the underground biome(not its own island, in all biomes)🦇​​​​​​​

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

underground is a system of trails, dead ends and occasional nests and food.

flora(kinda) 

Bush roots(functions like the bush itself, instead giving material)

Tree roots(does nothing except creating a large hollow chamber that can be used as living space)

tarotato tuber (in volcano biomes, functions like the actual tarotato which gives 5 food if the creature has digging, regrows after 2 days)

Carnivorous roots (traps and eats your nichelings, looks like food)

Mycelia (grows poisonous mushrooms, 1 every day, each one gives 2 food)

(New) Healing bulb (spawns under healing flowers, does the same thing but takes 10 days to regenerate)

 

FAUNA

Bunnils(can escape to the surface through holes)

 

Stagmoles(can pop out of the bottom of their holes too)

 

Giant earthworm (when killed, gives 50 food, exceedingly rare, needs 5 strength to kill, lives for 75 days)

stats:

1 movement

1 digging

1 tunneling

10 smelling

5 gathering

poison resistance

Toxic spray(applies venom to a creature)

diet: anything that moves(it tries at least), dead things and mushrooms

predators: carnivorous roots, Burrowing owlparrot(lone one is toast), nichelings(lone ones are toast), Pythadillo lizard(Snaps the worm in two, eats one half and the other scurries away), badgerbats(lone one is toast)

counter: the way this creature attacks is by engulfing its target, which takes 5 days to digest, but it has no other defenses but to flee, only one strong attack is needed to rip it open and free the creature

 

Burrowing owlparrot🦉 (functions the same as the one in community voting), can fly out of the underground caverns too

 

Pythadillo lizard(enters through burrows of its prey, will attempt to hunt the earthworms too)

 

The Badgerbat🦇, the stone cold vicious driller killer of the underground, (just call it the badgerbat)

3 attack

1 defense

4 flight

1 tunneling

4 movement(walks in the underground)

2 swimming

easy movement(ability to dodge, works 25% of the time)

3 digging

5 hearing

2 sight

3 smelling

(new addition)Venom resistance

DIstasteful appearance

intimidating call(lowers attack of target by 3)

food given: 15 each 

lives for: 60 days

growth stages: baby(5 days) -> juvenile (5 days) -> adolescent (5 days) -> adult (45 days)

Special abilites:

when this creature attacks a target, they suffer heavy bleeding(does not work on Owlparrots, Parravens, bluebirds and creatures with higher defense than their attack) 

when attacked, all other Badgerbats will detect the attacker and attack it 

diet: essentially anything smaller than a nicheling, and fruits

predators: adult bearyenas, Bluebirds and balance bears(rarely), Burrowing Owlparrots, Pythadillo lizard

 

Tamed💜 Badgerbat

how to get: feed 5 food to a baby or juvenile badgerbat

abilities: identical to a normal badgerbat

special: will guard young, sick or old nichelings and hunt with you

Badgerbat genes:

Badgerbat face

+Distasteful appearance

+2 strength

+intimidating call

 

Badgerbat Wing

+4 flight per pair

+2 movement

+1 digging

 

Badgerbat ears

+4 hearing

+echolocation(lets you move by hearing alone)

 

Special genes:

Dark-seeing eyes(Or maybe Nocturnal eyes)

2 night vision

1 sight

unlock conditions: spend 50 days in the underground biome with one or more creatures, is broken if all leave

 

Tunneling body

1 Tunneling(enables creation of chambers underground in a drawing, almost EOU style, if the creature also has digging, then it enables the creation of more chambers in one turn, the creature will also move to the furthest chamber dug)

1 digging

 

 

[thivid08]

NICE, 

[Kiki]

This is a really cool idea, though I think that maybe the mycelia should be poisonous so that only poison fanged nichlings can eat it

[JAM Pheonix]

Honestly, why is there a 30 food creature that dies in one hit? Other that, tho, this sound great! You might even be able to breed with friendly badger bats.

Edited July 12, 2018 by JAM Pheonix
Because the creature I'm talking about is not a predator.

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

That sounds amazing and really well thought out! As a major update, after the flight genes, it seems the natural choice. 

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

wow, thanks   

 

JAM Pheonix the 30 food worm is EXCEPTIONALLY RARE and spawns EXTREMELY RARELY(AS IN ABSURDLY RARELY), similar to real life giant earthworms, maybe it can scurry away or literally engulf one of your nichelings to try to kill it? then it will be a predator

also your friendly badgerbat idea is awesome and I will add it soon(done now)

 

and Randomwander, I never thought of that, cool, mostly coz I made this before the flying update in the niche wiki