueberry is gonna mate with the wanderer and then head off to another coconut tree day 28, the tribe is growing and so is my insanity pesto and dusty are near the base they wanna have the rogue male kid in day 29 my dudes, dont know what happened to day 28 but gingerbread found a nice permanent nest apparently midnight got a root!!!!111!11!11 pesto and dusty found their house day 30, the end why the hell these pictures are here I dont know, I must have deleted them on accident and they appeared here. well ok then

Then you have found another method to torture rogue males. And reincarnate Bob...

is this the Pinkalicious play through?

Wonderstar moves on to his second life. After some courting, Dayshelter FINALLY agrees to being Angelsnow's mate. They have a litter of three kits, but only the youngest survives- Hallowedserpent, Hallowedserpent is calm, collected and a bit smug. He is named for his stealthy way of hunting. Dayshelter dies. Distraught, Angelsnow retires into himself. Now alone, Hallowedserpent searches for someone new to talk to and finds a friend in Heatherrod. They hit it off, and soon become mates. Heatherrod has two kits- Gladetrooper and Oddadder. Gladetrooper, the male, is jolly and relaxed and loves going on any sort of adventure. Oddadder, the female, is smug. She doesn't quite take anything seriously and loves to mess with others. Wonderstar moves on to his third life. The clan is joined by a wanderer female named Farwatcher. She seems arrogant , but is really just quiet and careful with her words. Wonderstar, who hasn't had a mate for many moons, finds himself drawn to Farwatcher. He takes her on as his new mate. They have a litter of three! - Redmuzzle, Gardencove and Goldenbeach. Redmuzzle, the only tomkit of the litter, is quiet, confident, and protective of his younger sisters. Gardencove is careful, kindhearted, and hospitable. Goldenbeach is brave and intelligent, but rather shy. The clan is also joined by a handsome wanderer named Silverditch. Sociable, relaxed, and energetic, he gets along well in the clan.

This Belongs to @Aetherskye it's Caramel as Rafiki holding a random child from @bostonlobstah

Have you seen this man? 1st to assemble a crabbit army with atleast 5 crabbits wins, also if you listen to megalovania while doing this i'll give anyone a bonus nicheling edit.

SkinnySlate is in second...oof Isra will win. That broken textures version really takes the cake

But they don't actively seek out a fight. They may utilize their quills in an offensive manner when being attacked, but they are doing so to protect themselves, which therefore makes it a defense mechanism

@Finnwinter The brown one is a very peaceful bear ^^ He walkes around and really likes to hang out with Rabbils. What he does not like at all, is violence. If he witnesses a creature attaking another creature he gets super angry and will hunt down the attacker. This can be useful for you, if he watches you getting attacked by let's say a Bearyena. But if he catches you attacking a Rabbil he'll come after you.

*faints*

I think it would be awesome to have the option to toggle the genes on and off so that we can play a "blind genes mode" in which we can't look at the genes our nichelings are carrying, to make the game more interesting and challenging. That way we could look at the family tree and change nichelings' names without having to look at the genes. It could also be activated or deactivated during the game, that way, for example, you could set yourself a goal and once you reach it you can toggle on the genes and look at them. What do you think?

Yay! No more spending valuable time killing them!

I've seen a lot of requests for heterochromia, which I think would be quite cool, but genetically inherited heterochromia is only know to be caused by Horner syndrome, Waardenburg syndrome and leucism. I'm not sure what the first 2 are, but leucism is a genetic trait which causes partial but not complete loss of pigment. We already have albinism and melanism, so this gene would be pretty cool to add too Leucistic animals are often mistaken for albinos. Although both have white fur and pink skin due to lack of pigmentation, leucistic animals don't have fully unpigmented, red eyes. Leucism never completely removes pigment from the eye, but can cause heterochromia or blue eyes by reducing pigment. This would give the same white fur and pink nose as albinos, but the eyes wouldn't be red. Instead, there would be a 50% chance of blue eyes, a 25% chance of heterochromia and a 25% chance that the eyes would be unaffected Partial leucism, or piebaldism, is a form of leucism where only some of the fur and skin is unpigmented. Heterochromia and blue eyes can also be caused by partial leucism, but aren't quite as likely as in fully leucistic animals. This would cause the nicheling to have white fur with patches of coloured fur. There would be a 25% chance of blue eyes, a 25% chance of heterochromia and a 50% chance for the eyes to be unaffected Leucism is often associated with deafness or partial loss of hearing, especially if it causes heterochromia or blue eyes. In leucistic nichelings it would give a 50% chance of -1 hearing if both eyes are blue, a 25% chance if 1 eye is blue and a 10% chance if the eyes are unaffected. In partially leucistic nichelings there would be a lower chance of hearing impairment. If the eyes are both blue then there would be a 25% chance of -1 hearing and if 1 eye is blue there would be a 10% chance of -1 hearing. If the eyes are unnaffected then there would be a 0% chance of hearing impairment Genetics wise, leucism would be codominant with no leucism. A nicheling with 2 alleles for no leucism would be unaffected, a nicheling with 2 alleles for leucism would be completely white and a nicheling with 1 of each allele woud be partially leucistic This other post also suggests piebaldism, but doesn't include complete leucism. It also doesn't mention the association with deafness, but you should upvote it, piebaldism would still be pretty cool without the debuffs This post here also mentions some debuffs for albinism including lowered eyesight and no protection from UV rays which would be pretty good to add

Honestly, why is there a 30 food creature that dies in one hit? Other that, tho, this sound great! You might even be able to breed with friendly badger bats.

Okay, last two suggestions, I swear! Tomorrow is the end of all of this anyways so I'm just throwing these out here for fun mostly. Orcolf: Orca/Wolf Habitat: The water and the beach tiles, especially in the Archipelago. Behavior: They stay underwater all over the place, be it shallow or deep, and the females will sometimes have a male baby next to them you can tame once the mother is dead. The tamed male will wander into the water and proceed to have the same behavior as all males, but won't attack your nichelings. This does however mean that in order to breed with one you'll have to do a little swimming. They can come onto the beach, but they only do so in order to chase prey that jumps out of the water. They don't go further than the beach tiles. Orcolf Head, orca mouth with wolfy head shape and orca smoothness, +1 strength, +1 smelling, +1 underwater breathing Slick Ears, looks like medium ears but totally rounded and smooth without the 'inner ear dip' of the medium ears, +2 hearing, +1 swimming, -1 heat resistence Orcolf Body, wolfy body but smooth like an orca, about the same size as Big Body, +1 defense, +1 swimming, +1 underwater breathing, +1 cold resistence, -1 heat resistence Orcolf Tail, orca shape, +1 strength, +1 swimming Orcolf Legs, wolfy, +2 speed, +1 swimming Orcolf Hind Legs, Meant to be orca-like and wolf-like at the same time, they ended up coming out seal-like, lol, +speed, +2 swimming Normal eyes, gives Mask pattern instead of a fur color. Rhinocereal: Rhinoceros/Leopard Seal Habitat: The water and the beach tiles, especially in colder climates. Behavior: They can be found underwater all over the place, be it shallow or deep, but you will tend to find them basking in the sun on the beach. Females will sometimes have a male baby next to them you can tame once the mother is dead. The tamed male will wander around the beach and shallow water closest to your tribe, and might even scare fish toward your nichelings who may be sitting at the water's edge. Rhinocereal Head, mostly seal-like but with rhino horns, +1 strength, +2 smelling, and temporary water breathing at the same amount of time as the water breathing plants. Inner Ears, looks like there are no ears, +2 hearing, Rhinocereal Body, smooth seal body, +1 defense, +1 swimming, +1 cold resistance, -1 heat resistance, and temporary water breathing at the same amount of time as the water breathing plants. Rhinocereal Legs, definitely rhino-like, +2 speed Rhinocereal Tail, seal shape, cancels out hind legs the way Spiky Body cancels out tails, +1 strength, +2 swimming, +1 speed Normal eyes, and I don't know what fur color or pattern it should pass on to babies. Ideas, anyone?

This would be interesting, but the idea of niche is that you're just a little tribe/pack of critters trying to find a place for themselves, not a race of critters on a path to sapience.

i wouldn't mind a tail that provides cracking for nuts and clams. might be best attributed to the already existing hammer tail though.