# Reproduction and when to enter the editor
**URL:** https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/reproduction-and-when-to-enter-the-editor/4119
**Category:** Multicellular Stage
**Created:** [December 20, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/reproduction-and-when-to-enter-the-editor/4119 "2021-12-20T07:38:08Z")
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/reproduction-and-when-to-enter-the-editor/4119/2 "2021-12-20T13:23:42Z")
> [@PeasantKyr](#):
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> Though, there is a minor misunderstanding among some players, who don’t realize the split happens when they hit the editor, as evidenced by multiple people asking in the discord why their cell never splits.
It would massively help if we had an actual animation for it:
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> To give visual polish to the cell division.
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> After this is done, this can be r…everted: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/commit/362ba5b9e1720fd27bbe93e9b279dad4072ae00a
(note how that’s been an open issue since September 2020)
> [@PeasantKyr](#):
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> Do you immediately enter the editor at the first round of spores? That essentially allows you to skip a large portion of your own creations life cycle, without ever experiencing it’s full size or range of ability.
Then when exiting the editor, wouldn’t you _then_ play as the remaining life stages so you don’t actually get to skip them?
The idea that we would unlink the editor from reproduction has been discussed before on here. Though, now when I went looking I was only able to find one post about it:
> [@Ideas for the Aware Stage \[Put your ideas in this thread\]](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/ideas-for-the-aware-stage-put-your-ideas-in-this-thread/2088/154):
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> This is a smaller idea and it’s probably been suggested or codified somewhere on the dev/community forums, but I think it’s worth it to write it down here. Thinking of things like migration (for food or for breeding), reproductive strategies, growth, lifespan, etc. that could make for very interesting gameplay in the Aware and Late Multi-Cellular Stage, I believe there should be an option to reproduce without entering the editor part of Thrive. Since each trip to the editor represents an evolu…
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