I haven’t been doing much Creatures-wise aside from the stream so I took tonight to get to work on an idea I had for a new egg-mother. I present to you the Norn Mother.
Norn Mother
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Similar to the Grendel Mother and Ettin Mother, this agent creates an invisible egg layer that occasionally lays an egg with any genome starting with an “n”.
When an egg is laid, you will hear the machine make a ‘ka-thunk’ noise. It lays eggs at the same rate as the other Egg Mothers.
I am so sick of fast agers.
Like. Wow. I’m ready to neuter every fast ager I see chemically. If I never see one again, it’ll be too soon.
That said, I finally said “I’m done with this nonsense,” and set to work to edit every genome I have installed to prevent generation 1 ‘fast agers’ from coming into the stream. That means no more super-fast aging vanilla ettins or grendels and no more fast-aging third party breeds either. I’m just tired of seeing so many wonderful gen1 creatures get neutered. :/
The good news is that, in doing this, I’ve made it easier for us to get some of those cool-looking mixed creatures instead of the stablizing guppy ettin/ombra norn/extra tailed norns and ettins we have in the stream now.
If you submit a creature that makes it to adulthood before it reaches 30 minutes of age, it will be automatically neutered by the Norn of Infertility, be it ettin, norn, grendel or geat. Don’t worry! I will not export it.
As for creatures that are already in the stream, they’re being removed, gradually, with the Norn of Infertility and my own force of will. Wish me luck getting rid of these things!
I was recently asked what agents I use for the Daily Creature Feature and, rather than add it to the page (the page is already rather long) I decided to make a blog entry and link to the page to here. Soooooooo….
Here are the agents I’m using for the stream now. They can be turned on and off (or removed and added) as needed.
(Updated January 1, 2014)
Creature Counter
Any Autonamer (CLabs Autonamers, Protective Tub, or Wolfling Namer)
Garden Box
Game Stats
Creatures Nametags
Creature Crossbreeding
Peaceful Death
A.S.K. CCSF07: Corpsecleaner (should the .cos edit fail)
Norn of Infertility (modified by me, though)
Elevines
Magic Words Core, Cloning, Room Edits
Eem Foo’s Timer and Egg Finder Advanced
Vamp’s Calendar (when I need more indepth information on the seasons, etc.)
DS Eggonicer (not with the Egg Finder, though)
C2toDS (without injecting plants. If the frogs get out of hand, I remove the critters and reinject)
Portal – Intelligence Core
Vocab bot
Lavaball 4
Mini Recycler
Only I screwed up and accidentally deleted some norns.
Anyway!
Meet Harry and Poppy. If we’re lucky, these two will have some babies. 🙂
It took them a good while (and quite a lot of coaxing) but I taught them their vocabulary (using the Portal: Intelligence Core) and waited for them to pass the IQ test. I eventually guided them towards the end but once they were safe, they were sent to C2toDS.
They stayed in the incubation area for a long while. Eventually, I moved them to the green area near the water wheel and Harry immediately set off exploring.
He started to make sad noises like he was starving. Naturally, I took him back to Poppy where they were both fed.
They didn’t seem to want to leave each other’s side though Harry seemed pretty bored. I offered them some toys and taught them to push the bee box for honey and soon…
… Poppy was pregnant! (That proud father is blinking.)
Once the little egg was laid, I set it in this fish bowl for safety. Then they had another. And then twins!
Norn XXL would have LOTS of little babies to choose from. 🙂
Because they both kept complaining of starving, I decided to move them to the Norn Meso. Harry especially kept complaining of being hungry for starch but abundant seeds kept him feed.
They had two more eggs together and it looked like there might be another still on the way.
This egg production continued for a while but soon, Harry was over the hill.
11 children later, it was time to retire and the two lived out their lives in C2toDS. Unfortunately, Harry passed away at 4 hours, 32 minutes old, with food and toys nearby. Poor guy. :C
With Poppy exported, all their babies hatched and also exported, it was time to prepare the next generation.
