A tad bit more intresting water biomes.

[AlphaBlox]

Apparently nobody has suggested this.

Why raise water nichelings when water biomes are so BORING? there is not enough to explore down there. I feel like maybe these suggestions will make it a little more intresting? 

More fish: I know we have alot already, but it would be cool if we had fish for deep oceans and rivers. So here are my fish ideas!

River fish: Salmon. Just an ordinary salmon that goes up stream and then dies. dead body kinda like the clown koi. 

Deep ocean: Bass. Litteraly a bass. Troop, A trout that swims in groups of 2/3

Tropical fish: Colorful fish that just swim around like a fish.

Now  sea plant life!

Corals: Corals can come in colors of Purple, pink, red, orange, and yellow.

Seaweed: It grows very tall and has tons of nesting material. Very common deep in the ocean.

Squids: Little squid that ink you if you attack them. the inking takes away one turn for three days. they give 3 food.

Pufferfish: They give 2 food and once attacked they puff out and deal one attack to surrounding nichelings.

Bubble columns: They randomly start blowing at dig sites at least 5 tiles deep into the ocean. They launch your nicheling up into the air for about 1 second before they come back down.

And yeah.. Thats it.

[Dinocanid]

I agree on more interesting underwater areas and stuff. I would personally be in favor of an underwater biome with both underwater prey and predators so your nichelings spend 90% of their time down there, and maybe a small land tile with sand or something, just to help avoid situations where you get super unlucky and a baby without gills is born underwater, lol.

[Asterai]

If aquatic biome is expanded on, aquatic camouflage should be considered!  Some possibilities:

- "Blue" color (the gray coat seen on these cats and this dog) could provide a standard +2 while in water.

- If more extensive aquatic life is added, stripes could grant camouflage in kelp beds, or spots could grant camouflage in reefs.

- Countershading (dark back, pale belly) is a very common camo adaptation.  Could provide bonus while swimming and flying.

[rarespawn]

I would love to see water only ports that maybe just have a small beach to start on.  I also love the idea of more fish/food/enemy types and underwater caves as 'nests'. I also love the idea of seaweed as underwater nesting material.

I would LOVE to see the following, in addition to the suggestions above:

• a lionfish mutation (poisonous and cool looking!)
• a clownfish mutation that allows your nicheling to change genders (in the wild, clownfish meet so rarely, that when they do, the largest one turns into a female for mating purposes).
• Anglerfish mutation allowing you to attract small schools of fish nearby
• Octopus mutation that lets you change your appearance to match your surrounding environment
• Giant Manta rays/sharks/killer whales as big enemies akin to apes/balance bears
• Octopus' as enemies (they could act like moving jungle plants that ensnare your creature and you have to free them).
• Squids as enemies that shoot ink (and give you a movement debuf like OP suggested)
• Maybe underwater nichelings with enough 'swim' or 'underwater' points could lay eggs instead?  It would add an interesting dynamic of whether or not you would choose to guard your egg or just leave it. The underwater nests could still be in the shallows or have a bubble source nearby so if a baby is born that lacks underwater features it won't die immediately.
• Also, Bioluminescence, in the water, on the nichelings, it would be cool!

Edited June 13, 2018 by rarespawn
Added suggestion

[The Mad Katter]

Ooh, I like this! It would also be cool to have underwater predators of some kind (in specific hard or killer biomes) and underwater caves to hide from the predators and raise young.

[oof.zip]

Another thing I think would be cool is permanent underwater nests. If the water is going to become a biome of its own, which it often is, I think more food and predators should definitely be added, as well as nests. For the nests, I'd think they'd be like coral-ish with little kelp fronds or something with rock!

[AlphaBlox]

@The Mad Katter Yeah like maybe a shark type thing? Shorca, a mix of a shark and orca. They could come up to breathe every five turns, coming up near the shore. Spawning around the bottom of the ocean and dropping 7-10 food? They could also steal your food too.

[Dr. Nearo]

Man I would LOVE a good underwater adventure to send my little tiger sharks into! Pufferfish could also be interesting as a poisonous food source.

[Jojo]

Yes, I think we need more water stuff! And it would be awesome if it were colorful too. Beautiful coral reefs *-*

[LordOfCider]

I agree. We do need more water related things. Perhaps even a mostly underwater island. Like a beach, with a thin strip of land that tapers off deep into the ocean.

[Lilytuft]

@LordOfCider

Or maybe an island that has only ports and water

[SuperNovaGamer]

That would be awesome! I always liked to play with water nichelings but I was never able to get really into it because the water areas always felt really small and kinda plain, and, if this gets implemented, I’m really looking forward to all this would add!

[firestar5631]

I haven't even bothered with the water genes even though I love the idea of it. Not really much to play with. Coral reefs would be stunning too!

[Ancestor Nature]

This would be a welcome change that would give more value to the water genes. I would also like to see a coral reef island, which I imagine would be mostly water and really challenge your nichelings to adapt.

[Pokestardragacraft]

I would love more in the ocean, especially with a mostly water island! It was one of the main reasons I made this:

so I thought I’d just throw it in here.

[glitchplight]

I really want to see this in future updates! Especially since I've always loved the look of aquatic nichelings and would love more for them to do. Upvoted!

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

gonna make an aquatic animal idea, I sort of said it on the forum in the wiki, but I will BRING IT TO LIFE

 

edit: I ended up making four, link is here, enjoy

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

me goodness, so many UPVOTES

[oof.zip]

I love this idea! I generally tend to lean towards water creatures more, since they're so cool, but after exploring a bit of the ocean, the fish go away and the life from it dissapears. I'd really like to see an improved water biome on all the islands, it would be the best update (almost) ever!

[Fellstar59]

Maybe even the bubbles can provide relief from drowning if they are on that tile so they have to finish on a bubble tile to not take drowning damage (In the case of babies born without underwater breathing)

[oof.zip]

On 5/14/2018 at 5:31 AM, Lilytuft said:

@LordOfCider

Or maybe an island that has only ports and water

I'd be so down for that! Water biomes are cool, but with added features or water genes and a lot more cool deco and waterscapes! Amazing.

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

well can I say one thing, maybe we can have a desert island that looks like those little, desert island things with a palm tree

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

I know, there are literally ZERO permanent nests

[Asterai]

Proposed creature:  Mimicpus, a camouflaged underwater opportunist.

The mimicpus can transform to look like several kinds of static underwater props.  Clams, coconuts, and alga are all reasonable targets for its mimicry in the current game.  While they're difficult but possible to distinguish using vision (and sometimes in inappropriate locations), smell reveals them to be impostors.  When schools of fish pass the camouflaged mimicpus, it will attack them and grab a fish, thereby revealing itself.  It will spend a few actions "eating" the fish before it repositions and camouflages itself again.  It will not attempt to catch razorania nor goldleeches as they are dangerous enough to fight back, and will not camouflage while any creature is adjacent to it.

The mimicpus won't actively seek out fish nor spontaneously attack nichelings.  However, if a nicheling tries to "gather" from it, it will deal 1 damage to that nicheling, apply the poison debuff, and flee in its undisguised form.  Mimicpus has 2-3 health and can be attacked if it is undisguised or if a nicheling can smell it (small disincentive for losing sense of smell with gill and platypus heads).  If attacked outright, it tries to flee.  It is immune to the poisoned condition.

[Veroni]

Puffer fishes must be poisonous, not just damage. In the real world they are super poisonous, but make dolphins high in very small quantities