After some issues I was having with Creatures importing into the world and vanishing, I had to start a completely fresh install of Creatures Exodus to continue this endeavor. I won’t be giving you a tour because this time, the only additions I’ve made are the volcano fix, the minifix pack available at Creatures Caves, and a few other minor fixes. I’ve re installed the breeds I need and I’m now unsure how I want to limit the population.
I’ve tossed around the idea of allowing male creatures to father as many children as they can and to limit the number of eggs a female creature can lay (still just 4). Why would I do this? Because it seems more realistic to me for some reason. I’m also eliminating the whole ‘litters’ idea since creatures live plenty long enough to have 4 babies over the course of their lives without any help. Just in case, I’m going to eliminate fertility before the adult phase but still permit it in old age. Now that bacteria have been reintroduced, long-lived creatures likely have more desirable genes.
I’ve decided to take one baby from each of our three norn mothers for each wave of kids. I also want to introduce Theo from LibbyNorn’s (now known as DarbyDoo) wolfing run and another, randomly chosen generation 1 female to introduce to the group. I haven’t decided what breed yet, but we’ll get to that when we have to. I don’t want them to get too far apart in age and I want everyone to have their fair chance to spread their genes. I’ve got a whopping 12 kids to introduce for this generation so… here goes.
(I ramble a lot.)
Anyway, let’s meet our first creatures.
First is Geoff. His mother is Scandalous Laborer and his father is Lowly Adjustment. Normally, I would analyze his genes, but GeneCompare is still crashing on me. I would just use DDNA Analyzer again but it causes more problems than it fixes. I can only hope any problems work themselves out in the meantime.
I like his appearance. Blue and purple match most of the time, at least though it is a little silly to watch him walk around like he’s wearing a purple leotard.
I took him down to the Holistic Learning Machine and he wouldn’t press it til I moved on to something else. He has something of a stutter step but he’s very obedient. I let him play with the toy robot and fed him some fruit before I moved on to the next child.
This is Hannah, daughter of Five Cheese and Uptight Kettle. The only Bondi appearance genes she inherited were her arms from her mother! I think it looks quite nice, though. She was less stubborn about pushing the machine and also takes direction pretty well.
I let them play together for a while before I caught Hannah trying to get detritus. I may have a problem on my hands after all.
Still, I felt like I was starting things off right.
Can’t imagine why. 😉
10 minutes later, and Geoff was now a child. His weird stutter step was just a crawl and now he’s trucking around and strutting around like he owns the capillata.
Hannah’s already addicted to the HLM and I imported my next baby for this round.
Finally, here’s Chase. He’s the son of Sour Drink and Uptight Kettle. I think he got an even mix of appearance genes and I’m happy with the way he looks. He moves around just fine for a little one and immediately busied himself by eating seeds.
I decided to spend some time with these three before moving them to the norn terrarium.
It turns out they all take direction really well and all love each other (and myself). Chase has taken to pushing the elevator button repeatedly to entertain himself but a quick slap on the rump was enough to get him to stop for a while.
Naturally, it wasn’t long before Chase was a child and I sent them all to the Norn Terrarium.
I wasn’t ready to have them explore the entire world yet, though. I put in force fields to keep any creature younger than an adult in the Norn Terrarium. Once they were fully grown, then they were allowed to explore the Jungle terrarium and beyond.
Chase quickly moved up to the top of the hill and sat in the corner to take a nap. Hanna napped in the grass below, near some Grazers and Geoff ate apples near the lift. All was well for once.
At 7 hours 37 minutes old, Five Cheese passed away, surrounded by everything she needed. I’d petted her and encouraged her to eat food and seeds, but she only laid there. She took a nap, woke up to say “me love mom” and then promptly passed away.
Eventually, she passed away, amongst the seeds she admired so much. She survived to 4 hours, 24 minutes of age and is survived by 2 eggs.
Before I could celebrate Five Cheese’s longevity, Tuatara, sadly, passed away. He was 3 hours, 49 minutes old. He is not survived by any eggs because of a genetic disorder that he shared with his sister, Wide-Eyed Payment. Bethany was nearby when he passed away so I know he didn’t die alone.
Bethany has returned to her favorite activity, watching seeds fall and sipping on Calm Balm. She spends a lot of time sleeping as a result of the potions, but she doesn’t seem as wracked with grief as when Gifted Waves passed away. At 3 hours, 5 minutes old, she was now Old but didn’t seem to be slowing down. I scooped her up and moved her to the Norn Meso. Here, she at least wouldn’t have to deal with mosquitoes. Not to mention a giant bottle of “Happy Juice” to keep her calm.
Well, we’re back. It seems like there’s bad news every time I start to write lately. The three norns are all resting and the three grendels are up to their usual shenanigans. Tuatara is bored and running around, hitting seeds and Gifted Waves and Bethany are flirting below the Terrarium door. Suddenly, though, Gifted Waves passed away. I felt awful for Bethany, having lost the love of her life right in front of her. He disappeared in a green cloud and Bethany left the spot to sulk in the grass.
I started to fetch seeds for Sour Drink since she said she wanted them. She and the other norns have stopped moving altogether at this point and I thought they were getting very old. I brought her a seed from the top level of the terrarium, left to get more and then she died while I was away. Apparently, she’d decided to take the lift down while I was gone and I found her like this.
I love you too, sweetheart, and darn it, I want to make sure you know it before you die. Speaking of love, though, I think Bethany may have been depressed. I was worried that she wasn’t feeding herself because of the death of Gifted Waves so I showered her with a banquet… which she started to wolf down like she had nothing else to live for. I started to think that my worried were unfounded, but she still chose to stay in the spot that she and Gifted Waves had spent so much time in. She’d taken to only eating the Awkwood Creeper seeds and spoke very rarely now.