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The Bibites 0.4 Alpha 8: Ageing, Filter Feeding , and [More]
🕑 Added 2022-02-08 02:01:32 +0000 UTCA few significant things today!
Ageing
Due to the fact that some bibites would live forever and prevent new generations from developing, resulting in low dynamism, the bibites will now age. Once they reach a certain age, they'll slowly lose strength (movement and bite strength) and their energy metabolism cost will slowly increase. The ageing process proportionally scales with the metabolism speed of the bibites, so faster bibites will start ageing sooner and will then age faster. The opposite is true for slower bibites!
The default settings make this process pretty slow, so the effect will be minimal, but you are free to increase the effects of ageing.
Head to the biology panel for that new information.
Filter Feeding
To encourage different niches, a small thing I decided to add is that bibites can swallow pellets without having to bite it. If an object (pellet or other bibite) is small enough compared to the mouth opening of the bibite, it will be able to swallow it whole instantly.
In the future, it could be interesting to add factors and adaptations that would influence the size of the mouth, encouraging this feeding type at the expanse of other downsides.
Randomizing Virgin Genes
So uhh... This option is wacky, but it's there.
If enabled, initial virgin bibites will have completely random genes, across the whole spectrum of possibilities. If you enable this I would recommend lowering the bibite spawn rate.
Small changes and modifications:
- Sprite modding finalized
- Added warning when going over 3x Time Speed
- Background can be made any color
- Spawn limit now enabled by default
Bug fixes:
- Fixed pellet wipe bug
- Fixed white background flash on escape panel opened
- Fixed Maturity progress bar display glitch
Looking forward to your feedback!
Comments
Steph
left one running right after I made this post, and in those 20 minutes I got a generation to lay eggs, don't know what was up with that, gonna chalk it up to my bad luck.
Steph
Hi just stopped a simulation that I was running for 11 hours at 3x speed and despite 33 hours of simulation time, none of my bibites would lay eggs. I couldn't find a single one that got past generation 1. I've tried restarting the sim with various settings, even turning off collision randomizing the virgin stats and still no eggs. less important than this I've noticed that if I have void no mo' on it still doesn't prevent bibites from moving backwards into the void. Love bibites and all the work that's been put into this project!
