DITL Species 7- Environment

[Monroe]

Week One we decided it is a Fungal creature
Week Two we decided that it would live off decay and consumption
Week Three we decided it would use ganglion- brains spread throughout its body in clusters.
Week Four we decided it would use spores in an asexual form of reproduction.
Week Five we decided that the creature was 'type D' meaning long lived but had very few offspring.
Week Six we decided that the species would live in large hives.

Week 7 we decide on natural habitat. This will help determine the look and natural defenses of the creature.


1) Swamp Land
2) Desert
3) Plains
4) Savannah (hot plains)
5) Arctic
6) Salt Flats
7) Sulfuric Lakes
8 ) Volanic
9) Tropical
10) Void
11) Underground
12) Temperate Mountain
13) Frozen Mountain
14) Some Giant weird Coral Reef world
15) Gas Giant

Revoting is allowed as usual. One vote per user. And someone please lock the previous week's thread. (But keep open the creature submission one).

[shran]

Guven they need decay and consumption to feed, there has to ben sufficient amounts of life, so places like volcanoes aren't that likely, as only extremofiles go there.
A sulfuric lake could come into existence from a lot of rotting, thus securing one version of the way of feeding, next may be that the creatures carry this lake in their mouths, in which things like flies wander, in which they drown. Something like a pitcher plant. In the meantime, insects and the like can be found in most places, thus ensuring that these creatures could still spread over a large distance.

[Sionnach Glic]

I think this is a bit artificial. What's a human's environment? We don't have one. We've spread across pretty much every climate there is. There's little reason another sapient species wouldn't spread across its own planet as well.

[Mikey]

I think he's referring to the type of environment in which the species evolved into its present form. That said, I went with "swamp" as it allows for plentiful "food" and because I envision these guys as being rather sensitive to temperature extremes.

[Sionnach Glic]

I'm going for tropical. Lots of dead material to feed off of in jungles. And a giant fungus creature just seems to fit in nicely.

[Monroe]

I think this is a bit artificial. What's a human's environment? We don't have one. We've spread across pretty much every climate there is. There's little reason another sapient species wouldn't spread across its own planet as well.

Savannah is our natural habitat. So we evolved an upward way of walking to see over grasses. No need for the climbing tools of our simian cousins either.

[Sionnach Glic]

Fair enough. I wasn't sure what you meant by environment.

[Nickswitz]

I like temperate mountain myself, because it means that it will have lots of organisms to feed off of, and it's somewhere you wouldn't really expect a fungal creature to be. So it's just fun in my mind.

[Teaos]

I'm going cold mountain, it explains a lower population and large size, the bigger you are the better you retain heat.

[Tsukiyumi]

...I went with "swamp" as it allows for plentiful "food" and because I envision these guys as being rather sensitive to temperature extremes.

Agreed. It's the most logical option. Where do you find the most fungus out of all these options?

[Monroe]

...I went with "swamp" as it allows for plentiful "food" and because I envision these guys as being rather sensitive to temperature extremes.

Agreed. It's the most logical option. Where do you find the most fungus out of all these options?

Well trogodites are often fungal in nature (underground).

[Lt. Staplic]

I went with swamp, by definition they're full fo death and decay.

[Deepcrush]

I went with tropic. Makes sense for both food reasons and habitat reasons. Swamps are very much 2D which won't work well in the hive sense. There has to be room for growth. Also the tropics support far more life then you'll find in swamps meaning greater food supply.

[Mikey]

I'm going cold mountain, it explains a lower population and large size, the bigger you are the better you retain heat.

If you're warm-blooded. If not, larger size just means more surface area from which to lose heat.

[Teaos]

But the volume to surface area ratio is far lower.