Lunastar001

Perhaps you could also be able to burrow in the savannah to give your nichelings some heat resistance due to the shelter the hole would provide from the sun.

Thanks guys. I’m glad you like the suggestion. As for the different fur types, there is already a suggestion post for that. I do thing that there should be an extra section labelled something like ‘Sunlight Attraction’ or ‘Sunlight Resistance’.

I love the idea. I have an idea to go with the hibernation suggestion. To balance it out, perhaps the days leading up to the hibernation the hicheling will eat 2-3 food per day instead of the usual 1? This way you have to balance keeping a nicheling for genes and having a good supply of food.

Fur colour gives you camouflage points in certain biomes. I'm pretty sure you knew this already, though. Ah, I totally get where you are coming from. Personally though, I don’t find breeding for certain furs for camouflage all that exciting or enticing, especially when you’ve unlocked most of the genes as there are far better, more helpful genes to try and mutate. Not only that, but there are other genes you can get to keep you out of sight from predators such as the +2 stealth from (I believe Silk Paws), or the camouflaged gained from stripes or certain spot patterns. On the other hand, I have personally found it quite difficult to breed high levels of heat resistance with both big ears and lean body being quite difficult to breed into a population (this is from my own personal experience). Once again, I totally get the point you are making!

I had this idea that animals with certain fur colours could have an extra point or two of heat resistance. This would make total sense seeing as the colour white attracts the heat of the sun far less then the colour black. This could give breeding fur colours more of a purpose in the game a part from being just for aesthetics or having a boost to camouflage in certain biomes (something I haven’t found all that useful).