Ha yeah! Pretty sure Polar Bear wouldn’t have been so dominant if (a) there was more space and (b) there was a respawn cool-down on prey death… but it was fun to build :D

True point, though this wasn’t intended to be an evolution experiment - just bit of fun with AI tools 😅

Yeah I had some similar thoughts. Can also do it with multiple of each bear to see if any team play emerges!

You could do that as well and would be interesting, but then the sunbear will still be unable to predate on anyone. Unless you make like in other simulations and allow them to scavenge carcasses for a brief time

Hi!

Mutations in particular are an interesting thought…

Yes eventually

Thanks for watching! I totally forgot the 12 hour rule… will be making a dedicated video on it so you’ll see how it all turns out 😜

Haha - I mean.. I guess it isn’t anatomically accurate 😅

Why don't you use a set seed so you can forward and rewind time instead of having to record every action via a program like OBS

Thanks!

Hey! Everyone on the internet has different experiences. I feel dumb every day… it’s all good. Just remember the internet isn’t real. Everyone seems smarter and better than they actually are 😜. Thanks for the support!

@@EightLittleBears Thanks Bro, And no Problem your Videos Are awesome.

Thanks so much! I guess I’m still pretty new on KZbin and I don’t post that often, so the numbers aren’t too bad. With more time and experience, I’m hopeful things will grow more and more 😀

Yeah I think you are right. I am planning to add resource stealing at some point (I.e. the brown bear strategy), which will (probably) make it more valuable.

Yeah agreed. I am planning on rebuilding the plant system from the ground up, so this will be a feature (at some point)

Yeah environmental change is one of the big things I want to achieve this year. The first step is reworking the plant system so that we have evolving trees and grass and fungi, etc. once we have that, then more base changes (mineral levels, etc.), and natural disasters and stuff should be pretty interesting!

I guess that’s true… it could rip your arm off and, try to eat it but swallow slightly wrong and then choke to death?

I feel like I’ve seen a video about this recently but can’t put my finger on it..

So I think, with the regions, some of it is a matter of time. Creatures on earth earth everywhere, but they had billions of years to get there. The move into the savanna region is good evidence of this I think because this simulation was significantly longer than any of the ones before (and I actually cranked up the rat ore of evolution, so there was much more scope for change). I suspect that, with enough time, some builds would make it into the harsher biomes, but who knows. With regard to the extinction, I too found this curious, but given that it has only happened once at this level, I don’t think it is a code flaw. My best guess is that creatures on both sides of the map were moving towards similar ends but at slightly different rates (noting that the extinction took place over around 100k turns), and that “end” was teetering on the edge of something unsustainable. The only evidence I have is that we saw, for example, koala builds emerge at similar times even though the populations had been entirely isolated from each other. In other words, my best guess is that the mass extinction wasn’t so much a chain reaction as it was “convergent evolution” which ended in something unsustainable. Anyway thanks for the comment!!

​@@EightLittleBears I understand your point about time, I just disagree that there hasn't been enough time in the simulation. Time matters to us but not to the creatures in the sim. It is just marking that things have changed. Time spans between events don’t really exist, only the order in which things happen. Why a particular event occurs is the more interesting question. This is an experiment I propose. Have one biome and one creature ideally suited for it. For instance, green food and animals that eat green-only food. Add another biome, with blue food, where that creature would die swiftly in it. Add a gradient corridor between the two biomes where there is some blue food and some green food (or a food that has a percentage of both green and blue). (As a control, run the experiment without a corridor but just an abrupt transition between the two biomes.) The animals should be able to move between the two biomes without any hindrance except the intrinsic differences of the biomes. The animals should also have small random variations to the tolerance of green and blue food and a separate ability to gain nutrients from the food independently of each other. Add these attributes one at a time between experiments. My hypothesis is you will see animals eventually fill both sides. I also think you will see a bouncing effect where animal types will oscillate between the two biomes with the availability of food. It could just be a coincidence that two similar animals in similar biomes died off. It is more likely the die-offs share a common cause. Convergent evolution doesn’t explain extinction in two isolated areas. It is like saying a die-off of river dolphins and sea sharks is caused by them both having similar shapes. Can you save the sim at a midpoint like right before and right after a die-off and rerun it to see if it has the same outcome? If it is the same outcome that could give you a clue as to the root cause of a global die-off. The second experiment would test the global nature of your sim. This time have two identical biomes with the identical type of creature in them and an impenetrable wall between them. Run the sim to see if they die-off the same way (regardless of the time between). (A control would be having one creature type unable to evolve. A true control group would be one outside the sim which is not possible.) Try the experiment again, this time with a difficult but permeable barrier (one in a thousand creatures can get through it).

We essentially have a simplified version of this, it’s just that “it’s going badly so I’ll flee” is lumped together with being scared off (since being scared off during battle is effectively the same as being scared off prior to battle). That said, in the future I’ll be adding an injury system, so we can get more of what you are talking about!

Interesting thought.. it possibly might. If creatures have a small territory stat I in a high-population area, then courage should (in theory) become more valuable.