HUGE creatures and their relationships with other animals.
Jul 17, 2016 18:11:39 GMT
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Post by firefish72 on Jul 17, 2016 18:11:39 GMT
I heard somewhere that it will be possible to make a creature over 250 meters long! That's massive!
So I though would it be possible that a slow moving herbivorous giant(which most of the massive creatures would probably be like) would have and entire biome on it's back. Kinda like the groveback from Alien Planet but a 250 meter long creature would be way bigger then a groveback and instead of having a small patch of saplings on it's back, a creature of this size could have full grown trees and small and meduim sized creatures on it's back.
I am not quite sure how this could be implemented in game though. Maybe if a huge creature would have a skin covering(or the skin itself) that supported a large plant growing there, maybe a large plant would automatically start growing. And after that creatures(which are likely to be small) who live on and around the plant will move to the creatures back. And then after that creatures who eat those small creatures would come and prey on them, then even larger creatures and ect. Until a apex predator of this new "back biome" would be reached, this creature would be medium or even large sized. This process will start again whenever I new member of this huge species would be born(you'd imagine these creatures would live to be quite old and not reproduce commonly).
Another way of doing this may be to use the caste system, but I am unsure if this would fit inside what the caste system would do.
If these creatures were to evolve naturally you could be a creature who lives on their backs, and make a village and maybe even a civilisation on a giant's back.
That 250 meter big creature thing may be wrong and be happy to correct me. But even if it is wrong be free to talk about it.
Edit: I didn't really say what would be the benefits to this(apart from just being super cool of course), maybe, like the groveback, the trees on the creature would give the creature nutrients, and the smaller creatures on the back doesn't really affect it, so there would be no point in attracting or getting rid of them. Maybe if the huge creature was omnivorous(or even carnivorous) it could snatch a creature of it's back(but considering it's huge size it would probably not do anything for it).
So I though would it be possible that a slow moving herbivorous giant(which most of the massive creatures would probably be like) would have and entire biome on it's back. Kinda like the groveback from Alien Planet but a 250 meter long creature would be way bigger then a groveback and instead of having a small patch of saplings on it's back, a creature of this size could have full grown trees and small and meduim sized creatures on it's back.
I am not quite sure how this could be implemented in game though. Maybe if a huge creature would have a skin covering(or the skin itself) that supported a large plant growing there, maybe a large plant would automatically start growing. And after that creatures(which are likely to be small) who live on and around the plant will move to the creatures back. And then after that creatures who eat those small creatures would come and prey on them, then even larger creatures and ect. Until a apex predator of this new "back biome" would be reached, this creature would be medium or even large sized. This process will start again whenever I new member of this huge species would be born(you'd imagine these creatures would live to be quite old and not reproduce commonly).
Another way of doing this may be to use the caste system, but I am unsure if this would fit inside what the caste system would do.
If these creatures were to evolve naturally you could be a creature who lives on their backs, and make a village and maybe even a civilisation on a giant's back.
That 250 meter big creature thing may be wrong and be happy to correct me. But even if it is wrong be free to talk about it.
Edit: I didn't really say what would be the benefits to this(apart from just being super cool of course), maybe, like the groveback, the trees on the creature would give the creature nutrients, and the smaller creatures on the back doesn't really affect it, so there would be no point in attracting or getting rid of them. Maybe if the huge creature was omnivorous(or even carnivorous) it could snatch a creature of it's back(but considering it's huge size it would probably not do anything for it).
