Subnautica Creature Evolution Chart
jamintheinfinite_1
Jupiter Join Date: 2016-12-03 Member: 224524Members
Jupiter Join Date: 2016-12-03 Member: 224524Members
For those who don't use the wiki, I have recently made a chart showing the evolution of the Subnautica fauna. Due to the picture being to big to upload here. I will just post the link to it. New update: Added most of the expansion creatures.
http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Jamintheinfinite/Creature_Evolution_Chart
http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Jamintheinfinite/Creature_Evolution_Chart
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Personally, this is useful to me.
I've always wanted to see how creatures in the game evolved
Also:
Permission to use your amazing chart to make a custom version?
Thank you! I'll make sure to credit you for the research and original model.
I will wait for a bit then.
Again, very nice chart!
The Rabbit Ray also splits off from the Alpha Ray rather than the Ghostray.
The Boneshark, Biter, Sand Shark, Rockgrub and Theta also don't fit like that. The five of them should all be splitting from one common ancestor. Rather than the other four splitting from the Theta.
Aside from that I think everything else looks quite accurate.
Copy and pasting 101
Any improvements I can make or suggestions?
Feel free to make any suggestions, question it, or comment on it.
Finished the Eel Section.
Should I post it there? I haven't seen anyone mention it yet.
This is looking great.
That is exactly what I thought, but I'm letting Jam call the shots. It is their property, after all.
I will continue tomorrow, but here's all I've done today.
Comments, Ideas, Suggestions, whatever, comment it below.
Done. I credited you in the text, as well as posted the original.
Floaters and amoeboids are quite different. The floater is a more complex animal made up of two symbiotic species (The main pink creature and an outer membrane made up of microorganisms which stores a layer of helium for flotation), but the amoeboid as it's name suggests is more of an enormous single celled organism that reproduces through mitosis. The floater's databank entry also suggests that they only begin to reproduce once they reach the "ancient" stage.
Perhaps the ameboid is related to the Tree leech; they follow a similar life cycle, although the ameboid is much less complex than the floater. However, I have toyed with the theory that the tree leech and the floater are actually the same organism but at different stage of its life cycle. But I abandoned this because there's no place for the tree leech to fit into the more probable cycle of Gel Sack - Floater Colony - Ancient Floater
Update to Alterra's encyclopedia of the universe's marvels: Floater maturation (that is, when all of the floaters bubble up from the ocean depths as a sort of upside-down rain.
Please add sandworm to expansion pass
As for the Amoeboid, I do understand your point that it is very different from the Floater, but perhaps the Floater split off from the Amoeboid, becoming a more complex creature. Noting how the Ancient Floaters remain attached to their rocks, I find it curious how they can have a birthing process (unless the young floaters are developed on the outside, where they would be exposed). If Floaters don't form as eggs on the outside of Ancient Floaters, then they may just split off into many, rather than into halves. (Honestly, both remind me of Metroids, but lacking the aggression)
I suppose we'd need to find a real-world analogue to better understand the two creatures well, aside from simply taking the microscopic process and making them macro, such as the Amoeboid.
Interestingly, this entry seems to show it's family tree (bottom right). I can't seem to decipher the labels in this pic though.
It'll be fun if we have competing theories we can reference.
However, we're still lacking publication of the cladistic dataset!