The Sapling
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The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
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MINORPatch v13.71
Balancing and fixes for animals Various legs besides the body now have special requirements for the animal to have more than 1 set of limbs, to make them look more natural (already in the previous pat
MINORPatch v13.57
Balancing and fixes for plants Major rebalancing of leaf statistics, so you will more variety in the leaves evolving Bioluminescent flowers and fruits now cost slightly more energy (thanks, Warlord-vi
MINORPatch v13.52
Working on land animal evolution Made the evolution of land animals more likely Animals with aquatic eggs that can only walk very slowly are now considered land animals if they also swim very slowly I
MINORPatch v13.49
More work on the project to make the game easier to understand Added a habitat map for the plant and animal editors, so you can quickly see where in your world this planet will survive Moved the 'this
MINORPatch v13.46
A completely new cladogram view I've replaced the old cladogram view, because playtesting quite consistently showed that nobody was using it. The game is now using a completely new chronogram approach
MINORPatch v13.45
Major simulation change If an animal is in a location that contains food, it will no longer leave that location until all food is gone (except plankton, which requires swimming through). This makes it
MINORPatch v13.44
Overhauled optimization mechanism that decides which 3D models to show Building procedural 3D models on the fly is expensive; on most modern hardware, showing an accurate model for each plant and anim
MINORPatch v13.41
Completely overhauled how species are detected So far, species classification was based on the features of an organism. Simply put, if a plant evolved a new type of leaf, or an animal evolved a new ty
MINORPatch v13.40
This is the first time the new movement update is available to everyone, regardless of whether you chose the beta. A quick overview of all new features: This is what has changed since the movement upd
MINORPatch v13.39 (beta only)
Improved upright bipeds Added arm swing animation for animals with arms Upright bipeds no longer have their feet clip through the ground when placed Upright bipeds no longer slowly sink into the groun
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