Creatures Caves

The last couple of days has been fun- I finally got Creatures 3 AND DS to work. Everything started off pretty normal; I had Ettins in one room, Grendels in another and some wandering Norns that I wouldn't touch. Then I spliced things.

Ettins are probably my favorite to mess around with. Grettins are pretty common in my worlds, but I got a little too happy with the splicing buttons and made something I really liked. Healthy too! Which... is not something I can say often for splicing experiments in my worlds.

"Whiptail" was a VERY successful Ettin. Hoo boy. She started off as a relatively normal Ettin with a Grendel tail, but I've since bred her family into what you see below... Freak and his family. I've selectively bred him and some of my other Ettin experiments to make a family of "Chimera Ettins". I really like they they all have Bengal bodies and scaly Banshee limbs. So far, Splice's family is very active with little to no complaining and no gait issues. I REALLY want their pigments to change, but that seems to be weirdly stable with them.

Not sure how long this will last or how far it can go, but I enjoy this little family since it all started from a wolf run splicing experiment. I wish I could make it into a breed, but I can't get my Genetics Kit to work. There's about ten of them running around my worlds right now, all identical looking. Below is Splice with some of his children and relatives.

Edit: Shortly after posting this, I had a girl hatch with a good amount of green pigment... IT BEGINS. Finally, something more than a single point of change!

Edit 2: Now that I have their "look" down, I'm studying their drives and individual quirks more. I've been breeding these guys for only two days. Some things I have noticed with these so far, which did not exist in the original parents...

1. They ignore the Ettin home scent and instead go to the Grendel home when they feel homesick. They also seem to have zero interest in gadgets and machines unless I tell them to get them. They often will grab and carry their eggs to my comfort candles if I move them! The original parents stayed by the Ettin home scent in the terrarium so I am not sure when this happened...

2. Happy! They're happy almost all the time and don't seem to have the anger of their Banshee grandparents. They still hit when crowded, but it's nothing unusually aggressive.

3. Long lived. They seem to live longer than both Banshees and standard Ettins. I've been leaving my game running while I'm out, and I had several ancient ladies sitting at about six hours and twenty minutes old last night. However, I have been selectively culling members for IQ tests, so more testing is needed. Over-all, seems like the lifespan is Nornish.