Hello everyone happy new year it's been a while but i got some interesting things to show you because ive been running the simulation all this time. First of all i kinda started a new simulation by picking out the best bots from the simulation, then just making it start with those bots, but I also edited their mutation rates because I screwed up by making the mutation magnitude too large. Like, a point mutation is usually only 1, but i edited it to be minimum 1, maximum 5 and it didn't work well because usually for cool new things to happen you need small mutations that over time work with more small mutations to create some new behavior or function. But with the large mutation magnitude, it was basically impossible for the bots to evolve significantly because it would change too many things at once, usually breaking the bot so that it does nothing and dies of starvation. Even if it doesn't kill the bot, the large mutations usually only add or change junk code that does absolutely nothing, and extremely convoluted junk code filled with nonsense too, so that it's extremely hard for additional mutations to end up being positive.
I want to simply describe what most bots do, because their behavior is quite unique. If they don't see anything, they just stay still. It's boring, and it's pretty much what the basic animal minimalis does anyways, but it's practical because the cost of movement is pretty high and especially since there are a lot of walls and no map wraparound, there's no guarantee of finding food by simply moving in a straight line, and in fact doing that can get you stuck in a corner where you're even less likely to find food and very likely to starve to death. If they see a plant, they go straight for it and eat it. If they see a bot, it seems like they try to circle around each other, and sometimes they attack each other with shots, but with not much dedication. They're pretty much opportunistic cannibals. Maybe the circling behavior is a result of bots trying to get behind the other to land free shots? Also they treat a corpse exactly like a plant and go straight for it.
So once I turned down the mutation magnitude, I started seeing some interesting mutations. First of all there was a species in the upper left quadrant which developed shells, which greatly helped them survive from the opportunistic cannibalism of basically everyone else (opportunistic cannibalism is when bots don't necessarily seek out other bots to kill and eat, but they will totally do so if one ends up in their sights) but they eventually died out. I believe this is because they made too much shell so they became too heavy and couldn't move anywhere to find food, so while they could resist cannibalism, they just starved to death. Second there was another species in the upper left quadrant some time after this which somehow stopped being cannibals and basically regained the ability to distinguish between plants and bots so that they won't attack bots. They still circle around each other and get pretty comfy with each other, so they still recognize bots, but won't attack them. I think I've said before that once animal minimalis loses its ability to recognize other bots to not attack them, it's impossible for them to regain that ability through mutations, but i was proven wrong and i'm delighted about it. Sadly i found them yesterday right as i was about to go to bed so i didn't take a picture of them, went to bed, and i forgot to take a picture of them again when i woke up and reopened the simulation and forgot all about them, and by the time i remembered the simulation had ran for a while and they apparently went extinct during that time.
my guess is that they were killed with impunity by the opportunistic cannibals and they didn't fight back at all. Or it might be bad luck in finding food, as they were a pretty small population of about 10 bots
the first picture is an overall screenshot of the whole simulation, and the second picture is an example of what it looks like when bots have just finished eating up a clump of plants, they do this crazy circling battle royale where they try to eat each other
here is the best bot, with 61 descendants out of a population of 610, impressive!
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