Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution

Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution

Holtz Nov 2, 2018 @ 12:41am
Your most impressive NATURAL Creature
What was the most impressive creature you've gotten in the game without direct genetic manipulation? What where it's stats?
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Excellion Nov 2, 2018 @ 3:55pm 
There were two creatures i found memorable.

One was created on an ocean world that has just a tiny island surrounded by deep water, with the creatures being blank slates. These couldn't really reach deep sea food due to breathing concerns so they kept evolving onto the island until at some point they slowly migrated to the sea and started living and flourishing at the sea bottom (With none left on the island). Kind of fun to see about ~50 island creatures end up evolving into 800 sea creatures.

The other creature would be the longnecks (Using rovers isn't genetic manipulation right?). I set 10 rovers to feed creatures who had a neck, eventually settings them to feed creatures who has long necks while killing neckless creatures. End result? Creatures with massive necks, with some necks being longer than the trees on the island (With their other features being regular size). Experimental succes, evolutionary failure though as the most impressive specimens died off even with rover support (Only me hammering the feed button could keep them alive long enough to spawn more impressive longnecks).
Blox2007 Jul 18, 2020 @ 9:33pm 
i had a creature who lived on land ( basically the whole map was just land ) it mostly lived on savannahs and tropical forests the creaturee was basically 3 metres tall and ate plants ( slimar to triceratops but the creature ( nickname would be: the fat potatoes ) died out when the climate changed slightly causing a exinction event of the fat potatoes [ i dont know what would happen if the species did`nt die out: 1. the creature would sometime make a branch slimar to the long necked dinosaurs 2. the species would still die out 3. the creature may compete with other species ]
crobo Jul 19, 2020 @ 5:53am 
i actually had carnivores evolve naturally in a sea world a few months ago. they had wolf heads and were absolutely MASSIVE compared to the herbivores, like atleast twice their size. another impressive thing about them is that they never went extinct, even though carnivores have a tendency of going extinct in this game.
Marlo Aug 31, 2020 @ 12:04am 
Crobo that is absolutely incredible! I want to watch a nature documentary about your virtual world.

I've never had carnivores evolve naturally before, even though I'm always trying to set it up. Usually omnivores that outcompete everything by grazing and scavenging.
Sometimes a bug where if the meat efficiency is set too high, they live for 1 second, eat carrion, and have a huge litter that they feed when they die. Leading to this perpetual meat explosion that hits the cap in a few seconds and grey-goos itself across the entire world.
Pigeon On A Stick Aug 31, 2020 @ 3:42pm 
A completely-aquatic oxygen-breather. It lived in a stretch of fertile shallows and evolved a physical morphology similar to that of swimmers. It evolved great stamina, for to be able to breach and dive for coral. Darwin would be proud :dwidarwin:
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