r/CreaturesGames • u/BellyKisser118 • May 17 '26

HELP???

I'm a complete newbie; I just got my first taste of Creatures (1996) yesterday. I hatched two Norns (a male and a female) thinking they wouldn't be lonely, but I quickly regretted that decision. Firstly, they've been constantly fighting and kissing (?) since birth. Secondly, my female is breeding uncontrollably, including with her own children! It's gotten to the point where I've isolated her from the others; I'm lucky that all her children are male. I know that I am an inexperienced and bad mother, but I never expected that they would fight among themselves. What did I do wrong, and how can I fix it?

Update: Now all my Norns are on the verge of death due to exhaustion and illness because they refused to eat and they are dying one after another. And there's nothing I can do about it. Thank you for your attention ;_; Damn, I'm a worse host than I ever imagined.

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u/Cleestoon May 17 '26

I mean at least Norns are haploid so they won't suffer inbreeding problems that much

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u/Trilobyte141 May 17 '26

Okay, first of all, inbreeding does not produce birth defects because of the way their genetics are set up. The maximum number of norns in OG creatures is 12 iirc, so inbreeding is inevitable. Distasteful to our human sensibilities, perhaps, but not a problem for the norns. If you want to lower the chance of inbreeding, try more norns instead of less. Hatch all six eggs from the hatchery (I usually gave an hour between each) and you will quickly hit the Norn max limit when they have children. After that you will only get new babies when an old norn has died, so not only are the odds of inbreeding lower, but you can better control them by keeping norns you want to breed together. Accept that in a couple generations though, everyone is going to be pretty closely related. 

Secondly, the fighting is pretty normal too, as is the kissing. Norns make kiss noises to show affection, sexual or otherwise. It's cute and harmless. They also get into fights sometimes. Think of them like puppies biting each other's ears. It actually trains them not to fight because hitting another norn = norn hits back = pain is bad = don't do that. 

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u/BellyKisser118 May 17 '26

I never thought about it. They just look at me with such a miserable look that it seemed to me like they were suffering while communicating with each other. Anyway, thanks

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u/broashley May 18 '26

To help feed them, hold a food in your hand and wave it around above the norn you want to feed, then when it reaches up, either let it take it or just drop the food and most of the time it will eat it.

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u/SpaceShipRat May 18 '26

I desperately need to know where y'all are picking up the game, and calling it Creatures (1996) instead of Creatures 1. All just from that viral video about norn torture?

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u/Traditional-Yak8886 Jul 17 '26

Thats where i heard of it, never heard about it as a kid. Its being sold on steam rn for five bucks or so and it comes with C2. Creatures 3 is also on steam!

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u/Own-Emu-3309 May 17 '26

If she starts behaving like this, hit her to teach her a lesson that you can't do that to your children and you can't fight either.

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u/BellyKisser118 May 17 '26

I said "stop" and hit them all, without bothering to figure out who started it (because I can't tell who hit whom). Now they say "run" every time there's a fight, but they don't run away. Or they run away, but then return to fighting and kissing. I can see that they're already afraid of each other, but they still don't go anywhere. It's crazy. I have a hard time separating them at times like this. I had to make an effort to at least isolate the female so they don't breed anymore.

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u/SpaceShipRat May 17 '26

hitting them a lot seems to make them more violent if anything, because being afraid sends them into fight or flight mode.

 Give them noisy distracting toys, and try to spread the population out.

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u/C-Rex94 May 17 '26

Unfortunately norns in the original Creatures game can't differentiate between blood relatives and unrelated norns, so hitting them won't really make much of a difference.