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what about this lets you ascend up things such as rocks as well?

interesting, seems this is a common thought my suggestion

alright then, so what should I do, delete it? Or should I name it cool body

I know, but heat body is unrealistic too and in the game files within console, sort of

Why should we have preds that can literally come out of nowhere and burn down the entire island? That's really awful from a game design standpoint and a realism standpoint as well imagine this, you have a normal nicheling, you walk two spaces forward and see a firebreathing pred, you try to run away, but you notice the grass is burning, it burns out half of your island along with your trees, permanent nests and berry bushes before it rains and that part is now literally useless for anything. In that situation, unless you can kill the predator before it breathes its first breath, you are at the mercy of fire RNG and behavior which as of now in Niche basically guarantees that burning savannah will eventually look like this:

well it doesn't make fire, it makes a boiling mixture with chemicals, it's essentially firing a scalding, toxic secretion (benzoquinones) and while nichelings can have parts from arthropods, full on firebreathing is a bit too unrealistic, also no organism can actually make it(besides humans with tools) and while there may be speculative ways for organisms to breathe fire such as methane gas from their guts being ignited by a piezoelectric crystal, no non fictional organism can do that

well I did and I am just asking does it cause the environment to catch fire?

also what would fire do? set things on fire? that's a frankly horrible idea as fire permanently prevents grass from regrowing ever as of now, trees from producing nuts and etc. You could burn out your entire island by accidentally breathing fire and make it uninhabitable

So, let me get this started, the amount of trees in niche is pretty good so far, but the one thing I have a small gripe with is the lack of effect rivers have on the surrounding biomes, maybe this could help further immerse us in the game as well as add interesting game mechanics. Reference photo The weeping willow tree, for the most part, functions like your standard tree(except it spawns only near rivers) in niche, being a place where winged nichelings can perch, but has no nuts like the mangrove tree, this is where the special part comes in. The weeping willow tree, after 10 days of being discovered, will be infested with 7 willow leafminers(caterpillars) which will eat the leaves. After about 3 days on the willow tree, if the caterpillars are not collected at least once(which give a delicious 3 food each), the tree will die, leaving behind a bare, dead tree(can still be perched on, but won't be of much use other than calling) that won't have anymore of them. If even 1 of them survives the 3 days without being picked off, that moth will turn into a moth cocoon(s)(also the pic cannot found), which are mostly aesthetic, but after 2 days, they will turn into a moth eclipse. The individual moths look something like this: these moths will fly around the map randomly(3 flight), until they find another willow tree to lay eggs on. Also once 10 days has passed of the adult moths existing, they die. They also make berry bushes and other plants regrow their respective resource faster.(times 2 effectiveness, doesn't work in rain) You can collect the moths themselves for 5 food each, making them easy prey for nichelings that can catch up with them, however they will flee from a nicheling that's not in grass/has camo.

I am a bit sorry, but I made this a while ago, this is unique enough however, love this

how about shiny breastplate disables fur color or pattern instead of -1 camo, that's a bit arbitrary and super easy to counteract

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Imagine using trees, rivers and rocks to make a "farm", and there is a permanent nest there too and a stump next to it

I'm sorry for not giving a possible solution, I couldn't think of one

I think the only thing that is something like this is other creature packs suggestions, still really good, upvoted