Jojo's a really hard challenge playthrough

[Jojo]

We start with Shellheart. Named after the great Shellpaw (whose warriorname is Shelldapple btw)that is currently participating in the Miss Niche March 2019.

Life doesn't look so great on the island without any acorn trees!

So the next obvious food source is the stinky fruit tree.

We get joined by Mousepelt. Who will be known as our founding male

A bearyena can be heard in the grasses. RUN!

We manage to avoid the bearyena sucessfully and a wanderer with a claw shows up. Sandpaw is happily invited into the clan.

The first baby is born to Shellheart and Mousepelt. Moonkit, who is blind.

Shellheart mates with a rogue male and Sandpaw gets her warriorname Sandclaw. Before Shellheart can have her baby, Mousepelt is killed by the defender bear and the three females run away. Luckily at that point Moonkit has grown into Moonpaw.

Shellheart settles down in a nest, far away from the defender bear, and gives birth to Snowkit. The child of the rogue.

Another defender bear appears, Shellheart can also smell some meat. She bravely jumps into the fray to test if the bear is hostile and to see if she can get her paws on that meat.

The bear turns out to be friendly. We also find a baby with the sticky tongue which is perfect because we found some termite hills on the way to the current home of the clan. The baby is named Antkit.

Goddamit that is a sticky situation. Especially because I really don't want to loose Antkit.

Everybody moves as far as they can, and Shellheart leaps in the way to defend the babies. The Nichelings Gods however seem to be with me as the bearyena just runs away.

The clan starts to wander away from the bearyena towards their old camp by the stinky fruit tree. On the way Moonpaw gets her warriorname Mooneye. She and Antpaw seek out the termite hill. When Snowkit grows up they plan on checking out if the old defender bear is still mad.

Snowkit grows into Snowpaw and the defender bear is fine. The Nichelings turn into vegetarians (only when the bear is looking).

Sandclaw settles down in the original nest where Moonkit was born and gives birth to Mousepelt's last child Stagkit.

Beechpaw is invited into the clan. Mainly because of her claw.

Antpaw has grown up and is named Anteater. He and Sandclaw breed.

Snowpaw is named Snowpelt. Anteater and Snowpelt breed as well to avoid any more rogue babies (Mooneye is already pregnant from another rogue).

Beechpaw and Stagpaw head down to the beech to collect coconuts. Beechpaw gets her warriorname Beechwhisper.

Beechwisper breeds with a rogue (who should be stunned by a coconut).

That's a lot of red.

Minnowkit is born. The last baby of Shellheart and a rogue male.

Mudpaw is invited into the clan and because the defender bear disappeared Sandclaw starts fighting the bearyenas.

Stagpaw gets his warriorname Staglight and Softfur is invited into the clan.

Mudpaw managed to get spotted by the dBear and is running like a maniac. He isn't very fast though, so I am expecting the worst to happen.

Mudfrost manages to shake the dBear and is named Mudfrost.

Anteater ate from a hostile termite hill and Snowpelt dies to make him better, because I need my ant boy.

Sandclaw gives birth to Anteater's first child. Redkit.

Minnowkit, who grew up as Staglight's and Beechwhispers adopted son, grows into Minnowpaw. A dBear passes away and we get some food. Nice.

Because of the good food stores I feel generous and invite Webbedfoot and Reedflight into the clan. Webbedfoot has been hanging around for some time but I never bothered with inviting him until now.

A new dBear shows up but upon inspection it is noticed that he is already pretty old (only  7 days to live) so not much changes. Hunting will be postponed until he dies.

Interestingly enough Webbedfoot was beleeched but didn't die when I skipped the day (I literally copied the sandbox file into my game so I didn't mess up the settings). Guess the leeches aren't as deadly on the first day as I expected. Sweet.

Minnowpaw is named Minnowfin and Mudfrost is running from the defender bear again. Poor guy. He hides behind the peaceful bear until the dBear buggers off.

The second defender bear died of old age and the Bearyena that was hanging around was killed as well.
Food looks good.

Coconutkit is born to Sandclaw.

Whitekit is born to Mooneye.

Redpaw gets his warriorname Redstrike.
Stonekit is born to Beechwhisper. I don't expect much of him but now Staglight can finally have some kits.

Little Beekit is invited into the tribe and named Beepaw the next day.

With the help of coconut trees and Redstrike (Webbedfoot helped as well) we have our first friendly bearyena. Yes!

Berryspike, an older warrior, is invited into the tribe and send towards the friendly bearyena. We need some strength!

A bearyena spawned by Beechwhisper and Staglight. Luckily a defender bear spawned right next to it. The bearyena didn't even take Stonekit as the offering it just ran.
Coconutpaw and Beepaw get their warriornames Coconutfall and Beestripe.
Two bearyenas attack and the defender bear isn't any help. So it is slaughter time.
Sandkit is born to Beechwhisper and Staglight. Apparently one of her parents has some interesting genetics.

Snailkit is born to Berryspike and the FBY.

Bloodkit is born to Anteater and Softfur.

Coconuts killed Webbedfoot some days ago.
Mudfrost faced a bearyena and it ran away despite him attacking it! This is the luckiest Nicheling alive (I am seriously considering to name him the God of Luck). Redstrike takes down the bearyena and we have our third FBY.

Whitepaw and Stonepaw become warriors. Whitepaw is named Whitemoon after his mother and Stonepaw is named Stoneleap.
Hopkit is born to Mudfrost and Softfur. Another bearyena has found Mudfrost. This time he can get away soon enough.

Fiercekit is born to Staglight and Beechwhisper.

The friendly uncle dBear says hello to Fiercekit.

Softfur is killed by the bearyena. Obviously Mudfrost's plan backfired to lure the bearyena towards Redstrike and Coconutfall.
Luckily Anteater leaps in to protect the kits and a FBY is there to help as well. Redstrike kills the bearyena in the end but the clan is mourning for Softfur.
Slowkit is born to Berryspike and the first FBY.

Another bearyena shows up right next to Redstrike. Bad idea. Redstrike kills the bearyena with ease and we have our fourth FBY.

Dustdapple is invited into the clan.

Strongkit is born to Coconutfall and the first FBY.

Day 101 resources

In retrospect I expected the challenge to be way harder. Probably have to start on deadly hills next time or something ^^

[Sky]

1 hour ago, Jojo said:

In retrospect I expected the challenge to be way harder. Probably have to start on deadly hills next time or something ^^

Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes you're running for dear life with two creatures and 20 food from a bearyena. With a leech coming for your spiky body creature.

[Jojo]

1 hour ago, Skysplash8 said:

Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes you're running for dear life with two creatures and 20 food from a bearyena. With a leech coming for your spiky body creature.

Yeah after reading RandomWanderer's one I figured I got lucky (though at first I thought I was super unlucky because I had no acorn trees. Maybe I'll start travelling to see if I can find deadly Hills

[Sky]

16 minutes ago, Jojo said:

Yeah after reading RandomWanderer's one I figured I got lucky (though at first I thought I was super unlucky because I had no acorn trees. Maybe I'll start travelling to see if I can find deadly Hills

Yeah, you are lucky. Just look at my playthrough, where it's just a single mom with her adopted blind no-pawed rogue-male's-kid teen, her own actual kid, and a wanderer teen. They just have to hope that another angry defender bear isn't right around the corner, since the single mom's mate and other kid were both killed by one (and a bearyena at the same time).

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

It does get easier once you can kill bearyenas with no effort. My bad luck was that almost every wanderer I met still produced sick children. So I migrated. But still, starting on Deadly Hills isn't too hard and once you have enough strenght/resistance/x, it's the same cycle. Getting your feet on the ground is the most fun, but this challenge can be seriously deadly in that period 

What could have made it harder, though, is cutting adult lifespans. 25 days instead of 55. 4 children at maximum or something like it. But that would make some islands unplayable. The worst I can imagine is a game mechanic that has the sick child infect nearby nichelings, often enough killing the mother. 

It's not complete yet, though. I'll try either going to the DeadlyHs over whale island, or going to a harder cold climate. Might just die...