Biodiversity - Expanding upon LC's fauna and their relationship with their habitats.

[fathom spire]

CONGRATS ON 70 REACTIONS GRAAAAAAAAAAAH

[dawn flicker]

I have to do it…

Back to 69 lets go!

[fossil wraith]

nah

[fathom spire]

HATE BOTH OF YOU

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/540392678802587675/1217030454129983508/GIRaM-TXUAAsUac.gif

[tawny herald]

69 now

[dawn flicker]

NICE

Dont let it change!

Also brick the post 🧱

[fallow nest]

The funny number is no more

[grizzled belfry]

it is now 🙂

[worldly robin]

hehehe

70

[trail cypress]

@sage mauve please restore the 69

[sage mauve]

I'm not much for those jokes, so, you'll have to ask someone else. XD

[trail cypress]

D:

wesley ;-;

[worldly robin]

wasn't me this time

[next solar]

73 now your out of power

[dawn flicker]

NOOO

this is unrecoverable 😢

[fallow dock]

Now we must get another reaction to 69

[trail cypress]

ok we going for 420 this time

[fathom spire]

WHAT THE FUCK

75????

[fathom spire]

ok whoevers making alt accounts I SEE YOU.

76

[dull needle]

lol

you guys dont happen to have concept art for a random enemy that you don't plan on making?

very simple one

@fathom spire

[tight moat]

what did you need

[dull needle]

just anything basic

oh wait i have the perfect idea

i forgot i have literally tens of enemy drawings that are perfect

[fathom spire]

uuuh

i usually design concept art for enemies we're making ONLY lmao

[dull needle]

dont worry about it, i found tons of art lol

[tight moat]

I have enemy art I'm not using!

[fathom spire]

there's one that's in the backlog that people didn't seem to like/didn't seem very interesting

which was a bracke one

[dull needle]

which enemy? 🤔

[fathom spire]

i could send that one

[tight moat]

and it would be a PERFECT variant for the new tulip snakes

[fathom spire]

oh oki oki!

[dull needle]

im not making a flying enemy anytime soon

im trying to be very simple cuz this is for a tutorial

[tight moat]

then you're FUCKED, BUCKO

[dull needle]

:c

[tight moat]

because ALL I HAVE is a flying enemy

[fathom spire]

ahhh makes sense

that'll be useful for one of our coders heheh

[dull needle]

you have a coder that doesn't know how to code?

[tight moat]

coder in training

[fathom spire]

we have a coder that hasn't worked on a letcom mod, but they have modding experience

an entity tutorial should help them out a ton 👍

[dull needle]

lol, i guess so

[fathom spire]

if that's what you're making

ok idk what's happening but the react count keeps rising by like 4 every hour it's scary

[dull needle]

oh hey, im the 10,000's message here, hehe

[fathom spire]

YOOO

[fathom spire]

to congratulate this event i will now delete the thread

[dull needle]

pog

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/umbrella-academy-vanya-destroying-the-moon-laser-beam-moon-destroyed-gif-26550290

[next solar]

Y’all got some writers I could steal borrow for a small project?

Just need lore for 2 simple enemies

And I know y’all got a lot of them

[fathom spire]

well @cobalt turret's a great writer!

goes ham a lot but it's useful lmao

[dull needle]

masa is probably the best writer i know here

[dawn flicker]

Also @cinder arrow makes great ideas 🙄

Tho shes not part of BioD 😅

[cinder arrow]

Sadly

[fathom spire]

I'm also a writer technically teeheehee

[sage mauve]

Let's hire Basil, I'll pay him his salary, it will be €0 and for every new idea I will increase his salary by 1000%.

[cinder arrow]

I’m in for free

[fathom spire]

though I tend to be more simplistic and go for a smaller scale, which tends to clash with Masa's huge scale

[fathom spire]

What do you think I am, the national bank?? I don't have that kinda money, pal.

[dawn flicker]

I’ll also pay 0*1000 for her

Or him idk lol

[fathom spire]

they use any pronouns hehe

[sage mauve]

I will pay her with Monopoly money.

[cinder arrow]

I’ll take it

[fathom spire]

hooly fuck this guy's loaded.

[cinder arrow]

I go by Delta/Airlines

✈️

[dawn flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/airplane-dancing-dance-dance-moves-dancing-airplane-gif-18115923

[cinder arrow]

How you get a video of me

[sage mauve]

New variant?!

[cinder arrow]

Manticoil variant

[dawn flicker]

Alli - Manticoil Variant

• Airplane
• can flap wings
• noice

[dull needle]

i could always use an extra hand stealing people from biodiversity into my mod :3

[pure ridge]

ok but genuinely, manticoils are the funniest creatures in the game

[dawn flicker]

No probs we just steal them back

Xu be careful we might steal you too 🫣

[dull needle]

its okay i make them love my working environments more 🩷

[pure ridge]

i dont think i have ever seen a manticoil actually fly

[dull needle]

i wish i could tell you that that's possible 😂

[next solar]

To specify it would be like 2 logs doesn’t have to be complex (but is fine if it is)

[cinder arrow]

I’ve seen them get stuck in the air

[pure ridge]

they just kinda, slide in the ground

and into walls

and it's hilarious

[cinder arrow]

I am curious what these simple enemies are?

[next solar]

https://discord.com/channels/1168655651455639582/1225191232817594428

[cinder arrow]

So all you want is a little log on the little guy?

I wanna give it a shot but I can’t promise it will be good since- I haven’t made a lot of logs

[dull needle]

damn just realised i got aired

[next solar]

On both of em yea

[cinder arrow]

Let me see what I can do, if I could?

[next solar]

It doesn’t have to be perfect so don’t worry lol

Lmk if you need any other info other than it’s functions and looks

It’s functions got a tiny bit changed from the post but not that it should matter

[cinder arrow]

I’ll probably need a few little details about it, but nothing much considering it’s a small little robot that cleans stuff

Cleaner I’m doing first

[next solar]

My idea for the lore was that the Tzp chemicals it dispenses were used to rid the facility from bugs as it would make them so high they would just die

It’s current functions is that it just floats around slowly depending tzp chemicals

I don’t really have much else because like you said it’s fairly simple and I’m also not too familiar with the games lore

[cinder arrow]

So it’s a little exterminator?

Trying to clean the facility or any area as best as it can?

Love it

[next solar]

Yes idk if cleaner was the best name

[cinder arrow]

No no it’s short and simple

[next solar]

Fair

[cinder arrow]

It’s not a powerful robot like a old bird

It’s small guy just doing his job

[next solar]

Ingame it’s pretty small yea

[cinder arrow]

Do we wanna move these messages here or do Bio crew not care?

[next solar]

Should we move over to the other thread

LMAO

jinx

[cinder arrow]

WOW

THAT-

OKAY

let’s just move so we don’t clutter it with something not related

[sage mauve]

I thought it was going to be a collaboration. (?

BIODIVERSITY X MOONSWEPT ENEMIES

[cinder arrow]

I’m just following along blindly

[dull needle]

following along while also being the number 1 xu hater 😔

[cinder arrow]

Gasp I am not😱

[dull needle]

blindly ignoring me, sounds like pure hate and malice

[sage mauve]

Yeah, suspicious.

[cinder arrow]

I apologize

What was it you asked?

[dull needle]

nothing too important :3

[cinder arrow]

You want me to kidnap people?

Alright:3

🔫👝

Everyone in the bag

[dull needle]

nono, kidnapping you

[cinder arrow]

Oh

Then I’m getting in the bag

[dull needle]

yeah imma need you to get into the b ag

great

[cinder arrow]

-gets in bag and zips it up-

[dull needle]

i'd poke a hole so you dont run out of air atleast

[fathom spire]

how DARE you steal people I've considered to add to my team but never decided on doing so!!

you THIEF!!!

[dull needle]

smh

ofc you never took proper care of these people

i am fr stealing them though :p

[fathom spire]

those are MY possible team members to sit on and do NOTHING with

oh yeah that's fine LMAO

[dull needle]

lol

@cinder arrow i forgot you have rights, are you fine with being stolen?

[cinder arrow]

-muffled agreement-

[dull needle]

i need someone to help either write the mod's wiki or write a better bestiary (and other things though idk what you wanna do)

perfect

ill be in #1208964227835109407

[cinder arrow]

can’t do much except write a bit-

[fathom spire]

you write good stuff though

[cinder arrow]

Good to know someone from one of my favorite WIP mods thinks that

Anyways back to being kidnapped

[sage mauve]

You just have to steal the creator of the giants and that's it.

You would already have someone to create variants of giants in Biodiversity.

Sorry, I'm really bored and I'm keeping an eye on my phone in case Batby gets up at 3 am and says "okay, now's a good time to update LLL."

[dull needle]

lol

[dull needle]

why wont you let me steal you too 😔

[sage mauve]

I'm sorry, I was already kidnapped by my girlfriend.

[dull needle]

not romantically !

unless monty is your girlfriend

[sage mauve]

I have a contract at Biodiversity in which they don't know that they are going to pay me a million dollars.

[next solar]

I just asked if anybody here wanted to write some lore for my mod because I knew there were a lot of lorers here

[dull needle]

then thats quite the revelation

[sage mauve]

No. 😂

Monty doesn't know that he signed a million-dollar contract with me.

[sage mauve]

Yeah, it's understandable, very good writers here.

Btw, when you make the Giant Cactus, maybe I can help you with the sounds.

[dull needle]

ah that'll be ages from now prolly

[sage mauve]

Or not.

Maybe within 6 months. (?)

[dull needle]

okay not that long lol

i wanna make a moon and other stuff first, but it wont take me 6 months

[fathom spire]

no we are sworn enemies and are constantly at eachothers throats

[dull needle]

yeah couldnt you tell?

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/fnb-get-this-man-a-true-gif-25257480

(not true )

[sage mauve]

I'll have to use the Nutcracker shotgun, there's no other way...

[plain abyss]

Is this still just a concept? Or has any other mod been released besides TheGiantSpecimens?

Really nice mod idea btw.

[sage mauve]

We have a team working on making the mod a reality.

[fathom spire]

giant specimens is a separate thing from this

but a mod is being worked on for biodiversity :]

[dull needle]

its only a concept, im the only real hard worker in this community it seems

🤭

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cam-cat-glare-stupid-idiot-gif-12343508348826719727

get out of my thread GRAAAH

[plain abyss]

Oh, that's great!

[fathom spire]

don't make me bust out the raptor gif

[dull needle]

hey im pretty sure i was one of the first messages in this thread

[fathom spire]

nah spinmaster was

[sage mauve]

Hi, my name is Lydion Caballero de la Luna, I'm one of Biodiversity's sound designers, I like to get up at 6:15 to go to work...Lie, I hate getting up so early, even though I like my job. 😩😩

[fathom spire]

and then lunar

[plain abyss]

Your mod is very cool, I saw a red giant eating several Old birds haha, goated mod

[dull needle]

tyty

[fathom spire]

and then heckor and then popcat and then shep and then adri and then masa

[fathom spire]

i did ask you to pin the description lmao

[dull needle]

yeah i just scrolled up lol

i did see it when it was first made, but i think i thought the bracken just looked meh and never chatted in it

[fathom spire]

Mr. Caballero de la Luna get back to Ogopogo's sound effects this instant or you're FIRED

(kidding)

[dull needle]

he fired you

you heard it

[fathom spire]

teehee

[dull needle]

chop chop lydion caballero de la luna i need sounds

[fathom spire]

you ain't dogging on my own ideas so that's a win for me >:)))

[plain abyss]

I wish you the best and hope this concept becomes a reality! Lc urgently needs more biodiversity.

[dull needle]

the bracken was tlike the first post, how is it not your idea

[fathom spire]

nope

the bracken was like, the 8th or 9th idea dropped in here

[sage mauve]

It's time to be a resentful ex-worker and leak all my work from Ogopogo.

[fathom spire]

the first three were hoarding bugs, then there were two worms

[dull needle]

nuhuh

[fathom spire]

you can edit descriptions lmao

[dull needle]

though i noticed you removed a bunch of pictures

i remember there being a lot more concept

[sage mauve]

Damn, how quickly you hired me.

[dull needle]

art

[dull needle]

i tried hiring u like 2 weeks ago 😔

[fathom spire]

i put it all into the docs, so it doesn't show in the preview

[dull needle]

well you cant "add" images (you can but its weird)

[fathom spire]

i just copy pasted the image link lmao

[sage mauve]

Is there still no one helping you with the sounds?

[fathom spire]

the aloe makes for a pretty good thumbnail

though i do agree the design is.. meh

[dull needle]

pixel and moroxide busy, idk where spinmaster went, i think @dawn flicker is, but not 100% sure

[fathom spire]

spinmaster was working on his yt channel i think

[dull needle]

that makes sense, better to work on yourself imo

[fathom spire]

but yeah he's also been innactive in biod discord for 2 weeks now

[fathom spire]

yep!

[sage mauve]

Well, when I finish helping with the sounds of the Ogopogo and the Aloe Bracken, I can help you with the sounds of the giant.

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/hostage-gif-19959275

you sure bout that Mr. Caballero de la Luna?

[dull needle]

:3c (how long do you think that might take)

[fathom spire]

||(i'm only kidding)||

[sage mauve]

Yes, I am immune to bullets, I grew up in a Latin American neighborhood.

[dull needle]

wait, i've got it!

[fathom spire]

i mean i just gotta give him the list of sfx needed for the aloe, he's pretty much done with the ogopogo's barring a few slight changes to the sfx i think

[sage mauve]

Ehh, this week I finish the Ogopogo, I don't know how long it will take with the Aloe Bracken, it depends on my inspiration.

[dull needle]

all i gotta do is add an easter egg onto the giant so that lydion's girlfriend sees it and persuades him to work on the giant instead

https://tenor.com/view/anime-girl-cute-kawaii-smirk-gif-17420392

[fathom spire]

the aloe's sfx are also very derivative of the bracken's, so it shouldn't be thathard

[sage mauve]

I don't trust that anymore.

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/vegeta-anger-rage-angry-nooo-gif-17214690

YOU CRACKED THE CODE, NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[sage mauve]

I thought the Ogopogo was going to be easier than the Honey Feeder, but the Ogopogo stressed me out more. 😩

[fathom spire]

its sounds are a lot more alien than the feeder's yeah asdfjosd

sorry about that 😅

[sage mauve]

Don't worry. 😂

[fathom spire]

speaking of which, lemme look over your most recent ones

[sage mauve]

Nah, no need, she finds out like an hour later that I'm on 30 projects at once and I need her to evaluate the sounds I make.

[dull needle]

😔

clearly you dont love your gf enough to ask for an easter egg, very clearly mhm

(/j)

[sage mauve]

It's time to be offended like never before in my life.

[dull needle]

you sure i cant bribe you?

[sage mauve]

Nah.

I like to be organized.

[dull needle]

your loss smh

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-bocchi-the-rock-anime-anime-girl-confused-anime-gif-18405578282768190353

[sage mauve]

Btw, if S1ckboy helps you before me, I prefer that he help you, in any case if he confirms 100% that he will help you, also more of the same, that he helps you. XD

If for some reason he can't help you, I will help you with the sounds.

When I'm done with the sounds of Aloe Bracken, ah.

[cobalt turret]

Ayo! Didn't expect the compliment train

[dawn flicker]

About that I will make up my mind on this week. Cuz i got some irl stuff and also my menus want attention so I gotta see it clearly what im dealing with

I mean with the other stuff. For Xu i know

[cobalt turret]

If there's options, Masa will propose them 😩

[frigid hound]

Do we have footage of any of the entities this mod adds?

[fathom spire]

If I sent any it'd be of them like, t-posing or of a white cube roaming around mostly

none of the entities are finalized but coding is being done for three separate ones at the moment, with all of them close to being finalized

• all their animations are missing currently, we're still finishing up the rigs on some models :]

[sage mauve]

I can pass an audio as a spoiler. (?)

[fathom spire]

i was gonna heheheheh

not gonna put in the name though

[sage mauve]

Oki doki.

[fathom spire]

sfx teaser by big man lydion

sfx teaser by ill "s1ckboy" chap

[rose pecan]

woahhhh

[dull needle]

Second one sounds quite muffled

First one drooped a house on my ears

[dawn flicker]

Bro leaks stuff like crazy

[fathom spire]

whistles without a worry

nothing to see here folks nyehee

[dawn flicker]

The sounds will be tested once the entities are in game and if theres something we find odd, we will adjust them

[fathom spire]

yep!

[frigid hound]

Do I need to feel bad If I saw for who the sound is lol?

[fathom spire]

yes, you should feel disappointed in yourself.

(kidding)

nah I know most people nowadays have that one extension that lets you see deleted messages

[dawn flicker]

Its alright, you didnt actually see how he looks like 🫣

||looks amazing||

[fathom spire]

You know the original concept art you posted for him is still here right

and my finalized design

||i know you mean the model though heheeheh||

[dawn flicker]

True but thats different than an actual model

._.

[fathom spire]

||i know I'm just messing around||

[fathom spire]

it does >:J

[dull needle]

Tf is a >:J

[dawn flicker]

:J

[fathom spire]

😼

confident smirk

[dull needle]

You should lose confidence after using thatnI'm ngl

[fathom spire]

I'm sorry that my raw swag was too much for you

[still cloud]

idea: butlers attack spiders

cause butler wants the place clean

and and spiders are spiders, perhaps scaring spiders away, and cleaning their webs would be cool

[fathom spire]

sounds interesting! not much of a biod feature since we don't usually modify base enemy behaviors, but it sounds like a good mod-ideas submition

[cinder arrow]

So I had an idea for a thumper variant that needs a lot of work, but I think it could be cool

[drifting valve]

:3

[dull needle]

Its ok ur a cute femboy

[drifting valve]

https://tenor.com/view/headpats-anime-cat-girl-beeg-pats-shake-pats-gif-7464612627661142514

[cobalt turret]

That does sound like a fitting combo for the Butler yeah! Maybe you could ask Chaos Integrity for that though 👀 They'd be more in the theme for that kind of adaptation. We here in BioDiversity solely focus on making new enemies that are 'subspecies' to vanilla enemies. So imagine a Lootbug, but now its yellow and it uhhh... steals your thunder instead of your loot!

Quite like how tarantulas and black widows exist, that's what our general direction is!

Did Masa explain it well enough

Oh, the enemies are not just recolors btw, we do have a team of awesome modelers and animators working on giving them their own unique model altogether!

[dull needle]

Prove it

[cobalt turret]

https://tenor.com/view/nuh-uh-beocord-no-lol-gif-24435520

[drifting valve]

youve litterally seen the clip of the default cube grabbing a hive

[cobalt turret]

The cube strikes again

[woven snow]

no me quiero ir señor stark

[dull needle]

Thats what the modellers made? Daym

Amazing animations

[drifting valve]

https://tenor.com/view/capybara-gif-10487976503085012594

i guess i didnt read that masa was talking about models 💀

[hushed basalt]

[fathom spire]

what the FUCK

[drifting valve]

:3

[dull needle]

what its true

[cobalt turret]

LOL, silly goofy moment

[cobalt turret]

Local criminal preparing the 'she-blaster' once again to equalize the diversity in biodiversity

[fathom spire]

not saying it isn't but why would that disallow me from using ">:J"

it's a cruel world out here...

[dull needle]

Cuz bongos a cute femboy

[fathom spire]

HOW IS >:J A FEMBOY THING

https://tenor.com/view/vegeta-fortnite-scream-fortnite-dance-gif-4795167745947838865

[next solar]

What even does it mean jt just looks like a fucked up face

[fathom spire]

it's a smirk ;-;

like this cat emoji but not a car 😼

[dull needle]

I didnt say it was a femboy thint

Thing*

I'm just biased to femboys

:p

[fathom spire]

My raw swag continues to be too powerful for the common folk to comprehend.

[dull needle]

They're cute you're not

Pronably

[fathom spire]

I can't confirm nor deny that

[fathom spire]

:J

[cobalt turret]

This conversation is giving Masa a new idea for a ||Butler|| variant!

[fathom spire]

??? what. how

your brain works in the strangest of ways maser

[cobalt turret]

Oh poor oblivious Monty..

https://tenor.com/view/loufy42-light-yagami-death-note-gif-15248803

[tight moat]

Maid 👀

[fathom spire]

death

[woven snow]

the end of the world is starting to become a possibility

[tawny herald]

we hit 80 reactions!

don’t worry we’re all working hard on this project for you all, I can’t wait for you all to see it!

[fathom spire]

fr fr 🔥

congrats on 80 reacts jfc

[dull needle]

I dont believe it

People working hard on this mod

You're gonna have to show some empirical proof

[sage mauve]

Aloe Bracken spoiler.

[tight moat]

butt should be bigger smg

[dull needle]

Damn you're on call with the gf instead of working for biodiversity, they might punish you for that yknow? I heard they're cruel and have bad working conditions

[sage mauve]

Today is my day off.

Ogopogo has a lot of headaches.

[dull needle]

Lol

[dawn flicker]

AMEN!

[fathom spire]

death.

[dawn flicker]

ThiccCompany wants to know your location

[fathom spire]

erhmm when's next giant releasing 😛

[fathom spire]

Death.

[dawn flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-vmb-dit-o-brick-shot-gif-18356367

[sacred ferry]

Thank you for your feedback! I will forward this to the Biodiversity team as soon as possible.

[dull needle]

Now if I wanted to :p

Along with 3 more enemies I have just lying around for no reason, plus like a bunch of scrap I've been holding onto, maybe also a few other mods I've been doing on the side as well

Teams be slow, solo best

[dawn flicker]

Xu is a beast

[fathom spire]

nininini

[dawn flicker]

You gon see soon why it takes time for us :p

[fathom spire]

whatever you say xu midlan

biopeak is better ...

[dawn flicker]

We gonna explode the server once BioD drops 🔥

[fathom spire]

||watch the mod suck absolute ass||

[dull needle]

|| I wouldn't be surprised, do you know how popular enemy mods are? They really aren't ||

[fathom spire]

I'm looking forward to the new giant though :3 first one was a lot of fun

[dull needle]

I'm looking forward to it too

I made it for vr users

This one

[fathom spire]

omg HOLY SHIT I GOTTA GET MY VR BUDDY TO PLAY AGAINST IT

AGHH YOU'RE A GENIUS

Ogopogo's also a fun one for vr users :]

[dull needle]

Lol

I am a little worried that it's actually harmful to vr users

Might make it a setting to heavily tone down the throwing for them

[dawn flicker]

Yeah they re going to fly from vox to march with that

[fathom spire]

it'll be like one of those vr rollercoasters

so yeah you should def make a config for that

[fossil wraith]

is that the real algoe brockan

[fathom spire]

though most people with a fear of heights/vertigo arent really the type to own a vr headset lmao

better safe than sorry

[woven snow]

Aloe vera

[next solar]

https://tenor.com/view/bartek-gif-3574622

You want to release the giant

You want to release the giant

https://tenor.com/view/moving-spiral-weaving-pattern-optical-illusion-gif-17167631

[sacred ferry]

NOW NOW I WANT IT NOW! throws self on floor flailing around sobbing crying sucking on binky

[dull needle]

imma need an incentive 🤭

[sacred ferry]

cc c c cus i want it and a a and 🥺

[next solar]

Umm it goes insanely hard and you can use placeholder sfx

[dull needle]

i dont have any placeholder sfx lol

im busy with other stuff so cant look anytime soon

[next solar]

I mean like something free online from like freesound.org or some thing

[dull needle]

yeah ik, dont got the time to look for em

cuz then i'd have to make sure its a good enough sound by some low standard, then read up on the license for each sound i use, make sure I follow what it says exactly, maybe edit the length of the audio etc etc

[next solar]

I could do that mayb

[fathom spire]

urhmm

if you release the next one within the next 4 hours i'll hand you my whole team

harharhar

[dull needle]

imma need that as a legally binding document first

coward

[next solar]

if you release it ill release my enemy mod

[dull needle]

i know damn well yours aint ready anytime soon

[next solar]

realistically it could release tmr

[dull needle]

do you have code for it ready?

[next solar]

yea everything is mostly done

[dull needle]

oh nice, thats good news

[fathom spire]

i don't see no driftwood in my giant specimens

no giant no deal ms

[fathom spire]

oo

looking forward to it

[dull needle]

its right there

u just gotta download it yerself

[next solar]

no promises but there may be more coming in the future beyond the 2 it releases with

[fathom spire]

zzzz

booooriiing

[next solar]

man its actually crazy between biodiversity, moonswept, whatever xu is cooking up and Aubarino

we eaten good tonight for enemy variety

[dull needle]

is this the part where i ask what moonswept is

[fathom spire]

here's a little guy for you

[next solar]

https://discord.com/channels/1168655651455639582/1225191232817594428

[next solar]

ok but what if I just step on it

[dull needle]

ah i just didnt remember the names

[next solar]

the dementia

[fathom spire]

i did the textures you can't say i'm not a dev anymore

huehuehue

[dull needle]

you raise a good point

[fathom spire]

i'll cry .

[dull needle]

thats not what a dev does sadly

[fathom spire]

shhhh

[sacred ferry]

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fathom spire]

can't hear you over my epic devving

[dull needle]

but those are really good textures

[next solar]

leaf.png

[dull needle]

how'd you get it to blend well?

[fathom spire]

i just edited a leaf png to fit the model and then added more veins to it

[dull needle]

oh

lame

see i made my own textures

[fathom spire]

I grabbed the water colors tool on firealpaca and an airbrush

then did some color tweaking

[dull needle]

ehh ig thats good enough

[fathom spire]

for the blending i used a mix of those two aswell

[fathom spire]

see what i'm doing is more faithful to the real game

🤫 🧏

which means i am the SUPERIOR texture guy

[sacred ferry]

idk if we got anyone on the team who would be able to make like a material for smthn completely from scratch lol

[fathom spire]

everything is lame when you explain the process LMAO

[dull needle]

atleast my process is cool

[dull needle]

its not too too difficult

[next solar]

my textures are flat 😼

[dull needle]

im surprised theres no one

[fathom spire]

atleast my textures look better

[dull needle]

not true :p

[fathom spire]

||i'm sorry i feel like we're doing this bit now but i don't wanna be mean so i'm sorry if i come off like that||

[fathom spire]

sucks to not recognize TRUE artistic talent i guess.. le sigh

[sacred ferry]

i mean ive made my own textures for the aloe bracken though the main actual textures like a low opacity texture of an aloe ontop of a solid color lol

[fathom spire]

no but yeah my process isn't interesting at all :P

[sacred ferry]

the aloes on her are literally just a cropped png of a aloe lol

[dull needle]

its all good lol

just unfortunate that you'll have to give me your team now

driftwood has been uploaded

:3

[sacred ferry]

actual texture file

[fathom spire]

ah, sorry

no legal documents

sucks to suck xu!

[next solar]

check out my artistic talent....

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/dsaf-gif-4080593371597905067

[dull needle]

https://tenor.com/view/memes-anime-memes-bungo-stray-dogs-bungou-stray-dogs-bungou-stray-dogs-memes-gif-25502103

oh well, i didnt upload anyway

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/red-vs-blue-rvb-watch-yo-tone-mf-gif-1940110451738656410

[sacred ferry]

Yaaayy! claps hands and giggles like a baby

[dull needle]

sorry to unclap your hand and unggigle you

[next solar]

nuh uh your being gasliot

[sacred ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/cry-baby-crying-tantrums-gif-14154759

[fathom spire]

stop bullying my modelling man guys pls i can't work with him if he's throwing a fit

https://tenor.com/view/boykisser-brick-throw-kiss-boys-gif-11348714524182573531

[sacred ferry]

models all GONE.... compuer files RUINED by my TEARS.... </3 hoep yuore HAPPY........

[next solar]

3d modeling is easy though... see watch this gif

https://tenor.com/view/modeling-is-easy-3d-modeling-easy-car-model-blender-gif-25118382

[fathom spire]

holy fuck....

default cube..

https://tenor.com/view/default-cube-my-beloved-my-beloved-gif-5698994885147911543

[sacred ferry]

they turned honey feeder into car...

[next solar]

LMFAO

[fathom spire]

I WAS ABOUT T AYT THT

FUCK

[sacred ferry]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1157102974653435915.webp?size=64

[dull needle]

tell your modeller he needs t ooswitch sides

[next solar]

the honey feeder

[fathom spire]

only if you get spinmaster to come back

[fathom spire]

omg that's them... omg.,

[dull needle]

ya gotta stop making empty promises, they'll catch up to you eventually :p

[dull needle]

thats my favourite enemy this mod has shown so far

[fathom spire]

that just means i won't follow up on them

heheheh

[sacred ferry]

im not necessarily opposed to working for giant mod as well however i am not confident enough with my like modeling abilities to work on such a like more popular mod LOL

[dull needle]

eh the giant mod aint that popular

plus im sure you'd do better than me

i have 0 blender experience

the giants are the first and only things i've ever modelled

[next solar]

is it the current model

[dull needle]

ye

[next solar]

or was it changed

damn

[dull needle]

never changed

[next solar]

thats pretty good ngl

[sacred ferry]

o lol

[fathom spire]

honestly it ain't bad

you did have a good reference to go along w it but it's pretty good

[next solar]

I have yet to attempt character modeling because scary flabbergasted

[fathom spire]

i have yet to touch a 3d software ever since i had to sit through 30 minutes of a blender course

[fathom spire]

i'm sure you'd do good

[next solar]

all ive done so far is object modeling and im alright at it but I feel i should be better with how much time ive put into the stupid software

[sacred ferry]

then maybe.. but i have likepretty bad adhd so 90% of the time itd have to be my idea to start working n stuff on a model LOL

i was like on one" mod team" (was just me and this director) before biodiv for a diff game (friday night funkin................</3) and like i felt really bad during it cus they had to remind me all of the time to work on it but i couldnt cus i simply wasnt in the mood

[fathom spire]

that's flattering considering you finished lock dagger in a day lmao

[next solar]

oh thats very much me with blender I have to like be in the mood idk how to explain it

[fathom spire]

i feel you tho fr,,,

[sacred ferry]

and also cus of that the like art i did make for it wasnt exactly what id think of my best work lol

[next solar]

and i havent been in the mood alot recently

[fathom spire]

when you make smth out of necessity it tends to be a lot worse than when you make something out of passion

[sacred ferry]

was just one of those moods where i had to create something LOL

[fathom spire]

that's just normal in art

[sacred ferry]

yeah true lol

[next solar]

im also like really dumb and I will nitpick and get stuck on a specifc part of a model for like half the time

when its such a small detail

I think one of the reasons ive stoped modeling so much is because i dont like most things I make
the artist grindset fr

[sacred ferry]

actualy that brings me to another thing ive been meaning to say this but monty im glad ur so like patient and nice n stuff lol ik thats like prolly the minimum if someones gonna be a director for a big thing like this but still ur so cool... .. ..

[sacred ferry]

so true

[next solar]

I used to not care too much about quality but now I do because I have a good amount of hours I "should" be good or something
idk the voices

[fathom spire]

on god thoughh,,,

[fathom spire]

i thought i was really overbearing and annoying ;w;

i'm glad i'm not

[next solar]

artists no self hate challenge

[sacred ferry]

u are NOT!!!! 😡

[next solar]

impossible

[fathom spire]

i think you're cool too hambo

[sacred ferry]

yaaayy

i definitely dont see u as like overbearing or anything like whenever u suggest changes to stuff i instead see it as like u being dedicated n stuff like wanting it all to be just right yk lol

[still cloud]

tulip snake

make ideas

[fathom spire]

i mean you shouldn't feel obligated to "be good" at something, you should most definitely focus on it being more fun than anything, but that's just my advice

it's definitely not the best advice for a good workflow but it's what's worked best for me when it comes to maintaining my love for the craft n shit

[next solar]

nuh uh artist grindset constant self hate to the point where it went from being enjoyable you just dont wana open the software most of the time

[fathom spire]

[next solar]

I do enjoy blender sometimes and want to all the time but john brain turned to mush and doesnt care

[fathom spire]

take a break bestie!!

[dull needle]

i was told monty was overbearing, impatient, and other bad adjectives to workers

[fathom spire]

kill john brain

[next solar]

i havent really done much for the past few months

[fathom spire]

i fucking HATE my team

i HARASS THEM and PICK on them CONSTANTLY

[next solar]

accidental vent in random mod ideas thread true

[dull needle]

even better

[fathom spire]

pin it

no balls

[dull needle]

do i look like mod to you

you can pin it

[fathom spire]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/540392678802587675/1217030454129983508/GIRaM-TXUAAsUac.gif

[sacred ferry]

its all TRUE we are starting a union.... . ..

[fathom spire]

no i cannot

[still cloud]

yes

[dull needle]

you can

[fathom spire]

no i cannot

[dull needle]

have you tried?

[dull needle]

so you havent tried

[fathom spire]

do you think i'm that lazy where i would not do a single click

[dull needle]

do /pin

yeah actually

i think you are

[fathom spire]

wh

[still cloud]

oh shoot

fight

[fathom spire]

since when can you ping thru command

[still cloud]

fight

[dull needle]

a week or two

[still cloud]

fight!

[fathom spire]

weehmm thats not a click that's TYPING actually

so wrong!!!!

[dull needle]

you type a bit and click once

[fathom spire]

ah ok! thanks for telling me

[fathom spire]

lalalalala i can't hear you i can't hear you

[dull needle]

smh

[fathom spire]

me when i just noticed xu's not a mod anymore

[dull needle]

i quit a while ago

[fathom spire]

yeah i noticed your color changed

but i thought it was just another role being ontop of that

brainless

[still cloud]

let me guess, wanted to focus on become a true sigma alpha

[dull needle]

or wanted to spend my time on something more useful

[cinder arrow]

So, close to the same thing

[fathom spire]

ok i can't get the pins bot to work whatever

[next solar]

L

[fathom spire]

i am not of enough brain capacity man leave me OIASDJOAS

[next solar]

laugh at this user

[cinder arrow]

Anyways I’m bored so I’m gonna make random logs even though logs have already been done
And ima share it wether you want it or not

[fathom spire]

nope, no logs have been done heheh

cuz we're working on something special for them

[cinder arrow]

Idc im bored and ima make my own, just cuz

I need to improve my writing skills anyways

[fathom spire]

go for it!

[cinder arrow]

Or I can make random entity entries

Actually

I’ll do that

So I have freedom

[cinder arrow]

He gon

[sacred ferry]

he leafed 🍃

[surreal harness]

Do you guys have a Butler variant yet? It's annoying that they're sorta just interior baboon hawks, so I'll be looking forward to how you all transform them.

[dull needle]

That's kinda what all interior and exterior enemies are

Different versions of eachother

[dawn flicker]

oh boi do we have some concepts!

[dull needle]

Bracken and worm, dog and thumper(ish), baboon hawk and yippee

Though it might be bracken and dog

[dawn flicker]

each are a bit unique but there are defo similarities between them

[dull needle]

Anyway yeah the game likes flipping mechanics a bit in-between interior and exterior

[dawn flicker]

and then theres the mask lmao

[hearty eagle]

Eh where are the docs I wanna read up the variants and shit

[dawn flicker]

i dont think we are releasin more docs since we are getting super close to beta :3

@fathom spire will decide tho 🙄

[dull needle]

Gatekeeping 😔

[dawn flicker]

also some of the concepts go crazy in its commentsection

[sage mauve]

I love that we actually have a lot of progress, but in each team of each variant something is always missing. 😂

[dawn flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/bricked-minority-dumb-loser-gif-21289864

[dull needle]

How many people are in that server lmao

[dawn flicker]

after this

[dawn flicker]

18 👀

[dull needle]

Ah not that much then

Just pretty active

[surreal harness]

I mean there's some similarities between interior and exterior enemies, but the mechanical gimmick varies between them pretty well. Before those the closest comparison was yippees and bees for their guarding Loot behavior

[dawn flicker]

yeah

[dull needle]

Yippees and baboon hawks almost mimick eachother in guarding loot tho 😭

[surreal harness]

Nesting yeah true

[worldly robin]

Baboon hawks are just bigger yippees

[dawn flicker]

we also strive for uniqueness but still representing the variants having original features for them clearly

[dull needle]

Exactly

[dawn flicker]

and more annoying

[dull needle]

Baboon hawks needed that recent nerf tbh

[surreal harness]

I think the reason I've kept them distinct mentally is because yippees are very iconic and stick out for that reason, while hawks are the most complex enemy in the game beyond just nesting

But looking back I do see it now. I'd still like to not see overlap when possible though

[dull needle]

Overlap between original and variant 👍, overlap between different enemies 👎 ehhh

[dawn flicker]

most vanilla enitities have very simple mechs to them - i think the old bird and the butlers have a bit more complex mechs to them 🤔 tho it might be just because of them being new

[dawn flicker]

you can judge once its out 😛

[surreal harness]

Butler's core distinction is spawning bees when dying more or less

[dull needle]

I didnt judge anything lmao, replying to the other guy

[surreal harness]

Agreed

[dawn flicker]

oh thought you were talking if biod goes in a direction you would like or dislike

[surreal harness]

Nah biod is cool

[dull needle]

What if biod is already in a direction I dislike

It's totally not like I made a similar concept mod

[sage mauve]

And more aggressive. 😂

Although I like them, they are cute.

They are funny.

[dull needle]

Wesley when are we making moondiversity 😔

[worldly robin]

To me, for complex entities, it's not how complex an entity is that matters the most, it's how complex they feel
Not that simple entities are worse by any means
But that's just what I think

[dawn flicker]

i wouldnt think you'd dislike it since Monty started this being inspired by your mod :3

[dawn flicker]

i think lethal company is fun BECAUSE of the monsters are simple.

simplistic work is often better

[dull needle]

Nah lethal company monsters aren't simple imo

They're not exactly complex, but not simple

[dawn flicker]

well you know what i mean

[dull needle]

They fulfill a role that brings new gameplay aspects to the game which is hard to describe

Ye I do

[dawn flicker]

its better to have a polished concept than to have overlapping ideas and monsters work quite nicely with each other (thinking of coilhead and bracken - you are terrified to look away but also need to check you back if theres a bracky)

[dull needle]

Ye

I just wish it was possible to make enemies interact with eachother

Vanilla and custom

It's kinda possible rn but not really

[dawn flicker]

yeah we also need that for some concepts.. ||theres an idea that was inspired by the new snek which would kinda need interraction for vanilla creatures be possible||

[dull needle]

Yeah the only interactions that are kinds possible without patching enemies and doing stuff which could break mod compatibility is some enemies aggro on eachother and u can copy thay behaviour

[drifting valve]

transpilers

https://tenor.com/view/business-businessman-thanos-avengers-marvel-gif-23443075

[hushed basalt]

bruh they're all different

[surreal harness]

Hawk and yippee makes sense. Dog and Thumper I think was intended to compare the "charging" mechanic (dash in a straight line without being able to stop - dogs just have a max distance). Worms and brackens though idk

Also, similar question as before: have there been any concepts made for passive entities? That'd be a little more abstract to design around, but just wondering if it had been looked into

[dull needle]

Dogs and thumpers also can hear

[dull needle]

Brackens and worms are the stealthy instant kill

[hearty eagle]

Hope to see LLL come soon cause I wanna make some exclusive to some moons and stuff depending on the variant

[dull needle]

Probably for this mod yeah, technically redwood is passive, peepers is passive too

[dull needle]

Come make moons for my giants 😔

[hearty eagle]

I mean as in set some monsters to be exclusive in some custom moons

[surreal harness]

Kinda wish they were vanilla enemies because they would for sure be fun to design a level around

[dull needle]

You can design a level around custom enemies for sure

You'd just have to depend on the custom enemies as a dependency, dunno what difference there'd be

Also this thread pretty active so I'll post here too, but https://www.reddit.com/r/lethalcompany/s/kui0ECxvAZ if people could boost this that'd be great, the more people I can reach out to, to join modding, the better

[dawn flicker]

there are a couple

[dawn flicker]

one is this lil fella

[surreal harness]

All my moons are in one mod so avoiding extra dependencies for now, but might make a one-off moon at some point messing with the giants

Oh neat

[dull needle]

Thatd be nice, I'm learning moon making to make something exclusive for custom wineries

Enemies*

[surreal harness]

Though my statement was a little unclear: I meant variants of vanilla passive enemies (locusts/manticoils)

[dawn flicker]

well in the locusts variant we tend to be a bit loose - so this guy would be one too xd

[surreal harness]

Yeah I saw a bit of it. Looking forward to checking it out later

[surreal harness]

Interesting

[dull needle]

It's interesting cuz bees and tulip snakes are the variants from vanilla, but I have plans for manticoil giants

[dawn flicker]

we kinda need to be loose with that part cuz ambient creatures are basically locusts and manticoils

we also have manticoil idea but not for first release

[dawn flicker]

a flying giant? omg

[surreal harness]

You what

[dull needle]

Well yeah obviously

[worldly robin]

uh oh

[surreal harness]

Me on my way to the ship only to see something suddenly block out the sun:

[dawn flicker]

||dont let monty know that im leakin this imma get bricked... but we also had a big manticoil in mind - though its right now scratched until revamping the concept||

[dull needle]

The manticoil is super buggy, you'd need to make your own AI for the flying etc, I do not recommend, it's gonna be torture for me lol

[surreal harness]

Exciting stuff. Are there GDDs for every enemy like the original few that were pinned, or is it all more loosely documented? I'm imaging there's something with the amount of people on the project.

[surreal harness]

queue spinning manticoils on Triskelion

[dawn flicker]

almost all og monsters have some issue with them tbh

slime had issues with the shader - totally broken..

[dull needle]

I feel like thay slime one wasn't a problem

But yeah

Bracken AI breaks often

Spiders break sometimes

[surreal harness]

queue the AI pathfinding lag fix mod

The only reliable entity is the good old wandering locust

[dull needle]

Doesn't reliably fix it tbh

[surreal harness]

True, just giving an example of issues with brackens and centipedes

[dull needle]

Also when does monty wake up

I wanna bother him with something

[dawn flicker]

not all docs will be in the first release tbh - this was already mentioned so im not terrified by Monty brickin me but we plan on 6 variants for first release - tho it might be in patches since some are super ahead and some are lacking in some way or another (model/animation/coding/sound)

[dull needle]

Hes the server owner over there right?

[dawn flicker]

yeah

[dull needle]

Yeah let's hope he agrees to my ridiculous request :p

[surreal harness]

Fun fact: Monty instantly wakes up if pinged exactly 249 times in a row

[dull needle]

You know his timezone?

[dawn flicker]

Monty's?

9:33

he gon be available soon im guessin

[dull needle]

Great

[hushed basalt]

what does it do?

[dawn flicker]

Idfk the concept for it is in Monty’s and Masa’s head and also somewhere in this thread lmao

[drifting valve]

so many variants are like that

even worse if it at some point got written into a doc

[surreal harness]

Which is why I was curious about if there are GDDs being made :p . Lots of people working on one mod, the workflow is bound to be a little weird in points

[dull needle]

From what I'm seeing they're making use of discord foruks

And Google docs sometimes

[surreal harness]

Makes sense. Wasn't expecting something overkill like ticketing and planned sprints anyways

[dawn flicker]

Docs were for this idea thread but once the server was made threads are there with pins to them. So main page of a thread has the basics and pins are for sounds/animations/etc

[surreal harness]

Btw in case I do get to this at some point, I'd like to know: will Redwood Giants target the other variants or just vanilla giants?

[next solar]

Hello it’s me xu yes they do

They target the variants

[dull needle]

As xu said, they do yes

[surreal harness]

Thanks Xu

[dull needle]

They target anything that tries or harm them or anything that can feed them

Old birds can't feed them cuz robot, but old birds try to kill them

[next solar]

Have them eat dogs

Dogs piss me the fuck off

[dull needle]

Lol

They crush dogs with their feet, which is kinda good enough

[surreal harness]

Got it, that frees up things a lot then level-design-wise

[next solar]

I’ll be having a yap fest outside and look who shows up

The little bitch

Then I go close the ship doors and slam a shovel against them for half a minute

[dull needle]

Well

You'll be happy to know

The driftwood does have some prey that aren't just humans

[next solar]

What a driftwood?

I don’t see it on the thunderstore

:3c

[dull needle]

Lol

[hushed basalt]

So which enemy is closest to being completed?

[dull needle]

Mine uwu

[sage mauve]

No.

[hushed basalt]

real

fr tho

[dawn flicker]

Mist actin like he aint in the server lmao

[dull needle]

Lmfao

[hushed basalt]

I

er

Not bothered to look through all the threads

[sacred ferry]

i got one ive made up and suggested. ... .. . its a exterior one tho :P

[surreal harness]

Got it. Don't really mind it being in the exterior and the like, just gauging how things are going

[cobalt turret]

Masa's got two variant ideas already

So ye

[dull needle]

Masa work for me instead

Thanks

[cobalt turret]

o

[sacred ferry]

average scp article

[fathom spire]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/943028846305873953/1201552947872530532/capybarathesmoker.gif

what are you IMBECILES talking about

(good morning sillies)

[sacred ferry]

nothiiingg

[cobalt turret]

Okay so here's the deal.

6 Giant variants Masa just came up with, in exchange for cookies.

:D

[dull needle]

Sure, come to my thread and spam it

Ism

Idm*

[cobalt turret]

After that, you can brag about the fact you have TEN giant specimens in your list! 👍

Oh. Uh. Well sure thing why not. :D

[dull needle]

Lol

[sage mauve]

Revealing all our advances, our future enemies, all the models, betrayed us and now 70% of Biodiversity's people work only for Xu.

[cobalt turret]

Xu tyranny arc

[hushed basalt]

I'm down lets go

[dull needle]

Yeah work for me instead

Ik cooler

Im*

[fathom spire]

heheh sorry, i ended up scraping some docs off the pins cuz they were later turned into development docs with a loooot more detail

I can send the bits without the big spoilers though if you'd like

[fathom spire]

im so fucking evil

[sage mauve]

Yeah, no one has to know that Aloe Bracken dies with 70 hits.

Or our new variant.

The Coil Thumper.

A Thumper that looks like a Coil-Head, attacks you when you look at it, going at the speed of sound.

[fathom spire]

oldies seem a lot simpler than a bunch of other enemies tbh

they're just ||I wake up, I wander and kill, you leave, I sleep||

[fathom spire]

thought it was, I did see stuff like your giant crushing manticoils

most of the side behaviors we assign to the more animalistic variants are them eating another creature (mostly the passive ones) n shit like that

[dull needle]

I meant more so enemies actually interacting two ways

Not one way

[fathom spire]

though funnily enough the first batch has 0 predatory behaviors that would show in gameplay, technically

[fathom spire]

critter variants are a planned, would be pretty easy to implement imo with sfdesat's wandering entity code they got going

if that's what you mean

[fathom spire]

yep!

[dull needle]

Eh I don't think it's worth modelling creatures and only using his wandering script, but maybe if its simple enough

[fathom spire]

i am 100% fine with this leaking dw LMAO

[fathom spire]

if i hadn't stayed up till 6am playing pokemon i would've been right out of the gym by then

why must i be this way

[dull needle]

Lol

[fathom spire]

you literally just ||asked for a server template|| wdym LMAO

[dull needle]

It's a pretty big request

I know I've lost friendships with people because they consider the effort they put into making their servers as insane etc

[hearty eagle]

Hmmm maybe-

[dull needle]

One guy got really mad when I copied a channel that had a single message

[fathom spire]

you're in the server you can check bestie

[fathom spire]

did i not put it in the thread?

whoops

[fathom spire]

whats a gdd :D

[sage mauve]

Server template tutorial

1. Create a server.

2. Create a channel called "chat

3. Create another chat that says rules. And set "rules"

And ready.

[dull needle]

Google document I think

[dull needle]

Nah i suck at making templates lol thats why

[fathom spire]

i get that

[sage mauve]

And voila, when you do all that you will have a server similar to this one.

[fathom spire]

but like

it's a discord server it ain't that deep

[sage mauve]

(It's my roleplay server that I have with my friends. XD)

[fathom spire]

i'm shit at designing servers anyway

last server I made before this one was a minecraft one for a server i was playing in and i made it in 2020

[next solar]

It’s not too hard to design severs tbh

[fathom spire]

more tedius than anything :P

[next solar]

Chat focused channel media focused channel bot focused channel

[dull needle]

I'm just horribly bad at it lol

[next solar]

Done!

[fathom spire]

y esas letras de virgo lydion

(joda tengo servers asi tambien)

[sage mauve]

Hace el server más aesthetic y en un servidor en donde como máster tengo que leer 20 mensajes de 2000 palabras, ver que por lo menos mi server está bonito me motiva a seguir leyendo antes de que estrangule a mi amigo. (?

[next solar]

COMBUST

[fathom spire]

es que es tal cual..

[fathom spire]

https://tenor.com/view/true-successfully-deployed-get-this-man-a-true-true-morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-gif-17551062976351461149

[fathom spire]

i mean the one i gotta make a sheet for is like, almost finished

[surreal harness]

Game design document. Basically what you made for the Light Bug. Used by game designers to convey things like that to a team essentially

[fathom spire]

i used to ruuule the wooorld...

https://tenor.com/view/fallen-kingdom-death-sad-bye-gif-14977377

[next solar]

https://tenor.com/view/cube-loop-animation-blender-gif-24164742

Honey feeder

Leaked gameplay

[fathom spire]

there was an idea for that but it's non-prio'd rn and idk when we'll actually add the thing

[sage mauve]

Dammit.

That was surely Bongo.

[fathom spire]

i mean i allowed them to exist on the condition they have like, 0 features other than walking, running from you when you get close and being eaten by other things LMAO

[fathom spire]

ooooh

yeah we have one for each currently indev entity

and a few more to spare I wrote when this was an ideas thread

I haven't bothered writing ones for entities which we are not currently working on as the workload is already enough and i'd like to still have something to do other than overlook the project after we're done with batch 1

[fathom spire]

loaaafoooorc!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/angry-mad-gif-4164595

[surreal harness]

Makes sense. Just wanted to see how the workflow was for the project. Plus I'm a sucker for a good GDD, the Light Bug one is pretty well written

[hushed basalt]

ah ok great

do that and I'll be there in a flash

[fathom spire]

heheh i'll try

[fathom spire]

aww thank you

[subtle zephyr]

Here's a butler idea

Manly maid (big buff dude in a maid outfit)
He is a outdoor monster that perhap helps carry things and follows you but if he is agrro (perhaps if you don't give him something to carry or attacked) he will drop what's he's holding if he has anything and he picks you up with 1 hand by the neck and after a few moments he crushes your spine then drops you

[sage mauve]

.

[dull needle]

Make a manly maid and I think I can seriously poach all your team members monty 🙏

[grizzled belfry]

poach?

[dull needle]

Poach means to take or steal

[grizzled belfry]

oh I thought you meant poach as in how ppl cut of rhinos' horns and sell them lmao

[fathom spire]

y'know, that's not half bad

[subtle zephyr]

Thanks

Would be funny and scary lol

Perhaps if he can die (maybe 5-6 shovel hits if you don't get grabbed) he would explode sending 3-4 Centipedes (indoor face huggers) in different at random directions

Kelp snake: bigger then a tulip snake and when spotted somewhat near water it will grab your leg and try to drag you into said water, basicly drowning you

[fathom spire]

Ogopogo has a "drag you into water" mechanic that also triggers when you're near the water

[fathom spire]

THE ALOE
Description:
The Aloe is a variation of the Flowerman/Bracken which is often found in temperate moons, inhabiting the inside of facilities. They photosynthesize but must remain inside in order to not hurt their skin, as it is quite sensitive; to work around this they only leave past midnight to catch enough light to absorb enough light to last them till next night.
The Aloe is feared by most organisms within facilities, as it gets quite aggressive if not indulged.
Despite this fact, they’re great caretakers, and will nurse you back to health if you’re damaged, whether you like it or not.
Their bodies are significantly stronger than the common Flowerman, which results in them being slightly slower but able to take a bit more damage.
The Aloe, even with their sensitive skin, are not against chasing you outside the confines of the facility, though they won’t stay for long.

OGOPOGO & VERMIN
Description:
The Ogopogo was merely believed to be a legend amongst the inhabitants of Vow and its sister moon March, but recent sightings by scavengers have shown the opposite. They appear to operate mostly alone, hunting to provide for their offspring, the water vermin.
Their method of hunting is to burrow partially underground underwater near shores and the water’s edge to feel movements and vibrations from prey. After they’ve honed in on their target they quickly surface, their body contorting and making odd sounds as it rises from the water; they then quickly snatch their prey and drag them underwater, where The Ogopogo’s spawn feed on them.

LUNG DRAGON
Description:
Lung Dragons are variants of Earth Leviathan which mainly reside in warm/arid moons. They have quite the strange life cycle, as their eggs hatch when the sun is directly above them, live for a few hours, and then when the sun has completely vanished, they prepare to reproduce asexually through an egg they spit out, before passing away at midnight.
They prey on Manticoils (and employees), redirecting to them if they spot any near their usual flight path. Once they’ve locked into the Manticoils they will perform their dive attack, diving straight down into the group of Manticoils on the ground and eating them as it pierces through the ground. They resurface shortly after.
The Lung Dragon’s main means of mobility is its air sack. A Lung Dragon’s air sack is where most of their strength lies; they utilize it to fly around, but don’t rely on the air itself to keep them above ground, rather they use the force behind the process of inhaling and exhaling to push their own body upwards, allowing them to gain height. They then maintain this height by slowly exhaling the air as they perform a series of coordinated movements with their body, similar to the ones a flying snake would perform to glide around.
They share a mutualistic relationship with “The Pit”.

[hearty eagle]

👀

[fathom spire]

LIGHT BUG
Description:
The friendlier cousins of Hoarding bugs, Light bugs despise sunlight but love artificial light; as such, they reside in buildings and make do with the light produced by the facility’s power.
They don’t dislike sharing their light producing items, but will get mad at you if you permanently take away their favorite lights, lashing out at thieves.
Light bugs will run towards any light they see like a cat would a laser pointer, seeking its warmth and comfort or simply because they find it fun.
They produce pheromones, and light within their body; both are used to attract possible partners for mating, but sadly also attract predators (bunker spiders).

HONEY FEEDER
Description:
A born hunter, the Honey feeders are the natural predators of Red Locusts; they waddle around arid moons during the day looking for their hives and take them to their own nest to feed on them during the night.
Once they find a beehive, the Honey feeder will contract its stomach muscles allowing it to open its mouth fully to swallow the hive whole.
Once inside its body, the hive (bees included) will remain there until brought back to its nest after nightfall where it will spit it out and slowly break it down for consumption.
Honey feeder nests are made up of mod and twigs and are the height of one and a half employees. They emerge from them to look for beehives and leave them at the entrance to digest them slowly.
They do not mind being picked up by humans, but will get aggravated if one were to do it too many times.
They’re very short-sighted, but have a great sense of smell and pack quite the punch, ramming into whatever they perceive as a threat.

BLOAT BUG
Description:
They are named bloat bugs for their ability to suck up air and water into their bodies and inflate them, allowing them to float up to the surface of flooded areas. When they do this, they store up all of their organs in the top of their head. Allowing them space inside of their body to store the air.
Bloat bugs are a rare sight, only appearing during big flood events or harsh rain. They float above water taking in the nutrients from it.
However, they don’t only feed on water, they’re attracted to iron (as in the element); this causes them to have an affinity to metal objects and dead bodies, because of the iron in their blood.
Bloat bugs will be more than happy to let employees stand on their head as long as they’re not carrying anything too heavy, as they will begin to sink.

WAX SOLDIER
Description:
A trap-like entity that remains stationary against a wall and activates when walked by. Pursuing whoever activates it, it acts as a guard for that area. It carries a musket with a bayonet, the musket can only fire once before reloading; it resorts to melee attacks after firing but before reloading.
It only stops pursuing once it loses sight and aggro range of the player for an extended period of time; after stopping its pursuit it goes back to its station where it reloads the musket and proceeds to guard that spot.
The Wax Soldier’s automaton body is controlled by a parasite, one extremely similar to the one which controls the Nutcracker. They can withstand great damage, but are susceptible to heat.

LOCK DAGGER
Description:
The Lock Dagger is a mysterious dagger with records of its existence going back all the way to 1943. It has been spotted in the most bizarre of places; government buildings, construction sites, abandoned factories, underground bunkers, and always near locks or doors. It is unknown if there are multiple or if there’s only one, as two of them have never been seen together and reports indicate different dates for every recorded sighting.
Some archeologists theorize that it may be a sort of ‘ghost artifact’ belonging to an ancient civilization, some theorize it may be an anomalous entity and a select few choose to believe it is linked to a trickster god. None of these theories seem to have any evidence to prove them other than speculation, though.

WHOOPS, accidentally sent the gdd for that one

teehee

I also wrote a big piece on the light bug's evolutionary history

[dull needle]

Those are being made?

[fathom spire]

6 of these are

though now that I think about it..

@dawn flicker we don't have a docs for your boy

lmao

should probably do that at some point

[surreal harness]

Very excited for them. They all each fit on at least one of my moon projects

[subtle zephyr]

Hope the buff maid is considered, bc would be funny seeing him fist fight a group of Baboon hawks

[cobalt turret]

Buff maid? 💀

Who did it

[dawn flicker]

Well if we leak stuff heres a rough draft - just for teaser

Also dont mind the spelling errors it IS a rough draft after all

Name Obscurumere a.k.a Murky

[worldly robin]

Aren't spelling errors quite normal in the vanilla logs and stuff as well

[dawn flicker]

So ture! They are defo intentional

[dawn flicker]

So is this

[fathom spire]

they are ye

[tawny herald]

dont worry once the mods complete ill work on a thicc expansion

[cobalt turret]

[fossil wraith]

yo guys

[fathom spire]

sup man

[fossil wraith]

want a free taste of sad

take this

[slate nacelle]

Hey, I was wondering if I could help develop bio diversity. I really find this mod interesting. Or at least suggest some things.

[fathom spire]

hello there! sorry, I was in class heheh

[fathom spire]

we're (mostly) full up on a few positions, what would you be doing?

also suggestions are always welcome :]

[slate nacelle]

Suggesting probably. I have some cool ideas.

[fathom spire]

Oh, sure then, you can fire away!

[slate nacelle]

Here’s what I have so far

Ideas

Underwater worm:

This monster would be a monster that is in the water when the flood level gets to a certain height they can pop out and eat you.

Sharks:

This monster you can probably guess from the title it hunts you down and attacks.

Flying bad birds:

This monster only attacks when there is more than one and it dives down bites you and goes back up.

Rock disguising monster:

This monster will pretend to be a rock and transforms into a monster.

Just quickly wrote a description and name title

[fathom spire]

ok so

i'll be brutally honest

this shit is bomb

[slate nacelle]

Is that good or bad 😔

[fathom spire]

that's good!

[slate nacelle]

Oh, yay 😀

[fathom spire]

thing is 1 3 and 4 are already concepts we've discussed in the past

though 3 never got past a single conversation

[slate nacelle]

Yeah I have a lot more but these are just some

[fathom spire]

so for example, the water worm is the ogopogo, which is also affected by flood levels but mainly inhabits lakes and large bodies of water

[slate nacelle]

Ooo

[next solar]

shark kinda just sounds like haha fuck you flooded is more ass now

same with the underwater worm