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Hello everyone and welcome to a development diary solely focused on our upcoming mod, which will release on the 19th of January!

Endangered Animals pack is our opportunity to spread awareness of animals nearing extinction, and we will go an extra mile to provide donation links to associations tasked with preserving them in the mod description.

To further show how big of an issue this is, we have decided to add a special mechanic that prevents these animals from spawning naturally in the world. Instead, they will appear from an event similar to Thrumbo wanders in - A pair (male and female) of one of the endangered animals will wander into your local map, giving you a chance to tame them.

Once tamed, their offspring and them can be released to the wild using a special button:

Release to the Wild means an animal will wander off the map and disappear forever - as it returns to it's natural habitat. It also raises your relations with tribal and outlander factions slightly. 

This means you can help repopulate the world by breeding endangered animals in a safe environment, and then release them for relations boost!

Now lets take a look at what animals we have in store for you! Their more detailed descriptions will follow in a few days:

Can you try and name all of them?

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Michael Cooper

Amazing! So excited for this. I see Panda and Pangolin! Black rino, royal penguin, Grévy's zebra, African wild dog? Would be cool to gift the raised animals to a specific faction by trade for a bigger more pointed boost to that faction.

Zachery Gaskins

The "release to wild" feature sounds like something that would be of use to animals in general, rather than waiting around for their tameness to expire. Could this feature be extended to all animals without compromising the goals of the endangered mechanics? (I ask because I use a "release to wild" mod already and since I'm fully onboard with this mod, it would be simple to have this mod and not the one I already have)

Karl Williams

As someone who did a degree in conservation, I won't ruin naming them. Big well done for bringing attention to 'endangered' species though! But no love for frogs :'(

Zac

Off the top of my head I see black rhino, silverback gorilla (I think), panda, pangolin, tasmanian devil (fortunately, they are returning to the wild recently), tasmanian tiger (I doubt it, they are extinct), african spotted dog. This is an interesting mod, looking forward to seeing what it'll be like.

tomi

Finally I can release animals again :D

Daemon976

If I could make one small request for the future, could there be an official "Vanilla Animals Compilation" mod that includes all the mods, for those of us who want all of these amazing animals but don't want to overload their modlist?