2021 Darwin Game—River

The River contains lots of every foragable food. The River is like the Human Garbage Dump except:

  1. It has 5x as many resources.

  2. Both air-breathing and water-breathing species can survive in the River.

  3. Organisms may not start in the River. They must wander in.

Name Carrion Leaves Grass Seeds Detritus Coconuts Algae Lichen
River 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500

Generation 0

At first, there are no animals and the foragables accumulate.

Generations 1-100

Species Original Biome Venom? Weapons Armor Speed Forage? Creator
Leafy Luncheoner Temperate Forest Neither 0 0 1 Leaves Sean Hyer
Mooshroom Grassland Neither 0 0 5 Grass;Seeds Vanessa
slow vulture Desert Antivenom only 0 10 10 Carrion eat (Allows survival in the Desert),Corm
mediocre 1-2-s Grassland Neither 1 0 2 Seeds Corm
Very Lesser Forest Dragon Rainforest Neither 2 0 2 Persephone 0461

The same pattern repeats for each foragable. First the foragable accomulates. Then a species which can consume the foragable appears. Its population explodes until it has eaten the accumulated foragable. Finally, its population reverts to carrying capacity.

Persephone 0461′s Very Lesser Forest Dragon wandered in. It thrived until another predator appeared which hunted it to extinction.

Generations 100-9000

Species appear. Species Disappear. Life is always in flux.

This is where all the Ocean’s Soonbegons were coming from. Until they didn’t anymore.

Winners

Name Native Biome Venom? Attack Armor Speed Forage? Temperature Adaptation? Creator Social Media
Booyahs Desert Neither 2 0 10 Carrion Heat (Allows survival in the Desert) CK None
Snark Temperate Forest Neither 0 0 10 Leaves Vanessa None
Venomoth Rainforest Venom + Antivenom 0 0 3 Grass aphyer None
Locust Eater Eater Temperate Forest Neither 2 0 2 Seeds Multicore None
Hopsplitter Grassland Neither 0 0 10 Grass;Seeds Nem None