this is a list of who has submitted their mutations
here’s one without the checkmarks for keeping track easier
It cant die from brain damage, in the sense of that if you actually were to make enough damage to it’s brain to make that a possibility it would already be dead because of other injuries.
Just damaging a small part of the uncentralized brain doesn’t incapacitate it, that’s the point of an uncentralized brain (other than faster reflexes).
i already changed the pressurized obsidian exoskeleton for a better mutation so there is no reason to continue this argument, also i said
which brain damage would likely kill it faster due to the fact that your blood doesn’t just all spill out whenever you get cut but this argument is kinda completely pointless ever since just under 2 hours ago
Mutation 1: stronger chemoreceptors
Mutation 2: Several ganglia throughout the body.
The game of Evolution continues…
M1: the threat of extinction forced Evolumia to get with the times and become omnivorous, consuming both meat and plant matter (btw do the creatures have anuses? Cuz i didnt see anything mentioning those)
M2: Its mouth also got an upgrade, as its muscles got stronger, allowing easier breakdown of food
I’ll start using “preys on” to indicate general hunting habits rather than pressure on prey populations, since herbivores are doing so well this round.
Round 7 - 70 Million Years
The planet has made a complete recovery from the plate boundary’s collapse. The atmosphere has cleared, and the waters’ pH have stabilized. A few animals have even evolved to see their world in ways it has never been seen before.
Species
doomlightning - Fulgurmortis coronafera - LC
Tiny Herbivore
Habitat: Coasts (Amphibious)
Mutations: Chemoreception, 7 Hydro-Pump Legs (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)
At the front of Fulgurmortis’s head, emerging from its scales, may now be observed a chemoreceptive notch. This notch detects smells in both water and the air, allowing this creature to track down beached foodstuffs more easily. In addition, it now has seven pairs of appendages beneath it. Like the tube feet of echinoderms, they expand and contract in sync with its water vascular system, giving it some more speed in all terrains. The fifth pair is wider and stronger than the rest, making it suitable for swimming.
This species is enjoying a population boom thanks to the prevalence of Kisthos swept in from deeper waters. This new food source has increased its carrying capacity significantly.
Stats:
1*3 = 3 Stealth
2 Speed (Water), 2 Speed (Land)
3 Strength (Venom-Resistant)
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata, Kisthos thalassena
Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides, Iocusis myriadus
Rotifer-like Corona
Epidermis
Pharyngeal Slits
Cephalization
Silicone Scales (+1 Strength)
Water Vascular System
Closed Vascular System
Branchiostegal Gills
Radula
Mucus Glands (+1 Strength)
Internal Fertilization
Hibernation
fralegend015 - Legendicus vigorosus - LC
Tiny Omnivore
Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts
Mutations: Foregut, Enzyme Glands
Legendicus is handling the heightened vigilance of its prey better than the three other predators along the coasts. It has a foregut at the start of its digestive tract, allowing it to hold more food to be digested. This foregut is also accompanied by several enzyme glands that serve the same purpose as the pancreas. These serve it well in both getting the most out of its kills and competing for Chlorogyra patches. All in all, Legendicus is obliged to hunt the least often for food.
Legendicus finds the most success ambushing Salixelysia amid floating clusters of Kisthos, though this opportunist lacks the intelligence to do so deliberately. It even pursues this herbivore out to the global ocean, though its tendency to lose the initiative and the scant pickings of Chlorogyra to be found force it to return to the coasts eventually.
Stats:
2*3 = 6 Stealth
8 Speed
2 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Aclaronomenus ascendilus, Salixelysia aurata
Predated By: N/A
Lateral Muscles (+2 Speed due to gills)
Grinding Teeth
8 Fins (+1 Speed)
Gills
Tail Muscles (+1 Speed)
Circulatory System
Omnivorism
Motor Ganglia (+1 Speed)
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Denser Tail Muscles (+1 Speed)
Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)
Structural Spine (+1 Speed)
Foregut
Enzyme Glands
aah31415 - Sequentioscriptus vasculus - LC
Tiny Herbivore
Habitat: Rivers
Mutations: Horizontal Tailfin (+1 Speed), Coaxial Spinal Cords
Sequentioscriptus’s body now terminates in a tailfin resembling that of a whale. This allows it to search for food in a wide area more quickly - especially its new favorite, Bryodea, whose tangles it can cut apart with its jaws. Meanwhile, the ganglia within its body are now connected and coordinated with numerous spinal cords.
Stats:
2*3 = 6 Stealth
3 Speed
1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryodea nodula
Predated By: N/A
Grinding Teeth
Bloodstream
Chemoreception
Gills
Six Fins (+2 Speed due to gills)
Freshwater Adaptation
Neural Ganglia
Simple Heart
Basic Jaw
Improved Digestive System
Nostrils
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Horizontal Tailfin (+1 Speed)
Coaxial Spinal Cords
Nonametoseehere - Aclaronomenus ascendilus - LC
Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore
Habitat: Coasts, Rivers, Badlands
Mutations: Salt Retention, Manipulatory Caste
Aclaronomenus has gained the ability to moderate its body’s salt levels. It can expel bodily salts at a higher or lower rate. This allows it to survive in the fresh waters of the supercontinent, vastly increasing its range. It can be occasionally seen floating a short ways above the badlands, although it tends to avoid doing so due to its inability to see scattered and isolated water sources at a distance. It has instead benefitted greatly from frequenting the rivers, especially its sporadic oxbow lakes, which are the safe places on the planet for Aclaronomenus to lay its eggs.
Even more remarkable is its new manipulatory caste. Unlike the brainless movers, manipulators have an enhanced brain with a greater capacity for analyzing and recognizing forms. They also each bear four arms ending with six-fingers, modified from neural claws. With their greater intelligence and dexterity, they are able to grab and hold objects to serve as sails while floating. An important capability of their brains is a very early form of conceptualization: they know that objects that make good sails don’t have to start out that way. Whenever a manipulator comes across a dead animal, it can descend to pull off its skin with its thin fingers, which it then pulls wide to catch wind with. This is the first instance of tool use the planet has seen - an impressive feat for a creature that could fit in the palm of your hand.
Manipulators tend to procure skins from desiccated Salixelysia or waterlogged Sequentioscriptus corpses, as while less effective than fresh skins, they are more pliable for manipulators’ weak arms. They especially covet the wings of Salixelysia, which are already in a state to rival those of the mover caste. Some even have the gall to try and pluck them off of live Salixelysia they come across, though the fellow herbivores easily thwart their attempts.
(The manipulatory caste needs an improved brain with an enlarged, memory-storing cerebrum if you want to progress any further than this.)
Stats:
2*3 = 6 Stealth
3 Speed (Land), 2 Speed (Air)
1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: Legendicus vigorosus
Swim Bladder
Tail (+2 Speed due to Algae Assimilation)
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Grinding Teeth
Adhesive Tongue
Algae Habitation
Algae Assimilation
Simple Brain
Hydrogen Sack
Neural Claws
Water-Storing Stem
Mover Caste (+1 Flight Speed)
Salt Retention
Manipulatory Caste
TeaKing - Evolumia analysia - LC
Tiny Herbivore
Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Omnivorism, Jaws
Evolumia has developed the capacity to digest meat. This has perhaps not been in its best interests - now Nomenchiori and Signumeris are the only dedicated herbivores left at the coastal seafloor. These herbivores’ superior defenses easily rebuke Evolumia’s attempts to constrict and lacerate them with its sharp fins. They are also not burdened with maintaining a digestive system suited to two kinds of food - meanwhile, Evolumia lost the edge in sensing and digesting food a long time ago. On the other hand, its new jaws - bony structures that have expanded from the teeth to support the mouth - have enabled it to consume Bryopsis.
Evolumia is still forced to compete for Bryopsis with these same herbivores, who have no reason to fear it and every reason to attack it on sight. If it weren’t for its color scheme allowing it to browse beneath their notice, it may well have been denied this lifeline.
Stats:
3*3 = 9 Stealth
4 Speed
2 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryopsis digitata
Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides, Iocusis myriadus
Elongation (+1 Speed)
Chemoreception
Grinding Teeth
Tail (+1 Speed)
Simple Brain
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Gills
Efficient Muscles (+1 Speed from gills)
Notochord
Open Circulatory System
Serrated Fins (+1 Strength)
Disruptive Camouflage (+1 Stealth)
Omnivorism
Jaws
UndyingHazard - Minacia chirodropoides - LC
Tiny Omnivore
Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Nostrils, Neural Ganglia
The chemoreceptive notch above Minacia’s wedge-toothed mouth has compressed into two nostrils. These allow it to sense its food from further away, both Chlorogyra and living or dead animals. Its diffuse nervous system has also been improved with ganglia.
Unfortunately for this creature, it is again being left behind in the game of hide-and-seek that precedes the chase. Its cousin and fellow omnivore Chemorecepta is difficult to see due to its stripes, Nomenchiori can feel its predator’s movements, and Signumeris has the advantage of lensed eyes. Unable to grasp and chew Ulvopsis with its mouth, Minacia’s nostrils have been instrumental in finding patches of Chlorogyra, as well as the kills of Evolumia and Iocusis it may bully these rivals off of.
In other news, once again, Minacia’s changing environment has worked in its favor - with the appearance of the floating alga Kithos, the shore-dwelling Fulgurmortis have entered a time of prosperity. This now-abundant prey item still needs to return to water to wet its gills and reproduce. Though Minacia still risks having its gills filled with mucus, it can still enjoy the advantage of holding the initiative in nearshore waters.
Stats:
2*3 = 6 Stealth
4 Speed
3 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Fulgurmortis coronafera, Signumeris rugosus
Predated By: N/A
Elongation (+2 Speed due to gills)
Chemoreception
Nematocysts (+1 Strength)
Sharp Teeth
Paired Single-Chambered Hearts
Gills
Undulating Flaps (+1 Speed)
Venomous Tentacles (+1 Strength)
Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)
Compartmentalized Gut
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Grinding Teeth
Nostrils
Neural Ganglia
Chiori - Nomenchiori echinoides - LC
Tiny Herbivore
Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Vertebra (+1 Strength), Notochord
Nomenchiori’s external defenses have been further reinforced by a bony spinal column on the inside. Not only does it transmit information to and from its brain, it gives its muscles structural support. Unlike the spine of Legendicus, however, the spine of Nomenchiori is meant to enable it to thrash about with greater strength. If any of its “threats” - which it easily surpasses - manage to slip past its auditory senses and evade its pincers, they must now risk their prey swinging its own body like a spiked club.
Stats:
3*3 = 9 Stealth
4 Speed
5 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata
Predated By: N/A
Lateral Muscles (+2 Speed due to gills)
Grinding Teeth
8 Fins (+1 Speed)
Spines (+1 Strength)
Digestive System
Bloodstream
Gills
Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Defensive Pincers (+1 Strength)
Simple Brain
Auditory System (+1 Stealth)
Vertebra (+1 Strength)
Notochord
willow - Salixelysia aurata - LC
Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore
Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts
Mutations: Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth), Ovoviviparity
Salixelysia’s pinhole eyes have become a lensed eye surrounded by sclera. Instead of seeing shadowy figures around it, it can now truly see the sights its world has to offer. Every time it takes to the air, it sees the churning waves below it as it descends. This gives it greater versatility in its escape attempts. In addition, Salixelysia’s body has evolved the necessary hardware to retain its young before they hatch. However, because this species lacks internal fertilization, it remains unable to do so.
This photosynthesizer makes forays into the global ocean past the continental shelf, though it must always return to shallower waters to breed.
Stats:
3*3 = 9 Stealth
4 Speed (Water), 1 Speed (Air)
1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: Legendicus vigorosus
Swim Bladder
Tail (+1 Speed)
Algae Assimilation
Metallic Teeth
One-Way Heart
10 Fins (+2 Speed due to Algae Assimilation)
Algae Absorption
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Chloroplast Assimilation
Simple Brain
Gliding Wings (+1 Flight Speed)
Hemocyanin
Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)
Ovoviviparity
zenzonegaming - Iocusis myriadus - VU
Tiny Omnivore
Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Hooked Tentacles (+1 Strength), Tailfin (+1 Speed)
Iocusis’s fast reproduction rate allowed it to recover quickly from the verge of extinction. Now its tentacles brandish hooks it can drive into other animals, and the end of its body ends in a tail like a Euripterid’s. Both of these adaptations enhance its ability to prey on former competitors and satisfy its new taste for meat.
Unfortunately for Iocusis, its ambitions have been curtailed by one flaw - without its chemoreceptive notch, it is as blind to its surroundings as Fulgurmortis, and these two are only surpassed by Testificatus as the least perceptive organisms on the planet. Most prey flee it, and even when it is able to unintentionally stage an ambush on passing Signumeris, it finds the scaly-skinned herbivore an equal match. For what it’s worth, in the odd chance it does the same against Evolumia, its tentacles overcome the fellow omnivore’s sharp fins without a problem.
Iocusis finds itself outmatched by Minacia in finding Chlorogyra patches and in bringing down the aforementioned Fulgurmortis. Even worse, now that Iocusis is a rival, Minacia has a reason to engage this poisonous creature in combat. Whenever the two enter a tentacled wrestling match, Minacia delivers a venomous sting before Iocusis’s hooks can even pierce its toughened hide. At such poor odds, Iocusis is forced to concede its rare kills to live another day. Were it not for its ability to multiply rapidly, this species would be in danger of extinction.
Stats:
1*3 = 3 Stealth
4 Speed
3 Strength (Poisonous)
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Fulgurmortis coronafera, Evolumia analysa, Signumeris rugosus
Predated By: N/A
Grinding Teeth
Bloodstream
Chemoreception
Gills
Fecundity
Movement Tentacles (+2 Speed due to gills)
Ciguatera Poisoning
Improved Digestive Tract
Simple Brain
Simple Heart
Corrosive Stomach Acids
Silicate Exoskeleton (+1 Strength)
Hooked Tentacles (+1 Strength)
Tailfin (+1 Speed)
Cha - Testificatus relictus - LC
Tiny Detrivore
Habitat: Rivers
Mutations: Chitinous Exoskeleton (+1 Strength), Fecundity
Testificatus’s body is now covered in plates of chitin. Its new exoskeleton has allowed it to brave the rapids of rivers as they narrow toward the central mountains. Its reproductive rate has also been kicked up a notch - eggs are now lain tenfold, and larvae hatch at an earlier stage of development. As a result, Testificatus has become more abundant in the rivers than ever.
Stats:
2*3 = 6 Stealth
3 Speed
2 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: N/A
Symbiotic Camouflage
Elongated Mouth
Freshwater Adaptation
Cephalization
Hairy Tongue
10 Crawling Legs (+2 Speed due to Gills)
Open Circulatory System
Book Gills
Chitinous Exoskeleton (+1 Strength)
Fecundity
sci0927 - Signumeris rugosus - LC
Tiny Herbivore
Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth), Jaws
Signumeris shares the honor with Salixelysia of being the first species to see the world through lensed eyes. It can now see everything from curtains of dazzling sunlight, to the yawning abyss past the continental shelf, to swaying fields of Ulvopsis. Its simple mind is unimpressed by the first, unfrightened by the second, and prefers the third in all circumstances. Its head now houses a skull, with a cranium to protect its brain and jaws to drive its teeth into food. Now it can browse on any Ulvopsis it comes across.
With its expanded diet and ability to see its predators from far away, its population has risen significantly.
Stats:
3*3 = 9 Stealth
4 Speed
3 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata
Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides, Iocusis myriadus
Grinding Teeth
Bloodstream
Chemoreception
Gills
Four Fins (+2 Speed due to gills)
Rough Skin (+1 Strength)
Notochord
Improved Digestive System
Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
Tail (+1 Speed)
Simple Brain
Skeleton (+1 Strength)
Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)
Jaws
NPC - Chlorogyra filamentosa - LC
Tiny Producer
Habitat: Coasts, Rivers
Chlorogyra grows in fresh and salt water with plenty of sunlight. Its box-shaped cells line up in long filaments, their chloroplasts forming distinctive spirals. While colonies can survive anywhere in the water column, they form clusters at the surface and floor when undisturbed. In still waters, Chlorogyra can form a green carpet over rock and silt alike.
NPC - Ulvopsis digitata - LC
Small Producer
Habitat: Coasts
Ulvopsis is a marine alga that forms a thin, vertical sheet. It sprouts from well-lit sands swept by gentle currents, where entire fields of it sway. Its stern structure protects it from herbivores that lack jaws or mandibles.
NPC - Bryodea nodula - LC
Small Producer
Habitat: Rivers
Bryodea is a freshwater alga that grows in long, thin strands. It grows near the edges of rivers and lakes, where more sunlight can reach the bottom. If allowed to grow, its colonies weave together into tangled messes that are difficult to pull apart.
NPC - Kisthos thalassena - LC
Small Producer
Habitat: Global Ocean
Kisthos is a free-floating relative of Ulvopsis. Its “leaves” are much smaller and grow in chains. With the aid of minute air bladders, this alga resembling green Sargassum can maintain buoyancy at the ocean surface. This has allowed it to expand into the global ocean, where the seafloor is too deep for light to reach. Great mats of it can form wherever the currents converge.
Habitats
Global Ocean: A vast ocean spanning the entire world.
Flora: Chlorogyra, Kisthos
Fauna: Salixelysia, Legendicus, Aclaronomenus
Coasts: Warm, saline waters surrounding the supercontinent. The floor lies as deep as 150 meters beneath the surface.
Flora: Chlorogyra, Ulvopsis, Kisthos
Fauna: Fulgurmortis, Legendicus, Aclaronomenus, Chemorecepta, Minacia, Nomenchiori, Salixelysa, Iocusis, Signumeris
Rivers: A network of waterways found all over the supercontinent, but especially the West and South.
Flora: Chlorogyra, Bryodea
Fauna: Sequentioscriptus, Testificatus
Badlands: A muddy, rainswept land spanning much of the supercontinent.
Great Mountains: A jagged wall of mountains at the heart of the supercontinent.
Eastern Desert: A vast rain shadow desert on the eastern half of the supercontinent.
Its time.
Mutant 1: Branchiostegal Lungs branching off
Mutant 2: Dehydration-resistant eggs (Also known as “membrane eggs”, the mucus layer will now be used as a way to glue eggs to layers in addition to or instead of their original function)
I think that now I have all the conditions to live now as a full land creature (perhaps the only thing that really limits me now is the food itself, but now I won’t need to go into the water as often as before)
We are seeing a great interest in colonization of land and skies… aswell as some interest in intelligence…
Mutant 1: Basic Endoskeleton (Spine), surrounding spinal cords and neural ganglia. It has many uses - protects my neural network and can be used by muscles as an anchor point
Mutand 2: Coelacanth-like fin upgrade (this includes the tail fin), allowing for more speed and making species ready for future colonization of land
Mutation Uno: centralised nerve stucture to make a proto-brain of sorts (Finally recongising if touched)
Mutation dos: mandibels (still a detritivore just using the mandibels to break down dying or dead debris to hard to process otherwise)
the rivers are the most calm area compare to the competetive ocean/coast
mutations
Mutations:
Bioluminescent communication, allowing them to communicate from much greater distances.
“Archive” caste, which is dedicated to pure memory and information processing, can get much larger, and the other castes blindly accept the information stored as facts, because the archive itself determines whether or not the info it receives is true. They form “grids” of themselves around the planet, transmitting info to each other, the archives become an important part of every Aclaronomenus’s life, and they also become dedicated zones for reproduction.
Mutation 1: skeletal structure in the fins allowing them to have more muscle anchor points and to be used for faster locomotion on land too.
Mutation 2: the gills develop into lungs that breathe throught spiracles that can be closed when underwater.
Also, it will now be called Legendicus transitorium.
Since it’s qn omnivore it shouldnt have problems finding a food source
difficulties in this game are very expected
good thing i thought stuff through beforehand…
M1: to adapt to its new more predatory role, evolumia evolved glands near its serrated fins that fill the surrounding waters with a neurotoxin that slows down movement, which could potentially enter the body of its prey after a few slices from the fins
M2: in order to not let prey stealthily avoid it, and to detect plant matter more easily, Evolumia greatly improved its chemoreception abilities
since i can now live in the open ocean for the most part, i’m gonna start adapting to have better locomotive and intel abilities once i have the hardware to use them
strong glass pincers to move things and make larger prey able to fit in the mouth
larger wings with muscles to allow powered flight and increase movement speed in both air and water
There still are Legendicus species in the ocean that arent Legendicus transitorium
i didn’t say anything about legendicus though?
I’d also like to do a minor behavioral change (does it count as a mutation if there’s nothing stopping it from changing its behavior?) I want them to form packs, using their neural claws to effectively let them be one creature, so even if an animal kills one of them, the others can just swarm it and kill it.
i think making your neural claws use bluetooth would make that work better
But using bioluminescent communication would be slower than directly linking their brains.
but it would be far if you used it more flexible