The Bibites 0.4 Alpha 8: Ageing, Filter Feeding , and [More] (Patreon)
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A few significant things today!
Ageing
Due to the fact that some bibites would live forever and prevent new generations from developing, resulting in low dynamism, the bibites will now age. Once they reach a certain age, they'll slowly lose strength (movement and bite strength) and their energy metabolism cost will slowly increase. The ageing process proportionally scales with the metabolism speed of the bibites, so faster bibites will start ageing sooner and will then age faster. The opposite is true for slower bibites!
The default settings make this process pretty slow, so the effect will be minimal, but you are free to increase the effects of ageing.
Head to the biology panel for that new information.
Filter Feeding
To encourage different niches, a small thing I decided to add is that bibites can swallow pellets without having to bite it. If an object (pellet or other bibite) is small enough compared to the mouth opening of the bibite, it will be able to swallow it whole instantly.
In the future, it could be interesting to add factors and adaptations that would influence the size of the mouth, encouraging this feeding type at the expanse of other downsides.
Randomizing Virgin Genes
So uhh... This option is wacky, but it's there.
If enabled, initial virgin bibites will have completely random genes, across the whole spectrum of possibilities. If you enable this I would recommend lowering the bibite spawn rate.
Small changes and modifications:
- Sprite modding finalized
- Added warning when going over 3x Time Speed
- Background can be made any color
- Spawn limit now enabled by default
Bug fixes:
- Fixed pellet wipe bug
- Fixed white background flash on escape panel opened
- Fixed Maturity progress bar display glitch
Looking forward to your feedback!