More (Currently Extinct) Animals!

[mighty mica]

I'm a paleontologist and I'm obsessed with the game, legitimately. Honestly, there should just be more prehistoric (quaternary period) animals in the game all around, I think that would really enhance gameplay in a lot of ways and bring more fun to the environment. I know Dodos were mentioned in the Kickstarter, but there's also Moas and Elephant Birds, plus Terror Birds, Teratorns, Haast's Eagle, Adzebills, and Pelagornithids just in the bird world. Wooly Rhinos to go with the Mammoths, plus Megaloceros and Elasmotherium; maybe even Mastodons! I honestly can keep going forever. It would just be cool to add on more critters in general, and I say this knowing full well there already are a ton and more that people want to add - just adding in my two bits 🙂 I study fossil birds, specifically, so I can always come up with more if anyone's curious (such as the Giant Ass Swans that just... lived with dwarf Mammoths. for fun.) Part of the great atmosphere of the game is just living alongside megafauna, and the more of that, the better!

[plain mural]

I am so down for this, even if we can't tame them, having more wildlife will really help add to the atmosphere for the game!

[agile dew]

Other paleontology nerd!! Also, it would be so cool to to have more extinct animals, I think riding terror birds would be so cool. And there's so many options, we could have giant ground sloths, big reptiles like Quinkana (an australian crocodile that could gallop), smilodons, and the one I'd most like to see: in a similar vein to ||the horse totem||, making glyptodons available ||after you reach the end of the caves||

[mighty mica]

YES agreed!!!!

[delicate birch]

'available'? ||They're still around, but they're totems/totems-in-training. They have their own jobs, they're not farm animals o.O||

[drifting plaza]

I love this. I really appreciate how the devs used actual prehistoric fishes, but I don’t actually know have far this applies to the current mammals. But it seems obvious they left out most very typical prehistoric animals (except for Mammoths) - which is why at first I thought the fishes were weirdly made up names 😄

[agile dew]

I know, I mean you could have an area with actual wild ones that aren't spirits that could be tamed for the farm. I'm not suggesting putting the spirits themselves in a barn.

[fathom cliff]

^^^ For example, monkeys in the jungle, glyptodon in the savanna, etc. — individual animals, not the spirits

At the very least, I’d love to see a ground sloth though, there hasn’t even been a nod to them yet, that I’ve found, and they’re pretty "staple" ice age animals, imo

Especially as a unique group that found relative success with the joining of NA and SA, and like. Given that we have guanaco, an exclusively South American animal, as tameable individual animals and all

[agile dew]

We have guanacos and wooly mammoths sharing an environment, I think it even without the start of game disclaimer geography is out the window. Heck, with the fish there's precedent for going REALLY anachronistic, I think dinosaurs would be a bit much but maybe let's get some uintatheres in the jungle and ambulocetids on the beach.

less anachronistic, we could have some lesser known pleistocene fauna like Sivatherium and Diprotodon. Moose-giraffe and giant wombats would be fun

[lyric rock]

I'm here for megaloceros! I feel like they're super underrated and I'd love to see their incredible size relative to the player, similar to the mammoths. That would be so amazing! Could be fun to collect antlers and maybe make art/decorations out of them too.

[mighty mica]

There are so many great options, and honestly, the more weird Quaternary-period megafauna the better

Though on the note of the fish, honestly the fact that the fish are clearly based on Paleozoic ones breaks the immersion for me a bit - arguably "tiktak" (tiktaalik) is more anachronistic than a nonavian dinosaur would be, and yet there it is, being caught by me, a caveman,

[fresh sinew]

I think that'd be a great addition, archaeology's unyielded some incredible depictions of Quaternary period animals in cave paintings, may as well get to see the in game too

[steel onyx]

Chalicotheres seem like fun critters in this vein too! Love those fun gorilla-horse fellas