Sessile animals shouldn't affect the 'only congeners' trait

[ManoZika7]

It's weird how seahorses will die of stress from being housed with coral. Is there a way to implement this?

[Twice Circled]

Yes I see what you mean, I'll take a look. :)

[Flishster]

I used to think they should, but now that we have the communal trait which specifically does *not* count corals as animals, I think it'd be nice to have some consistency one way or the other.

[Twice Circled]

So I talked it over with my in-house fish expert. Here's an update:

Essentially it's a problem of trying to apply broad and easy to understand rules to cover complicated interactions. The idea of 'congeners only' was to have an even stricter version of the 'wimp' tag for really delicate animals.

We could have made static invertebrates exempt from the 'congeners only' care requirement, but that would allow things like anemones to share with them. Seahorses can be quite dopey and wander into anemones and get stung, so you don't really want to do that.

The collateral damage of this ruling is that it also means we can't put safe static inverts in like the disco mushrooms, daisy star polyps etc.

We might revisit this mechanic in the future because there's probably a neater way to capture these interactions more accurately.

[ManoZika7]

i mean, anemones do have a sticker of their own, maybe make a new trait where an animal can't be placed with anemones? and maybe one where they can't be placed with any sessile animals either, i think that could be useful for jellyfish, but some wild seahorses spend nearly their entire life near corals and gorgonians so itd be cool to have them in the same tank

[Twice Circled]

Yeah I think that'd be a good way to go. :)

[Sangaris]

There is a mod with corals as just scenery.
You can add those to increase the prestige and looks of the tank, without afecting the "congeners only"