2021 Darwin Game—Everywhere Else

Shore

The Shore is an inhospitable wasteland. Algae is available, but it’s not very nitrutious. Coconuts offer an even worse calories-to-digestion ratio.

Name Carrion Leaves Grass Seeds Detritus Coconuts Algae Lichen
Shore 0 0 0 0 20 1000 1000 10

No coconut eaters got established in the Human Garbage Dump, which means no coconut eaters got established in the River or Shore instead. The only available food is algae. The Shore is basically a small bit of Ocean biome with ⅒ of the algae. The algae-eating winner of our Ocean competition has zero speed so it cannot migrate to the Shore.

To top all of it off, predators migrate in from both sea and land.

Soonbegons migrate from time to time to eat the Detritus. Otherwise, the Shore is mostly a graveyard.

Winners?

Soonbegons (kind of) by Martin Randall.

Grassland

The grassland has lots of grass and even more seeds.

Name Carrion Leaves Grass Seeds Detritus Coconuts Algae Lichen
Grassland 0 100 1000 2,000 0 0 0 50

The Grassland took 500 turns to establish an equilibrium.

Generations 1-500

Goes Extinct in Generation Species
11 Meercat colony
14 Flock of birbs
15 Bool
16 Big Oof
17 Empowered Turtle
17 glpp511
18 cg-bird
19 Nyarlathotep
20 Human
21 Tiny Snek
21 grass_mouse
22 Sleepypotat
22 Frontier-W8
23 Armored Nutcracker
23 Toxikeet
23 lGha-S541
24 Cowlagor
27 Karthosorox
30 Piranhakeet
30 cg-fastbird
31 Wampirek
32 Yonge_Snake
34 Sheep
37 Jackrabbit
39 Grassland Tribble
39 Grassland Aphid
40 basic seed fodder
40 Galumphers
40 lGca-AS154
41 GrassSeeater
41 Small Moth
41 SpeedyLichen
41 BeaupreyButGrassland
41 Tribble
42 DefinitelyJustARock
44 Weedle
45 Bob
45 SeedyEaty
45 Locust-Seeds
47 Tribble Hunter Hunter
49 Goat
51 seed fodder
52 Seed Eater Eater Eater
53 Frontier-W2
56 Trash Panda1
56 mediocre 1-2-s
59 Common Rat
61 Omnivorous Tribble Hunter
62 Frontier-W5
63 Siolid
65 Cannibal Locust
68 Tribble Hunter Hunter Hunter Hunter
73 Ziarnojad Malutki
74 Horned Owl
78 Yonge_Omnivore
83 Medium Seedrat
86 Maverick Goose
89 Squish
187 Mooshroom
294 Killer Bunny
345 Untielopay
423 6-0-3 seed
466 Yonge_Vegan

Generations 500-2000

The grassland establishes an equilibrium. The only native species left is the Hopsplitter.

You can’t see it but there’s a single Venomoth on the bottom of the graph.

Winners

Species Native Biome Venom? Weapons Armor Speed Forage? Temperature Adaptation? Creator Social Media
mediocre 1-3-s Temperate Forest Neither 1 0 3 Seeds Corm None
Hopsplitter Grassland Neither 0 0 10 Grass;Seeds Nem None
Brown Bear Temperate Forest Neither 3 0 6 elspood None
Venomous Snark Desert Venom + Antivenom 1 0 3 Carrion Heat (Allows survival in the Desert) DaemonicSigil Twitter
Venomoth Rainforest Venom + Antivenom 0 0 3 Grass aphyer None

Temperate Forest

The temperate forest has lots of leaves and significant seeds.

Name Carrion Leaves Grass Seeds Detritus Coconuts Algae Lichen
Temperate Forest 0 2,000 100 1000 0 0 0 50

Generations 1-200

The population crows, crashes, and then grows again.

Goes Extinct in Generation Species
9 Grizzly Bear
12 Optimistic Omnivore
13 LeavySpeedyTanky
13 The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
14 Colonoscopies
15 TFP511
15 Gobbledygook
16 Boojum
16 Ankylosaurus
16 Monstrous Bandersnatch
17 Arboreal Assailant
17 Ultimate Lifeform
17 Bear2
18 BeauOmni2
21 FastHerbivore
22 RockMonkey
22 Gino Soupprayen
23 Hedgie
24 Basilisk
24 Meta-Lichen
25 Armored Pigeon
26 Lichen Bug
26 Fox
26 Predator
29 Forest Leaf Blight
29 Leaf Tribble
31 TreeSeeater
31 Yonge_Slug
32 Gipgip
32 You Worm!
33 Leafy Luncheoner
33 Caterpie
33 Spider
34 Forest Dragon
34 Woodland Locust
34 Forest Tribble2
40 Munchers
41 Skitter Critter
52 SpeedySeedy
57 Unicorn
57 mediocre 1-3-s
57 lF-LM732
60 Songalagala
62 Mango
69 Sky Shark
70 Locust Eater Eater
71 Brown Bear
72 Snake
78 Bullfrog
79 Pidgeotto
81 Fast Venomous Snake
82 Morpork Owl
85 Deadly Mickey K
89 lFa-G172
93 Phanpy
97 Bear1
104 Omnom
109 Ken Nishimura
110 Forest Scorpion
114 Yonge_Defense
140 Snark
152 Bastion
169 Titanosaur

Generations 200-2000

The system achieves stability stable (except for a random walk among equals).

Goes Extinct in Generation Species
219 Gypsy Moth
272 Armored Sloth
290 Donphan
333 Armadillo1
336 Szaromysik
342 Turtling Trencherman
762 Bofa #0461-B

Winners

None of our final species have venom or antivenom.

Species Native Biome Venom? Weapons Armor Speed Forage? Creator Social Media
Cutiefly Temperate Forest Neither 0 0 0 Seeds alkjash None
Brown Bear Temperate Forest Neither 3 0 6 elspood None
Forest Finch Rainforest Neither 0 0 3 Leaves MA None
Snark Temperate Forest Neither 0 0 10 Leaves Vanessa None
Forest Tribble1 Temperate Forest Neither 0 0 0 Seeds simon None
Mutant Two-Headed Speed Snail Human Garbage Dump Neither 0 0 2 Grass DaemonicSigil Twitter

An honorable mention goes to the N054J’s Forest Tribble2 which is identical to the Cutiefly and the Forest Tribble1.

Rainforest

The Rainforest has lots of leaves and grass but few seeds.

Name Carrion Leaves Grass Seeds Detritus Coconuts Algae Lichen
Rainforest 0 1000 2,000 100 0 0 0 50

Generations 0-1000

It takes 1000 generations to establish an introduction.

Goes Extinct in Generation Species
11 Quartosaurus
11 Jon Rahoi
12 Stinging ant colony
14 Slug
16 Smok Wawelski Przezuwacz
18 Tree Clam
19 Slebbon
22 Rainmun
25 J’s RLB
25 luden
29 Rainforest Leaf Blight
31 Tinysnek
32 Agyneta insolita
36 Crocodile
37 Giant Snake
39 Forest Ape
40 Very Lesser Forest Dragon
42 Birgus
47 Deerling
49 Elephant
60 lRa-G256
61 Murder Hornet
64 Yonge_Rainforest
66 BeauOmni2ButRainforest
79 Jungle Hare
81 Stomporz
84 Raincow
90 Grazing Snake
91 Wombat
93 basic grass fodder
95 Armadillo2
98 Rainforest Aphid
100 GrasseatyTank
111 Bofa 0461
119 Arboreal Grazer
127 Boop
128 Nine-Banded Armadillo
145 Tell Masoud
156 Rain Tribble
168 Lily the Unicorn
187 Panther
283 Forest Finch
305 mediocre 1-3-g
306 Will Die
316 lRa-GLM281
318 Fodder grass
344 Leaf Truck
537 Cheetah

Generations 1000-9000

The population oscillates from there. A small number of Snarks and Brown Bears are not visible.

Goes Extinct in Generation Species
1485 Rony

Winners

Species Native Biome Venom? Weapons Armor Speed Forage? Temperature Adaptation? Creator
Venomoth Rainforest Venom + Antivenom 0 0 3 Grass aphyer
LeavyTanky Rainforest Antivenom only 0 10 0 Leaves ViktorThink
Untielopay Grassland Neither 2 0 10 Grass Heat (Allows survival in the Desert) Anonymous #5
mediocre 1-3-s Temperate Forest Neither 1 0 3 Seeds Corm
Forest Finch Rainforest Neither 0 0 3 Leaves MA
Snark Temperate Forest Neither 0 0 10 Leaves Vanessa