It is fictional, categorized as non-LAWKI.
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Technically it is not marked as non-LAWK in the game as the endosymbiosis system couldn’t handle that. For years we only had the rusticyanin but people kept complaining so ferroplast was finally done and put in the game.
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I thought there was a github issue completed on making endosymbiosis work with the LAWK system?
I’m pretty sure such an issue doesn’t exist.
Maybe you thought of: Loading a save causes LAWK disabled organelles to appear in list of possible unlocks · Issue #5517 · Revolutionary-Games/Thrive · GitHub which is related to LAWK but not endosymbiosis.
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Yeah, I think it was that issue.
I can guess that things like those could get resolved once the development of evolution stages is concluded.
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I’m pretty sceptical because by the time we are done with ascension we probably have at least 5000 open issues if not 10000 because the later stages will be even more complicated not to consider cross-stage corner cases which are absolutely going to result in a bunch of bug reports that are seen like only once a year. Even for the microbe stage I think we are lucky if we can complete it without going over 800 open issues (we are currently at 705 open issues).
It would take a real archaeologist to dig up old minor issues at that point. The only chance I see of this being fixed is that someone does it within the next year or in the future when we are all in on future stages someone who is really into microbiology joins the team and starts working on purely microbe stage problems.
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I mean more like once aware is complete, not when the whole game is complete.
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A microscopic multicellular organism, or even perhaps a simple (unaware) macroscopic organism could likely be supported by anaerobic parts in the right environment, but various Hypothetical Extraterrestrial life papers I read only ever talk about microscopic organisms or oxygen breathing life. I am certain something simple like a sponge could exist with the lesser energy potential of breathing a gas other than oxygen, but not 1 scientific paper I read seemed to consider this, let alone a complex (aware) life form on a world without oxygen. And since using ferroplasts would seemingly require either a world where oxygen didn’t develop, or, more likely, a subterranean void where oxygen failed to permeate, it seems unlikely to become a thing. Though you can bet I will try my darnedest to make a subterranean ferroplast user work if/when burrowing makes it into stage 3.
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I highly doubt the devs would decide to skip burrowing and stuff, unless there are some extreme roadblocks to adding it.
Actually one of the hardest things for terrain systems is to handle are holes which burrows are. Technically though we could work around that by teleporting the player to a separate indoors scene when they interact with a burrow entrance even if we can’t get the future Thrive terrain system to handle holes.
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I guess that could work, it’s not like you’d see what is happening outside when inside a burrow anyways…
Well, depending on the angle, you could look out the entrance without actually stepping out of it, but if that’s to hard to program, than that’s to hard to program. Pity if you can’t look through the door though.
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I guess the game could make it seem like you’re still in the same area as before with enough polishing. But only time will tell…
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Theoretically, if there were an atp synthase molecule where just the motor were to have a magnetic field with the poles aligned with the direction that it’s pointing, and it were to have a racheting mechanism like that of a pen, how would life evolve to make the most out of living around a magnetar that has a large angle between its spin axis and its magnetic poles, or in an alternator?
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Aren’t neutron stars in general very deadly to evolve around due to extreme xray emissions?
This is the exotic life thread, there is no guarantee this is carbon based life. LAWK life forms would likely not evolve near any source of xray radiation, but plasma based life, or even something basic like silicon based life, might be totally fine around any sort of star.
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What the belgium are the “plasma-based” lifeforms?
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The abstract of this paper seems to suggest self organization on the level of lipid bubbles or some particularly stupid RNA is common enough to be studied.
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Oh, so like using plasma as the solvent?
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Plasma as the medium. We are made of molecules. They’d be made of magnetic fields in plasma usually. In the case of dusty plasma there’s a second component which I don’t fully understand, but it doesn’t behave like molecules in a solvent. Truly unhinged crazy people life forms. And of course that’s still made of normal matter.
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