#bibites

[cossachka-offical]

Okay, just. Look at this idiot. I am looking at his stupid brain, and what i see is. It will try to eat plants if they are to the right of it, but it will also actively avoid plants that are to the left of it. The worst part is, plants are so abundant this might not even lead it to die.

[entropic-search]

They shouldn't have let me near the gene editor. I'm thriving. Making a Titan

[fr-thrice]

more bibite madness. My computer was lagging from 4 islands and 300 bibites, so I got rid of some islands and lowered the island size+fertillity significantly, which caused a die-off. The Spark-W3-RedK's were widespread and had a lot of color variation, but all that is left is these purple ones now. In naming I have shortened RedK to R, and will switch Spark to just S as names get too long.

I started to sort them by brain structure, while hardly understanding their brains, since they are all purple. I'm just counting the nodes pretty much. Spark-PG is still hanging on, and you can see how different their brains are.

[mad-phlegmatic]

[itsadragonaesthetic]

Ok so nerd shit. I've been playing The Bibites and I'm happy to report that they have found a way to make the bibites naturally evolve predation. I've had this exact 3 islands simulation many times and this is the first time I'm seeing deliberate predatory behavior. This simulation has been running for nearly 400 hours. Only two of the islands are occupied. One is sort of just a generic large bibite with some innovations on avoiding bibites. This one has developed pathways to its herding behavior that cause it to rapidly accelerate toward other bibites. The behavior is similar for plant food too, despite it not being mapped exactly the same. They seem to have adapted to being very small, having a low need for food, and just latching onto a food source for as long as possible, digesting slowly. This herding behavior causing them to catapult themselves toward bibites and this desire to latch onto things makes them like little leeches. Very few ever live to a large size, it seems, and larger individuals typically eat smaller ones when they get the chance. Most of them generally have behaviors that are better for obtaining plants, but a few are really successful as predators. Despite this, they aren't considered remarkably carnivorous in their genes. I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what that gene does.

[quillusquillus]

these little guys are so cool and interesting and literally every video by the dev is quietly hilarious y'all should check them out

[robotmechagirl]

The coolest thing that nobody knows about, and doesn’t seem to get the significance of, is that my Bibites talk with each other and it arose as an emergent property. They use pheromones and have 3 words. It’s expressed via different neuron connections and pheromones, but each evolution simulation keeps bringing up the same 3 words. It’s a repeatable phenomenon.

I could get them to say more words, but something is buggy with how they see plant versus meat pellets and it’s making it very difficult to keep omnivorous and carnivorous behaviours going. If it got fixed I could set off an arms race and therefore more need for communication.

I’m stuck either trying to find a work around or wait for an update that may or may not fix it.

If I could get like, 2-3 more words I could write a thesis about communication among Bibites evolving as an emergent property.

[fr-thrice]

lets compare the genetics of one of my Spark bibites (right) to a standard "Easy Herbivore" bibite model that comes with the game (left). my guys started as an Easy Herbivore, but that was almost 90 generations ago!

the Sparks would look kinda like an Easy Herbivore if they reached their adult forms, but they mature early and have short lives, so they never reach their adult form. their home has little food, so they have a low max energy and lay tiny eggs at a young age. any predators i try introducing quickly die out because Sparks have no energy to offer. very resilient little bugs.