Our Desert is an inhospitable environment. Carrion, while nutritious, is hard to digest and there’s not a lot of it. Species must be adapted to the heat too.
Carrion
Leaves
Grass
Seeds
Detritus
Coconuts
Algae
Lichen
100
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
The most dangerous part of the desert is the predators. Two people submitted sandworms.
Only 36 organisms were submitted to the Desert. 23 of them could digest Carrion. Carrion is very nutritious so all 23 were viable foragers.
Generations 1 to 10
A few apex predators did well.
Goes Extinct in Generation
Species
6
Lesser Desert Rat
7
Cordova
8
Hyena
8
Desert-Ants
8
Desert-Foxes
8
Desert-Lizard
9
Yonge_Hot
10
Josep Raich
Generations 11 to 50
The apex predators did so well they wiped out all the foragers without maxed out speed or defense. Having extinguished the easy prey, the apex predators proceeded to starve.
Most of these speccies are identical. They’re carrion foragers with maxed-out defense (including antivenom) and nothing else. Everyone who isn’t a maximally-efficient invincible forager dies by generation 61.
Goes Extinct in Generation
Species
55
dsc511
60
Booyahs
61
Desert Viper
It’s a random walk among equals from here.
Winners
Species
Player
Social Media
Armadillo v2
Henny
None
Desert Tortoise1
Multicore
None
Desert Tortoise2
Yull-Rete
None
Rock Beetle
Taleuntum
None
Sol Invictus
simon
None
Eratta
Simon notes that I used the wrong starting energy value of 50,000 instead of 1,000. Basically the same thing happens (except faster) when I use the correct energy value.
2021 Darwin Game—Desert
Our Desert is an inhospitable environment. Carrion, while nutritious, is hard to digest and there’s not a lot of it. Species must be adapted to the heat too.
The most dangerous part of the desert is the predators. Two people submitted sandworms.
Only 36 organisms were submitted to the Desert. 23 of them could digest Carrion. Carrion is very nutritious so all 23 were viable foragers.
Generations 1 to 10
A few apex predators did well.
Generations 11 to 50
The apex predators did so well they wiped out all the foragers without maxed out speed or defense. Having extinguished the easy prey, the apex predators proceeded to starve.
Generations 51+
Most of these speccies are identical. They’re carrion foragers with maxed-out defense (including antivenom) and nothing else. Everyone who isn’t a maximally-efficient invincible forager dies by generation 61.
It’s a random walk among equals from here.
Winners
Eratta
Simon notes that I used the wrong starting energy value of 50,000 instead of 1,000. Basically the same thing happens (except faster) when I use the correct energy value.
“Shai-Hulud” is what the Fremen call sandworms.