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Pollinating Insects   Sprites   the1whoscreams | 12/31/2014  log in to like post

These little guys are meant to be used with the plants I posted, and they've got a lot of quirks. Since they are based on real-life bees, I will assume that they are all female.

I may as well cover the five variations. The one with yellow antennae, eyes and stinger is the Queen. She only comes out and gathers nectar if all the bugs belonging to her hive are dead as a last-ditch attempt to keep the colony alive. Her sprite does not change when gathering, because her stinger is already yellow.

The blue and green bug with a green stinger is a typical bug. She can just be flying around aimlessly near her hive and return after some time, but she can also be a gatherer. They gather nectar from anything classified as flower, so don't expect plants that depend on them to produce fruit or seeds very quickly if you grow them in the Norn Meso without getting rid of the Bramboo first.

The blue and green bug with happy eyes and a golden stinger, with nectar dripping out of the end, is a gatherer heading back to her hive to convert the nectar she has collected into honey. She will not attack until she gets her nectar to its destination, and even then, only if the hive is attacked by a Norn. Gatherers enter this state after they've gathered from three flowers. When they make honey, they revert back to a normal bug and randomly choose one of two states to be in as a normal bug.

Now, about that orange one. Gatherers that do not have honey will enter this state if another bug is attacked. Only ones that are outside the hive will attack if it is just another gatherer attacked,but not killed. However, if the queen of that particular hive is attacked, or a normal bug is eaten or killed in some other way, every single bug in the hive she belongs to will come out and attack. When gatherers with nectar make honey, they will immediately come out and attack the creature or Hand that did something that causes the entire hive to attack. Something worth noting is the giant stinger of death.

The sad, grey bug is the state any bug will enter if she is hit. She can now be eaten, and she will also be killed if she is hit once again.

Sometimes the hives will swarm, and they will release a Queen and three to five gatherers, that will follow her wherever she goes. If any of the bugs in a swarm are injured or killed, the surviving gatherers will sting with all their might at whatever attacked, whether it's a creature or the Hand. If the Hand is stung, the same thing will happen as what happens when a stinger stings it. Hives will only swarm if there are no other hives near them, and wandering Queens will only make hives if the same requirements needed for a hive to swarm are met in that area. They only start hives if there are flowers nearby, because if there are no flowers, the hive can't do anything, and if the hive can't do anything, it's completely useless.

Hives form on ceilings. If wandering Queens detect at least four flowers in an area, they will fly up and make a hive on the ceiling directly above them.

The yellow crystal that is at its natural pixel size is a honey crystal. Gatherers with honey drop this when hit, and if the hive itself is on a ceiling low enough for a Norn to be able to reach it, it will drop four to five crystals with each hit.

When a bug stings a creature, it will be injected with very small amounts of toxins, possibly five of each toxin the person who makes this into an agent wants it to have. Again, no guaranteed death toxins. If several bugs sting in rapid succession, the toxins can and will become a problem.

The hives have a finite amount of bugs in each one, and gatherers with honey stay in the hive for about a minute when they put it in the hive. If two minutes go by without any bugs from a hive entering a hostile or injured state, a new bug will be born from the hive.

Note for Developers: Call these whatever you want, and about the flowers without pollination scripts, the bugs should be ejected from the flower in a random direction after they have gathered from it to prevent them from gathering from the same flower several times in a row.
 
 
the1whoscreams | 1/2/2015  log in to like post

I'd really love to see someone make these into an agent,because I think it's a pretty cool idea,even though it might be Jungle Terrarium to code certain things about them.
 
evolnemesis | 1/1/2015  log in to like post

very cool.


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