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Spicy Chillet  [developer] 13 May, 2024 @ 1:41pm
In-Depth Bestiary
Welcome to the bestiary! Here you can find most info you need about the creatures (and plants) in this mod, including side, breeding habits, lifespan, special abilities, so on and so forth.

CURRENTLY INCOMPLETE. Watcher creatures and new plants will be added over the next few days!




SURFACE CREATURES

Slugcat
Habitat: Civs mainly generate in wetlands
Size: 3,000 (0yrs) 15,000 (1.5yrs) 55,000 (12yrs)
Lifespan: 80-110 years
Breeding: 2-4 pups, 5 years until adult
Trainable?: N/A
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Doesn't require alcohol, but still gets a good mood from it.

Green Lizard
Habitat: Savannah, Grassland, Shrubland, Any Forest, Taiga, Tundra
Size: 120 (0yrs) 60,000 (2yrs) 600,000 (8yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 2 years until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Rare leucistic color variant (recessive to black body)

Pink Lizard
Habitat: Temperate forest, Taiga, Tundra
Size: 120 (0yrs) 40,000 (1yr) 400,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: rare leucistic color variant (recessive to black body)

Blue Lizard
Habitat: Any Desert, Tropical Forest, Tropical Wetland
Size: 120 (0yrs) 30,000 (1yr) 200,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: rare leucistic color variant (recessive to black body), slugcat starter domestic

White Lizard
Habitat: Sand Desert, Savannah, Grassland, Shrubland, Taiga, Tundra, Glacier, Mountain
Size: 120 (0yrs) 50,000 (1yr) 400,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Invisibility, Tongue Attack
Extra: N/A

Yellow Lizard
Habitat: Badland, Tropical Savanna, Tropical Shrubland, Tropical Grassland, Tropical Forest
Size: 120 (0yrs) 40,000 (1yr) 400,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Rare leucistic color variant (recessive to black body)

Cyan Lizard
Habitat: Badland, Rock Desert, Temperate Savanna, Temperate Grassland, Temperate Shrubland, Temperate Forest, Mountain
Size: 120 (0yrs) 40,000 (1yr) 400,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Propulsion leap (may be bugged), Tongue Attack
Extra: Rare leucistic color variant (recessive to black body)

Caramel Lizard
Habitat: Badland, Rock Desert
Size: 120 (0yrs) 60,000 (2yr) 600,000 (8yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 2 years until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Slowing projectiles
Extra: Rare melanistic color variant (recessive to all other body colors)

Strawberry Lizard
Habitat: Mountain, Glacier, Tundra, Taiga
Size: 120 (0yrs) 30,000 (1yr) 250,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Lick Attack
Extra: N/A

Blizzard Lizard
Habitat: Glacier, Tundra
Size: 120 (0yrs) 30,000 (1yr) 250,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Breath attack that inflicts severe frostbite
Extra: Immune to frostbite/cold damage

Indigo Lizard
Habitat: Badlands, Sand Desert, Rock Desert
Size: 120 (0yrs) 50,000 (1yr) 400,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Tongue attack
Extra: N/A

Basilisk Lizard
Habitat: Any Wetlands
Size: 120 (0yrs) 50,000 (1yr) 400,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Toxic Skin
Extra: Basilisk toxicity gets worse with persistent exposure!

Red Lizard
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 120 (0yrs) 100,000 (1yr) 8,000,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: Immortal
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 2 years until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Spits slowing projectiles
Extra: Semi-megabeast, rare leucistic color variant (recessive to black body)

Train Lizard
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 2000 (0yrs) 150,000 (3yrs) 20,000,000 (20yrs)
Lifespan: Immortal
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 2 years until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Tongue Attack
Extra: Megabeast, rare leucistic color variant (recessive to black body)

Red Centipede
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 7,000,000
Lifespan: Immortal
Breeding: 1 egg, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Shocking bite
Extra: Semi-megabeast

Raindeer
Habitat: Any land biome (ubiquitous)
Size: 700,000
Lifespan: 80-100 years
Breeding: Live birth (mostly single babies), 3 years until adult
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Milkable, shearable

Miros Bird
Habitat: Any evil land biome (ubiquitous)
Size: 750,000
Lifespan: 30-50 years
Breeding: 2-3 eggs, 4 years until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Immune to rot

Yeek
Habitat: Any wetlands or tropical biome
Size: 30,000
Lifespan: 20-30 years
Breeding: 2-6 babies, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: rare albino and leucistic variants

FLYING CREATURES

Squidcada
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 20,000
Lifespan: 5-10 years
Breeding: Live birth, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Hunting only
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Hunts vermin

Centiwing
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 180,000
Lifespan: 20-30 years
Breeding: 1 egg, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Shocking bite
Extra: N/A

Vulture
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 600,000 (adult), 10,000 (grub)
Lifespan: 30-40 years
Breeding: 1-2 eggs, ~13 months until full adult (best case scenario, see below)
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Babies are always born as vulture grubs. Vulture grubs must receive the care of another vulture (any type will do) or slugcat in order to grow, and will do so roughly 13 months after being cared for. Just keep them together and after the waiting period is up, your vulture grub will become a full grown vulture.

King Vulture
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 8,000,000 (adult), 10,000 (grub)
Lifespan: Immortal
Breeding: 1-2 eggs, ~13 months until full adult (same as vulture)
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Harpoon projectiles
Extra: semi-megabeast, same metamorphosis mechanic as regular vultures

Miros Vulture
Habitat: Any evil land biome (ubiquitous)
Size: 900,000
Lifespan: 130-150 years
Breeding: 1-2 eggs, 4 years until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Can shoot fireballs
Extra: Immune to rot infection, does NOT use vulture metamorphosis mechanic and instead hatches as normal chicks

Angel Moth
Habitat: Glacier, Tundra, Taiga (bugged)
Size: 20,000 (0yrs) 200,000 (1yr) 700,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 30-50 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Proboscis attack drinks blood
Extra: Shearable, Immune to frostbite

House Moth
Habitat: Savanna, Grassland, Shrubland, Forest, Wetland
Size: 200 (0yrs) 5,000 (1yr) 15,000 (3yrs)
Lifespan: 30-50 years
Breeding: 10-20 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: Proboscis attack drinks blood
Extra: Vermin killer, adopts owners

Sky Whale
Habitat: Any land biome
Size: 500,000 (0yrs) 12,500,000 (1yr) 25,000,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 70-80 years
Breeding: Live Birth, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Gaseous blood

CAVERN CREATURES

Black Lizard
Habitat: All cavern layers
Size: 120 (0yrs) 50000 (1yr) 400000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Extravision (can see without needing eyes, even invisible units)

Lantern Mouse
Habitat: All cavern layers
Size: 10,000
Lifespan: 15-25 years
Breeding: live birth, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Rare color variants similar to rain world (recessive)

Eggbug
Habitat: All cavern layers
Size: 5000
Lifespan: 10-15 years
Breeding: 5-10 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: N/A

Batfly
Habitat: All cavern layers
Size: 5000
Lifespan: 10-15 years
Breeding: live birth, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: N/A

Centipede
Habitat: All cavern layers
Size: 400,000
Lifespan: 20-30 years
Breeding: 1 egg, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Shocking bite
Extra: N/A

SEMI-AQUATIC CREATURES

Salamander
Habitat: Any Lake, Any River, Any Pool, Any Wetland
Size: 120 (0yrs) 40,000 (1yr) 400,000 (6yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Tongue Attack
Extra: N/A

Eel Lizard
Habitat: Any Lake, Any River, Any Pool, Any Wetland
Size: 120 (0yrs) 60,000 (2yr) 600,000 (8yrs)
Lifespan: 50-80 years
Breeding: 3-6 eggs, 2 years until adult
Trainable?: yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Rare leucistic variant (recessive to black body)

AQUATIC CREATURES

Aquapede
Habitat: Any lake/ocean
Size: 300,000
Lifespan: 20-30 years
Breeding: ~1 child, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: Shocking bite
Extra: N/A

Leviathan
Habitat: Any lake/ocean
Size: 9,000,000
Lifespan: 150-175 years
Breeding: ~1 child, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: Yes
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: Rare melanistic and leucistic variants

Jetfish
Habitat: Any lake/ocean
Size: 50,000
Lifespan: 50-75 years
Breeding: ~1 child, 1 year until adult
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: N/A
Extra: N/A

Giant Jellyfish
Habitat: Any lake/ocean
Size: 1,000,000
Lifespan: 150-175 years
Breeding: N/A
Trainable?: No
Special Abilities: Shocking Sting
Extra: N/A

SPECIAL CREATURES

The Rot
Habitat: Non-freezing evil biomes (ubiquitous)
Size: Varies
Lifespan: Immortal
Breeding: Infection
Trainable?: No
Rot Infection: There is a 50% chance to trigger a 2 month timer upon contact with the sludge covering any rot creature's body, after which the affected creature will permanently transform into a rotted variant of itself. These rot-infested variants can ALSO spread the rot infection, leading to various amounts of FUN. You are advised to set up cleaning stations and armour your military to prevent contact with the contaminant.
Static Spread: Occasionally, big enough rot creatures will leave behind a small, immobile cyst. This cyst will gradually grow over the course of three years, and if still alive by that time, will uproot into a new mobile rot cyst.
Extra: Vulnerable to cold. Not classed as living, and ignores various status effects such as pain, fear, dizziness, nausea, etc.

PLANTS

Worm Grass
Habitat: Any wetland
Growing Seasons: Year round
Uses: Cookable, extractable

Popcorn Plants
Habitat: Any wetland
Growing Seasons: Spring, summer, autumn
Uses: Edible raw, brewable, millable

Karma Flower
Habitat: Any land
Growing Seasons: Year round
Uses: Brews into a unique drink with slight healing

Bubble Fruit
Habitat: Any wetland
Growing Seasons: Spring, summer, autumn
Uses: Edible raw, cookable, brewable, oil seeds

Slime Mold
Habitat: Caverns
Growing Seasons: Year round
Uses: Edible raw, cookable, millable, extractable

Slugshroom
Habitat: Caverns
Growing Seasons: Spring, autumn
Uses: Edible raw, brews into a drink that gives a speed boost

Batnip
Habitat: Caverns
Growing Seasons: Spring, summer
Uses: Processed into fibre

Spore Puff
Habitat: Caverns
Growing Seasons: Autumn, winter
Uses: Cookable, brewable
Last edited by Spicy Chillet; 22 Jun @ 9:41am