CFE Gizmo Update

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I’ve gone ahead and added the CFE updates to all of the previously available Gizmo Breeds (and omitted my Inhibin gene this round). No other edits were made to these files and I’ve kept the Gizmo lifespans and reproductive edits in place. I wanted to offer a wider variety of breeds in my last release so hopefully this makes up for it.

As for the other breeds (Toxic, Hardman, etc…) I may tackle them in the future but they’re definitely a down-the-road release for no other reason than that I don’t have a good understanding of their genetics and wouldn’t know where to begin making compromises between the Gizmo genes and their own.

Anyway, the CFE edits were originally developed by Vampess and the Gizmo edits were originally developed by Darcie.

In each .zip you will find one male and one female for each breed plus the .gen and .gno files. Enjoy!

Astro – Bengal – Bruin – Chichi – Civet – Fallow – Harlequin – Zebra

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CFE Plant Norns – Attempt 1

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So, I ran GeneCompare but apparently it will report different gene numbers for brain lobes so….

I just added the missing tracts and lobes to the “Normal” Plant Norns and hoped it worked.

If you’d like to give these guys a spin, please check out the download available at Creatures Caves! If I missed any steps or glanced over edits to existing lobes and tracts, let me know so that I can address the issue as soon as I can.

Thanks!

bandicam 2014-06-27 22-39-42-585Download Oak and Ivy

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Colortrue Chameleon Ettins

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I’d always wondered how Colortrue edits were made but I only decided to take a look today. After opening up Gene Compare I realized that colortrue edits work exactly as advertised. ylukyun himself says that “They have pigment genes moved around, making their colors mix instead of being inherited” so I took the idea and applied it to the Chameleon Ettins, driven to the decision by my Ettin world and its first natural offpsring Rhonda.

bandicam 2014-06-21 23-10-32-841Hi Rhonda. Don’t worry. I’ll have more about that world soon.

Anyway, I went a bit nuts and put together 13 different colors for the Colortrue Ettins but I’m not quite ready to make them available for download. I stuck two of each color in the meso, excited to see what new color combinations would crop up from the offspring but, tragically, I found some issues with the ettins that I wanted to fix before making this version of the genome available.

For starters, look at this mess. There are 28 creatures concentrated on this one spot.

bandicam 2014-06-22 23-28-02-80128. I don’t think they’re even concerned about whether they’re eating or not. So first things first, I want to make them experience crowdedness.

Next, I want to address the boredom issue. It’s driving me a little insane listening to them complain of boredom when they have toys, gadgets and machines readily available to them.

I’d like to apply Amaikokonut’s sleep fix and try to address the lactate issue. I fixed the issue in my Eternal Norn breed but failed to take good, clear notes. My bad.

Finally, I’d like to make some edits to the instincts. Weakening some, strengthening others… I’ll probably experiment a lot with these to see what works best.

For now, though, here’s a preview of all the colors I put together today. My hope is that the variety keeps me motivated to make edits to the breed.

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Ghost_Norn Trade World Gen 4, Part 1

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Welcome to generation 4!

We’re already off to a fast start with the girls. Lavender and Lilac were previously IQ tested and are 11 and 12 minutes old but the boys are brand new.

Just moments after I’d started the new world, one of the girls passed away, though!lilacOh no!

I suppose this is good news for Lavender, though. She at least will be able to take genetic dominance over the next generation, assuming all goes well. With all the bacteria in the world killed, I couldn’t imagine how it wouldn’t.

The boys, John and Albert seemed much more lively and interesting than Lavender, though. She seemed most interested in something, though no green arrow told me what. Soon, though, they were all taught their vocabulary with the Holistic Learning Machine and they were allowed to wander.

lilacBeing so young, they didn’t wander very far. They did eat and express normally and Albert actually gave sound advice to retreat norn when crowded and push machinery when bored. Soon, Lavender was an adolescent at 25 minutes old. The boys, it seemed, would have some catching up to do. For a long time, not much else happened. Albert went to the C1toDS world.

Before long, Albert complained of being lonely so I sent him to be with his friends in the Meso’s swamp. He eventually made his way back into C1toDS but John and Lavender were busy having their first child.

lilacWhat a pleasant surprise, too!

Before long, there was another long lull and I took a crochet break as I watched.

I noticed something a bit odd, though. Lavender carried the egg for a long time but never laid it. I cracked open the hover doc and decided to take a look.

(compared with Vanilla Bengal Norn)

202 Different in file 2  68   0 You F MutDupCut        128   0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Sensorimotor, Involuntary action 1, chem=Progesterone, thresh=245, nom=0, gain=255, features=Digital  (0)
value was 233

It’s been a long, long time since I researched genetics in creatures but given that the threshold is a bit higher, I can just guess that Lavender couldn’t produce enough progesterone to lay her egg naturally, similar to a grendel from a previous nurturing world.

I injected her with the chemical progesterone and she laid the egg, like normal.

I continued searching the differences and found this, too.

203 Different in file 2  13   0 You F MutDupCut        128   0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Reproductive, I am pregnant, chem=Progesterone, thresh=128, samp=3, gain=4, features=Digital  (0)
values were 1, 3

Her mutation is very similar to Tuatara’s and Wide-Eyed Payment’s. Basically, the changes to this gene make it so that she can never naturally lay an egg on her own. I took a peek and so far, both of her eggs are carrying the gene.

After discovering this, I decided to force her to lay all of her eggs by chemical injection. This would at least keep the family line moving.

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