so i have a few ideas for water based bionmes(islands)
okay the first one would be deep waters.
the whole biome would be small and dark and would essantaly be used to travel to a random island wich would then contain the teleporter to one of the water islands. the only light produced would be from the nichelings gems or from a new gene.
im not sure what to name the gene but you would unlock it by one of your nichelings beying eaten by the beast. the gene would make the nicheling that has it imune to the beast and light up a large area of the deep waters.
now the beast. the beast would be a giant creature that would only spawn in the deep waters. you would only see its light but when it would be a tile away from the nicheling its head would be visible. as before mentioned if the nichling it encounters dosnt have the lamp? gene they will be eaten by it. if the creature does have the gene it will ignore them.
heres this biomes teleporter.
now the next biome. "the coral reef"
as the name sugest the biome is a coral reef based one. there would be many fish that would span in there and it would be a great place to have a platapus beaked nicheling. the nest in this biome would be the animone where the young nichling wouldnt be able to be reached by a predator. i havent decided what the preditor would be but it would function simulary to birds of prey-it would only attack the young nichelings.
in this biome a friendly new creature would spawn the "whale fish" the whale fish would be skitish and avoid nichelings. but if the nichelings have the feasant tail gene (it dosnt matter if its the female or male one both would work) the nicheling could aproach the creature and breed with it. this would be a way to unlock a new gene that i will show later in this post.
heres the coral reef teleporter.
the next biome would be salty shores
most of the biome would have shallow waters and small sand islands (that would have nests and maybe savana berry bushes on em)
this would also be the place the "armadilo turtle" would be found in. the armadilo turtle would be very hard to kill and it would have at least 2 armor. it would lseek out the snady island and burry eggs in the sand. a creature with diggers paw or digging trunk could dig up theese eggs and use them for food.
gulls would also be creatures that apear in the biome. they would be sorta like birds of prey but isted of stealing baby nichelings these pests would steal food. so this is how it would work- a turn after the nicheling colects any kind of food (not the induvidual nichelings turn- just a turn in general) these birds could swoop in and steal the food just colected(removing the amount from your food stash) the gulls would fly in groups and would be a hudge anoyance. but they will not steal food from a nicheling with poison fangs of bearena snout. they can be killed by any nicheling that can fly.
heres the salty shore teleporter
the last biome i came up with would be the frozen waters
this would be a cold enviourment with big islands made of ice in it. nichelings with bareana hind legs would be able to move on the ice faster than nichelings with normal/webbed hind legs. the water would be filled with fidh and plankton on the ice nothing would spawn.
thats where the penguin seals come in. they would be inposible to catch in water but possible to catch when they would jump onto ice. these creatures would build nests out of rocks that when finished the nichelings could use. it would be skitish and run from nichelings. if they build the nest and arent chased off a baby penguin seal would spawn.
heres the frozen waters biome teleporter.
now lets take a look at the new genes
scaled body- scaled body would make the creature imune to both the cold and the hot climate if it is in water. these scales can be both colorful (like toxic body) and the nichelings normal color.
whale mouth- this gene would unlock the possibility to eat planton (plancton would only spawn in the water biomes and nowhere else) and breathe under water.
both these genes wouls be unlocked by breeding with the whale fish.
(note these drawings are only suposed to give an idea of what im talking about they are nowhere close to what i imadene the biomes/genes to look like. and these drawings are rushed skethes not something i spent a lot of time on. all the creature designs (like the gulls) where not designed at all and are only suposed to convey the idea not the actuall animal)
