2021 Darwin Game - Desert

post by lsusr · 2021-10-06T00:24:57.230Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

Contents

  Generations 1 to 10
  Generations 11 to 50
  Generations 51+
  Winners
  Eratta
None
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Our Desert is an inhospitable environment. Carrion, while nutritious, is hard to digest and there's not a lot of it. Species must be adapted to the heat too.

Carrion	Leaves	Grass	Seeds	Detritus	Coconuts	Algae	Lichen
100	0	1	1	1	0	0	0

The most dangerous part of the desert is the predators. Two people submitted sandworms.

Name	Venom	Weapons	Antivenom	Armor	Speed	Creator
Desert Carnivore		10	✓	0	10	Antihaas
dp511	✓	10	✓	0	10	horu
Sand Drake		6		0	10	Yull-Rete
Sandworm		10		7	8	Vanessa
Shai-Hulud[1]		10	✓	0	7	simon

Only 36 organisms were submitted to the Desert. 23 of them could digest Carrion. Carrion is very nutritious so all 23 were viable foragers.

Generations 1 to 10

A few apex predators did well.

Goes Extinct in Generation	Species
6	Lesser Desert Rat
7	Cordova
8	Hyena
8	Desert-Ants
8	Desert-Foxes
8	Desert-Lizard
9	Yonge_Hot
10	Josep Raich

Generations 11 to 50

The apex predators did so well they wiped out all the foragers without maxed out speed or defense. Having extinguished the easy prey, the apex predators proceeded to starve.

Goes Extinct in Generation	Species
11	Desert-Coyotes
11	Cockatrice
11	cg-wildcat
12	Venomous Snark
12	Desert-Snakes
14	Bitey-the-scary
14	Smok
16	Titus
19	Desertio
20	Qanon
23	Wurm
26	Sandworm
33	Shai-Hulud
35	lDha-C293
38	Sand Drake
38	slow vulture
41	Desert Carnivore
45	Chocolattos
45	Dongles
46	dp511

Generations 51+

Name	Venom	Weapons	Antivenom	Armor	Speed	Eats Carrion?	Other	Creator
Desert Viper	✓	0	✓	0	10	✓		aphyer
dsc511		0	✓	10	0	✓	Eats Leaves, Grass, Seeds, Detritus, Coconuts, Algae, Lichen	horu
Booyahs		2		0	10	✓		CK
Rock Beetle		0	✓	10	0	✓		Taleuntum
Desert Tortoise1		0	✓	10	0	✓		Multicore
Desert Tortoise2		0	✓	10	0	✓		Yull-Rete
Armadillo v2		0	✓	10	0	✓		Henny
Sol Invictus		0	✓	10	0	✓		simon

Most of these speccies are identical. They're carrion foragers with maxed-out defense (including antivenom) and nothing else. Everyone who isn't a maximally-efficient invincible forager dies by generation 61.

Goes Extinct in Generation	Species
55	dsc511
60	Booyahs
61	Desert Viper

It's a random walk among equals from here.

Winners

Species	Player	Social Media
Armadillo v2	Henny	None
Desert Tortoise1	Multicore	None
Desert Tortoise2	Yull-Rete	None
Rock Beetle	Taleuntum	None
Sol Invictus	simon	None

Eratta

Simon notes [LW(p) · GW(p)] that I used the wrong starting energy value of 50,000 instead of 1,000. Basically the same thing happens (except faster) when I use the correct energy value.

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1. "Shai-Hulud" is what the Fremen call sandworms. ↩︎

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