Ambient Wildlife
Bring your settlement to life with lightweight, naturally behaving ambient wildlife.
Features
- Cats & Dogs wander populated areas, rest near buildings, and follow citizens. Cats avoid water and may playfully chase your mouse cursor.
- Fish swim alone or in schools beneath open water, avoid shorelines and ice, and flee from your cursor.
- Frogs inhabit shorelines and shallow water, hop across land, swim through water, and flee from nearby citizens or your cursor.
- Rats inhabit homes, farms, and food warehouses. They seek food and corpses, navigate through valid openings, avoid people, and scurry away from your cursor.
- Blackbirds fly alone or in naturally spaced flocks and perch on trees, walls, and fences. They take flight when your cursor gets too close.
- Geese arrive alone or in formation, fly toward suitable water, land, swim, and take flight when startled by your cursor.
- Squirrels travel between trees, climb and hide among their branches, and flee toward safety when approached by your cursor.
- Butterflies gather around grass, flowers, farms, and orchards during clear daytime weather.
- Fireflies emerge outdoors on clear nights, gently drifting and glowing across the landscape.
- Wildlife responds to terrain, buildings, water, ice, weather, daylight, game speed, citizens, food, corpses, and nearby activity.
- Wildlife populations persist across the map rather than existing only inside the current view.
- Press Ctrl+W to toggle ambient wildlife on or off.
Performance & AI
Ambient Wildlife uses lightweight visual simulation and localized navigation. Its creatures are not full citizens, have no expensive needs-based AI, and do not consume or alter settlement resources.
- Lightweight update and rendering loops help avoid garbage-collection-related micro-stuttering.
With that being said, At regular game speed, you will not notice a performance hit. Up to 25x you may or may not notice a very slight performance hit. Once you fast forward to 250x, all wildlife simulation acts as if time is at normal speed to save on a significant performance hit.
You can toggle wildlife with CTRL+W at any time to test it for yourself.
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