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I would love to see more depth to the genetics system! That was always my favorite part of Niche, but its gotten a bit repetitive and I'd love to have a little more randomness and variety Non-inheritable traits: I love the idea of traits that can't be bred for/can't be inherited by offspring and just happen rarely to some nichelings (which is what I think Stranger was saying here about defective traits? Otherwise it feels too similar to traits like deformed paw). Some nichelings could just have abnormalities happen during their development in the womb, but aren't caused by their genetics and therefore can't be passed on. Chimerism would be so cool, maybe the genetics that are displayed in the genetics tab are the ones that get passed on, but half of the nicheling is a different set of genetics (like Venus the cat!) that just affects the nicheling visually (maybe only affects fur color/pattern). Sex-Linked traits: I also would love for more sex-linked traits to be added besides just blood clotting! Like how orange fur in cats is sex-linked, so orange cats are more likely to be male than female. Or how calico coloration requires two X chromosomes so all calico cats are female (unless a male cat has XXY chromosomes, but that's probably getting too detailed). Genetic sliding scale for some traits: What I would REALLY love would be traits that aren't a perfect "you either have it or you don't", and are more of a sliding scale. Maybe instead of having to find a "big body gene" for example, you could instead breed bigger nichelings together until eventually they've evolved to have the big body gene with all the perks. Like maybe there's a number system 1-5 with body size, 1 being lean body and 5 being big body and everything else in between being a variation of "normal body". If you breed two nichelings with a "2" on the scale together, they would most likely have a "2" sized baby, but they have a chance of having a "1" or "3" sized baby, with the "1" size having a special name called "lean body" with all the perks of lean body in the OG Niche game. I would imagine you it would be more likely to get a change in body size than you would a typical random mutation, since in real life its not necessarily a mutation to be taller than your parents, but maybe it would be more rare for two lean body parents to have a size "2" child so that its easier to keep the special sizes in the family. I like that with this different form of inheritance you have different routes of getting to these traits (either explore and find a nicheling that already has the trait you're looking for or take generations to selectively breed until you get the size you want), with both of them feeling like you have more agency than just hoping for a completely random mutation of the gene you want. This would also mean that this trait could stack with something like spiky body, which would stay a "you either have it or you don't" trait. Nocturnal and Diurnal traits: I saw it mentioned a couple times, but having something like a nocturnal gene would be SO COOL!! Diurnal nichelings would be able to use their action points when the sun is out and nocturnal nichelings would use them at night. There could be special prey that are only out at night or you are able to attack predators while they are sleeping. Maybe a nicheling could have the option to use an extra action point in the wrong time of day for them (so they could choose to use an additional action point instead of sleeping, but this would have consequences (maybe a "tired" status affliction that takes action points away the next day, and if repeated more could take away health). Maybe whether a nicheling is nocturnal or diurnal could be linked to a physical trait like eye pupil shape (vertical for nocturnal and round for diurnal)

man cant believe real life stole rain from rain world /j

Whenever it rains heavily my brain goes 'hehe... Rain World reference'

Yeah I lied I definitely will be on here pretty often.

i mean if you want :3 (i got brain freeze from my ice cream while typing this-)

the world needs to know the difference between little rat, little mouse and little mice

mini art dump wof arc 1 and 2 protags! (and kinkajou) man i haven't drawn these guys in a while these are in slightly different styles but that's because the arc 1 ones are the oldest and arc 2 are the newest out of this batch of art "and you know what that means..." (the text- not again) j drawing that lox asked for earlier (she already saw it though) (yes i know that's not how you hold a pen shut up /nm) various other md doodles (i don't think any of these are spoilery enough to need to be in a quote so i'll just leave them normally for now) and ofc obligatory oc drawings