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bacillus:
Hi and welcome!
Funnily enough, I played with most of those ideas in a Java version of DB (Never quite worked out in the end ). I think terrain was being played around with in DB3, but was given up along with 3D and a whole bunch of other ideas.
by 'plants', a 'bot', or cell, that is fed by the environment is meant, while by 'animals', a cell (or sometimes multicelled organsim) that eats other cells is meant.
I'm sure you could get a simple food chain going using a veggie that has shell to stop body feeding and encourage energy feeding, an energy-feeding vegetarian bot, a predator bot that eats body mass so it can only feed off non-algae, and a bigger predator, probably a multi-celled organism as they should be immune(ish) to being fed on by single-celled predators. All jibberish probably, but probably also the easiest solution
Houshalter:
A sheperd is a bot that encourges the evolution of other bots in the sim. Of course that won't mean anything if you've never experimented with the simulator yet. Its really confusing at first but I did it and I have the attention span of a...
bacillus:
That reminds me, do we actually have a coding tutorial anywhere? The only way to learn it from scratch seems to be meticulous DNA dissection or already knowing somebody who knows the code...
EDIT=> After rereading this thread (again), I think I finally understand the confusion. You think this is an ecosystem simulation; while something like that is by no means impossible, DB focuses more on evolution rather than coexistence. A bot will often cannibalize unless it was hand-authored, and mutations change that easily...
Houshalter:
Theres a tutorial somwhere. I have no idea where it is or who made it. If I can't find where it is I still have it saved on my computer so I can upload it as an attachment.
EDIT: Here it is forgot about it: Click Here
EDIT2: I tried the link and apparently it takes me to some website in spanish that tells me the file doesn't exist anymore. Anyone know where the tutorial went? You know the one with simplebot in it.
bacillus:
Ick, first attempts at getting coexistence to work ended in a giant Hydra eating the veggies shell and all.
EDIT=> Must be something wrong with your browser. I can access the Simplebot easily...
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