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- Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
0.14.1.6
Add Gene Cycling function to the nursery. Gene cycling artificially selects by one gene at a time, allowing others to mutate freely, instead of by measuring the genetic distance to target. In theory, this should allow i…
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0.14.1.5
Add small coloured progress bars above creatures heads for basic tasks. Tasks they will appear for include: - Eating Foliage, Fruit, Eggs and Meat - Sleeping - Fighting - Gasping for oxygen - Eggs Hatching - Pregnancy T…
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0.14.1.4
0.14.1.4 Changelog Add "Delete World" functionality to the Load World screens. Add a detection routine to disallow loading of corrupt or outdated saved worlds and warn the user when they're only potentially outdated. Ad…
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0.14.1.3
Allow creatures to make their way to a nearby shadow-casting tree (if there is one) to sleep, taking advantage of the shelter it provides. Reduce how rapidly growth cost scales with creature size and complexity. Prevent…
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0.14.1.2
Some bug fixes and tweaks. In particular, I've made the Predator and Prey start viable again. 0.14.1.2 Changes Double the energy available in grass and ground cover. Fix creatures getting caught in an AI-loop when seeki…
Announcement1 changeUI/audio - Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
0.14.1: The Hearty Breakfast Update, is out now!
Species 0.14.1: the Hearty Breakfast Update (that's a much better name, my thanks to the steam user who suggested it), has now been released to the Stable branch on Steam. Eggs are the centerpiece of this update, but th…
Announcement7 changesFixGameplay - Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
0.14.0 has been released to the Experimental branch!
Species 0.14.0.Ex has been pushed up to the experimental branch. You can get it by right-clicking on Species in Steam, going to Properties, selecting Betas and opting into the experimental branch. https://speciesdevblog…
Patch notes10 changesFixGameplay - Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
On the subject of eggs...
I don't intend to just slap egg's on top of the existing game: they're just one aspect of some fairly fundamental changes to creature diet, behavior and especially reproduction. In this last week I've shared a fair bit…
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