The Cavern (Seed world Evolution Game)

[Hanroz]

I guess that would work… but I was thinking something in the caves, so maybe I’ll focus on something else. In the meantime they could be used as renewable energy by whatever species becomes sapient in the very far future of the cavern? Like attaching something to the arms? But I will have to think about what species I want to focus on. Definitely something in the caves, maybe I should wait until AFTER the first extinction to see what happens.

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

You could just not do Percuwavers if you want, and just make Cave Brittle Stars if you want, to set up for cavern species after the extinction

[Hanroz]

Alright, I’ll look over the cave-dwelling creatures and see what might work there.

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

So are you sticking with Percuwavers or no?

[Hanroz]

Ah, no, I think I’ll make something from the Radio Stars, but I still want think about it. But No on the percuwavers.
Edit: I meant waving stars, not radio stars.

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Another Sweep, we are almost at the next extinction!

This extinction will wipe out the grasslands of the valley, leaving the grassland plateaus of the Edgelands and Islands covered in forestry. Keep this in mind when making these last few creatures!

Ancestor: Kiwi Bird
Name: Cliffgripper
Description: This species of Kiwi has adapted to use its strong claws and legs to grip the sides of the cliffs, walking sideways as it hunts for Cliffclimber Crabs and Grosgull nests. Their feathers are a dull, patchy grey, to blend in with the cliff face.

Ancestor: Crab-Eating Fox
Name: Sea Fox
Description: The sea fox has adapted specialized, streamlined fur and body shape, as well as strong swimming muscles and large lungs to allow itself to hunt in the shallows along the coast, eating crabs and fish alike. They range from grey to black to brown, with a few odd tans, whites, and even reds thrown in the mix on occasion. Their noses have specialized muscle to allow them to seal shut while diving, and they have developed longer whiskers and are able to see better underwater than their ancestors so that they can locate their prey.

Ancestor: Nursery Shark
Name: Chardybiss Shark
Description: This titanic species of shark spends most of items time lying on the seafloor, not expending much energy. Every once in a while, they will rapidly draw in a large amount of water, expelling it through their hills and creating a whirlpool to suck prey into their mouths. Occasionally, when larger prey swims by such as Zaratans, they will lunge off the sea floor and kill it, so they don’t have to hunt again for several weeks.

Ancestor: Nursery Sharks
Name: Cleaner Sharks
Description: These small, bright white little sharks spend their days swimming after Seasweepers, cleaning off their large arms of trapped debris and larger bits of food. They also have the ability to filter feed by themselves, but on a much smaller scale.

Ancestor: Cleaner Sharks
Name: Death Cleaners
Description: Evolved from a group of cleaner fish that mistook a False Sweeper for a Seasweeper, these fish eat the meat out of the hooks of the False Sweeper, actually allowing it to catch more food, as it’s prey is less likely to notice the scent of blood in the water. These fish will also occasionally swim into a school of Cleaner Fish, looking like one of them until it turns on it’s neighbor in a flurry of fins and blood. Normal Cleaner fish will sometimes group together to kill these intruders, but more often then not just quickly flee the scene.

Ancestor: Warrah
Name: Sunstreak
Description: The sunstreak is a tan, slim descendant of the warrah, who hunts the plains with the grace and speed of a cheetah. Mostly hunting smaller game, groups can occasionally team up to tackle larger prey like solitary juvenile dandroms. They are probably some of the fastest land creatures on the Cavern, but are not very large, often eaten by hell-bears or getting into close encounters with Jag-leopards.

Ancestor: Guam Rail
Name: Flutterpuff Rail
Description: A small, fluffy relative of the rail, with powerful legs for jumping and a lightweight body with light feathers. It hops between branches, eating small bugs and leaves on it’s way up. Then, in giant flocks it will jump off the top of the trees, floating like dandelion seeds to the next patch of forest, with little control over it’s light glide. The most dangerous position for these small little critters is if they land in an open plain, easily chased down and snatched up by a wide variety of predators.

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Only creatures left to be evolved before extinction are;

1 Crab-Eating Fox

[Hanroz]

What kind of creatures live in the cave? I tried looking through the posts but that’s a lot of text that I can’t process so quickly at once. I’m sorry…

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

I’ll make a list in a few minutes for ya

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Cave Creatures

This life Started in the Caves;

Glowing Mushrooms
Cave Aphids

Here’s the rest of the Cave Creatures, sorted by ancestor;

Cave Creatures (made by this game)

Glowing Mushrooms

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Glowing Mushrooms
Name: Cave Lights
Description: Mushrooms that have adapted in symbiosis to several species of chemosynthetic bacteria, gaining energy from them in a similar way to tube worms, in return for a safe place to call home. They are slowly making their way to cave systems worldwide, spreading through their mycelium and able to live almost in any cave environment. Due to their abundance, and the lack of organisms that eat them, there hasn’t been any selection against their glowing, and so they still produce a glowing light, in a range of different colors

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Cave Lights
Name: Glowtower
Description: A large, glowing species of mushroom, these are nearly the size of trees and dominate the cave ecosystems, especially near the shores of cave lakes. Have a tougher stalk to avoid toppling over and having to completely regrow.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Cave Lights
Name: Spirit Boats
Description: These fungus are living, glowing rafts, floating along cave lakes or rivers and exploiting a new, nearby untouched frontier of cavern sea plants. They travel everywhere through the caves, including areas unconnected to any other part. They have thorny protrusions to prevent grazing by underwater animals

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Spirit Boats
Name: Glowtangles
Description: Having washed up on shore as minute cave rafts, these large tangles are mostly all one organism, exploiting an empty niche in new, barren areas of the caves by being a new ground plant. Though mostly unecesaary, they have evolved even more thorn like spines to deter any castaway herbivores from eating them.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Spirit Boats
Name: Glowing Carpet
Description: In different parts of the caves from glowtangles, shored spirit boats have retained their minute size and become more moss-like ground covering. Small shrooms can be seen growing in patches here and there, but it is mostly fluffy hyphae

Cave Aphids

@Deathwake

Ancestor: cave aphids
Name: deep cave Aphids
Adaptations: they eat mushrooms. They have better senses. They can go dormant until they find light. Not too much changes
Size: tiny
Habitat everywhere that not al aphids haven’t taken over.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Deep Cave Aphids
Name: Wandering Aphid
Description: This aphid is of a medium size, and travels the caves feeding on the cave lights. When it feeds, it picks up fungal spores and chemosynthetic bacteria and transfers them to new locations and new fungus, providing a diversity to the gene pools of different funguses bacteria and new fungus with their necessary chemosynthetic bacteria. It walks on four main legs and keeps the rest up for manipulation of the fungus towards it’s mouth.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Wandering Aphid
Name: Thornstalker
Description: Having adapted to the Glowtangle jungles, these large, long legged aphid descendants can almost be confused for part of the glow tangle themselves, covered in thorny spines down their long legs and main limbs with symbiotic fungus making their skin glow. They are primarily herbivores, but will opportunistically ambush any prey that casts up on their shores.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Deep Cave Aphid
Name: Shroomfarmer
Description: Having adapted longer striding legs and a broader back, this large arthropod cultivates glowing fungus atop it’s own body, keeping it alive and mobile but slowly eating it itself, though at a much slower pace than it would be eaten otherwise. As they walk through the caves, if they happen upon each other they will ‘pollinate’ the others Sharon’s, breaking off a piece of their own mushroom and giving it to the other, thus increasing the genetic diversity of the chemotrophic bacteria and making it more likely to survive in the long run.

Nautilus

@fralegend015

Ancestor: nautilus
Name: caver nautilus
Adaptations: they have a more “refined” smelling aparatus
Size: nautilus size
Habitat: Surface occasionally goes in caves if it doesnt find anything on the surface

Mutant Ghost Frog

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Mutant Ghost Frog
Name: Cave Stalker
Description: A large descendant of the mutant ghost frogs, this frog uses it’s clear skin and pitch black eyes to walk mostly invisible to prey, the large wandering aphids, it’s black eyes absorbing the maximum amount of light it can to see by. It can go long amounts of time without food if necessary, but is usually a more active, successful hunter, as it’s prey doesn’t see it until - and even when - it kills them

@fralegend015

Ancestor: Mutant Ghost Frog
Name: glow frog
Adaptations: has a simbiontic relationship with a descendant of the glowing mushroom that makes it glow and attract aphids to eat
Size: bigger than its descendant
Habitat: caves

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Glow Frogs
Name: Bonelights
Description: The Fungal Symbiosis has receded back to just it’s bones, allowing it to still glow to attract prey but much more subtly than the glow frogs, while it’s clear skin allows the light to shine through

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Cave Stalker
Name: Cave Wraith
Description: Large aquatic creatures, these animals have no hind limbs with large, almost wing-like fin structures. It’s clear skin is home to tiny bioluminescent bacteria making it glow a near imperceptible dark blue, and the area around it’s eyes glows red so it can see in the dark cave environment. It’s skull is kinda crocodilian in shape, with smaller triangle shaped teeth and much shortened in the snout. It has a long, serpentine tail. It is roughly 15 long from head to tail, and likes the winding underwater caves, breathing through it’s skin.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Cave Wraith
Name: Sky Wraith
Description: Living in the broad stretches of cave lakes, the ‘sky’ wraith has adapted a sort of jet propulsion to propel itself forward in the water. However, it can also use this to propel itself out of the water, able to jet itself out of the water and cover a fair amount of distance gliding on it’s now even more wing-like fins. It’s tail has shortened slightly to reduce drag.

Armadillo

@fralegend015

Ancestor: armadillo
Name: digger armadillo
Adaptations: long and thick frontal claws that allow for digging
Size: smaller than an armadillo
Habitat: surface-caves

@fralegend015

Ancestor: digger armadillo
Name: Silverback
Adaptations: a bigger body size, bulkier claws and its armor becomes of a silver hue
Size: 1,50 meters in lenght
Habitat: caves
Diet: the mushrooms
Description: This species has no predators, keeping itself safe using its claws

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Silverback
Name: Armaphant
Description: This Giant, semi-aquatic, cave-dwelling armadillo descendant has adapted to be much larger than it’s ancestors, with taller, thicker legs like an elephant to stand above the water and a large, trunk like mouth derived from their long snout. They use their large, barbed tongue to sweep the water for cave copepods and the shore plants for cave aphids and deep cave aphids, the larger wandering aphids too large to fit in their trunk like mouth.

Kiwi Bird

@fralegend015

Ancestor: kiwi bird
Name: cave kiwi
Adaptations: a better sense of smell
Size: about the size of a kiwi bird
Habitat: caves, eats the mushrooms

@fralegend015

Ancestor: Cave kiwi
Name: dwarf kiwi
Adaptations: thicker beak and slower metabolism, significantly smaller Size to better manuever in the caves, omnivory.
Size: 20 cm
Habitat: caverns
Diet: opportunistic omnivore
Description: small adaptable bird

Caecilians

@fralegend015

Ancestor: Caecilian
Name: deepth caecilian
Adaptations: a better sense of sight
Size: a bigger than a caecilian
Habitat: caves, eats glow frogs

@Deathwake

Ancestor: depth Caecilian
Name: slimewrathe
Discription: a large worm-like beast that uses it’s incredibly sensitive to kill everything that moves- literally. They entirely lack cones or color cells, but possess horrific numbers and qualities of rods. They can detect the direction, size, velocity, and threat level of an object with as few as a couple dozen photons, although that last one would basically be pure luck, and anyways as soon as they have notes that the creature exists they kill it. Their fangs are more like tusks, but they still drip venom constantly. This horrificly inefficient setup allows them to inject literally up to an ounce of venom if they need on even a subperfect hit, though they would never need this much as that much could take out literally a whole pack of brontos, so the max is never used by anyone other than juveniles. Those can only used about a tenth of that max, so while they are technically more of a threat, the fact is they can only take out target per day until they generate enough venom to do it again (not the the full tenth of an ounce, just a few ccs), meaning they arent a threat to teams, while the adults pace themselves and can use their venom at brontos strength several times, or rino strength up to 25 times a day. This firepower is generally considered to be a stupid evolutionary experiment, given how insanely inefficient it is, given these slimy beasts cant even fit a rino leg in their mouths, let alone a bronto, and they refuse to chew. They hunt without any light, anywhere there is enough biodiversity for their stupid stratagy to work. They can hold their breathe for days via slowing down their metabolism, and won’t be hurt underwater anyways due to the fact that their venom leeks and kills anyone within a 4 foot (little over a meter) radius around them.
Size: 8 feet (I wanna say- 2.5 meters?)
Habitat: for most of the week they live in underground rivers near the valley, but once per week they travel miles into the plains and forests of the valley to terrorize the brontos as their only natural predator, forcing them to migrate to the deserts or beaches once a kill has been confermed, so the scouts can see the dreaded amphibians.

@Deathwake

ancestor:slimewrathe
name: nightmaer
Description: i need to clarify two things, first, how utterly devastating bonefeets are for the slimewrathes, their whole strategy is based in intimidation. they are glass cannons, they oneshot themselves when someone sneaks up on them, their skulls can be pulpified by a human with a rock, they have important arteries everywhere, in general weak af. now if you can oneshot a bronto, that doesnt much matter. everyone leaves you alone and suddenly your greatest concern is managing not to scare away prey. scond, the nightmaer is a mess. like quezels or humans or giant snakes, they are temporary anomalies. weird quirks of the environment. as soon as giant dino corpses arent available, or farming becomes unfeasible, or semi-competent mammals get develops, these guys went away. so yeah, next up the actual dudes: huge. 40 feet long, stand up to oneshot brontos on the mother ing neck, swallow half the body, drag it underwater with everything outside of the nightmaer’s mouth being eaten away, as they still cannot chew, and rely on other spicies to chew away most of their prey. they are super endangered, with the whole valley supporting only a few, and they inevitably go extinct, though a 20 foot long dwarf sub-species makes in it the deep ocean.

Crab-eating Fox

@UndyingHazard

Ancestor: Crab-eating fox.

Common name: Glow fox.

Description: Started to develop a symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent fungi, in translucent cyst-like structures at the end of its tail that help lure prey. They are nocturnal, and opportunistically feed on anything smaller then themselves including mushrooms. They grow to be the same size as there ancestors.

@UndyingHazard

Ancestor: Glow fox

Common Name: Ghost fox.

Description: The glowing cysts now exist all over the body of the fox, the strength of the glow can also be controlled by the fox by making the skin of the cysts less opaque. The fox has also developed better senses of smell and hearing and has started to lose the majority of its fur, relying on reserves of subdermal fat for insulation instead. It grows to be slightly larger than its ancestor.

@UndyingHazard

Ancestor: Ghost fox

Common name: Wraith fox

Description: The fox has now completely lost its fur, and has developed a pair of bioluminescent cysts under its eyes that act as organic flashlights that it can also control to opacity of (similar to a deep sea fish called a stoplight loose jaw.). It has also developed a longer tail and stronger jaws.

Clouded Leopard

@fralegend015

Ancestor: Clouded Leopard
Name: caving leopard
Adaptations: Thicker fur and bigger lungs
Size: the same as his ancestor
Habitat: lives in caves but goes to the surface to hunt.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Caving Leopard
Name: Fishtail Cat
Description: With a fungal symbiosis similar to the glow Fox (glowing tail tip), this small leopard descendant utilizes a long tail with a slightly armored tip of fused fur to fish in the cave lakes, waiting for any potential prey to be attracted in and then pouncing.

Copepods

@fralegend015

Ancestor: Copepod
Name: cave copepod
Adaptations: better tollerance to pressurr
Size: the same
Habitat: caves

Ringtails

@fralegend015

Ancestor: ringtail
Name: wrongtail
Adaptations: longer fur, a better sense of smell
Size: smaller than a ringtail
Habitat: caves-surface
Diet: scavenger

Yawunik

@Centarian

Ancestor: Yawuniks
Name: Clawuniks
Description: This species has evolved to be more sensitive to sound and blind, to better navigate the sea caves. They use their sharp claws by tapping on the walls of the caves for echolocation. They can locate their prey by listening to the sounds they make, and once they’ve found it, they stalk it through the caves until it is close enough to kill. They are very territorial and can memorize almost every inch of the caves they live in, which is why their so good at stalking prey near their home.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Clawunik
Name: Clawcreeper
Description: Having evolved a very basic air sac, these animals sit along the cave lake shores like small bunkers, their heavy armor shells making them barely distinguishable from rocks, looking much like silver-plated hermit crabs from above. When would-be prey skitters by them, they quickly raise themselves slightly off the sand and shoot out their blade-like tentacles to kill and constrict it before drawing in it’s dinner.

@Nigel

Ancestor: Yawunik
Name: Yawutrick
Description: Its evolved appendages are now able to pick up rocks. Some have even attempted to use rocks to shield attacks from predators, some successful, some not.
They now reside in bodies of water within cave systems that are exposed to light, being forced there due to being overwhelmed by competition.

@Nigel

Ancestor: Yawutrick
Name: Rock Smashers (dont take this out of context)
Resides In: Coastal waters, some have tried going on land with rocks on their backs as protection, but failed because lack of lungs.
Description:
Now having more thicc appendages, they now bash rocks together, making favorable shapes. They now display affection by giving eachother rock shapes that they like. They also eat any creature they can bash a rock on in order to kill it, using rocks for hunting and cutting plants.

Inciviosaurus

@doomlightning

Ancestor: Inciviosaurus
Name: Incaversaurus
Description: He is a creature that is a little smaller than his ancestors who began to vary his food protection to Cave Lights, and in order to mess with the harder plants, his tooth bulge hardened and he is able to scratch with them from the walls.His nails also thickened to support him as he tried to climb the walls, allowing him to reach harder places to reach

Chameleon

@doomlightning

Ancestor: Chameleon
Name: Sea Cavemeleon
Description: In order to adapt to the conditions in the cave, they began to try to look for prey in an unexpected place: the deep water of the cave. They have stonger tongue that launched faster in water and allowing it to hunt and ambush Wandering Aphid or even get its food in water from Clawuniks and crustaceans of sorts if they were small enough.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Sea Chameleon
Name: Cavernjaw
Description: A large, fully aquatic chameleon descendant, it has a large, short head full of sharp teeth and a barbed, harpoon like tongue. It’s limbs and main body are similar to a mosasaur, with a long tail that can curl and whip prey, driving them in whatever direction it wishes to go. It is roughly 20 feet long, and prefers larger, more open cave lakes nearish to the cave shores.

Diatom

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Diatoms
Name: Cave Diatom
Description: Able to photosynthesize using the light made by Cave lights, these tiny plants thrive in the caves, their tiny metal cell walls discouraging most animals from eating them, though some, like cave copepods, still feast away regardless of this

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Cave Diatoms
Name: Magnet Coral
Description: Clumping up on the bottom of the Cave Lakes, they photosynthesize using the light from the Spirit Boats, though also prefer to stick closer to the shore to also be able to benefit from more shore bound mushrooms. Using the metals in their cell walls, they create a slight magnetic field that is used to catch and latch free floating diatoms onto the colony, steadily growing in size and energy production for the colony as a whole. They are black in color, with some purple

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Magnet Coral
Name: Steel Shrubs
Description: To better be able to utilize the light made by the surface dwelling mushrooms, these diatoms start their colony in the shallows and then slowly build up into the air, being partly amphibious and requiring the water provided by the bottom diatoms. They are closer to being one solid organism than before, the internal cell walls of the diatoms more porous than before but still present.

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Steel Shrubs
Name: Silverbranches
Description: Having exploited the lack of tall plants in the cave shores of the glowing carpets, these plants have a large, central structure that acts as a defensive trunk, and have grown so large to not only absorb maximum light from their glowing carpet but also from the glow across the lake. They have black, gleaming branches with purple leaf like structures on them

Atlas Bear

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Hell Bear
Name: Bonecrusher Bear
Description: This large, jet black descendant of the hell bear now lives in the caves, crunching down on anything it can kill with it’s large, swinging paws. It is larger even than the Beartredon, a living wall of shadows and death (my kinda creature, obviously)

Crested Grosbeak

@TwilightWings21

Ancestor: Grosgull
Name: Cave Wader
Description: Having made it’s way into the caves, these creatures stalk the cavern shores, eating whatever they can find. They typically roost on crevices in stalactites, keeping away from pretty much any potential predators

@Hanroz here you go. Only creatures that aren’t included and live underground burrow - they don’t actually live in the caves.

[Hanroz]

Ancestor: Brittle Stars
Name Glowstick Stars
Resides in: Caves
Description: Produce a glowing slime along arms that makes it easier to hold onto things as it is nearly impossible to escape. If it is too long out of the water the slime hardens and it’s almost impossible to unharden it.
(Used as primitive glue in future? I think I’ll focus on the Rock Smashers for sapience instead, I have an idea for them but the Yawunik slots are already filled up so I’ll have to wait until after the next EE (Extinction Event)).
Is this alright?

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Yup this is great! Only two more creatures left before extinction event!

Edit: Those would be one Warrah Species, sand I think that was done by GodofKnowledge and I just missed it (will have to scroll up), and the other is a Crab Eating Fox descendant

Edit 2: Yup only one Crab eating fox species left to do!

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

Ancenstor: Jumper Wolf
Name: Goat Wolf
Mutations: Thicker fur for insulation, reduced external ears to decrease exposed surface area, longer foot.
Habitat: Valley side
Description: Jumper wolf descendant that evolved to live on the cliff sides of the edge valley, they live in the side valleys but they return to the edge valleys to hunt or eat some of the non-toxic plants.
Diet: Omnivore

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Cool! I’ll use Knowledge’s Captiosus Warrah as the first evolution after the extinction event

Now just one fox species left

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Ig I’ll just do this one myself.

Ancestor: Crab-Eating Fox
Name: Jungle Lion-Fox
Description: A much larger cousin to the Crab-eating fox, the jungle lion-fox is a golden tan like it’s namesake, fleet of foot and adept at chasing wood runners, bush rhinos, and other such prey through the undergrowth. A Full-grown Jungle lion-fox can even challenge the larger bear species for their prey, hunting in small parties of 2-3.

I’ll begin the extinction Event.

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

Ops, I had plans for a fox species with an interesting relationship with F. terrens but I forgot to post it

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Post it a after the extinction event! I just finished the list of creatures that went extinct (36 creatures went extinct)

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

Ancenstor: Crab Eating Fox
Name: Soldier Fox
Mutations: smaller body with longer legs making them more agile, a shorter snout allowing them to make stronger bites.
Habitat: Anywhere that has F. terrens population
Description: Fox species that evolved to use F. terrens latent social instincts to it’s advantage, they help F. terrens during hunts and get a part of the meat, because of their tiny body and omnivore diet they don’t need to take too much of it, after a while of this a soldier fox and the F. terrens individual will slowly become capable of recognizing eachother and will also protect eachother, it has also been shown that soldier foxes will often alert F. terrens of the presence of nightmaers so that they can go hunt them.
Diet: omnivore

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

EXTINCTION EVENT

We see the Cavern, spinning through the vast void of space. The spread of life slowly climbs higher, even reaching the frost-ridden surface. But then, the Seas begin to rise. Water flows up, being forced out of underground water tables deep in the earth by tectonic movement, and begins to flood the valley, over hundreds of years completely covering the grassy plains and leaving islands of forest scattered around the ocean that is now the lower Valley. The flow of water slows vastly as these tables shift and resettle deep in the caves, but every year more land is still slowly sunk, inch by inch, an indicator of what is yet to come

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The first extinction event is done! 36 species have sadly bitten the dust, not all related to the sinking of the lowland plains. (Differences will be marked by LP (Lowland plains) or OC (out-competed(also stands for if it wasn’t defended enough for environment (ex. Shovelshell)))). The unlucky creatures are;

• Stray Dogwoods (LP)
• Poison Ivy (OC)
• Poison Carpet (OC)
• Armadillo (OC)
• Digger Armadillo (OC)
• Skinny Rhinos (LP)
• Dandroms (LP)
• Deep Cave Aphids (OC)
• Rhinos (LP)
• Grapplebeaks (LP)
• Shadefeathers (LP)
• Nightmare (…it had to go)
• Giant Seekers (LP)
• Beakrunners (LP)
• Sunstreak (LP)
• Cave Wraiths (OC)
• Shovelshell (OC)
• Candy Striped Hermit Crabs (OC)
• Yawutricks (OC)
• Frosty Ivy (OC)
• Glow Frogs (OC)
• Kiwi Bird (OC)
• Cave Kiwi (OC)
• Warrah (LP)
• Hawksbill Sea Turtle (OC)
• Tree Ermines (OC)
• Ermines (OC)
• Heat Wavestars (OC)
• Caving Leopard (OC)
• Leopuma (LP)
• Hell Bear (LP)
• Beartredon (LP)
• Inciviosaurus (OC)
• Ghost Fox (OC)
• Ringtails (LP)
• Guam Rail (OC)

If you have any disagreements with this extinction list, please explain why and propose an alternate creature to go extinct instead of the one you think should not have gone extinct.

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Now, a list of surviving creatures;

• Glowing Mushrooms
• Cave Lights
• Glowtowers
• Spirit Boats
• Glowtangles
• Glow Carpet
• Lightning Boat
• Glowtunnels
• Twisting Glowvine

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• Diatoms
• Cave Diatoms
• Magnet Coral
• Steel Shrubs
• Silverbranches
• Sea Raft
• Silvervine
• Stone Sinkers
• Diatomaceous Trellis

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• Dogwood Trees
• Pupgrass
• Wolfwood
• Edgegrass
• Jaw Trees
• Shadegrass
• ???
• ???

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• Climber Carpet
• Side Ivy
• Everest Needle
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Nautilus
• Caver Nautilus
• Shell Kraken
• Spear Nautilus
• Shorestalker
• Shellless Cave Nautilus
• ???
• ???

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• Shoebill
• Gatorbill
• Swampstalker
• Shovelbeak
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Silverback
• Armamole
• Whiptongues
• Armaphants
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Caecilians
• Depth Caecilians
• Slimewraiths
• Dreamfangs
• Seacilians
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Mutant Ghost Frog
• Cave Stalker
• Bonelights
• Sky Wraiths
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Yawunik
• Clawunik
• False Anamalocaris
• Clawcreepers
• Rock Smashers
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Clouded Leopard
• Caving Leopard
• Jag-Leopard
• Fishtail Cat
• Climber Cat
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Needlebird
• Dwarf Kiwi
• Pollenstrider
• Cliffgripper
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Chameleon
• Sea Chameleon
• Snappers
• Cavernjaws
• Flowermaw
• Wormscale
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Incaversaurus
• Vetovaesaurus
• Veto-qitos
• Jungle Rex
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Woollier Rhino
• Bushhorn
• Chonk Rhino
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Brachiosaurus
• Bonefoot Brachiosaurus
• Mountain Leapers
• Frost Titans
• Woodrunners
• Cave Dracohorse
• ???
• ???

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• Zaratan
• Terratons
• Raftans
• Turtrout
• Terrorton
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Crab Eating Fox
• Glow Fox
• Wraith Fox
• Sea Fox
• Jungle Lion-Fox
• Soldier Fox
• ???
• ???

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• Hardbacked Hermit Crab
• Nautilus Scavenger Crabs
• False Nautilus
• Climber Crab
• Pollenbrush Crabs
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Burrowing Ermine
• Mossy Ermine
• Edgeburrow Ermine
• Everesttail
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Nursery Sharks
• Pool Sharks
• Hydrosharks
• Chardybis Shark
• Cleaner Fish
• Deathcleaner
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Brittle Stars
• Waving Stars
• Radio Arms
• Kinetower
• Glowstick Stars
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Jumper Wolf
• Rainrunner
• Warcriminal
• Goat Wolf
• Captious Warrah
• ???
• ???

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• Atlas Bear
• Edge Bear
• Woodfisher Bear
• Bonecrusher Bear
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Edge Rail
• Bearded Rail
• Quillhaunt
• Straightfeather Rail
• Flutterfeather Rail
• Phoinexfeather Rail (note that hematospawning still occurs though not exactly as willow described)
• ???
• ???

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• Wrongtail
• Tailwalker
• Scouter
• Ringiraffe
• Tritan
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Crested Groshawk
• Giant Groshawk
• Skyvalhawk
• Grosgull
• Wethead
• Cave Wader
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Deep Sea Hatchetfish
• Longtail
• Daggerfish
• Axefish
• Moonseal
• Abyss Leviathan
• ???
• ???
• ???

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• Cave Aphids
• Wandering Aphid
• Jumping Aphid
• Thornstalker
• Shroomfarmer
• Shroomskin Aphid
• ???
• ???

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• Copepod
• Cave Copepod
• Copecreep
• Leaflimb
• Sea Sweeper
• False Sweeper
• Luminescent Cave Copepod
• ???
• ???

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Depending on the ancestral lines of creatures, players may now create three evolutions for each line.

Three have already been made, the Shellless Cave Nautilus, Captious Warrah, and Soldier Fox. Other than that, all positions are open.

Happy Creating!

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Edit: Divided up the extant organisms chart to better represent how many spaces are left per group. This will be updated as new species are created!

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

ancestor: spirit boats
name: lightning boats
mutations: increased luminosity due to ingesting a microbe that uses sulfur to respire and to prevent damage to its cells performing sulfur respiration as well as oxygen respiration resulting in more energy for illuminating the caves from the surface of the water

ancestor: silver shrub
name: silvervine
description: due to the (relatively) bright light of the lightning boats they have increased the amount of chloroplasts per cell and have started living on the cave ceiling

@TwilightWings21 diatoms don’t actually have metal in their cell walls they actually have silica but you could have it so that the diatoms have magnetic particles in their cells, also diatoms are already in the late unicellular stage IRL

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

I am aware of both facts, however through evolution the diatoms evolved the ability of magnetically attracting one another via incorporation of more metals within their membrane, as said when they evolved magnetic capabilities. (Also, pretty sure silicon is a metal anyway though idk how magnetic it is)

dark atmosphere of the caves was rather interesting. However, removing it is allowed of course.