Diet

Creatures in Spore can develop different diets, mostly based on the type of their mouth(s).

Carnivore
A creature that primarily eats animal matter.

You can make your creature a carnivore by choosing the appropriate jaw type in the creature editor. Playing as a carnivore is likely to require a slightly different style than an omnivore, herbivore, or other (non-confirmed) specialized type.

Carnivores can be further classified into the following types:


 * Carnivore (meat)
 * Piscivore (fish)
 * Saprovore (dead matter)
 * Insectivore (insects)
 * Sanguinivore (blood)

Herbivore
A creature that primarily eats plant matter. You can make your creature an herbivore by choosing the appropriate jaw type in the creature editor. Playing as an herbivore is likely to require a slightly different style than a carnivore, omnivore, or other (non-confirmed) specialized type.

Herbivores can be further classified into the following types:


 * Herbivore (plants)
 * Folivore (leaves)
 * Frugivore (fruit)
 * Granivore (seeds)
 * Nectarivore (nectar)
 * Mucivore (other plant juices)

Omnivore
A creature that eats both animal matter and plant matter.

You can make your creature an omnivore by choosing the appropriate jaw type in the creature editor. Playing as an omnivore is likely to require a slightly different style than a carnivore, herbivore, or other (non-confirmed) specialized type. An omnivore-type mouth was used by the creature in E3. It had two herbivore stats and two carnivore stats. Will Wright showed it eating eggs. It is unclear as to whether this is a characteristic of carnivores also.

Omnivores can be further classified into the following types:


 * Omnivore (an animal that can eat both plants and animals with ease)
 * Detritivore (decomposing matter)
 * Planktivore (plankton)

Other
There are other ways for creatures to potentially gain energy, for example photosynthesis or processing sulphur compounds. As yet, there are no indications as to whether Spore will support these methods or not.

Some of these are: Lithovore: The ability to process rocks and ores into energy Chemovore: The ability to process chemical compounds into energy Cytovore: Something that feeds on cytoplasm, usually microorganisms.