SPOILER - My Zoo from the preview build

[GrindThisGame]

 

Only confined for the photo shoot. Released directly after!

[PhailRaptor]

Yes, but.....

 

What do they do?

[GrindThisGame]

I'll put a video out about that soon. I think some people have already posted what they do in this forum though.

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

Would you like to share the yaml file or your save file? It will be a great help to confirming their behavior.

[GrindThisGame]

Here is a video describing them:

 

I've also attached my save file from this. @R9MX4

zoo.sav

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

Just now, GrindThisGame said:

Here is a video describing them:

 

I've also attached my save file from this. @R9MX4

zoo.sav

Great thanks!

[BlueLance]

I think they will be changing what they do and some of them are placeholders, for instance all forms of the pacu fish eat the same and poop the same material, possibly the only difference could be in the quantity but that would seem a bit daft.

I think some critters will be pests versus helpers though, for instance it seems there is a slickster which eats oxygen but I am unsure what it poops out

[Kiros]

33 minutes ago, BlueLance said:

I think they will be changing what they do and some of them are placeholders, for instance all forms of the pacu fish eat the same and poop the same material, possibly the only difference could be in the quantity but that would seem a bit daft.

I think some critters will be pests versus helpers though, for instance it seems there is a slickster which eats oxygen but I am unsure what it poops out

It doesn't poop anything. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw changes before MKII goes live.

[cpy]

That hatch looks like an alien from a movie!

[chemie]

3 hours ago, BlueLance said:

I think they will be changing what they do and some of them are placeholders, for instance all forms of the pacu fish eat the same and poop the same material, possibly the only difference could be in the quantity but that would seem a bit daft.

I think some critters will be pests versus helpers though, for instance it seems there is a slickster which eats oxygen but I am unsure what it poops out

I am not seeing use scenarios for many of the animals.  Why do I want to turn algae into dirt?  Why bother (with 2% chance) to get an animal which makes thimble reeds when this is easy early game material anyway?

[BlueLance]

13 minutes ago, chemie said:

I am not seeing use scenarios for many of the animals.  Why do I want to turn algae into dirt?  Why bother (with 2% chance) to get an animal which makes thimble reeds when this is easy early game material anyway?

You get thimble reeds from the basic version, the plastic version which has a 2% chance of hatching gives you plastic, Some animals are most likely designed to be pests, suck as the slickster which eats oxygen and gives you nothing.

But this is subject to change. Also if you are talking about the Pacu fish i think they will be changing it and that this is only a placeholder

[SkunkMaster]

1 hour ago, BlueLance said:

You get thimble reeds from the basic version, the plastic version which has a 2% chance of hatching gives you plastic, Some animals are most likely designed to be pests, suck as the slickster which eats oxygen and gives you nothing.

But this is subject to change. Also if you are talking about the Pacu fish i think they will be changing it and that this is only a placeholder

as far as i understand the longhaired slickster is meant to be a "pet". High decor and such.

[TheExceed]

What exactly do the shinebugs do now? Give decor?

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

4 minutes ago, TheExceed said:

What exactly do the shinebugs do now? Give decor?

And egg?

[chemie]

2 hours ago, BlueLance said:

You get thimble reeds from the basic version, the plastic version which has a 2% chance of hatching gives you plastic, Some animals are most likely designed to be pests, suck as the slickster which eats oxygen and gives you nothing.

But this is subject to change. Also if you are talking about the Pacu fish i think they will be changing it and that this is only a placeholder

Sage hatch would be nice for coal early game. But statistically I need to hatch 50 to get first one.  By the time that happens, I am off coal anyway.  The number of cycles needed to get a morph means they are late game toys at best.  You already have to have your designs in place for everything they bring late to the party.

54 minutes ago, SkunkMaster said:

as far as i understand the longhaired slickster is meant to be a "pet". High decor and such.

Metal tiles would seem to be better for decor solution.  Why do I need decor in greenhouses?

[TheExceed]

Just now, R9MX4 said:

And egg?

I mean are they even worth domesticating now?

[chemie]

3 minutes ago, TheExceed said:

I mean are they even worth domesticating now?

Were they before?would be nice early game for plants but by time you have plastic, your lights and heat management are set up so why bother.

[TheExceed]

Just now, chemie said:

Were they before?

No, since phosp. was limited.. it wasn't really worth it, they didn't do much.

[chemie]

3 minutes ago, TheExceed said:

No, since phosp. was limited.. it wasn't really worth it, they didn't do much.

I would use different reasons.  I have never run out if phosp.

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

8 minutes ago, TheExceed said:

No, since phosp. was limited.. it wasn't really worth it, they didn't do much.

You could feed them with other food, though Placid Shine Bug only eat Phosphorite, and Crystal Shine Bug only eat diamond.

[TheExceed]

Just now, R9MX4 said:

You could feed them with other food, though Placid Shine Bug only eat Phosphorite, and Crystal Shine Bug only eat diamond.

 

I hope they give a real benefit, especially with the diamond cost... I wish they made a hatch that eats coal and makes diamond

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

1 minute ago, TheExceed said:

 

I hope they give a real benefit, especially with the diamond cost... I wish they made a hatch that eats coal and makes diamond

Yes. +200 Decor looks like amazing, but it's not worthy to cost my limited diamond.

[TheExceed]

41 minutes ago, R9MX4 said:

Yes. +200 Decor looks like amazing, but it's not worthy to cost my limited diamond.

Exactly, all my diamond goes to tempshift usually. Even then I don't have enough. Either have a hatch make diamonds or putting coal in lava makes diamonds.

[goboking]

It sounds like I'm not the only one who finds these new critter variants superfluous.  A hatch that produces refined metal when we already have rock granulators, metal refineries, and molten metal volcanoes that do the same just strikes me as a strange use of developer resources.

[SkunkMaster]

1 hour ago, chemie said:

Sage hatch would be nice for coal early game. But statistically I need to hatch 50 to get first one.  By the time that happens, I am off coal anyway.  The number of cycles needed to get a morph means they are late game toys at best.  You already have to have your designs in place for everything they bring late to the party.

Metal tiles would seem to be better for decor solution.  Why do I need decor in greenhouses?

How about metal tiles + longhairs ? 

Also they consume oxygen, something that seems to be too much of late game, at least that seems to happen to me every time i cross the 500 cycle marker. - But maybe with the dense puflets and somewhat cheap storing options they bring, just using said oxygen might not be of interest.

 

But then again, adding variance so that you can play more in line of what you want to do, instead of just what you can do, seems good in my eyes.