# Quick Question Thread

**URL:** https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153
**Category:** Current Game
**Created:** [March 9, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153 "2018-03-09T16:28:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![blackjacksike](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/blackjacksike/32/7094_2.png) [@blackjacksike](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/blackjacksike)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1795 "2023-02-25T23:12:33Z")

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Oh, I almost forgot. Imgur can actually store videos too.

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### Author: ![Lipovomit](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/lipovomit/32/12145_2.png) [@Lipovomit](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Lipovomit)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1796 "2023-02-25T23:29:17Z")

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Remember, a video is just a series of images played at a framerate.

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### Author: ![hhyyrylainen](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/hhyyrylainen/32/32_2.png) [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 8:57am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1797 "2023-02-26T08:57:12Z")

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That looks just like a cell taking damage.

The organelle colours being wrong is a separate issue:

> <https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/3942>
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> Got a report that sometimes species show up with only partially correctly colour…ed organelles (the fossilize popup shows things correctly):
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> !\[fossilize screenshot\](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/958598553389903913/1052455524433657866/image.png)
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> !\[closeup\](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/958598553389903913/1052455524815343698/image.png)

> [@Lipovomit](#):
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> Remember, a video is just a series of images played at a framerate.

Almost. Videos use compression between subsequent frames to be _much_ smaller than all the individual frames stored as separate images.

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### Author: ![Lipovomit](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/lipovomit/32/12145_2.png) [@Lipovomit](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Lipovomit)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1798 "2023-02-26T09:11:25Z")

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Damnit! Carykh lied to me! (kinda)

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### Author: ![JrStivers20](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/jrstivers20/32/10733_2.png) [@JrStivers20](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/JrStivers20)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1799 "2023-02-26T16:18:56Z")

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or if it’s on the devbuilds

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### Author: ![JrStivers20](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/jrstivers20/32/10733_2.png) [@JrStivers20](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/JrStivers20)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1800 "2023-02-26T16:21:23Z")

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The community forum login.

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### Author: ![DeepSix](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/deepsix/32/15150_2.png) [@DeepSix](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/DeepSix)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1801 "2023-02-26T17:38:05Z")

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Please do not double post. You can edit the replies and quote different people by selecting their message and clicking the “quote” option.

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### Author: ![hhyyrylainen](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/hhyyrylainen/32/32_2.png) [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1802 "2023-02-26T18:55:19Z")

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You don’t have the applied community forum groups because you have different email on here than on Patreon. You’ll need to use the Patreon login option or switch your primary email here on the forums.

I’ve thought about allowing an email alias to be set, but this situation has literally only come up like 2 times since the start of the Patreon. So spending like probably 4+ hours on a feature that less than one person uses per year is a bit uneconomic.

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### Author: ![dan54](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/dan54/32/8104_2.png) [@dan54](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/dan54)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1803 "2023-02-26T22:28:44Z")

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Hi! I’m sorry if this question is a little silly, but is there any way to manually extract the information for your microbe from a save before 0.6.0 and covert that into a thrive fossil file? My earliest save is from 0.5.2.0, and I think it would be nice to have some of my first microbes in my museum. Thank you in advance!

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### Author: ![hhyyrylainen](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/hhyyrylainen/32/32_2.png) [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1804 "2023-02-27T07:26:21Z")

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Well it is theoretically possible, but would require a lot of technical skill.

Here’s a rough outline on how I’d do it:

- Extract the save (Thrive saves are a .tar.gz file that contains the save data in JSON format)
- Find the player species definition from the save and extract that object from JSON
- Extract another fossil file (these are packed the same way as saves) to inspect.
- Modify the extracted fossil file with the data from the save. One tricky part here is how to make the screenshot of the species. It might be easier to overwrite the player species in another save by transplanting part of the save there, and then use the normal fossilization mechanic to make the fossil file with a proper image.
- If the approach picked was the one to modify an existing fossil info, then the last step is to just pack the extracted files into a .tar.gz archive and rename the file extension to the right one
- Then it should work

So there, technically possible but actually pretty difficult to pull off.

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### Author: ![Lipovomit](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/lipovomit/32/12145_2.png) [@Lipovomit](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Lipovomit)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1805 "2023-03-03T21:08:57Z")

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Will there be anything like Galactic Adventures in Thrive?

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### Author: ![dan54](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/dan54/32/8104_2.png) [@dan54](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/dan54)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1806 "2023-03-03T22:48:30Z")

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Hello! I found a little topic from a while back that might answer your question. I hope this helps!

> [@Level Editor similar to that of Spore's Galactic Adventures Adventure Editor](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/level-editor-similar-to-that-of-spores-galactic-adventures-adventure-editor/2937):
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> This is my first post so far on the forum, and one question has been pondering on my mind; is the game going to be implemented with an in-game (or out-game) level editor that would allow players to make save files of levels similar to that of Spore’s Galactic Adventures Adventure editor? Will these levels be based on a customized number of acts as well as custom audio file implementation? And speaking of audio, I know custom audio files from other players would be possible to place inside playe…

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### Author: ![Lipovomit](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/lipovomit/32/12145_2.png) [@Lipovomit](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Lipovomit)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1807 "2023-03-03T22:51:23Z")

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What about Hydrogen? When will that be added?

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### Author: ![dan54](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/dan54/32/8104_2.png) [@dan54](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/dan54)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1808 "2023-03-03T22:53:44Z")

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I’ve not seen any official developer confirmation that hydrogen will be added to the game, but I think it would be a little strange if the most common element in the universe wasn’t in the game lol. I was able to find this really high-quality concept post about hydrogen metabolism though!

> [@Ideas for the Microbe Stage \[Put your ideas in this thread\]](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/ideas-for-the-microbe-stage-put-your-ideas-in-this-thread/1885/68):
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> In the shoutbox I asked about hydrogen metabolism, and Hhyyrylainen responded in the quick question thread by saying that he didn’t know about the topic. I responded with a lot of links, and meanwhile I read more information and created two concepts for an organelle I hope to see added to the game (alongside another atmospheric gas). [thrive hydrogenase] This is hydrogenase, an enzyme used by many microorganisms to oxidize or reduce hydrogen. Oxidation is what I am interested in here. Before t…

(edit: thank you @50gens for clarifying this!)

> [@50gens](#):
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> The roadmap[\*](https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Release_Roadmap) mentions hydrogenase for 0.7

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### Author: ![Lipovomit](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/lipovomit/32/12145_2.png) [@Lipovomit](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Lipovomit)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1809 "2023-03-03T22:55:02Z")

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Will Rusticyanin get a eukaryotic counterpart? It’s freaking annoying to use that instead of a ferroplast (unofficial name)!

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### Author: ![50gens](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/50gens/32/12205_2.png) [@50gens](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/50gens)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1810 "2023-03-03T22:57:06Z")

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The roadmap[\*](https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Release_Roadmap) mentions hydrogenase for 0.7

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### Author: ![dan54](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/dan54/32/8104_2.png) [@dan54](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/dan54)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1811 "2023-03-03T22:59:17Z")

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I’ve seen a few people discuss this idea (and I think it’s a pretty nice one!), but I’m not sure if it’s going to be added into the game any time soon, sadly. I found this post on the suggestions board proposing it, and I’ll make sure to quote Hyyryläinen’s response below. I hope this helps!

> **[An eukaryotic counterpart for rusticyanin · Thrive Suggestions](https://suggestions.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/posts/230/an-eukaryotic-counterpart-for-rusticyanin)**
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> As we all know that every prokaryotic organelle has an eukaryotic version except rusticyanin. I find iron respiration a pretty good energy source, an

> “The reason this originally wasn’t added because it didn’t add anything to the game design to have 2 parts that do the same thing, the other just being better once you unlock it with the nucleus. That’s why an eukaryotic version was not added when the rusticyanin was added. There’s really a strong reason to not add it, other than that there needs to be a reason _for_ adding it.”

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### Author: ![Lipovomit](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/lipovomit/32/12145_2.png) [@Lipovomit](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Lipovomit)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1812 "2023-03-03T23:00:50Z")

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So the jury is still out for them adding ferroplasts.  
Huh.  
Edit: i found the CellCraft wiki, and it seems to be abandoned. Maybe we should help our fellow science game?  
Here’s the link:

> **[Cellcraft Wiki](https://cellcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cellcraft_Wiki)**

Will there be a process that uses the Pressure variable? If so, what will it be?

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### Author: ![50gens](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/50gens/32/12205_2.png) [@50gens](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/50gens)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1813 "2023-03-04T01:36:43Z")

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Ammonia is a compound cloud now but how would it look like if a planet has oceans that are, say, 50% ammonia and 50% water? Can ammonia based cells in mixed oceans have contractive vacuoles for maintaining a 100% ammonia cytoplasm? There are planets with hydrocarbon oceans

> [@THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 1)](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/the-new-miscellaneous-talk-that-doesnt-deserve-a-new-thread-thread-thread-part-1/41/10015):
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> Could it be that Earth also had oil oceans, but microbes digested all of it?

Can hydrocarbons act like glucose? There are bacteria that consume methane[\*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanotroph) and heavier hydrocarbons[\*](https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Oil-Eating_Bacteria:_A_Tool_for_Bioremediation). Petroleum doesn’t mix with water or ammonia. Can there be a hydrocarbon patch in the the patch map for planets with hydrocarbons floating on water/ammonia oceans?

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### Author: ![50gens](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/50gens/32/12205_2.png) [@50gens](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/50gens)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/quick-question-thread/153/1814 "2023-03-04T02:34:51Z")

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> [@THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/the-new-miscellaneous-talk-that-doesnt-deserve-a-new-thread-thread-thread-part-2/5842/656):
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> because no macroscopic life

I mean the abiotic hydrocarbons[\*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin#Extraterrestrial_argument)

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