Creature Stage



After a player's creature grows from the Tide pool phase, they leave sea and enter the Creature Phase. In the Creature Phase, players evolve their creature from an enlarged version of the player's final cell up to an intelligent species. There are many possible combinations of parts to create near-infinite varieties of creatures.

Gameplay
This is the first truly 3-D phase of the game. It's also more complex than the previous Cell phase.

Once creatures learn to work together with other creatures of their species, creatures can unite in small packs.

After a creature becomes sentient, the player can enter the Tribal Phase.(Amphibious creatures or other such combinations are not possible, nor are subterranean or arboreal creatures possible. There will be no underwater portions of the game, except for building cities underwater)

To proceed from the Creature Phase to the Tribal Phase, the player's creature must mate with another creature of its species, and evolve its brain level higher.

In the Creature Phase, the player's creature will not be the only species inhabiting its world. Predators and Herbivores exist alongside the player's creature and can act as a food source or try to eat the player's creature.

In Creature Phase creatures may gain different abilities that depend on parts added in creature editor.

Types of attacks are:
 * Bite. Damages target.
 * Charge. Usable only from range. Stuns target.
 * Strike. Damages all nearby enemies.
 * Spit. Usable at range and in melee. Does damage over time to target.

Social Abilities
 * Sing. Granted by mouths.
 * Dance. Granted by feet.
 * Charm. Granted by miscellaneous parts.
 * Pose. Granted by hands.

Also creatures can gain ability to jump, spring or even fly but for a limited time only.

Creatures can deal with other species by befriending them or exterminating. Some species are friendly, some are hostile. Also there are big and very strong neutral "epic" characters - by befriending them player can earn a massive amount of DNA points. DNA points are also given by interacting with other species. Different body parts are found in bone piles scattered around the world. Currently there are no arboreal creatures in game.

At some stage player's specie will migrate on other part of the continent - reuniting with them is a "quest" that gives DNA points. At some stage of Creature Phase it's possible to spot another civilization's UFO flying in the skies.

The Creature Phase could be compared to the prehistory in the real earth.

Check out the list of Creature phase stubs if you're looking to add something.

Unanswered questions
While in the creature phase, are there other species that are in the tribal stage or beyond that you can encounter?

But are alien spaceships the only thing, or can you see tribes/cities?

Answered Questions
You can see alien space ships, sometimes they abduct other species or will even hurl meteors at you.

As far as has been seen so far, alien spaeships are the only lter stages visible.