Useful Tiger Plants
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Join Date: 2017-02-09 Member: 227749Members
Join Date: 2017-02-09 Member: 227749Members
Tiger plants are an enemy that can be found in certain areas of the world. You can attack them to obtain their seeds, and grow them from said seeds. And then they... attack you.
I think that it'd be cool if you could feed them a fish while they are still growing to befriend them. (or something)
Then they would shoot at nearby enemies. One use for this is if you planted one in a pot outside your base to stave them off.
This would work better with my other idea that enemies should attack your seabase every now and then.
Anyways, Thanks for reading.
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I don't know about you, but I tend to build my first base just North of the Life pod, and just West of the Kelp Zone. Lots of Stalkers spawn there, and I'd like them to leave me alone. Plus, if they shoot at passing fish, you can pick them up and eat them!
No species on Earth with no optical sensors can't sence its surroundings, take sunflowers for example, they have no eyes yet their bulbs will always point to the sun, even when the sun's course varies throughout the spring and summer months. Tiger plants could sence the player by used of magnetic fields or the plant could be susceptible to vibrations made by the players swimming, ever way nature is cool.
Ironically enough sunflowers do not actually follow the sun at all. Other flowers do, though.
Anyways, yeah. I'd assume they detect vibrations or heat maps or something, and would learn which ones are safe. (look up the video of some dude dropping a fern idk what its called but its cool)
Um...not exactly.
Decrypting the triple negative, that statement comes out to "all species without eyes (or an equivalent) can still sense their surroundings." Considering that response to stimuli is one of the defining characteristics of life, that's not too surprising. But sunflowers are no more remarkable than poison ivy.
The process by which plants respond to light is called phototropism, a specialized version of which - present in sunflowers and other members of family Asteraceae - is heliotropism, where the response is more highly presented. The process is fundamentally the same, though: plant cells in shade produce more auxin than those exposed to light. The increased auxin levels prompt the production of elastins to loosen cell walls and prompt elongation; when cytokinins are also present, the combination of auxin and cytokinin prompts cellular reproduction. This causes the plant to grow asymmetrically and it turns. Since the elongation/reproduction effects are on the shady side of the plant, the plant swings towards the light source.
In basic phototropism, which occurs in nearly all plants, the result is that the plant turns toward the strongest average light source. In heliotropism, however, the effect occurs very rapidly (relatively speaking), allowing the plant to track the sun more precisely. However, there's an upper limit to the speed at which this can occur. If you were to conduct an experiment where you put a sunflower in a dark warehouse with a sunlamp that travels overhead, then vary the speed at which the sunlamp moves during the day, you'll find a point at which the flower just can't keep up. This is because the plant isn't using muscular action to move but changes in cellular shape and number, both of which take much longer to perform than moving muscle fibers.
Some plants are able to move very quickly by shifting water balance, but only in very small, specific movements. Venus flytraps, for instance, can rapidly alter the turgor pressure in their leaves, enabling them to trap prey. However, this action isn't flexible; it only has two states it can exist in, so the idea of a flytrap snatching an insect out of the air like a hand is simply impossible.
At the end of the day, the operation of the tiger plant is totally outside terrestrial botanical science. Realistically, it would be more likely that it would be a rooted animal, like the mature phase of a barnacle, rather than a plant. But the devs say it's a plant so...magic.
hooray i probably learned more today from you than from school
Venus fly traps detect prey with tiny hairs in their mouths
That happens to me all the time on youtube
Simple solution: One plant per pot, spaced out to form a perimeter defence system around your base, but not close enough to damage it. Use concentric rings to make certain that absolutely nothing gets through.
Well obviously they wouldn't be able to damage seabases or eachother. Problem solved.
Sharks go one better than even their impressive sense of smell. Their ampullae of Lorenzini detect the electrical fields produced by their prey's muscle movements...even the heartbeat of hiding or camouflaged prey.
Like them or not, you have to admit...sharks have style.
did you read the suggestion
I was responding to @GlassDeviant , basically saying no you couldn't befriend them, you would just have to give them some sort of chemical or other signal that would counter whatever trigger the tiger plant normally uses to fire on creatures near itself.