Mutations: Land/freshwater tolerance, specialize some of the front teeth to make ripping into and eating plants easier.
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Not sure you can have two such mutations in one vote
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Movement: move some population to the south african karoo highlands, I donโt have a strategy for surviving the starvation, but if I max out my food sources I could survive a little longer
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The thing is to survive longer than โa little longerโ though
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Mutant 1: Use part of the outer shell of the diploid spore capsule and the edges of the mother leaf to create slightly more fleshy tissues that can serve me for three things - a source of food for the spore in a stressed state (in addition to the capsule itself) and also start something called exo-zoochory, causing creatures that reach the fleshy spore to move the capsule and spread further away (the spore still contains a large amount of salt that would be worth digesting and therefore it is not endo-zoochory. In addition, it is not a fruit because it lacks too many elements to define it as a fruit. It is currently like a strange combination of Ephedra fruit-like, mangrove trees that use Hydrochory or Adiantum and pine cones/acorns) and that can also serve me as a marine dispersal unit (Hydrochory), allowing me to spread the spores more quickly and efficiently even to farther places, without harming the original dispersal ability. (Kills 3 Radiodontodraco in one pod).
Mutant 2: Increase the ability of the rhizomes to break down rock to extract more nutrients from them.
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Do you plan to eventually develop full fruits?
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No! I have all the freedom in the world to invent something new here. Fruit is one way, but weโre in new territory here. I have the control to do whatever I want as long as itโs scientifically correct, so Iโm not going to invent fruits, itโs something more unique for the purpose of a survival strategy.
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So a thing BETTER than fruits?
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Will this new thing still be tasty to potential herbivores and omnivores?
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If we can find ways to consume it ig
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What is the bug supposed to represent?
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I wanted to put an image for some reason
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Oh I thought it was supposed to be yours own โI need your votes plsโ image or sth
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I thought it was a Springtail for a moment.
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I think itโs some kind of a beetle
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Three more beetles, and then it is a band.
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It is a carnivorous burrowing beetle I found in my basement (my basement is basically just a regular room, hence why it has carpet). Iโm not really sure how it got down there but I donโt want to think about the fact it survived for that long off of who knows whatโs lurking down here.
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I mean insects can do have slow metabolisms iirc
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Mutation uno: longer photosynthesising โleavesโ
Mutation dos: air bladder of sorts to maintain bouncy for larger mats
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