The Frog Experiments

[Chiyanna]

I needed to know some things since I was planning on making a frog challege, and I couldn't access the forums due to no internet, so I decided to do some experiments! The experiments were mainly to do with whether babies take drowning damage in water, and if so whether that would kill them automatically (like predators do) and/or whether they could not take damage if their snout-type was changed to gills using commands.

This was my first attempt:

Basically, I ran out of nesting material pretty quick. And then also out of food. And I couldn't find any wanderers either! Only one rogue which I was actually thankful for. So the default sandbox settings weren't very helpful (duh, they aren't made for experiments...).

I tried again with my own sandbox settings specially designed for such experiments:

My starters. I meant to have two breeding pairs, but when I copied Anarame's genes to create Operi's so I didn't have to re-select forbidden genes, I forgot to change the gender. I could've used the changegender command, but I decided not to.

They fan out, looking for food and exploring. I forget what I'm doing for a bit here, distracted by story and normal niche things.

Our first fish baby is born! To a female whose last name is Fish.

Operi breeds with our male Whale as well, since we have not found any wanderers.

Oh no, a bearyena disrupting our experiments? What ever shall we do?

The genes of Lenrare, Operi's first child. I probably was taking this to show she was in danger. Also I have two of these for some reason.

Thanks to the magic of niche commands, the bearyena is vanquished without anyone even lifting a paw to fight it!

[Modiano Urania]

10 hours ago, Chiyanna said:

Our first fish baby is born! To a female whose last name is Fish.

Meme Fish

[Chiyanna]

Also btw, Fish female is highly jealous of Operi and angry at Whale for breeding with her too. Story-wise Whale and the land-dweller (Anarame?) lived on the same island and were friends. Then Whale found Fish at the bottom of the ocean and they fell in love. They had the expectation of being mates in their new land, but then they met Operi. Whale doesn't think of Anarame that way, but with no other males and Operi wanting kids of her own he decided to mate with both females. Fish thus feels betrayed, and her and Operi had a power competition of who could have the most children in the shortest amount of time. More screenshots coming soon.

[Chiyanna]

Kore is blind, and also has no gills. But she still has use to the tribe as the perfect baby to test this on!

She is now le fish baby! She, as a tadpole, will retain her gills until she's an adult (or maybe a teen). Though the drowning status effect is still there, next turn I see it doesn't effect her.

Lenrare crawls up onto the beach, freed from drowning at last.

I skipped to the next turn. In this screenshot I meant to capture who all was taking drowning damage, but I didn't really succeed. It's kinda pretty, though.

As you can see, our experimental tadpole Kore has not taken any water damage. She's making her way toward the shore for some reason.

Meme, who has taken it upon herself to babysit all the tadpoles deep in the water, has a leech. A razorana lies in wait nearby, knowing it's time to feast may soon come.

Mere starts bleeding from the leach but hastily swims away. Lenrare pulls it off and licks her wounds. The razorana followed as fast as it could, but now it swims away, no more able to attack.

The babies head towards their care-giver, their mother-figure, towards the shore. They're confused at being utterly alone.

 

[Chiyanna]

Anarako (that's what her name is!), finally finds a male. She had been looking for a mate for ages. Excitedly, she invites him into the tribe and breeds with him.

A new and terrifying danger emerges. A bluebird now circles the sky, and I have quite a few babies sitting in the water with no adult supervision. Quickly I bring Mere back into the water to guard the babies, and Lenrare guards little Kore.

Operi has taken quite a bit of damage from the water, but I had hoped she could eat a healing plant and recover. However, Lurvandon had eaten it before joining us, and it doesn't regrow in time. She spends her last says digging up worms from the sediment in the shallow waters. Her sacrifice to the experiment will not be forgotten.

Operi died having had more children than Fish, but Fish will live longer and eventually catch up.

Analako makes a nest in the water, (not going in so deep she will start to drown). Rekoel is watched by her older sister.

Analako has twins, but unfortunately they are both sick. I forgot to check her and Lurvandon's immunity genes in my excitement. It appears they should probably not breed again, but they might anyways. (Do frogs know the cause of sickness? I don't think they do....)

Also neither of them have gills so I will be using the changegene command to give it to them. I guess Anarako does not want to risk having another child with Lurvandon after all, as she breaks the nest. Or maybe she breaks it because now it is infected with whatever sickness the twins have.

AH FIsh's First NAme is Anarami! nice. Continuing, Fish breeds again with Whale (who also has a first name btw but I forget it and I didn't have him selected in any screenshots apparently...wait...family tree... It appears to be something like Takirnu). Anarami de Fish sits at the bottom of the sea once more, ready to have her third child.

 

And then I stopped playing for the day. So yeah, this is a savefile I may or may not continue. I don't have the settings perfect for the frog challenge I have in mind, but I do like the story so we shall have to see. This niche world was instrumental in designing my frog challenge which I will eventually post on these forums, and I will keep this save whether or not I end up using it for playing the frog challenge myself. (Also btw since I decided to make this not just an experiment world about half-way through, I took away alot of my extra food, so that's why some of it mysteriously disapears.)