[Possible Gene ideas?]

While watching some niche playthrough (shoutout to seri >:3 ) I thought up a few gene ideas?? so i just want to share them, and I'll try to draw them up at some point. just for fun

 

 

Gecko tail/plump tail - abilities

"decoy" - when attacked by a predator or bird, the creatures tail will drop, leaving them unharmed. to regrow the tail, it costs 15 food

heat resistance +1

 

Mermaid tail/finned tail - abilities

this one was a weirder idea, but basically when a set of legs match the tail (idk what tocall the legs, maybe mer-legs and mer-tail) the nicheling would instead become a strictly water creature, but they can swim farther than anything else

swimming +2 (or +3)

movement on land -1

pretty scales +1 (when near the coast, they could possibly attract more wandering nichelings

 

Camel body/humped body - abilities

good for savannah, the camel body can store water, and keep the nicheling cool. Possibly affects camouflage ?? (in a good way, or a bad way)

Heat resistance +3

movement +1

 

Predator eyes -abilities

Predator eyes have the bonus of allowing nichelings to see exactly where rabbil's are without using their smell/hearing, along with increasing their radius by 1 when in tall grass

sight +1

 

soft foot/stalking paws - abilities

allows nichelings to get right up on rabbil's/moles(boles? i forget what they're called) without startling them, though they lack the strength

+1 camouflage

+1 gathering

-1 attack

 

 

 

so those are some of my ideas??? just wanted to share. i was trying to doodle them up, but its actually kinda hard to draw in a style similar to niche. so rip, lol

hopefully I'll be able to give some type of visual examples