Evolution Runs Wild in The Sapling Sandbox Mode 

I think the 50% mutation chance actually made it worse. Since, even if an animal gets onto land, its kid has a 50% chance of losing the thing that allows them to go onto land, so it dies.

I think starting with a Looong boi will make it much more diverse

you might have been having a bit of trouble with the land animals because you had mutation so high! 50% mutation means 50% chance that a random mutation kills them. might help a bit!

4:04 Wesel (the developer) actually memtioned that even the free-floating microalgae can become other microalgae species and also become macroalgae, which can become land plants.

Just so you know, the free floating algaie can turn into rooted algae. A single free-floating alage at the start of the simulation can and will eventually evolve into trees. I also heavily discourage setting the mutation above 20%, it just makes the game lag super hard, makes it impossible to navigate any of the lists because of all the species, makes speeding forward a nightmare, and messes things up. A low, but constant mutation rate is much better.

48:12 CHIKEN SQUARE!!! XD

Hi if you don't already know by now, saving the game after a time skip, going back to the menu and loading the game again really helps with lag. It clears the cache or something like that. It seems that the creatures them self arent the real problem, but the evolution and the resulting renders and calculations on the fly, over time they stuff up the ram of your pc. (At some point the creatures will induce lag tho, but 90% of it is fixed with reloads)

I've had so much fun with this game, I'm glad you're revisiting it! edit: It would be dope if you played more of this! I found that not moving and pausing when you load back from a time skip and pausing when you're moving the camera around seems to help with the lag a tiny bit(:

Just a heads-up: algae will turn to trees and grass if you let random mutations on for both, all it takes is for the algae to have good roots that can penetrate the soil and their body to photosynthesize the light on the surface. Animals too; if you let random mutations on, basal marine animals will evolve to be more specialized and eventually they'll become capable of breathing in the atmosphere and as such evolve into land animals.

You just summoned a whole fandom with "Willum".

I hope you are able to continue playing this, was really excited to see this had dropped.

what an amazing game - thanks for showcasing it. I just bought it this morning after bingeing through your miniseries =)

Happy to see more of the sapling on this channel !

Yes Sapling let’s goooooooooooooo!!!!!

Saplingggg (I’m glad to be back and watching your videos; need a stress reduction from the nearing end of school)

A lil dibble dabling in the sandbox yk yk

This is such a fun game. Im excited to see what you create aand if you continue this.

I like this series, will be back for pt 2

Yo this shit is so good definitely make more. Also next time start out with the aquatic worm creatures they evolve to be a lot more diverse

Enjoying this series

Bro you brought me back to spore and now I kind of want to try this

The floating algae probably died after the first major time skip because an animal specialised to eat it. Cool right!

This looks interesting and I'm going to try it. I wonder if you can nudge the aquatic animals towards land by introducing an aquatic predator.

This game is sick plz keep playing

Please make a a series on this

The body changing shape is very rare.

I want to see you upload everyday.

You have to develop a tolerance of eating something before it becomes your regular diet. The first land animals were amphibious, more than likely retreating to land from a predator, and slowly gaining tolerance to eat land plants. This is of course talking about lobed animals, as the group containing crabs and lobsters (brain fart) already was able to come onto land, but again.. more than likely for safety to shed and mate from larger predators, and near shorelines. Not so much for plant food as land plants hadnt evolved yet at that point. Most food would be washed up carcasses.

So early its 240p!

sapling wooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! yippeeeeeeeeeee

Long live the pop tarts!!

More sandbox please!

Does anyone know the song playing during the skipping time segments?

for new the sapling vidoe ideas oen planet mabye wheare you add land aniamsl and see when you flood the planet withc you can do

interesting game

you should turn mutation to 10-20

BURP

one tip don't use time skips they rly lagg the game

Plant species 📉📈📉📈📉📈📉📉📈📈📉📉📈📈📉📈📉📈📉

mabye make a planet with land planst and animals and then et it evovle then mabye few millan years later in game make the sea levels to rise but also add algae to the planet too for psobbile water aniamls that return to the ocaoen

Pls play Badnorth

Under 50 seconds! 👇🏼