Prey luring

[Unboltingcat]

I had an idea of nicheling's developing a sort of lure that could attract prey or even predators to them if the subject in question is a certain tile number away from them. Think of it as sort of an angler fish lure! Say the rabbils are too far away after your moves are gone or you have one move left you could use your lure to get the chance for the prey or predator to turn around for another nicheling to catch them! This could be used in the horn slot. 

(If someone has already suggested this I apologize!)

[Dun(ce) Crow]

Allulring smell does sound great, another option could be an Imitator Snout or Beak. Like a lyrebird, the animal would be able to imitate any sound, like for example the calls of the young of its prey

[Sheireen]

or maybe a luring light on the head like anglerfish have, could be nice for water nichelings to lure fish to them with light ...but there wouldn't be much reason for landdwelling day active creatures to be lured by that so maybe as an extra just for fish

some dessert snakes (death adder) have a tail tip that looks a bit like a leaf to attract it's prey, so maybe something like that?

 

[Unboltingcat]

hmmm maybe could add the opposite of stinky tail but maybe an alluring smell? @Jojo

[beny453]

so like if one of your guys is in trouble it could lure the predator to the fighting force instead of the fighting force going to the predator i like it.

 

[Unboltingcat]

@beny453 You could use it that way yeah! I also saw it as a way for nichelings that want the challenge of fighting bearyena that are too far away the bearyena will come right to them!

[beny453]

@Unboltingcat oh like if you don't have much food but you have a good attack force

 

[Jojo]

What genes would do the luring though? I like the idea just wondering how the skill would be connected to the genes

[Unboltingcat]

@Sheireen the angler fish luring light was my originally idea for this yes! although i can see why land dwelling nichelings would not have much use for it. 

@Dun(ce) Crow that is a great idea too! could be called copycat snout? I like the sound of that haha 

[Jojo]

That are some great idea there

[MysticTopaz]

Tossing this in here because it came to my attention that we had similar ideas; yours has already been posted in my thread, so I'll drop mine here to make it even.

Mine is a repost from a suggestion I made last year. Not telling you to get rid of yours, because ours are only vaguely connected, but still, it was suggested to me that I post mine here since yours was posted in mine.

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

good, or a worm or berry shaped tail to attract animals that eat those things

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

Hey, I'm fishy from the Niche wiki, and I see that this is a great idea, how about I pitch in, Maybe there can be a berry snout gene that allows a nicheling to use it's snout like a lure to attract berry-eating animals, it would not subtract from camouflage and enable easy capture of rabbils, or there can be an ability to lay down  food on pits and wait for food to walk by

[AlphaBlox]

What if it was a Trap tail which hung over their head, and to use it you have to use one food to set up the trap, and then the predator/prey would be lured.. And rouge males.. And bluebirds... So then it would be risky because you would attract tons of wildlife to fight off!