No pictures this time! I’m sorry. :C
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After that little peek into Grendel genetics yesterday, it was time to encourage my norns to make babies. Sour Drink only has to lay 4 eggs then I’ll be done with this generation’s breeding.
With some gentle encouragement, I got her to have eggs with both Uptight Kettle and Loving Wren. What a sweet girl! I scooped up her eggs and put them in the inventory for later. I set her in the grass to let her take a nap but she busied herself eating seeds instead.
Back to Flawless, though, she was now an hour old and still an Adult. I decided to move her mother in with her in the Norn Meso to keep her company. Since her mother was rendered infertile now (and females can’t mate) I saw no harm in it.
I skimmed through my population list and saw another female who had turned into an adult at only 18 minutes old. Wide-eyed Payment was an adult now! I started to suspect that it’s a Boney Grendel trait to age very quickly. Finally, I decided to just move them all back to the Grendel Terrarium. Flawless hadn’t aged to Elder yet and showed no signs of passing away.
Before long, it seemed like I had grendels kiss-popping again. I didn’t have to worry about the norns anymore so it was just as well.
The grendel terrarium was starting to get very crowded. I debated taking all of the first generation grendels out of the game to make available for download or injecting a new meta room for them to use.
I have to admit, it didn’t take me long to decide to do both.
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I turned out to be an idiot and accidentally deleted the rest of this blog post.
So I’m going to guess what I wrote.
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I have 4 male grendels to my 2 females and might have to introduce new blood as needed. I could always remove the population limit, but I want to keep things sort of limited. It’s hard to know for sure what I want my plans to be when I create these worlds and I end up having to adjust as I go.
I’m probably going to play with one group at a time from now on (and introduce bacteria) because, while I like being so busy, it isn’t especially condusive to blogging as I go and it isn’t as much fun for me. I also don’t get to spend as much one-on-one time with my creatures and don’t have a chance to get to know them better. So I’m going to divy up play time as such:
From here on, every generation will be separated entirely and I will only play with one species of creature at a time.
Creatures with Detrimental genes will still be put into the Norn Meso for study.
Once a month (after we move) I’ll release all the creatures I played with that month for download/adoption/study.
So there’s that. We’ll see how things go tomorrow.
Grendel Eggs
Obese Bomb
Thin Desire
Norn Eggs
Sour Drink
Five Cheese
Scandalous Laborer
Banshee Grendels, being based on Hardman Norns, age more slowly than the original grendels (which the Boneys are based on). Hope this helps!
It does, actually. 😀
I’m learning so much from everyone’s comments that I don’t think I’d ever learn on my own. Thanks for the help!