Zeruko v1.2
(formerly called Nualbia)
(click on the picture for a full-scale map of the background)
After many years of (non-continuous) work the new world for Creatures is finally ready.
Zeruko is named for the Basque word for "celestial" or "of heaven"
It was designed to be an arboreal paradise rich in food and sparse in technology.
It
is based on one of Slink's worlds and as such all willing adult
creatures can mate with each other regardless of sex or species.
Therefore ettins, grendels & shee can breed in this world, female initiated courtship and same sex mating is allowed.
The population gap is set at 48, although the game engine struggles past thirty so be warned!
Using Creatures Community Edition I have managed to keep 110 creatures in the world without any problems!
| To install Zeruko, download & unzip the files to the directories to the right Be aware that some versions of Creatures have second set of these directories in "My Documents" | File Extension | Destination Directory |
| SFC | /Creatures/ | |
| SPR | /Creatures/Images | |
| WAV | /Creatures/Sounds | |
| ATT | /Creatures/Body Data | |
| GEN | /Creatures/Genetics |
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Preview
The Orchard
Rich in food and life, this image shows Atono, my primary Beta Tester,
the primary burrow is found just under this place
The Village
Mainly tree houses above a wooded valley, and an old stone fortress,
here is where most of Zeruko's technology can be found.
The Tropics
This lush paradise has much food, and water, above deep caves.
Click above for a guide to the rooms, transport and food sources in Zeruko.
Note that a few of the features on the map are not added yet.
Remember that the teleporter links can be altered, I depicted the default setting.
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Backstory
| Extracts from Cheribidee's Journal: Year 746 Albian date, Zune 17th The Terra Nornia Project was a great success, we had fantastically buttery crumpets at the celebration. The problem is that our norns are still breeding, and still need more space to grow tea and suchlike. I plan to create a duplicator to solve our problem once and for all. Year 746 Albian date, Junomber 3rd I have managed to build my Duplicator, and have copied cups of tea, biscuits, my microscope and even my wardrobe, complete with its contents. Tomorrow I shall try it on organic life. Year 746 Albian date, Junomber
4th Back to the drawing board.
Year 746 Albian date, Junomber 12th
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Year 747 Albian date, Grendich 1st The first copied ettin stole the shut-down switch as I was congratulating myself on success. Then there were dozens of the blasted things swiping
things left right and centre. It took a few weeks to calm them down from their
klepto-mobbing - my good friend Shillianoun wrote an interesting treatise on the
phenomena - and I claimed back my equipment and journal.
Year 747 Albian date, Grendich 2nd Greeny blue and pleasantly disc-shaped like our own, but with important differences. I realised too late that one of those blasted ettins had stowed away onboard my ship, Simulacrum, this time they stole the Random Variable Remover Device. Thusly a few chance factors have given us a different, though happily habitable world. I'll get them to send some norns, microscopes and other useful knick knacks in return. That reminds me of Shillianoun's paper on "Basic Interplanetary Economics" its an interesting idea, but it'll never catch on, it's much easier if each of us invents what we need.
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Year 748 Albian date, Vinduary 25th Ah well. The crops have been doing nicely, and I've bred some interesting norns. I call them YinYangs as the females are very pale and the males dark. Year 748 Albian date, Aprich 22nd the other worlds out there are spherical not flat! Our world is not the epicentre we believed it to be. There is work going on to build an Ark to take
us to a likely looking one that some have named Sphericus. I must abandon my paradise to the ravishes of time, and leave my creations to do as they will. (Last entry) |