Spacestar TheThundersuncat

Needless to say, Beetle was a pessimistic child and an even more disgruntled adult. Not the strangest of coincidences nor the highest of luck would rouse a reaction from her frozen heart. 7. Her children, however, she would not let know of struggle. She found a friend in the equally grumpy swamp-squirrel. And would be the first to stay far away from burning grass and frozen mountains. Willow asks about her childhood, her tradition, and even if oh so careful and oh so cute, She never answers.

However, Alore was sick. To make matters worse, she had to choose between sacrificing her only child to the looming sky, or her friend to the cold. The Gods did not let her pick. Leila would be torn to shreds after suffering the cold's grasp.

6. What is someone like you doing in a place like this? Leila's life was good. She may have been the leanest creature of her line, but she had food for days and a best friend she could always depend on. Oh, and a loyal nest warmer. Infact, her prospects only kept looking up!

4. Laana. There were no two things about it, she had a stalker. When she climbed out of the nest, he was there. When she made her way across the island, his red coat blazed behind her every step. And then he brought his brother and his real, creepy self to daylight. 5. Corruption Meko was a thing of beauty. The ones touched by the curse had been, if not disfigured, at least profoundly plain. But the curse hesitates for nobody.

1. The hybrid Eagle can defend himself while being fast. He killed the bearyena attacking Lako, but he just wasn't strong enough to meet his child. 2. Is bad Luck heritary? Sparrow was too slow to escape. After being chased out of the Oasis and away from her mother's bones, she at least met a rather charming rogue. 3. And this... Would be where things got weird.

Inspired by the Niche steam suggestions, I've modified one of the challenges. You pick a starter and send them to the next island, where they find a mate. The mate's genes will be randomized by the random generator. Your nicheling doesn't mutate any traits. As they can only have one child, the story will repeat itself on the next island. It's really fun! Please post your own story if you like to try it.

Non-albinos have albino children which aren't albino. I guess that's one way of figuring out the main character. Seriously. He's kinda broken. Named him MoonMoon.

By his noodly appendage! I am a total noob compared with those hours...

A bloodline... that wasn't related at all. Basically, you settle on an island, populate it and weave a story. Two wanderers have children on the other side which will be send to the ports. Or I send the two wanderers directly. Sometimes the families meet. Sometimes they don't. Here are two no-pawed wanderers found in the Oasis, Sunny and Meme. As luck would have it, they found a surrogate father in their last days. Their son and another nicheling born to the main family with a wanderer. Might as well be twins. Only that the latter hit the genetic jackpot while the other bore the last derpsnout of his line. Sunny's granddaughter in her old age, wandering the shore. It bears the least risk of being eaten by a killer bearyena. This time I send the son of the main family with her, though.

These guys unlocked one new eye colour per day. The black eyes were the only exception, at 666 food. Found this nightmare, too. Naturally let her have a child with the dotted guy. Then a clone found them.

Okay. Why not.

Dodomingoes are flightless birds that occupy nests in niche. Even if the one before them was killed and eaten. On the adjacent tile. And screamed in horror. I don't think they're meant to be smart.

This is great. I was really hoping for literal custom islands, where you can say, move rocks to create a den and so on. But that is likely too much programming effort, anyway...

Rogue males mate with pregnant ladies, the friendly neighbourhood bearyena, teens, males, clams and the seagrass, all resulting in the same untraceable notification. Walruus deer eat your creatures whole and leave only the skin behind. Meat eating plants now have a 7 tile radius and wander the island. Food rots after two days. All nests are replaced by dancing apendages every time it rains. Dodomingoes get the respect they deserve and develop into winged rogue ladies. Rabbils steal the shape of your young and drain their lifeblood, replacing them with an infertile copy. All berries are replaced by extra crunchy eyeballs, giving the "existntial despair" debuff (complete with a spelling error).

Ramfoxes are quite meek, but also smart. Or at least it would appear so, when they go after isolated nichelings sometimes.

Maybe they can't feel pain but are just a little bit skittish. No, but really, it kind of forces your hand to make them that way as a foodsource. But you know that. I keep wondering what they eat in the killer mountains. Those plants for nestern material? The pine trees? That's never going to be enough... Maybe they wait till your nichelings die and eat the corpse. That would explain a thing or three. Wanderers would be their usual supplementary diet, and not strong enough to do much damage on average. Aside from that, there are quite some around, so they reproduce quickly and can take a risk. I'd be nice to have some game-lore. Just some non-nightmare inducing stuff.

I kind of heard about the project when it was still in its earliest version, randomly, when browsing odd games on you tube. Two seemed worth checking out... sometime... in a few years. Never found the other again; but hey, Niche!

@bostonlobstah That is the saddest thing I've heard all week. When they scuttle off, never to be seen again... @Philo, is there any chance that might be fixed?

Aside from the bug that rogue males get stuck in the water by themselves or if a female leads them there... This little one almost died digging up worms. Digging up worms may not be a bug, but it damages wanderers regularly. Should this be fixed?

@bostonlobstah Also had a hero of the day in Adam's line. The poison fangs were just about to go extinct due to the purrsnout.

As seen, the crabbit spawned on an occopied tile when I passed the turn. It can be attacked, doesn't move or turn around.

I am just gad that they don't throw anything they deem people in it. Or immigrants.

Yeah. It's often a really big affair for some people and many don't care at all (except for the Krapfen...) on Fasching. In the city they march through the streets in way bigger numbers. Customs may vary a lot, but that one is a "holiday" you could miss. What you can not miss, however, is the freakish custom of setting a strawman on fire and throwing him in the local river, after parading him around the whole damn town.

We commonly don't celebrate halloween at all in Austria 😅. We have a horned devil and saint that "bring" sweets to children.

Oh, wow! Meanwhile my pack stagnates at replacement rate. And everyone is polyarmorous... because immunity genes are evil.