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Days 1 and 2 The First Chill (picture first, then applicable text)
Run grabbed a blade of the large grass patch she was sitting in and pulled it. It came up rather easily, but so did a root strand. This meant it was not regrowable, once you picked it all it would be gone forever, only short grass would remain. Oh well, she thought pulling out another strand, there's plenty of grass in the world, and-
"NO! Run, stop that!" said Mimime.
Run stopped mid-pull, "Why?"
"There's no other grass on this island as far as I can see, that's why. Once it's gone it's gone."
"And why should that matter?" asked Run, confused.
"Grass is good for hunting prey, and hiding from danger. It's great camoflauge," interjected Fang.
"Oh..." said Run, embarrassed I must look like such an idiot to him...
"Don't feel bad," he said, "you didn't know."
I sure didn't...what am I thinking? An experianced hunter like him fall for a klutz know-nothing like me? Never.
"Let's get hunting," said Strawberry, "we may have alot of food now, but it won't last long."
"Agreed," said Fang.
Run nodded and ran off the port. Her paws hit cold stone, which was just as much of a shock now as the first time they had ventured off the port. She shivered, though the air wasn't even cold the stone chilled her.
"What's that?" Fang heard Run say as he stepped off the port. The hard stone felt odd beneath his paws, but his curiosity propelled him forward.
He saw Run, but saw nothing unusual around...except she was next to something. She poked it with her paw, and he had to keep himself from laughing, "It's a bush."
"You've seen a few bushes before, Run," said Mimime, "remember?"
"It doesn't look like a bush!" she defiantly answered, "It looks like some shriveled up grass coated with dirt and stone. With snow on top."
"It isn't a very healthy bush," Fang admitted.
"A dead bush," said Stalker confidently.
"Well, it must be alive, or it wouldn't have grown these white things," observed Mimime.
"Snow Flowers," said Run.
"Huh?" Mimime said.
"I call them Snow Flowers," Run grabbed one with her good paw, "and they're soft too! This is the best nesting material ever. I love these things, even if they do come from a dead grass plant."
"I think it looks like a ton of twigs on the ground," said Stalker.
"Then we call it Dead Twigs," decided Run.
"Dead Twig Bush," corrected Mimime.
Run looked like she was about to object, so Fang said, "I like that name."
Run looked mad and embarrassed all at once, and maybe even sad.
I shouldn'tve done that to her, poor thing. So Fang picked another Snow Flower and handed it to her, "For you."
Run lit up all the sudden, "Why...t-thank you. Fang." She blushed as she said his name.
Fang smilled for a moment, then shrunk back, a terrible image flashing through his head. And a vow to himself, Never again. I will never have to go through this again, no matter what.
"Come on," said Strawberry, she didn't want to break up all the fun, though it seemed silly to debate over a dead bush, it was just that they had to get finding some prey before they ran out of food.
Mimime went one direction, and Fang went the other. Strawberry opted to stay near her sister, as she tried to catch up, Mimime excitedly whirled around and said, "I found a rabbit burrow!"
"Good job!" said Strawberry. Now they just had to hang around the thing and hope an unlucky rabbit would surface.
That night, a cold wind blew through. Stalker tried his best to cuddle up to Run, but he longed to have his father next to him. Where did he go, anyways? His teeth began to chatter, and so did Run's.
"I'm cold," he complained as the sun rose.
"Me too," said Run, "we need to be near other members of the pack to stay warm. Three is usually enough; let's find your father."
So the two set out in search of Fang, and they didn't need to travel very far. They found him, shivering himself, near a an odd looking pool of water. He was staring at it uneasily.
"Hey," said Run, "what's that?"
"I'm un-sure, but it rad-ia-ates warmth...and I-I'm so cold..." he stuttered.
"Let's huddle together," said Run, "believe me, it makes you warmer."
"Sure," he said, "co-me o-veer here."
"Does it feel cold to you?" asked Mimime.
"No, just a slight bit chilly I guess, but if you feel it the others probably do too," answered Strawberry.
"Yeah," said Mimime, "you're bigger and have a thicker coat than me, but the others have coats like mine."
"I'll go check on them," said Strawberry, and she ran back the way they had came.
Mimime shivered, she didn't like being cold, and she liked being alone even less. But she felt some warmth...somewhere...
She saw a strange pool nearby. She stepped closer to it, yep, the warmth came from here.
It's just water...warm water...strange, but in a good way. So she jumped in, and immediately felt much warmer. The water bubbled around her, and she relaxed. She could get used to this.
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5 hours ago, Nightfire said:
you don't. You have to breed with rogues or wanderers to survive!
(Ah, OK. Makes sense.
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On 7/25/2021 at 11:26 PM, Nightfire said:
Setup
Ages and Multipliers
Baby, 4; Child, 6; Teen, 10; Adult, 35; Pregnancy, 5.
Enemy, 7; Hunger, 2; Environment, 5; Healing, 2.
Gene Settings
Start with one female with the following settings;
Gameplay
Set food settings to 20, nesting material to 30.
Enable tribe size limit of 20.
Rules
General
- The tribe must stay separated. Any teen or adult within smelling/hearing/seeing range of teen or adult will fight them off.
- Adults who are expecting or raising a child must have Alpha rank. Adults who aren't expecting or raising a child must have Beta rank. Teens must have Omega rank.
- Kill off all male children.
Breeding
- You are not allowed to breed any nichelings within the tribe together; you are only allowed to breed with rogues and wanderers.
** If you banish a nicheling, you must wait 30 days before being allowed to breed with them.- Any nicheling with an infertility gene (1 or 2) is killed off.
- Once a child becomes a teen, the mother leaves them to fend for themselves.
Good luck!
Wait, so the mother kills their male child? How in the world do you ever have enough males?
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Just went camping, also wore a swimsuit into a library
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I hope they're able to find mates
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8 hours ago, MODTRESS said:
It seems to only happen on the warm season when they are on the shore
Huh, maybe it's supposed to happen?
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9 minutes ago, Nightfire said:
If you think it would be necessary, yes, go for it. I give myself a grace time of 5-20 days where I kill off all attackers and then use no commands after that point, maybe it would be good for this playthrough while the tribe is still settling in.
Maybe just use commands in life-or-death. Tribe is on the brink of death? use commands. Tribe is about to starve? use commands. etc.
I don't want to cheat too much...but maybe for the first 20 days I will give each nicheling one command attack seperate from their regular moves. After that we'll see if it's still needed. I will also use commands to let adults carry one-gemmed cubs, but only one at a time. And a mother has to give birth to her full litter before she can move from the nest, or she will take damage and the next cub will either take damage or die. Also I will use commands to make a female pregnant again if her mate dies and she still has more cubs in the litter to be born (I will be rolling for # in litter).
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1 minute ago, Nightfire said:
Damage multipliers only apply to nichelings. Balance bears and ramfoxes shouldn't be affected by multipliers.
Should I use commands to attack, then? Or would that be cheating/too easy?
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2 minutes ago, Nightfire said:
Long Winter. Not as hard as Frost Lands; rarer predator spawns, more sources of food, and generally easy to survive on if you have the right genes and abilities. When played well, this island is super fun and not too challenging
Thanks for the tip! I think I'll use this island for the redo
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And also, is there any way to make it so the damage you apply to other creatures through the attack interaction goes by the damage multipliers? When I would attack, it didn't multiply it by 2 or 3, but when I used commands to apply the damage it did. Is there any other way to get around that?
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Good news, I have screenshots of each of the starters' genes so I can recreate them. Also, does anyone know another frost lands/mountain I could start on that would be easier for this challenge? Berries don't matter since we're carnivores. Do the easier mountains have more animals to hunt too? Which island would you reccomend and why?
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Thank you for your suggestions!
56 minutes ago, Nightfire said:maybe give yourself as much food as the nicheling still has on their lifespan?
The only rule that wouldn't apply to that would be for children and teens. Then add how many days they've been alive worth of food.
For example. If a nicheling lives 100 days (3 baby, 4 child, 13 teen, 80 adult) and you hunt them;
- when they're 42 days old; since they can defend themselves and run away as an adult, you'd add 58 food for their remaining lifespan.
- when they're 12 days old; they're still a child and can't properly fight back or run, you'd add 12 food for how long they've already been alive. This could lead to nichelings waiting until a child turns 20 days old to hunt them, which could start attachments for potential plot points wink wink.
If that makes sense
I feel like this might be a bit OP...but I need to know more about what certain creatures give. What do balance bears and walrus deer give?
55 minutes ago, MODTRESS said:2-5 for child and baby
5-10 for teen
10-15 for adult
This seems pretty fair, will probably go for the higher end of that if I do take this suggestion
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(Also just realized both these guys lived in mountains/frostlands!)
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Also, how much food would a nicheling be worth? Cause when I find a wanderer I roll to see if they're a saber, and if not they're not the same species and are liable to be hunted. So I need to know and I don't know what number would make sense
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1 hour ago, mhiahia said:
For my lore playthroughs I prefer having the least amount of nichelings possible, I think the highest amount I feel comfortable with is 10-12, after that it just gets too stressful to keep track of everyone. So before my nichelings have kids I usually take care to make a copy of the safe file so I actually get a kid with home immunity after about two tries.
Kura was a first-try success and carries HI and so do Adave and Dikeh, however for those two I had to make about five attempts to actually get an HI kid. So if I hadn't made a copy of the file Kura would probably have 3-5 kids now I find that a nicheling having four kids is the maximum I can deal with when writing lore, everything above that just takes the fun out of it for me.
But yeah, I like being minimalistic with my story mode playthroughs. Takes a bit more managing but adds a whole lot of fun in my opinion!
Yeah, that's interesting! I thought you just got lucky lol. I breed everyone as much as possible and I don't have too much difficulty at least keeping the main characters and a few basic facts about the others straight. So I just have a whole ton of nichelings. Everyone has their own play style.
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This is very interesting, having Adam not move on to the next island with his mate and children, and having only one child of Adam to start with! (I'm assuming and hoping they have home island immunity). My Adam and Eve had at least 7 children, (5 on the original island, 2 of which were left there), and Adam traveled onto the next island with their children. I have not seen anyone go exactly this route of the least possible number of children of Adam before!
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or you could say everything that happened after you uploaded the save was a dream or nightmare. You didn't update this thread after uploading the file so nobody would know the difference anyways
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Welp, I guess you could try and reinact what happened with the older savefile to try and get where you left off...that would probably epicly fail but might be a fun thing to try.
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8 hours ago, mhiahia said:
The reason I came up with this is because I accidentally started a challenge with this setup once and then somehow didn't notice until I was three tries in.
Interesting. Sometimes when a good idea hits us we don't even realize it
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This seems like sickness city! Probably quite challenging
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What have I done? Now the apeslayers are moving on to kill their own family. Other nichelings! It will be a challenge though. Maybe the only challenging thingvleft for the candycane tanks!
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7 hours ago, Nightfire said:
Shadows and Secrets
(also, a black and beige-yellow teen female has joined, I named her Bumble, we don't see her in the screenshots)
Ghost came back from Salvador's grave, somber and wondering if joining the Empire was a mistake. Maybe his family would take him back in. But Maybe not.
And he made Salvador a promise. He needed to uphold that. He wouldn't be here if it weren't for Salvador. But maybe it was Salvador's fault he was in this position?
All he knew was that Horizon was a threat to be quelled. To save the mountain. The Empire. His family..
This would be a necessary battle. One that Ghost wasn't certain he would win.
Fox Heart pulled Lichen aside. He had been so excited to reunite with his mate and 'child'; the heartbreaking truth would shatter him completely.
"Lichen, I'm sorry to tell you. Plum isn't our biological child."
He raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
Plum stared at her feet in shame. "I'm the daughter of Pomegranate and Dragonfruit. I ran off with Fox Heart. They would've killed me otherwise."
Lichen thought for a second. "They left you with Fox Heart? They didn't protect you themselves?"
Plum paused, and slowly nodded, looking up.
"Then they didn't care about you. But we do." Lichen's eyes were soft and kind.
His words filled Plum with an indescribable feeling. A sweet warmth and a sharp spear. A spoken secret and a silent announcement.
"We are you parents, Plum. Your true parents." NO I AM YOUR FATHER
Fearless looked at King (joining the Empire) and Alecto with a strong-willed gaze.
"We can't trust Horizon and Evergreen. None of those awful self-proclaimed heroes. We can't."
Alecto turned to Fearless. "Why?"
"Evergreen is a monster. She killed my mother. She killed yours too, sister. Horizon is insane, that's pretty obvious."
Alecto shrugged. "Our mother didn't exactly care about me. She wanted me to avenge her and father. That's.. about it."
Fearless grabbed Alecto's horn, shoving her down. King watched them, terrified.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. Our mother was amazing. She cared so much for her children and her mate and her Empire. Evergreen ruined it all! We were at peace! And then she attacked!"
Alecto pushed Fearless away with her claw. Fearless grabbed Magenta's neck with her claw, and Alecto screeched.
Fearless smiled and turned to her sister again. "Kill Evergreen for me, or Magenta is dead."
Alecto glared at Fearless. "You're a monster. You're just as bad as Evergreen."
"Fight fire with fire."
King watched the two sisters fight, knowing that the Empire was being held together with only a few strings.
He needed to do something to stop it from falling.
But what?
King must do something! And he will....hopefully
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The Community Challenge
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Aww, too bad
I'll start playing the save as soon as I can