For the past couple of months, Lisdude has been doing some tinkering to improve the stability of Creatures 2, both on modern hardware and just in general.
https://lisdude.com/Creatures/Community/
The website has all of the information you should need to get started. These updates take the form of a binary patch that you apply to your original executable. It's compatible with the Steam edition, GoG edition, Albian Years, and C2 Deluxe. |
We have been having some recent website issues which are related to the host and we do apologize for the inconvenience. The majority of the problems should be corrected now, but if you come across any partially loading pages or errors or other issues, please do leave a comment on this news page or reply to the associated forum thread.
On a separate but related note, due to escalating costs and the time involved in correcting hosting issues, we're considering putting ads on the website. While we would like to avoid this at all costs, it is an option which must be considered.
If you enjoy Creatures Caves and would like to see it continue to be ad-free, please do take a moment to donate securely using PayPal. Every dollar, euro, pound, yen etc makes a difference. Thank you!
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Intended as a spiritual successor to Aiko's Live Nornish Action, the Norn Swarm is a (hopefully) 24/7 livestream of Creatures Docking station. It uses the Natsue warp system and anyone can send in their creatures. Please be nice, though, and don't flood my world. I expect I'll run into problems as I try to manage this, but we'll get through it all together!
You can watch the Norn Swarm directly on my Twitch channel or on creatures.neocities.org. I realized back in October that I must've snagged that awesome url as a kid, and I just knew I had to use it for something, haha!
EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot! A massive thank you to Aiko for lending some of the LNA tools! |
Ian Saunter, who worked for Millennium Entertainment, CL and Gameware, has died at the age of 66.
His obituary can be read at: Ian Saunter – a lifetime career in games |

This coming April 16 will be the tenth anniversary of Creatchi. 
In honor of the anniversary, everyone who is active on the site should adopt a Creatchi and we can see how many total were raised between now and the Creatchi-versary.
If you have any thoughts on how else to celebrate, please reply in the comments.
 Ever wanted to take care of a norn, grendel or ettin while browsing Creatures Caves? Well, now you can! Allow me to introduce an all-new website feature here at Creatures Caves: Creatchi, the online Creatures game. You may select a Creatchi egg to hatch a new, random Creatchi, or you may adopt an offspring of some community users' Creatchis (available in the future after some Creatchis have already bred). Please read the Official Creatchi Care Guide for more information.
Special thanks to Ghosthande for creating all of the incredible sprites. |
I would just like to extend a heartfelt 'thank you' to all of those who have generously donated to Creatures Caves over the past few years.
It's thanks to folks like you that we have always been advertisement free. I'm still in awe that after more than two decades, people are still checking the site regularly and actively engaging. The Creatures community is a very special place. 

For those of you who are as nostalgic for days past as I am, take a walk down memory lane to see how our website looked back in 2002. So many fond memories over so many years.
If you enjoy the site and would like to help keep it ad-free, feel free to donate by clicking the link below. Every penny/pence makes a difference. 
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A troll has been flooding the forums with multiple spam topics, starting with simple pettiness but now graduating to active malice such as shock images.
The staff is doing what they can to alleviate the issue, but for your safety please be extremely cautious about what topics you open, and don't open any messages from members you do not recognize. |

Cyborg has released the Angler Grendels for download! Check them out! |
Creatures 3, Creatures: The Albian Years, and Creatures Village are now 15% off their regular retail price for the Steam Winter Sale! Docking Station, the Science Kit, and the Breed Packs are free on Steam as per usual.
Get them here! |
Hello Everyone!
The team at Eemfoo.org is excited to announce that a new warp, created by 20kdc, has started its open beta! This new warp does not require any significant install, and will work with all versions (even Steam and Linux!) of DS. Chat, friends lists, sending and receiving norns works just like it did with the official warp so many years ago.
In order to best keep track of those testing in this beta phase, and to keep communication clear, you will need to join Eemfoo's Discord to participate at this time. You can join at: https://discord.gg/UjpKqCjStS. |
The Creatures Community Spirit Festival finally has a date! A little earlier than last year, going from November 20th to November 26th! This year's festival includes:
A wolfling run in a brand new room, streamed on Twitch with VODs available! https://www.twitch.tv/eemfoo/
Every entrant wins a prize!
--->(submit .ds.creature files on the discord https://discord.gg/zWXkgJtUWC)<---
An "Easter Egg Hunt" - with a list of clues, test your Creatures knowledge to find eggs hidden in EemFoo's Archive! Prizes to be won!
Daily posts on eemfoo.org with community submissions, news, and updates on the wolfing run!
Stay tuned for more sneak peeks as we get closer! |
EemFoo has been busy setting up for the CCSF 2022 wolfling run. Entrants are still needed! There will be a new scoring system this year.
Submissions should be sent to EemFoo on discord (DMs are fine, they're always open) Please include what name you want to be listed as, the name of your creature, and breed sprites required. EemFoo will do their best to minimize conflicts, but there are only so many slots. |
All documentation from Creatures 3D, the un-released (just planned) 3D creatures game, that was developed alongside Docking Station! Contains lore and concept art! Almost 200 pages!
https://eemfoo.org/c3d.zip |
Creatures can now fully interact with and understand the world wrap in C2toDS Refresh!
NeoDement wrote: -Creatures can now see objects over the wrap. This works by creating an invisible object with the same Category as the original, offset to the other side of the world. It even works for the pointer and creatures!
-Interactions with these Mirror objects will redirect to the same interactions on the original object. This is to account for objects that are near the wrap but can still be reached without the creature walking through.
-If a creature gets too close to a Mirror creature, the Mirror copy will move away from them slowly so that the creature keeps approaching until they cross the wrap and can interact with each other for real. (this had to be done because creature to creature scripts are complex and can't be faked with a simp object)
-Creature voices can now be heard over the wrap (previously norns could hear them but the player couldn't hear the creature bibble).
-The pointer/objects are no longer prevented from going over the wrap if a creature has their attention on them, the copies fill the same role.
-The Selected Creature/Attention Indicators are no longer made visible everywhere in the C2toDS room. Instead, copies of them are created and offset to the opposite side of the world so the camera can always see them.
-Optimization. Having the world wrap installed in a world with 16 creatures with fast ticks enabled appears to be on average ~43 fps slower than not having it installed.
The game variable "C2toDS_WrapTickRate" can be tweaked to control how frequently the wrap tries to move objects through it and create mirror objects. The lower the number, the more accurate, but it comes with a performance cost.
Check it out! Don't forget that we can help out by submitting issues and filling out the agent help descriptions for the catalogue files. |
SG has released Spritist, a sprite utility for C0, C1, C2, and C3DS, with file support for SPR, S16, C16, GIF, PNG, and more. |
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