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Animal Breeding, Hybrids, Fossils and Trait Selecting (Advanced Monster Creation)


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Hello! I have noticed a lack of things to do with the animals and monsters you find in the game!

Sure, they have their own perks like slicksters making oil, hatches making coal and puffs making slime from polluted air, but what if you could domesticate them! And then even more form of advanced conflict of morality, cross breed and  specific selection of traits...

This would add a whole new level of the tech branch and would require a new research station for animals.

- Animal Research Station - Requires the animals to be located near to study and research traits!

- Cages - inhumane and cruel however a way to transport or keep animals close by against will. Also saddens some dupes and have a negative deco rating. 

Feeding Troth - To feed free roam animals - allows to domesticate the animal with correct food.

New rooms known as Animal Pens - better than cages, animals free roam and are kepted happier with regular attention and needed for normal breeding (Natural breeding is slower and requires atleast two of the animal) room gives a positive bonus to dupes compared to storing in cages. 

Traits? What if you could breed a slickster to instead produce something other than oil? With selective traits you can! 

Running low on an animal? Don't worry! With what you have learnt about your own duplication, you can dupe/clone animals with the reasouces and care!

- Growing tubes (Requires correct temperature, water and attention)

- Can create failures which are very hostile and look messed up! But these could also have a use? 

Possible creations:

Puff + Morb = Kracken! 

Hatch + Fish = (unknown name) eats anything in water and turns to metal deposits  

Slickster + Puff = (Unknown name) eats slime and turns to water

 

Fossils!? What if you can find fossils, study them, extract DNA and either mix with current animals to make hybrids or make he original! What can go wrong? 

- Requires Geologist Lab - Used to study and unlock fossil information.

Going even further just because that's what my brain does... what if there was an accident in the lab, wrong DNA got crossed, say a dupe with a fish... a mermaid is born... except with the head of a fish and the legs of a dupe!? Uh oh!

- Science suits - prevents DNA and contamination to cloning and breeding 

 

I hope you like my ideas, they are abit out there but I think it could be a whole new mechanic, oh and I also wrote this on my phone early hours of the morning so sorry if I misspelled or have incorrect sentence structure!

Breeding or otherwise, I do hope we see more animals and animal behaviors. Off the top of my head...

-Smasher: An animal which slams its head against its containment wall when not properly fed, as per Destructive dupes.

-Screamer: An animal which makes noise (as per sneezing/snoring) at regular intervals, causing great Stress, but they're too valuable not to farm.

-Runner: An animal that will run on available Treadmills if properly fed.

-Zapper: An animal that will transmit bursts of power to nearby power lines (possibly overloading them if they're already in use)

-Bottom Feeder: Similar to a Hatch, but only lives in water.

-Splitter: An animal which can replicate dangerously fast if not culled regularly. Possibly combine with Smasher...

Thanks for all the feedback and ideas guys! 

A dairy aspect could be great dusticles! Imagine all the foods such as cheese and butter which could be used to make more luxurious food items such as simply "toast" and also Biscuits which could be more of a item they can carry anywhere and eat when they get hungry so far out of the base!

 

Bees! Ok here me out, collected from fossils because of a lack of flowers in a asteroid but what if Because they are space bees, they are not exactly small! 

Ok for production of honey they need a few flowers and plants around there home which they would walk in and out of like a stable when not in use by this next awesome idea... mountable bees! Used for traveling to locations unreachable!

so production of these bees would be honey! Honey is great for energy and food! Could give a buff of energetic when eaten, and as a waste produce of bees which still could be used, bees wax used for making candles and general decoration! Of course it also melts in too hot environment! Both these products require a bees house which is a big house for bees. 

 

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