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Two remade OC refs for Artfight + I finally made a ref for Meteorite (who I also uploaded to Artfight)

Having played Niche as a teen when it was still in its early developmental stages and having since gone on to study biology, it's super special to me and I would love to see it expanded or a sequel! I'm a bit late to this post and stumbled across it by accident, but many of the following ideas have lived in my mind since forever and saw some of them had already been brought up. I saw some mention of seasons, I think it would be really nice to also include hibernation as a survival tactic for the winter months. I would love to see the underwater scene expanded more! I've been missing water based predators. There were already some suggestions on underwater "islands" or biomes and thought this could even go as far as making a deep sea location with limited/no light and a bunch of traits to adapt to this (bioluminescence, angler fish light to attract prey, tentacles for detection instead of vision, water filtering for food like baleen whales, mollusc body to deal with the pressure etc.). One thing I was missing a lot in water Nichelings was electro receptors. Many underwater species make use of these (including platypus) and for that to allow underwater detection of fish outside of sight range or to detect the digging spots for platypus would be great. Or even an extra sense being added to water body, as the lateral line in fish can detect water movement and this would allow for muddy water to exist with limited sight visibility. Since the addition of birds and them being able to sit in trees, I thought arboreal traits would have gone real well as an alternative to getting your Nichelings take to the trees. The bugs and seeds of trees can now only be exploited by birds and having a prehensile tail or climbing paw/hindlegs would be a great addition to expanding this mechanic. On the opposite end I would also love to see a (semi) fossorial system included, it's quite a common tactic in animals and to be able to make burrows to escape predators would be great! I believe there was already some mention of dens. I could imagine it as premade burrowing spots that your Nicheling needs digging trait to make a burrow, or even fallen logs or tree hollows. What would be really cool but maybe more difficult to implement would be to allow Nichelings to create burrows and expand them to any tile and make several entrances (could be restricted to meadow or sand tiles). I couldn't have agreed more with the posts about traits evolving on a scale, this would be super exciting! It could even go as far as to have intermediate stages between wing development from paws or even hip morphology changes to allow for an upright stance, to mimic the main evolutionary pathways that we see in paleontological/evolutionary studies. Ideally the intermediate stages would already have some advantage, as otherwise they wouldn't stay in the population for long enough to progress. The 50% mutation rate that the player can implement for two genes in the current Niche makes it a bit too easy in my opinion. Ideally this could be adjustable by the player depending on how easy or difficult they want to make it to themselves. Useful mutations are quite rare in nature and most of the mutations occurring tend to be detrimental. Although theoretically one mutation in one gene can do the trick, often an accumulation of a bunch of mutations is necessary to really create a phenotypic change. I'm not sure how this could be implemented in underlying game mechanics, but to see a more realistic approach to the genes and mutating traits would be really cool. Although the idea of having a photosynthesising Nicheling also gets me quite excited, but it's a bit further from realistic systems. Last point I'll bring up for now, would be to implement herbivores, omnivores and carnivores (etc.), Nichelings being able or unable to digest certain foods would be really interesting. As example omnivores could be able to eat everything but get less nutrients out of both, whilst the more specialised diets would allow maximum nutrient uptake. Overall I would generally like to see a lot more variety and widespread traits, genes and survival tactics, so that there is more to discover and explore. There are is so much inspiration to take from all the different species out there! But of course this would make the game a lot bigger, which also comes with a developmental cost. I think even the current Niche still has a lot of space for new cool traits and interactable creatures to be added. I still had a few more trait ideas, but this has become lengthy enough already

hello! it's been a while so i thought i should make a new introduction. im dolan!!! i also go by the name lawrence/larry. i am an autistic hobbyist artist. i use it/it's. i've loved niche since 2016 and i originally joined the forums in 2018!!! [but i lost that account due to steam log-in breaking...] i have lots of niche ocs too!!! they are from a hypothetical future where nichelings replace humans as the dominant intelligent species i beta-tested the mobile game and i own both the steam and nintendo switch versions of the game!! i think it's safe to say that niche is my favorite game other than maaaaybe a few pokemon games... outside of niche, i love lots of media! pokemon has been my life-long special interest and gen 7 is forever my favorite. my favorite pokemon are rotom, grimmsnarl, swoobat, perrserker, alolan golem, and clefable! i also like warrior cats! my favorites are scourge, yellowfang, crowfeather, lionblaze, and bluestar. i also enjoy ginga, sonic the hedgehog, my singing monsters, wolfquest, and lots of other things. i am always willing to make new friends :v)

Guys German rock + metal music is consuming me help 😭😭😭 I've gotten into Kraftklub recently and I've listened to every single one of their albums, and just today I've started really liking a band called Eisbrecher (specifically the album with the goofy yellow cover), also I've liked Rammstein since I was little. I don't speak German. I don't study German. I have never had anything to do with Germany ever except that one time we were driving through. But their music is actually so fire so yeah 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Half of my YouTube shorts feed is hazbin hotel content when ive literally never watched the show 💀

hey y'all!! I'm cooking up something... the next time I upload more sight of stars content, you guys will get three chapters in one post because I had to split up chapter 2 (it was WAY too long.)

Me: Sees image and can literally hear what he says in the show Me: wonders why the subtitles were blurred out Me: realises with the caption

I decided to make my own version of what prey is dangerous to cats because I am unsatisfied with the original one. This list includes non-harmful venomous prey because I feel like making it more of a challenge. Each animal has a different chance of hurting a cat depending on their skill and how dangerous the animal is. Poisonous and venomous animals can be identified by the medicine cat and prepared to be an antivenin or antidote. There is a 50% chance of envenomation for each lost hunt against a venomous animal, what happens after that is dependent on the risk level of each animal. Low risk: 1-80: the cat is fine 81-95: the cat has mild symptoms 95-98: the cat has severe symptoms 99-100: the cat will die if not treated Medium risk: 1-50: the cat is fine 51-75: the cat has mild symptoms 76-90: the cat has severe symptoms 90-100: the cat will die if not treated High risk: 1-20: the cat is fine 21-40: the cat has mild symptoms 41-70: the cat has severe symptoms 71-100: the cat will die if not treated Venomous: Lizards: Pygmy Komodo Dragon (high risk) Snakes: Garter Snake (low risk) San Francisco Garter Snake (low risk) Malayan Krait Snake (high risk) Rodents: Shrew (low risk) Aquatic Animals: Jellyfish (high risk) Deathfish (high risk) Sea Urchin (medium risk) Anemone (medium risk) Snail (25% for saltwater. High risk) Beetles: Red Assasin Bug (low risk) Spider (medium risk) Non-venomous dangerous animals: Lizards: Iguana (low risk) Rodents: Rat (low risk) Womrat (low risk) Pygmy Hedgehog (low risk) Birds: Parakeet (medium risk) Large birds: Cockatoo (medium risk) African Grey Parrot (medium risk) Blue-Gold Macaw (medium risk) Catalina Macaw (medium risk) Yellow-Naped Amazon (medium risk) Falcon (medium risk) Spotted Sixam (low risk to adults, high risk to kits) Aquatic Animals: Piranha (medium risk) Shark (high risk) Vampire Fish (medium risk) Lobster (medium risk) Robot Fish (high risk) Crocodile (high risk) Crawfish (low risk) Dragon Fish (medium risk) Hermit Crab (low risk) Octopus (medium risk) Eel (high risk) Beetles: Termite (low risk) Honeypot Ant (low risk) Poisonous: Aquatic Animals: Blowfish (high risk) Robot Fish (high risk) Frog (25%) (high risk) Sewer trilobite (medium risk) Toad (high risk) Luminous Salamander (medium risk) Anemone (high risk) Three-Eyed Fish (medium risk)

I did not know this until I read this on pintrest about two months ago

welcome to my art thread i enjoy drawing my ocs.... here is a ref i finished last night this is tdeco, he is basically me. it accidentally created a bunch of alternate universe versions of itself called the dolanverse

two in a day heeheeheh

another dolanverse ref yippeeeeee this is slice aka scourge from warrior cats if he sucked

YEET, NEW SCUG DESIGNS BECAUSE WHY NOT how the heck do i always forget spoiler things, HUNTER SPOILERS aaa

I also did this Flight Rising (I’ve been getting back into it!) thing, it’s Pacific, one of the dragons I own

Marshie!! Anako's daughter she's sweet and like the only one of Anako's children with some actual manners Siqu popped up one day and she was just 'AWOOGA 😍'

Krisp!! her I only bred her parents because Sirako was the only one without kids and Sane was the only adult male i was eating a rice krispie treat when she was born. guess where the name came from

Chip Chip!! I miss him, he was just a cool guy who dug up roots and sat next to his best friend on the tree stump he loved his wife Krisp a lot, they were a power couple

and heres some breeding pairs from before i left Cheesecake and Tea (Anako's son) Vindin and Meluka Chip Chip and Krisp (their daughter Cooki is still very much alive) and Siqu and Marshie (Anako's daughter) they werent compatible immunity-wise but it was love at first sight man

some twins whose names i already forgot uhh (lets just call them Anako and Anare) so for a bit of backstory: This tribe has a weird sort of society-nichelings without patterns are very much looked down upon and not treated very well, along with sick nichelings, infertile nichelings and nichelings with useless paws (deformed paw and webbed paw) The mother of these two (Peahen) had mask, but the male she mated with before she left the island had no pattern. Anako (right) ended up with mask, a bearyena claw and peacock tail (also a valued trait) while Anare (left) ended up with no pattern and a normal tail Immediately Anare was deemed a 'lesser being' and was ignored and sometimes ridiculed. Peahen just kind of ignored her (which, considering most low ranking nichelings are straight up disowned by their parents, isn't that bad) so her only friend was Anako Anako became mates with a spotty wanderer and had a bunch of pretty babies, while Anare couldn't find a mate and was attacked by a rogue male. So basically her life sucked One day though, a bearyena walked right up to Anare, and before it could attack her Anako ran over-the bearyena damaged her so badly that she only had a day left and no healing would have helped her, so she died peacefully next to her sister (which is when this screenshot was taken) the drama, man