It was mentioned on the Dev Forum, an example of a non-earth biome. So I included it, and threw in river and lake. Also, Cryomagmatic do not appear on earth. Though they do exist on a few planets in our solar system.
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Rather hellish would a world need to be to a renew such a sea from solidifying…
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I mean… we’ve had some pretty wild volcanic stuff here on earth.
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Are we sure these were actual seas of lava? Also it still fits the “very temporary” category. Such biomes would only exist for like 1 editor cycle in-game.
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hundreds of thousands of years sounds like it could cross over into two editor cycles. At least long enough you couldn’t avoid it by luck of the editor cycle timing.
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How long is one aware stage editor cycle supposed to take again? Making it sub 1-million might be too radical when compared with macroscopic for example. We probably shouldn’t need the player to go though roughly 200-ish editor cycles before they can become sapient in a reasonable time.
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Yeah you’re almost certainly right… I could see it as variable though. Evolution isn’t linear, during times of stress and mass extinctions and separated ecosystems becoming connected again evolution is much faster. I could see the length falling between 5 million and 500K years, with enough in the former category that the stage isn’t too long. I’m also not opposed to aware stage being very long. I think it should be quite long actually.
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Just how many hours should it take to complete aware?
Well, I THINK I finally figured out why no one can agree what certain vines are. Semi-wood-y Subshrubs. I thought a couple fern might be like that, but the existence of spermatophytes (seed plants) that were hybrids of wood-y and herbaceous were not on my radar at all until I really deep dope into vines. I guess my Defining the Plants that Define a Biome needs a little more work than I thought. While I am figuring out subshrubs and lianas (which come up as something separate too often to ignore), I think I will add Geophytes (basically root vegetables) to the list as well. Maybe then I can properly make Croplands make sense.
Also, Cushion Plants, which can best be described as wood-stemmed flowering MOSS crossed with a root vegetable. A 3 meter circle of moss that grows an inch off of the ground instead of directly on it AND has deep, bulbous roots like a root vegetable. WHY? Why? why?
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Are we sure we need the classification of biomes due to vegetation to be that deep?
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When it was just for aware, with the possible exception of Liana, I didn’t think vine would be necessary. However, they play a big role in crop fields, so in social stage and beyond, I think they possibly might be. Cushion plants grow in Subalpine, Alpine, Subarctic, and Arctic conditions, which not many plants do, which makes them useful. I am sort of making progress on classifying vines, but Cushion plants? I guess a very strange shrub?
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Could lichen-dominated biomes exist?
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I find it kind dubious a more complex plant wouldn’t take over any niche, but uh, I guess we could get there by thinking about where lichen grows: utterly soil-less hard wastelands like stone and bark. If you had a lot of bare stone in a rather humid biome that somehow had the nutrients for lichens to grow lying around, yeah, I guess? Why not?
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Such biomes could be abundant in the early days of floral land colonisation.
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Lichen and Bryophytes fill similar niches, so barrens and early planets history before Vascular plants, that would probably be a thing.
Also, I have been thinking more on how to classify vines and a few other things, and I think I finally have (most of) a solution, in 3 parts:
- I have been thinking for some time that Grasslands needed to be split into at least two biomes, and I think I finally have the answer. Tall Grassland and Short Grassland. Anthropogenic Garden would become Short Grassland. Because, amongst other things, a large creature whom stalks prey by crouching in a Wheat field could not pull this off in a Carrot patch.
- The more I think about it, the more I am sure some means of splitting “Subshrub” into Wood-y and Herbaceous plants is needed. I am not sure yet the specific, but some Subshrubs should likely be Shrubland plants and others Grassland plants. I will ponder this a while longer while working on . . .
- Growth Subtypes. Rather than classify a bunch of vines types, new shrub types, vegetable types, etc., I will create Growth Subtypes that any plant can have that do not effect Biome Classification directly. For example, a Tree might have no subtye, or it might have one that makes it a plant/fungus hybrid like Lichen, or a subtype that lets its roots grow into there own trees with expanding roots, or a subtype that gives it the bulbous nutrition storing roots associated with many vegetables, or even a subtype that causes it to grow like a vine. An any case, a tree is a Forest plant is a Forest plant is a Forest plant. this will allow for the diverse variety of growth adaptations in the plant kingdom to be represented (along with non-earth combinations) without having to to create a bunch of different tree, shrub, grass, forbs, vines, or whatever else categories, and also keep defining what biomes they live in simple.
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Why did you repeat the statement three times?
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It was a choice. Perhaps a strange one, but it made sense to me at the time.
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What could be subtypes not seen on earthly plants? Bioluminescence?
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Bioluminescent Plants exist on earth.
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Well then maybe hydrogen sack floating plant thingies?
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