The Bibites 0.4 Alpha 8: Ageing, Filter Feeding , and [More] (Patreon)

A few significant things today!

AgeingDue to the fact that some bibites would live forever and prevent new generations from developing, resulting in low dynamism, the bibites will now age. Once they reach a certain age, they'll slowly lose strength (movement and bite strength) and their energy metabolism cost will slowly increase. The ageing process proportionally scales with the metabolism speed of the bibites, so faster bibites will start ageing sooner and will then age faster. The opposite is true for slower bibites! The default settings make this process pretty slow, so the effect will be minimal, but you are free to increase the effects of ageing. Head to the biology panel for that new information.

Filter FeedingTo encourage different niches, a small thing I decided to add is that bibites can swallow pellets without having to bite it. If an object (pellet or other bibite) is small enough compared to the mouth opening of the bibite, it will be able to swallow it whole instantly. In the future, it could be interesting to add factors and adaptations that would influence the size of the mouth, encouraging this feeding type at the expanse of other downsides.

Randomizing Virgin GenesSo uhh... This option is wacky, but it's there. If enabled, initial virgin bibites will have completely random genes, across the whole spectrum of possibilities. If you enable this I would recommend lowering the bibite spawn rate.

Small changes and modifications:

Sprite modding finalized

Added warning when going over 3x Time Speed

Background can be made any color

 Spawn limit now enabled by default

Bug fixes:

Fixed pellet wipe bug 

Fixed white background flash on escape panel opened 

Fixed Maturity progress bar display glitch

Looking forward to your feedback!