Adaptation Challenge

[ghostea]

Your starter Nichelings are the last few of their species- thankfully they were male and female and could breed. The island they were on was just a bit too severe for the rest of the tribe. The remaining Nichelings could thrive in it, however. But due to them being forced out of their species' niche, they have to move to a new island sooner or later.

SETUP

Your starter Nichelings can look however you want. The only requirement for them is that they must be suited for the island you pick for them. For example, you start on a snow island. They need to have either Big Body or Heat Body, and cannot have something that lowers their cold resistance, like Big Ears (They can have unfitting recessive genes though). Age settings can be whatever you like, as well as pregnancy duration. Enable All Genes Unlocked. Everything else us up to you.

 

RULES

• You must get off the starting island within 20 days. If you fail to do so, you cannot collect food until you get to another island.
• When moving to a new island, you have to stay there until the majority of the young population is suited to the environment. And by suited, I don't mean they just have Lean Body. I mean that they have a full set of dominant genes that go for the environment. (example: Lean Body, Big Ears, Insect Collecting for savannah islands)
• After your Nicheling's young population is suited to a new environment, use a random number generator (0-10). If it rolls between 0 and 5, you have no penalty. Wait 10 days before rolling again. If you roll between 6 and 7, there is a sickness spreading. Give a Nicheling of your choosing (that isn't far away from others) the status effect sleeping sickness or common cold. Roll again once no one has it anymore. If you roll between 8 and 10, then another species has seized your role in the ecosystem. You have 15 days to leave the island. If you fail to leave in 15 days, you cannot collect food until you leave.
• No inviting wanderers or rouges. They are considered as a different species of Nicheling to your tribe. If you do breed with one, set the child's fertility to infertile with console commands. Same thing with Bearyena hybrids. Since this may cause inbreeding problems, you are allowed to change immunity genes with console commands if you're in a pinch.
• Since your tribe is supposed to be it's own species, give it some extra rules! Like, "Males of this species of Nicheling leave the female after breeding. If he happens to find her again while still caring for their offspring, he may attack them." or "This species of Nicheling has no parental instinct. Once offspring are born, the parents leave them." 
• Going further with the previous rule, give your Nichelings a defined diet. You CANNOT start as an omnivore. If your diet is too hard in your current biome, you can switch diets.The time for transitioning between diets are:
  •  Herbivore --> Carnivore (5 days without collecting food)
  • Carnivore --> Herbivore (6 days without collecting food)
  • Herbivore/Carnivore --> Omnivore ( 8 days without collecting food )
  • Omnivore --> Herbivore/Carnivore ( 1 day without collecting food )

 

Alright, that's it! Show me your playthroughs, or your "Species rules". I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with.

[BirbMonster]

I have a species rules idea. It's based off lions in the real world, with one or two adjustments to make the game playable and fit in with Niche.

There can only be one adult male in the tribe at a time, he is the Alpha. He breeds with all females in the tribe. All sons must be banished when they are about to grow their third gem. Only leave one son to be the heir, who takes over the group when the Alpha dies. If an adult Male wanderer walks within two tiles of the alpha, it means he wants to take the group. Roll a random number generator from 1 to 2 to see who wins. If it's one, your Alpha won and you get to chase away the male. But if you role a two, the other male won. You must set your alpha to an omega rank, banish him, and invite in the wanderer as the new Alpha. If the group gets taken like this, banish all children immeadiatley, including females.

Extra rule: lead nichelings you must banish away before you banish them, so they don't challenge the Alpha instantly.