[OOC] Wattplants General

[AceOfNothing]

Okay! Hi Echer, thank you for embracing this thought train!

I'm loving that Prickle just wanted to make some plant pets and now has a whole site with people who are not happy he went science-y with lore. Trust that he's still going to try and make this a fun game for everyone.

Agree with a like variety of missions/achievements. Keeps things moving for people. Assuming achievements may be a way to get better items? Could still have some minigames as well.
Ooh I do like the idea of the mini pets being npc/enemies. Maybe a rival scientist created these?

Also idea with the mini pets: Bugs. Plants and bugs for the site! Since bugs are usually the main prey of predatory plants, and technically a lot of bugs eat plants. Weird symbiotic relationship stuff

[skinstealer]

oh i lovethe idea of mini pets being bugs- rin was having trouble conceptualizing what they'd be!

achievements would be a way to get better items, yes...especially rare stuff!

rival scientist sounds fun! i like that.

hm...with the science theme, i feel like there would be different "realistic" biomes world-wise. but! but!!!! this is morbit! "realistic" is such a wide definition!

[AceOfNothing]

Yay! Bug buddies for the plant pets!

Yesss absolutely. "Realistic" biomes for morbit probably vary pretty heavily. Might be useful to look at an already existing morbit flora, and base some biomes around that. Like the Heartsea flower and what kind of environment that lives in, probably have a biome similar to that. And the Wildsnare (plant I bought for a Fallows Island town), so something that fits that environment.

You know, probably have to hit the basic biomes (something foresty, jungley, flower fieldy, beachy, rocky/mountainy, and deserty) but if you can work with plants that exist you should

[skinstealer]

yeah hmm...i think with our current workload we'd probably need to have any additional wattplant species funded atm but!

trapling (flytrap + ambiguous quadruped), urban environment?
wildsnare + ???????, jungle biome
heartsea + ???????, beach biome

are really good prompts (and we are totally open to suggestions in this thread- we could put them on the bounty board if we vibe with them, even!)

...we really need more morbit plants. i think rin had some kind of plant that works with blood magic explored in a bellows vignette? that'd be prime material here.

[AceOfNothing]

Yeah absolutely on the funding thing. Just spittballing the like... two plants I remember honestly. Figure it's important to have at least one based on a fully morbit plant

(Idea I suggest: Wildsnare and lion or other big cat. Think just... with the mane, and the slappy stems..
Yee)

I fully support a bounty board. I'll help come up with cool plants even (like I think you could cheat and have an anemone, which are technically an animal but You Know Thats Like TechnicallyTechnically)

Oooh if there's a blood magic plant that has to be added. I do not remember off the top of my head

[skinstealer]

anenome would be soooo cool and we could totally fudge stuff here and there

panther or lion with wildsnare would be really good...heartsea could be a little bird, maybe?

[AceOfNothing]

Sometimes you gotta play with the rules a bit. Maybe for the anemone either like... sea slug or a lion fish. Just feel the frills could overlap with either.

Heartsea bird I support. Maybe a long legged bird, like a crane or flamingo. Or a tiny one, like the superb bird of paradise (this is a bird, it has a science name but this is what I remember).

[skinstealer]

...i am projecting but i want a succulent. or a cactus. or both!

[AceOfNothing]

Yessss I support! Feel like both is fine, but I'd say at least a succulent

[skinstealer]

what about those succulents that look like little colorful rocks? what are those called again...

[MarxzVulpez]

Lithops!

[Pichi2214]

succulent would be cute....

also biased in that i want a festuca (which is essentially a vaguely grass ball looking plant) which isnt even remotely carnivorous but.....itd be cute

[skinstealer]

a festuca and its softer companion, the marimo....

[MarxzVulpez]

Is it okay if i post some liike
potential inspiration designs? not saying they all or any have to look like this but just like a direction they Could go

[skinstealer]

do you mean doodles, or just ref images? we want to have artistic freedom on stuff, but ref images would be cool

[AceOfNothing]

I think if the plant isn't carnivorous to start with we could kinda .. cheat and say "morbit version".

[Pichi2214]

festuca + marimo who have like design similarities/pull from similar animals as a base would be so cute......

land and water variants

[skinstealer]

...rin actually has an idea for the marimo design so we may do that one free of charge

[MarxzVulpez]

I was thinking ref images yeah
I have a couple of Fan Wattplant species that I've doodled (Cattail spies my beloved) but I was thinking like, ref inspo for new ones

[skinstealer]

yeah in that case go ahead marxz!