Thrive Rules of Nature Competition

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

can i have part of my species split off to become an AI species or a second species i control the evolution of?

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

Mutation 1: chemoreceptor.
Mutation 2: poison resistance (repurpose any injected poisons into more of my own poisons).

[Nonametoseehere (Plant hiveminds!)]

They could choke other creatures though, and a huge swarm of them would be too much for the creature to do anything about it.

Edit: I just realized that it says I’m only in the coastal ocean, even though my species can go anywhere as long as it can find water.

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

might be due to reproductive reasons

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• doomlightning
• fralegend015
• aah31415
• Nonametoseehere
• TeaKing
• UndyingHazard
• Chiori
• willow
• zenzonegaming
• Cha
• sci0927
• TwilightWings21

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version without the checkmarks is here

• doomlightning
• fralegend015
• aah31415
• Nonametoseehere
• TeaKing
• UndyingHazard
• Chiori
• willow
• zenzonegaming
• Cha
• sci0927
• TwilightWings21

[Nonametoseehere (Plant hiveminds!)]

Zenzone submitted their mutations, so it looks like everyone’s done.

[Mitobox]

Sorry again for the wait!

Nostrils now retroactively give a stealth bonus, now that several predators have developed them.

Round 8 - 80 Million Years

The appearance of threadlike Marchantinella has turned some stretches of badland from a dreary brown to a vibrant green. This has presented a new food source for land-dwelling species with specialized mouthparts.

Species

doomlightning - Fulgurmortis coronafera - LC

• Tiny Herbivore

• Habitat: Coasts (Shore), Badlands

Mutations: Branchiostegal Lungs, Desiccation-Resistant Eggs

Fulgurmortis’s ability to use its gills in air as opposed to water has gone even further. It has also fully incorporated its mucus into its reproductive strategy; laying eggs in a coating of mucus prevents them from drying out. As a result, Fulgurmortis is now able to live virtually its whole life outside of water. However, because its excretory system is still adapted to a saline environment, it must return to the coast at least once every few days to drink. To avoid newborn infants dying of salt deficiency, this restricts reproduction to the beaches as well.

If any species is benefitting from the proliferation of the non-vascular Marchantinella, it is Fulgurmortis, whose radula easily picks its delicate, coiled growths apart.

Stats:

• 1*3 = 3 Stealth

• 2 Speed (Water), 2 Speed (Land)

• 3 Strength (Venom-Resistant)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata, Kisthos thalassena, Marchantinella colliosa

Predated By: Minacia litorevenator

Mutation History

• Rotifer-like Corona

• Epidermis

• Pharyngeal Slits

• Cephalization

• Silicone Scales (+1 Strength)

• Water Vascular System

• Closed Vascular System

• Branchiostegal Gills

• Radula

• Mucus Glands (+1 Strength; counters Venom)

• Internal Fertilization

• Hibernation

• Chemoreception

• 7 Hydro-Pump Legs (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

fralegend015 - Legendicus transitorium - LC

• Tiny Omnivore

• Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts, Badlands

Mutations: Fin Bones (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed), Gill-Lung Spiracles

Legendicus’s eight fins have been reinforced with bony tarsals and phalanges, giving them the strength to not only paddle faster in the water, but support the rest of the body on land. This development has been accompanied by the sealing of Legendicus’s gills behind spiracles, reminiscent of those found on sharks and rays. The spiracles exist to protect the gills not from desiccation, but from drowning - they have become something more like the bronchi of the lungs. Both of these new traits allow Legendicus to make forays onto land. It lacks an excretory system to acclimate it to a salt-poor environment, but still may be found everywhere saline water exists.

Legendicus both on land and in the sea continue to live off of rare successes in the hunt. As the now-airborne and pincer-toting Salixelysia join their cousin Aclaronomenus in the skies, Legendicus that live underwater by continuously coming up for air are having fewer and fewer opportunities to come across these herbivores, especially since their pinhole eyes are insufficient in tracking them as they fly. Competition for Chlorogyra is also becoming fiercer and fiercer. Meanwhile, Legendicus on land are forced to live on a purely meat-based diet. They don’t have jaws or mandibles to graze the Marchantinella growing around them, nor would their gross motor ganglia provide the finesse to use them. They mostly survive by attacking thin-scaled juvenile Fulgurmortis, which lack the senses to spot and avoid these predators.

Stats:

• 2*3 = 6 Stealth

• 9/1 Speed

• 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Aclaronomenus ascendilus, Salixelysia aurata

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

• 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

• Fin Bones (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

• Gill-Lung Spiracles

aah31415 - Sequentioscriptus vasculus - LC

• Tiny Herbivore

• Habitat: Rivers

Mutations: Vertebra (+1 Swimming Speed), Lobed Fins (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

Sequentioscriptus’s broad tail now swings with greater strength thanks to its ossified spinal column, which also encloses its notochords. The tail and accompanying six fins now have a lobed structure, like the fins of a coelacanth or lungfish. This allows them to support the weight of Sequentioscriptus whenever it strands itself on land.

Stats:

• 3*3 = 9 Stealth

• 6/1 Speed

• 1 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryodea nodula

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

• Grinding Teeth

• Bloodstream

• Chemoreception

• Gills

• Six Fins (+2 Speed due to gills)

• Freshwater Adaptation

• Neural Ganglia

• Simple Heart

• Basic Jaw

• Improved Digestive System

• Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

• Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

• Horizontal Tailfin (+1 Speed)

• Coaxial Spinal Cords

• Vertebra (+1 Swimming Speed)

• Lobed Fins (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

Nonametoseehere - Aclaronomenus ascendilus - LC

• Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore

• Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts, Rivers, Badlands

Mutations: Bioluminescent Communication, Archive Caste

All Aclaronomenus now have cells on their skin that use a chemical reaction to create light. By controlling these bioluminescent flashes, individuals can send messages to one another without having to connect through their neural claws. Of course, their simple pinhole eyes prevent them from seeing each other from far away, much less discern distant flashes. The complexity of signals an Aclaronomenus is able to send also depends on the brain power of their caste.

Speaking of brain power, a new caste has evolved within this species - the archive caste. Archivists have even more complex brains than manipulators. However, rather than fine motor skills and form recognition, archivists’ brains are dedicated to their new limbic system. Archivists are able to memorize and interpret manipulators’ recent experiences. The same goes for archivists connecting to one another, though the knowledge they are able to amass has its physical and biological limits. Naturally, Aclaronomenus life has come to revolve around the archive caste. Reproduction takes place almost exclusively in the vicinity of an archivist swimming in or hovering over a body of water due to the opportunity so many individuals being in one place presents.

Stats:

• 2*3 = 6 Stealth

• 3 Speed (Water), 2 Speed (Air)

• 1 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa

Predated By: Legendicus transitorium

Mutation History

• 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

• Bioluminescent Communication

• Archive Caste

TeaKing - Evolumia analysia - VU

• Tiny Omnivore

• Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Neurotoxin Glands (+1 Strength), Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

Forced to inhabit an increasingly hostile ocean, Evolumia has come to weaponize the nerve-killing brevetoxins that some phytoplankton produce. However, rather than saturate its own flesh with it, Evolumia secretes it into surrounding waters using specialized glands. Its toxins both deter predators and help disable prey whose flesh its fins cut into. This descendant of Chemorecepta has also refined the old olfactory notch into a pair of nostrils.

Evolumia’s most feasible prey items are the young of Signumeris, and, in turn, adults of the latter rely on their greater speed to catch any Evolumia juveniles whose camouflage they see through. Lately, Evolumia’s biggest threat to its survival is the unparalleled senses of Minacia. The latter’s sense of electricity means it rarely falls for Evolumia’s camouflage, and this species lacks speed like Signumeris’s to fall back on.

Stats:

• 4*3 = 12 Stealth

• 4 Speed

• 3 Strength (Toxin Glands)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryopsis digitata, Signumeris rugosus

Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides, Signumeris rugosus

Mutation History

• 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

• Neurotoxin Glands (+1 Strength)

• Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

UndyingHazard - Minacia chirodropoides - LC

• Tiny Omnivore

• Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth), Electroreceptors (+1 Stealth)

Minacia chirodropoide’s pinhole eyes have advanced into ones with a lens, cornea, and sclera. However, unique to this predator is its other addition to its senses - the ability to detect the electric currents created by other animals. Now that it holds the initiative against practically every other animal in the sea, it leaves hunting the blind Fulgurmortis to its offshoot, Minacia litorevenator.

Stats:

• 5*3 = 15 Stealth

• 4 Speed

• 3 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Evolumia analysia, Signumeris rugosus

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

• 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 (+1 Stealth)

• Neural Ganglia

• Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

• Electroreceptors (+1 Stealth)

Chiori - Nomenchiori echinoides - LC

• Tiny Herbivore

• Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth), Chitinous Exoskeleton (+1 Strength)

Nomenchiori continues to evolve against falling victim to its many predators. Its eyes are the latest to develop into eyes that can see the depth and form of shapes. Its thick skin has also become plated with a chitinous exoskeleton. The most rigid parts are reinforced with calcium carbonate, and it is from these sections that the spines emerge. Nomenchiori constantly lives on the defensive, but even juveniles are too formidable for most predators to risk their lives on.

Stats:

• 4*3 = 12 Stealth

• 4 Speed

• 6 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

• 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

• Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

• Chitinous Exoskeleton (+1 Strength)

willow - Salixelysia aurata - LC

• Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore

• Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts

Mutations: Glass Pincers (+1 Strength), Wing Muscles (+1 Swimming and Flight Speed)

The mouth of Salixelysia now sports a pair of pincers. These not only make it a match for Legendicus’s tense skin, they also allow it to break apart and consume Kisthos to supplement photosynthesis. Not only that, Salixelysia’s wings have strengthened to allow powered flight through the air. It still needs to splash down frequently to drink or rest, but now this species is in a strong position against predators.

Stats:

• 3*3 = 9 Stealth

• 5 Speed (Water), 2 Speed (Air)

• 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa Kisthos thalassena

Predated By: Legendicus vigorosus

Mutation History

• 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

• Glass Pincers (+1 Strength)

• Wing Muscles (+1 Swimming and Flight Speed)

zenzonegaming - Iocusis myriadus - EN

• Tiny Omnivore

• Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Nostrils (+1 Stealth), Venom Absorption (counters Venom)

Iocusis’s nostrils, an improvement on its chemoreceptor, have given it the capacity it needs to sense distant plant matter and approaching threats. To try and combat intense competition from Minacia, it has developed the ability to absorb the venom of nematocysts into affected skin cells. It has no way to use the venom to sting, but fights with it have become even.

Still, Minacia’s evolution and its consequences have been a disaster for this species. Though its new sister species occupies an uneasy space in the ecosystem due to its specialization, it has almost completely monopolized hunting Fulgurmortis that draw close to water. Meanwhile, mainline Minacia is enjoying a time of prosperity thanks to its sharpened senses. Iocusis increasingly resorts to scrounging what Chlorogyra it can find or risking injury by fighting these two rival predators for their kills.

(Your conservation status isn’t declining per turn, you’re just two stats below every other predator you compete with in your environment.)

Stats:

• 2*3 = 6 Stealth

• 4 Speed

• 3 Strength (Poisonous, Venom-Resistant)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Fulgurmortis coronafera, Evolumia analysa

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

• 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)

• Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

• Venom Absorption(counters Venom)

Cha - Testificatus relictus - LC

• Tiny Herbivore

• Habitat: Rivers

Mutations: Simple Brain, Mandibles

Testificatus has developed a set of mandibles for feeding, as well as the motor skills to use them thanks to its new brain. It uses its new appendage to ply and shear tangles of Bryodea into edible pieces. Afterwards, it uses its tongue to sweep for edible matter that had been trapped beneath.

Stats:

• 2*3 = 6 Stealth

• 3 Speed

• 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryodea nodula

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

• 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

• Simple Brain

• Mandibles

sci0927 - Signumeris rugosus - NT

• Tiny Omnivore

• Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Omnivorism, Dorsal Fin (+1 Speed)

Signumeris’s body and lifestyle have changed to accommodate a diet of meat as well as plants. This has given it more versatility, but more competition as well. However, it can outpace threats and rivals with its dorsal fin, which grants it a more hydrodynamic profile.

No predator is simultaneously stronger and faster than Signumeris. Its well-roundedness has placed it in a stable, if precarious, position in the endless fight for survival.

Stats:

• 3*3 = 9 Stealth

• 5 Speed

• 3 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata, Evolumia analysia

Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides, Evolumia analysia

Mutation History

• 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

• Omnivorism

• Dorsal Fin (+1 Speed)

TwilightWings21 - Minacia litorevenator - VU

• Tiny Omnivore

• Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Low Mucus Adhesion (counters Mucus Glands), Closed Cardiovascular System

Minacia litorevenator is a new sister species to mainline Minacia that has taken up a peculiar lifestyle. While the rest of their former species refined their senses to expand the number of species they could hunt, this shore-dwelling population specialized in hunting Fulgurmortis. To combat the mucus it jets out to encumber predators, M. litorevenator now has slick skin that the mucus fails to adhere to. This applies to its stinging facial tentacles. And, to allow it to attack its land-dwelling quarry, this species has improved its coelomic fluid medium into a proper vascular system. Its vascular tubes accompany its twin simple hearts and allow it to better pass oxygen to its vitals. This is crucial to its hunting strategy, as it must deliberately beach itself in order to grasp and sting its Fulgurmortis quarry.

Fulgurmortis’s terrestrial nature and habit of hibernating make hunting it an inconsistent food source, but M. litorevenator is the best species at exploiting it. It may have been pigeonholed into a strict niche, but it stands on the road to surviving out of water.

Stats:

• 3*3 = 9 Stealth

• 4 Speed

• 4 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Fulgurmortis coronafera

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

• 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 (+1 Stealth)

• Neural Ganglia

• Low Mucus Adhesion (counters Mucus Glands)

• Closed Cardiovascular System

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NPC Plants

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.

NPC - Marchantinella colliosa - LC

• Tiny Producer

• Habitat: Rivers (Shoreline), Badlands

Marchantinella is an offshoot of Bryodea whose strands are thinner and finer. This plant is adapted to survive outside of water, and individuals coil together into a soft bed wherever they grow. Dense masses are able to cover the ground beneath them from the sun, slowing down the evaporation of water. However, they still need water to transfer gametes, so they can only grow on soils regularly saturated with water.

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, M. litorevenator

Rivers: A network of waterways found all over the supercontinent, but especially the West and South.

• Flora: Chlorogyra, Bryodea

• Fauna: Sequentioscriptus, Testificatus, Aclaronomenus

Badlands: Lowlands spanning much of the supercontinent.

• Flora: Marchantinella

• Fauna: Fulgurmortis, Legendicus, Aclaronomenus

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.

EDIT:

Don’t fret, herbivores! There will soon be an opportunity that omnivores cannot exploit.

[Mitobox]

@willow

can i have part of my species split off to become an AI species or a second species i control the evolution of?

I think I’m at the limit for the number of animal species I can keep track of. But since it’s your birthday, I’ll let you decide if it’s 13 as opposed to 12

@TwilightWings21

Edit 2: Scientific name would likely be something like Minacia litorevenator

Good thing I noticed your edit before posting. Your genus name was about to just be Latin for “21.”

EDIT:

@aah31415

Mutant 2: Skin is now covered with scales, which add some defense and stop water from escaping body (dissecation resistance)

You want a +1 to Strength with that? You don’t have any defenses right now.

While I’m at it, @Cha do you want your mandibles to count as defensive pincers?

(I’ve been kind of bad about having some mutations only give points when the player gets specific with them)

[aah31415 (Possible Error Message)]

Colonization of land is already undergoing, I’ll need to get there before all niches are already occupied.
Mutant 1: Lensed Eyes
Mutant 2: Skin is now covered with scales, which add some defense and stop water from escaping body (dissecation resistance)

@Mitobox

You want a +1 to Strength with that? You don’t have any defenses right now.

yes, unless this takes away the dissecation resistance trait

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

Mutation 1: male and female sexes (more mutations)
Mutation 2: herd behavior (like swarms of piranhas)

[Mitobox]

@zenzonegaming

Mutation 1: male and female sexes (more mutations)

Hm. That was a feature in the game this one’s based on, but I never thought about it being in this one.

All in favor?

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo God, The Immortal and Remmortal gardium of Nervilla and Pandora Horizon)]

Mutant 1: Adaptation to salt deficiency

Mutant 2: Photoreceptors

[Nonametoseehere (Plant hiveminds!)]

I think an extra mutation is too OP, any other possible benefits instead?

Mutations

Producer Blankets: a new caste that is a simple hydrogen bladder that can connect to the others of its caste, forming large photosynthetic blankets filling the sky, the other castes can directly acquire energy from them, allowing them to be stronger and faster than they ever could using their own energy source.

Radial eyes: although the pinhole eyes still exist for long range sight, it now has lensed eyes with a larger field of view going around its whole body.

[aah31415 (Possible Error Message)]

@doomlightning welcome to the river biome

[TeaKing (The modTEArator)]

things are heating up

M1: Its lensed eyes time for Evolumia, the world around it shall be properly seen and analysed, and with it more better to hunt prey and find food will arise

M2: As a sort of defence againt elecroreception, evolumia developed an electric organ that discharges disruptive electricity around it, confusing the roaming minacia in the process, but it also has the bonus of shocking predator and prey as both attack and defense

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

@Mitobox

but still may be found everywhere salbelgiumer exists.

This filter must be kidding

[Mitobox]

@Nonametoseehere

Bombs: it now has extra hydrogen sacks that can be dropped, regrown, and self ignite (this has got to be more than 1 strength).

EDIT: the bombs can be used to carve new rivers, allowing its population to spread further.

1. If they’re filled with hydrogen, wouldn’t they be too buoyant to fall?
2. You’re the size of a mouse, no way are you making any explosions stronger than a firecracker. I made smaller sizes debuff strength for a reason.
3. I have to draw the line at modifying the landscape. Your species isn’t intelligent enough to deduce it can be physically done, let alone use any methods other than digging. And doing so would take lifetimes. I’m sorry, but that’s too much information for archivists to pass down. Neural claws are outlandish as-is, and everyone else has kept themselves decently grounded.

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

Mutation 1: organs which filter the blood stream from waste.

Mutation 2: The skeletal structure of the limbs becomes more adapted to land movement, making faster.

Time for the speed gain

[Mitobox]

@fralegend015

Mutation 1: second hole opposite to the mouth for excretion.

I forgot to reply to the guy who asked, but you guys already have two-ended digestive tracts. I meant “excretory” as in kidneys and whatnot.

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

Changed it

[Cha (Waluigi)]

Nah maybe if there was something restrating prey as the mandibeles tore into it but right not nah

Also mutations

Mutation uno: compound eyes (2 in the front around the mouth end and 2 around the base of the mouth)

Mutation dos: muscles attached internally to the exo-skeleton to hold itself up