Not yet, but my other list was tacked at the end of 5 combined posts, so I thought posting just this was better than linking the other, which has a lot of things that don’t apply to this topic ahead of this.
Are we sure there aren’t TOO many biomes in the list? There’s quite a bunch, even just for house walls…
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Possibly, it certainly needs refinement. This is a fairly new and not yet well defined area of discussion in the scientific community. I basically made half of this up because it is not actually widely agreed upon how to classify some of these yet. I was also trying to be thorough.
When doing my research for this, I found multiple very conflicting and incomplete lists. And none of those including a destroyed or polluted area, which I thought was important from a “can a creature live here” perspective.
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Are the biomes like “house wall” supposed to be full biomes or subbiomes? Or something else?
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I just thought the inside of a wall is different enough from an attic . . . I maybe didn’t think that part out. A “feature”? Like how certain microbe biomes will be small features of much larger macroscopic biomes.
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I guess so… But then you could also add biomes like “anthill” and such.
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Agreed, I probably used the word Biome to loosely. Habitat? Still, its a starting place to work from and refine. And the list has different types of Mines, Farms/Crop Fields, and a few other city features that seemed relevant to this topic.
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If the sapient species in question was eusocial, there could be various “nest biomes”…
There is no point in separating the eatery and the restaurant, instead there will be a more modifiable eatery. And in principle I think that the areas of the building will be very flexible in terms of customization. The mine itself does not have to produce resources, it needs mineral deposits to do so. It would be better to rename the church into a temple; this building should bring happiness only to the representatives of the religion to which the temple belongs.
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and perhaps create unrest if there are members of highly intolerant religions present around…
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How about Underground Cities?
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I guess there would be primary for blind civilizations. Building won’t be so easy when there’s an additional step of removing excess matter needed to make space for building. But at the same time offers good protection from the outside… and traps the population inside with war gasses for example.
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A lot of Burrowing and Hill Building creatures with perfectly good vision may like the idea of an Underground City. An Ant City could be Underground, or a Prairie Dog City.
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To be fair ants are known to have a rather poor eyesight…
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Mhmm, underground cities pre-electric-lighting are only for species that can tolerate prolonged periods of time without light.
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Underground City would be possible for species which has a lot of rod cells inside eyes. Maybe they can use ultrasound like bats to see the objects and terrain without eyes or with poor eyesight.
Ants use pheromone to communicate with each other, so they can constantly talk and warn each other to build great structures.
Here’s an article about ants’ communication. Read it if you are interested.
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Otherwise they will lose their sanity, is that correct?
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Um, they’d leave. Until the 20th century most large cities did not have enough people reproducing enough (and/or surviving) to be self sustaining, they only lived on immigration. People wouldn’t settle in a city that’s dark all the time, and they’d die in a city that was illuminated with fire. Or yk, you could make a comically well ventilated city and use some small amount of fire.
People drastically underestimate how dark dark is. Its not like a new moon inside a cave, it’s PITCH BLACK, like no light, period. If you want to use your eyes, someone needs to be bringing light. If you have some glowy fungus or something, then yes, high rod cell concentrations would allow you to live a full life, but without some light source, there is no light.
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And with no light, for many there would be no point staying there either.
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Oh right, there’s no light source. And, I also should’ve thought about the food source. Water source can be provided with groundwater somewhere, but not the food source. Yes, mushrooms could be a good source of food, but their calories are too low to be eaten as a food source. Ant’s body is very small, and because it only needs small amount of calories, it can grow mushrooms underground as a food source(100g of an average mushroom only contains 22 calories, while the same amount of wheat contains almost 339 calories. Source USDA.)
They can come out at the night time to get foods. Using food sources from the outside world would be the main source of food, and mushrooms would be an alternative choice. I think this model is the best I can think of.
Edit:Some kinds of mushrooms on the alien planet might contain a huge amount of calories, but I’ll consider the mushroom’s calorie is pretty much the same as ours.
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