MysticTopaz
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8 hours ago, ChasingNyx said:
This seems awesome. I really want this! I hope more people find it, upvote my friend! Also, possible suggestion; You know how toxic body gives random colors? What if the wings did the same. I know you said you meant all those different wings as different options for the devs, but I swear, it'd be so cool to see a whole flock of colorful different colored butterfly nichelings! Or, maybe, the back wings could be a seperate gene. Orrrrr, Butterfly Body 1 is the gradiant, and it has a wing name, and so on! God I'd love that. Anyways, my ramblings aside, awesome idea! And awesome artwork!
Thank you so much~! I would love it if there could be a whole bunch of butterfly wings in the game, I just didn't think it'd work out like that. To be honest, my favorite type is Type 1, the gradient, and I'd love it if there could be a whole bunch of different Type 1's in the game. Heck, I think you've just inspired me to make more art of this! ❤️
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8 hours ago, Skidez said:
Ive done art for this and i want it to be in niche
That is so cute~! ❤️
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2 hours ago, DogCatCowPig said:
wow those are some really pretty pictures nice job😀
Thank you~!
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2 hours ago, Fishyfishyfishy500 said:
cool! also maybe this:
maybe nichelings with this ability can land on grass(maybe not), healing plants, rocks and bushes and gain the effects of high position, and land side ways on otherwise unlandable trees and structures(like ape trees)
Actually in the recent update they made plant growths come off the giant trees to allow for flying nichelings to sit on them
I thought that was pretty cool.
What do you mean by landing on grass?
I like the idea of landing on healing plants, rocks, and bushes, since nichelings with this body are supposed to be smaller than the other available bodies.-
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On 6/30/2018 at 11:53 AM, Fishyfishyfishy500 said:
I love AC and this post, I also made an idea that would go well with your clever jaw, it is called ant gaster, in females it gives the following
Ant gaster(tail in females)
+4 fertility
-2 in all movement based stats
+1 defense
+ venomous(because of stingers)
+ double birth(gives birth twice with one successful mating session)
In males it gives:
Ant gaster(tail in males)
+2 fertility
+2 defense
+distressful scent(when a predator is nearby, it goes off and gives a notification; a <insert predator name> is nearby!)
unlock conditions: breed 150 times and unlock Clever jaw
and also legs to boot
Chitinous hind legs(like a crab or ant maybe, hind legs)
+1 defense
+1 speed
+1 swimming
-1 cold resistance
unlock conditions: Walk around 50 times with clever jaw
and also pincer paws
Pincer paw
+1 attack
+1 defense(per pair)
+1 cracking
+1 knockback per pair(knocks opponent backwards that number of tiles opposite where the creature is)
unlock conditions: walk 50 times on a beach with chitinous hind legs and eat 5 coconuts
Ant Love Forever!
I think you're going in the right direction, but perhaps I could offer a few tweaks to be a little more realistic?
For the Ant Gaster tail, the thing about ants is, males don't live for very long- they only exist to mate and then die. I could see having an Ant Gaster on a male halving his lifespan but increasing his fertility by 4, however I can't see doing that for the female. It seems like the gaster you're looking at for females is that of a queen, which I suppose makes sense- Nichelings could be likened to a species of ants that have gamergates instead of queens so that all of them are fertile but the vast majority do not reproduce. However even then I can't see adding fertility to them because females live much longer than males, especially the queens. I also disagree with the negative points toward movement; an ant's gaster doesn't inhibit their movement speed in real life, it's just like a human torso, holding their organs. To them it's weightless. I love the 'double birth' idea which slightly mirrors the real life storage of sperm for the ant's foreseeable lifetime, though I'm unsure of whether or not they would actually implement it into the game. I might be able to see the developers allowing this tail to always give twins and sometimes triplets, though, as it could offer up the possibility of having too many babies at once and creating a lack of food resources, thus balancing the tail's good effects with the possible repercussions. I also have to admit that the defense could do with a minor nerf, since this tail is already giving a lot of things whereas most tails only provide one thing. Personally I don't mind no defense at all, but just for you I'll keep each having + 1 defense. Thus, for my edits to your idea, see below:
Female Gaster:
+1 Defense
+1 Venomous
+ Replacing possibilities of offspring [instead of always 1 baby with the possibility of twins, it's always twins with the possibility of triplets]
Male Gaster:
+1 Defense
+1 Venomous
+4 Fertility
- Half of the nicheling's lifespan [cannot be regained from purring or eating healing fruit]And to top it off, I'm going to offer my own Gaster possibility that is at once realistic and bending the realism at the same time. Why? Because I will be foregoing the mating aspects for instead a worker-replete aspect instead. Because often I have pretty males that I would rather not lose to a halved lifespan just to trade for a higher fertility. How does the Food Storage and Trophallaxis work, you ask? Simple: Food Storage allows for that nicheling to store however much food there is in the +, so for females it'd be storing 1 point of food, while males store 5 points of food, and at the end of the day, instead of reducing the food on the main tribe counter, they first reduce food from their gaster. If they haven't picked up any food that day, or received any through Trophallaxis, they will take from the main tribe counter. As for Trophallaxis, those nichelings that can use it can select a button on a fellow Trophallaxis-having nicheling in order to gain or give their stored food. For females, this means she gives up her one point of food to give to the female who has no points of food stored. However, more ideally, you would have a male and four females- the male would have five food points stored, and would be able to give one food point to each of the four females while still having one food point for himself. As Repletes [males] could potentially be born unable to move at all, this would make the nest-making ability much more useful, as having a Replete baby in a permanent nest basically destroys your possibility of using that nest until the Replete dies, whereas if you have a Replete in a hand-made nest, you can just pick up the material after you have the baby. And y'know, I like my idea so much that I'm going to post it in the current Feature Requests section XD You're free to post your own Gaster idea there, too! Ours are so radically different that no one should have a problem with two separate gaster posts.
Worker Gaster [female only]:
+1 Venomous
+1 Food Storage
+ Trophallaxis [active only with Clever Jaw]
Replete Gaster [male only]:
+1 Venomous
-5 Movement [if there's not enough land speed, it reduces swim and/or flying as well]
+5 Food Storage
+ Trophallaxis [active only with Clever Jaw]As for the hind leg idea, I like it, but allow me to make an addition: Climbing. Ant legs are specialized all-terrain transportation, so I feel it'd make sense to give them a Climbing ability in order to sit wherever flying nichelings can sit. So your lineup would look like this:
Chitinous Hind Legs:
+1 Defense
+1 Speed
+1 Swimming
+1 Climbing
-1 Cold Resistance
I have nothing to add to Pincer Paw; it's perfect~!
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6 hours ago, BlazingCorvid said:
I love the colorations! The green and red morphs at the bottom for the tropical habitat remind me of the eclectus parrot, where the females are red and the males green, and the females try to entice the males with their bright plumage, the opposite of most avian gender roles.
Thank you so much! I did try to base all the colors off of actual parrot colors ❤️
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I got super lucky and when I started my Killer Frost Lands file it spawned FOUR ice blocks! So of course I'm going to share!
Please comment below on what you got out of your ice blocks, and I'll post an edit here with what I got!
Have fun~ ❤️
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I died twice XD and on the third try, after 60 long days, I finally cracked open all the ice blocks! Here's my progress, in chronological order:
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I'm baaack~!
Day 101 Update!
Okay, so, I gathered two of every type of nicheling I had and shipped them off the whale and onto the Killer Frost Lands, which was a really rocky decision, but we've managed to survive until this point so I'm going to congratulate the tribe for that XD I've already picked up two of the three ice blocks [one with armored body and the other with hammer tail], and I've got the winged nichelings searching for the last ice block up north. I know it was near a tree, but I'm not sure which tree it was so I'm a liiittle lost lol Meanwhile, the rest of the tribe is south of the search party, making babies because we have 0 food and we're growing old so we need babies to carry on. I've still got the orange peacock warriors, I've got one pink weather predictor, four blue flyers, a couple of yellow scorpions, and a bunch of green healers. My favorite is Vanku, the fluffy black and white healer ❤️ Please take care of him.
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When this round of voting ends, will the Feature Requests be archived and a new one begin?
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On 6/26/2018 at 9:16 PM, Skysplash8 said:
weirdly colored body parts.
I've added a couple pictures of full-body nichelings with the Type 1 and Type 2 wings, if you wanna take a look~ Still working on the Type 3 tho
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15 hours ago, Frozenpelt Warrior said:
I really like this.
I edited the original post to show a full body nicheling with the Type 1 wings- please check it out~! ❤️
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1 minute ago, Jojo said:
I feel the same way about birds
Oh and my sister recently got the pet snake from my best friend. First time having a reptile in the house after lots of mammals, kind of chill
Reptiles are definitely more chill than mammals, but no less cute XD I gotta admit my favorite reptile in the family is Nana [short for 'fat banana' lol] the yellow leopard gecko ❤️
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On 6/23/2018 at 10:11 PM, LordOfCider said:
Honestly this isn't a bad idea. The first thing that comes to mind is the Spore species timeline where it shows the major events in a species' evolution.
If this were implemented I imagine it wouldn't be a thing for videos but something akin to what the afforementioned game had. I think it would begin with "[insert starting pair names here] arrived on a new island!" It would then track the days at which children were born, deaths occurred, wanderers invited in, and new genes unlocked. I think this would make a very interesting way to see how far our nichelings have come, though I do fear the space it would require.
That's perfect!!
Way better than my idea!
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2 minutes ago, Frozenpelt Warrior said:
I really like this.
Thank you! 8D
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1 minute ago, Leaellynasaura said:
It looks a bit like a beak XD
Kinda like how sometimes butterflies look like owls? XD Although the Type 3 Butterfly Body was supposed to be modeled after a Big Eyed Ape, so it's a liiittle bit weird lol
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41 minutes ago, Leaellynasaura said:
I wonder what this would look like with peacock tail?
I'm not really good at drawing all the details of a peacock tail, but here's my best shot XD It'd probably look way better than that.
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I like it :3
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5 minutes ago, Skysplash8 said:
But what about color combinations?? You wouldn't be able to have a pink Nicheling with Wings because you have to have red + white, but you can't have that when you have Butterfly body. I think it would be better if it was something like the top and bottom bits are the fur color (both colors combined) and the middle part the pattern color (both colors combined), like @Pokestardragacraft said. Patterns on the pattern colored part would just not show up.
Even better than this, it could just all be the same color. Then we wouldn't have weirdly colored body parts.
You misunderstood me: When I said 'a pink nicheling' I meant 'a nicheling that would otherwise be pink', as I thought that was a logical train of thought, but I'm sorry I wasn't specific enough. As for the "Even better than this, it could just all be the same color. Then we wouldn't have weirdly colored body parts." I made the middle segment a different color to emphasize that it is, in fact, a segmented body, and I personally find it aesthetically pleasing. Imagine a nicheling with orange [red +yellow] spots, a black dominant fur color, and a red recessive fur color. So Halloween-y! ❤️
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25 minutes ago, Pokestardragacraft said:
I’m totally for this idea, it was actually one I was planning to post a topic on it myself alongside another winged body: the beetle body with +4 flight and +1 defense. What held me back for posting it was trying to balance it with the wings we currently have. Maybe it wouldn’t add onto the flight if you already have normal wings? I don’t know, 12 flight seems like too much to me.
Regardless of all that, I have a few questions:
1. What do you mean by dominant fur color? Since the color in game incompletely dominant, I can only assume you meant either the top color is “dominant” and the bottom color is “recessive”, or the regular color’s “dominant” and the pattern color’s “recessive”.
2. How would you get the different types?
3. What do you mean by “+2 intimidate”?
Thank you! ❤️
"12 flight seems like too much to me" I disagree, because while 12 flight seems great in theory, you must take into account the fact that you're giving up strength and gathering options in favor of all that movement, plus you'd still be garbage underwater and don't even get me started on carnivorous plants. I think if you /really/ want to, you should be allowed to have that 12 flight, because you're giving up a lot for it. Meanwhile, the nichelings that specialize in just wings or just the Butterfly Body have so many more options available to them.
1. By dominant fur color I mean the color on the top, and the recessive on the bottom. For example, a pink nicheling with white on top and red on bottom would have segments 1 and 3 as white and segment 2 as red. Patterns aren't related to this, so you can still have all the pattern options of the other bodies.
2. I actually provided the three types, not as three separate types for the game, but as three options for the one body in the game. By that, I mean that I provided three possibilities for the game designers to choose from to place in the game. /Either/ Type 1, 2, or 3; not all of them. I mean, if they WANT to put all of them in there, I think that'd be great, but that wasn't my original intent. As to how one might get them, I think that's a very good question. Perhaps gathering a certain amount of fruit from carnivorous plants? XD That way I can hate those stupid plants a little bit less? They've taken so many of my babies in the past I've never gotten over my grudge against them.
3. By "+2 intimidate" I mean it would function similarly to Bearyena Snout and Saber Tooth Fangs, but it'd be passive rather than something you have to activate yourself. In other words, foes wouldn't want to approach a nicheling with the intimidate ability unless the foe didn't have any other food options.
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16 minutes ago, Leaellynasaura said:
I like the idea of making flight available with a body! Then, you can focus on collecting with the paws.
Thank you~! I like it, too, and I felt Butterfly would be best for that purpose- it gives the same amount of flying ability as one wing, so if you want a 'professional' flying nicheling then having two bird wings would still be the best option, but for those of us who like pretty things and don't want to lose our collecting prowess, Butterfly Body would be best ❤️ Just imagine a precious little Short Snout with Round Ears, beige dominant and chestnut brown recessive fur colors on the Type 1 Butterfly Body, with Antennae, Double Nimble Fingers, and a Fishing Tail~!
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3 minutes ago, Skysplash8 said:
What if you had regular wings in addition to this? It would look really weird..
Having two wings along with this would mean a +12 flying nicheling, but it certainly would look very weird and, at least in my opinion, would be relatively difficult to play with, as you essentially put all your stats into movement, which makes it harder for you to gather food and nesting materials, not to mention being weaker in the event of an attack by a predator, but hey, if you wanna make a weird four-winged nicheling, go right ahead XD It certainly wouldn't be the weirdest thing I've ever seen in this game.
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1 minute ago, Cami said:
@MysticTopaz
Thanks so much for telling me! When I searched for the idea originally it didn't pop up. I will make sure to triple check next time!
It didn't pop up because of the goofy way they spelled their title XD It's all good!
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This has already been suggested and already has a lot of votes ^^
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Okay, I know what you're thinking, but I have a very good reason for not putting on a head, tail, or coloring the legs: I wanted the full focus to be on the body! XD
You will most definitely still have a tail and head and colored limbs, I just wanted to focus on the body.
Speaking of the body, though, let me first focus on the actual main body then I'll get to the wings: The body is broken up into three sections. The top section of the body is very fluffy and puffy, similar to that of the Big Body, and takes on the dominant fur color. The middle section is smooth and takes on the recessive fur color. The bottom section is also smooth but matches the top section in taking on the dominant fur color. The middle and bottom sections are supposed to be round/cylindrical like a butterfly's body; I did my best to get that kind of impression. The middle section is where the top wings connect, and the bottom section is where the bottom wings connect, though since they're butterfly wings they look like it's all one big wing, so I guess it doesn't really matter when it comes to actually making the models for the game. XD
Now for the wings attached to the body: Butterfly wings can vary from bottom [facing toward you] to top [when you view them from the back], so as a result I decided to draw three different types of butterfly wing. All of them offer +4 flying and you can fly with this body, but no swooping. Having two bird wings instead would get you a lot farther a lot faster, of course, but flying for this body is more or less a background ability; it's what you'll see below that's the real stars of the show.
Type 1 [at the top with the gradient]: +1 attractiveness, +1 distasteful appearance, +1 poisonous [when being attacked]
Type 2 [bottom left green one]: +2 camouflage +1 attractiveness
Type 3 [bottom right yellow one]: +2 intimidate +1 distasteful appearance
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I figured it would be best to show a full body complete nicheling with this body as an example, so below I will do just that!
Type 1:
Type 2:
Type 3:
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I had the idea to draw out variations of the wings, so here we go! I included as many fur colors, horn colors, and eye colors as I could to make these Type 1 Variations! But first, a little info:
The body's midsection is the recessive fur color, and the top and bottom are the dominant fur color.The wing's outline is the same as the horn color.
The wing's semi-transparent gradient goes like this: The color closest to the body is the recessive eye color and the color closest to the tip of the wing is the dominant eye color. I replaced Violet with Pink because I like it better that way. Besides, pink stands out more.
The wing's spots go like this: The big spots are the complimentary color to the dominant eye color [example: Blue-Orange, pink-yellow], and the little spots are the complimentary color to the recessive eye color.
Now on to the wings!!
Just the wings by themselves:
The wings with the body outlines: [because I've been told these are easier to see]
The full examples of wing variants with colored bodies:
And for flavor, here we have an example of an Albino and a Melanistic nicheling:
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Thank you so much!! ❤️ I like it a lot, but I think Type One is still my favorite XD I'm currently working on the project you inspired me to do- want spoilers while I'm working on it, or want it to be a surprise~?
I believe it would be like taking a running start- your ground movement is in the tiles immediately around you, and then the flying movement is beyond that.
Of course you could still go from being right next to a tree to being on top of it.