Environment Restoration Update, ambient nature flora and fauna, pet animals
A big update focused on showing the affects of your efforts to make the place more habitable. Things happen in a specific order:
Step 1: Restore and Maintain Forests for a long period of time
Result: Birds appear first then later on small critters, maybe one that could act as a pet for well being bonuses. Small critters later allows big critters to spawn in small numbers to.
Step 2: Large maintained water reservoirs throughout cycles at a high purity level eventually after getting birds that supply the seeds and eggs, can start spawning small sea critters and sea plants. If big enough and enough small sea critters are thriving, bigger ones can spawn. There could be uses for the sea plants and critters.
Step 3: Nature is restored and starts expanding on it's own. Which gives new aesthetic options like vines covering your buildings or pretty mossy textures but also might require overgrowth control measures.
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10 Dec, '25
PlasmaStruckI also like the idea of being able to potentially have different levels of overgrowth density, like you can fully trim, partially trim, and not trim which might result it the object/area being almost hidden under green leaves/vines. Am not fully sure how to go about that currently though.
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10 Dec, '25
PlasmaStruckI think this image can give a pretty decent idea for how it could look when setting a area to never be trimmed after a long time, likely largely as a flat 2d texture overlay with maybe some drooping 2d vine offshoots occasionally. Tiles on a wall could have a value for growth intensity with levels of trimming just determining what they trim to, allowing having lots of tiles with slightly different textures to kind of give a gradient as it grows.
Also for a pet I think it could be interesting if first you have to have like a animal for eggs maybe similar to wild chickens as it could be cute to have a chicken coup in a farm area that at night the animals sleep in, that then allow you to feed the eggs to your pet for wellbeing bonuses on beavers.
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