Causing A Mammoth Extinction Event In The Sapling! | (Evolutionary Survival Sim)

[@Thalatash]

The grasses on this planet seem to have developed blinding bioluminescence to keep animals from eating it, lol.

[@robertl4522]

The marine creature has an eye on the top of its head because the grass below blinds them. Staring into the sun is better than looking down.

[@samueltrusik3251]

The problem is that there is almost no deep oceans. The elephants were able to waddle through the shallows and land, dominating almost the entire map. If you made the oceans deeper, and possibly more expansive, the original species may have survived.

[@samueltrusik3251]

Honestly, the mesmerizing rainbow of algal blooms in the ocean and rings of grass around the islands were my favorite part. They are just so beautiful...

[@cyberfutur5000]

The thing I recently learned about the game, if your performance and or fps drop (like the one you did after the 5k skip), or you have the problem I did, that it just crashes when you time jump, just safe, go back to the menu and reload, takes but a few seconds, I do it after every long time jump or when ever I feel it's getting a bit stuttery and haven't had a crash since. Nothing but smooth running. It wasn't the amount of Mammoths that made your fps drop, but the amount of evolution to process and remember. Has something to do with the game needing a lot of resources to do the on the fly 3d calculations for the evolution of new parts and reloading the game from the main menu empties the cache again. (as far as I understand it, but I don't claim to understand a lot about that -but it works)

[@RustyhairedAlp9575]

You can put udders under the creatures, it's just finicky since the spine is a sphere and not a cube

[@YOURDAILYLAWNMOWER]

The mammoth has butter!

[@MegaAlchemist123]

Please do more the sapling. Great game.

[@myramadd6651]

They may have lost their ears to reduce heat loss.

[@Tranquir]

How about you take one species, take a few more of those species on a faraway island. Then see how they evolve in different conditions

[@Aaaaaaarrrpirate]

The liquid sack thing is for organisms that drink blood and sap and pollen as well I think

[@IslandPotato]

Ah could be yes! Would make sense

[@meowza]

Ever thought of combining your narrative skills from your PZ series to a narrative Sapling video? I could imagine a fake documentary style narrative centred around a species on the planet and how it evoled over time and what obstacles it overcame and all that.

[@IslandPotato]

OOOOh I like that idea!!!

[@The-Hamman]

I spite that your able to run this game perfectly

[@IslandPotato]

If it wasn't for the small map and the animal/plant limitations my PC would lag a lot! Still has a long way to go for optimisations!

[@lisaj2269]

It’s like creature creation in spore

[@IslandPotato]

It is very similar, and was clearly inspired by it. Which I don’t really mind, as it was always my favourite part of Spore!

[@mitchl5220]

They did a new update recently with mushrooms

[@vonnegutfrey8714]

Check out the new creature and epoc view.

[@Idont_eatcrocs]

are you gonna make more?

[@IslandPotato]

I hope so. I did make a video on some of the other bits that were released in the latest update, but honestly I was a little disappointed with how everything worked out, and the persistent bugs. I may release it at some point, or tie it into a future video if combined with another recording

[@matthewbromm7552]

you made a war flamingo

More!! make a series ^^

[@narutogaming101]

Yes more

[@piglin469]

MORE MOREEE

[@ln9593]

its a solo developer

[@arkorat3239]

Its so ugly, but so incredibly cool!

[@Vultus873]

Aliens when they see earth:

[@MrT_Rex]

The Sapling, more like The Laging !! This game is good but it has so much problems : lags, no evolution transition (water to land, land to sky), some options get back on default, evolution of creatures is sometimes f**ked up and you can't put body parts where you want (like in Spore). Try it to see by yourself

[@IslandPotato]

There are various problems with the game as you said, but it is being made by a single person, and is early access - compared to Spore which was complete on release, and made by EA Games with a massive team, so in that sense comparing the two now isn't really fair. I am hoping these issues will be focused on before any new content though, as my system is pretty good, but the lag gets pretty intense pretty quick! Luckily they have the clean-up system in place now, which does help - but I think better optimization would be much more appreciated than anything else right now

[@Leyva0scarVRL]

What do you mean by no evolution transitions?

[@adamgallyot9063]

They'll only evolve from water to land or from land to sky if necessary

[@ABusinessGoose]

When I played, I got the fish to evolve into land animals, but maybe that’s just rare or something.

[@orkweirdboy6776]

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