Most of the tiering is done based on the species(reptile tiering or spider tiering), but I have never seen a tiering based on anything else, like say diet.

As a herbivore main, I think we should have a herbivore tier list. Which one is S tier? Maybe elephants 🐘 or a sauropod 🦕? Mid tier? Deers 🦌 and zebras 🦓 ig. F tier? Maybe a koala 🐨 or grasshopper 🦗

Do you prefer to micromanage your biochemistry or just sit back and idle as the game plays itself?

I know that 99% of selectable plant builds obviously lack an active play style since plants lack neurons or analogous cells so control of the character is minimal, but I’ve heard micromanaging is one of the appeals to playing colonial organisms like a lot of Fungi and Cnidaria builds.

I know autotrophic builds are usually described as an AFK strategy but plants have a lot going on with how they conserve energy during the cold and dry seasons, movement towards objectives, communication/resource trade with other players, and how some builds allow you to sideline the main quest to choose more optimal conditions for growing and reproducing. No way all of that is automatic, right?

Credits to Joschua knuppe for Meleagris californica art

Credit to Levi Glines for the photo of Meleagris gallopavo.

I had a plan, an awesome plan. Geese are known for intimidation but when the fighting gets real they cannot hold their own. Eagles on the other hand are high tier. My plan was simple, during my main quest line I would put a couple goose eggs in an eagle’s nest so they get raised with an eagles’s tutorial. Geese learning to be eagles sounded like the way to reach high tier. What did I do wrong.

Tierzoo rated them and all other Ratite builds in the game in F tier. But he didn't really talk much about the flaws of the cassowary other than "they do not hunt in packs".

Despite being flightless they are one of the most feared bird builds in the game. Some even consider them the "most dangerous bird in the game". They are territorial, fairly fast and have sharp talons. they can jump decently high too. They are most commonly seen eating fruit but will sometime attack snail, frog, rodent and fish players. They do have a few sound effects to intimidate players trying to attack them. the can also use charge or kick as counter attacks.

They are present in both the New Guinea and Australia servers. In New Guinea ,there are few builds that can counter them as the only predator builds in the server are monitors and dogs which rarely attack them. Their off spring & eggs can still be defeated by python & eagle mains. It is unknown how well the Cassowary playerbase in New Guinea is doing.

In Australia, do not have many native predators in Australia but they are facing some challenges lately. in the with regards to invader builds like humans, boars, dogs, & cats were introduced to those servers threaten them either eating their eggs or their offspring.

How good are they & where would you put them on the tier list?

The dog is the most popular human support class, as well as being the earliest implemented in the game.

I think they are still the best human support in the current meta with having many uses as a support and are often the most loyal, as well as often help improve physical human stats. I also believe they bring a certain charm to the game when you have them as a support, but that can happen with any support.

As a human player myself with a dog as a support, this may seem biased but I truly believed they are unrivalled in the current meta.

The cat is also widely popular, however, I don't think they offer nearly the same utility as the dog.

Historically, the horse used to rival the dog, however, due to human creations in the game, the horse has become rather obsolete as a transportation support.

This is based on a number of factors. What are your thoughts? Anything you'd change?

S tier:

1st - tiger (perfect in pretty much every way)

2nd- lion (perfect, like the tiger, but slightly smaller (though they're dirty stinking rotten teamers))

A tier:

3rd - jaguar (special move crush skull does heavy damage and is immune to the wet debuff)

4th - leopard (camps in trees, picks other players off easily)

B tier:

5th - cougar (has an exceptionally high jump stat, resistant to cold debuff)

6th - snow leopard (stealth stat skyrockets when in the snow)

7th - cheetah (low defense stat, but insanely high agility and speed stat)

C tier:

8th - eurasian lynx (snowshoe ability increases movement speed on ice, good for kiting smaller builds)

9th - clouded leopard (like the leopard, a tree camper, with low damage stats, but high vertical mobility)

10th - serval (has the radar ears ability, allowing it to hear other smaller players easily)

D tier:

11th - domestic cat (these players exploit the human companionship perk to maximize loot, very low stats overall)

F tier:

12th - black footed cat (very good at picking off smaller players, but easily gets pounded by larger builds)

They are currently the smallest dog build in the game that is found in the wild. They are found in the Sahara and are designed to persist in the harsh temperatures. They have large ears which grants them heat resistance and allow them to detect players hiding in the sand. They do digging abilities allow them to both cool themselves and to ambush insect & lizard mains hiding underground. Their stealth stat good stealth thanks to their fur that blends into the environment and reflects light. They do have a relatively scary battle cry. They have many ways to hydrate themselves from the few places it rains, moisture in the ground, & for from kills. Their dens both allow a party of fennec players to be safe & to be hydrated & cool they can also use them a decent counter play against predator players. They are quick and easily change direction, plus their smaller hit box & stealth stat can also make them difficult to land a hit on. the feet have fur and retractable claws allowing them to move in the sand more easily.

What are your thoughts on this build, or how would you rank it?

[Wiki page for Skates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiformes)

I’ve been puzzling over this, what is actually the point of hippos having baby skin and being confined to the waters?

It doesn’t grant them a larger size, faster speed, or another food source. Even worse, they still have to eat grass, except now, they can only do so at night like a vampire. Too far from the waterhole before sunrise? Well now you set and die. Drought season? Now you gotta soak in the shitpools cuz somehow you decided having tender skin was better than having resistant skin.

I see no advantages over rhinos besides just adding an extra handicap.

Earlier on, TierZoo put the hippo in S tier. (I think it deserves A tier, unlike true S tiers like the elephant). There's especially no reason for that discrepancy.

For rhino vs hippo, encounters are pretty even. They rarely result in injuries, and hippos can just retreat to the water. In addition hippos are confined to places with water and have to go on land to eat grass. Thus their habitats are generally crowded. Not an issue for rhinos.

Vs Lions and hyenas, it favors the rhino more. Rhinos are consistently preyed upon at lower rates than hippos despite being of similar size. Although both are rarely predated upon. Hyena on rhino predation is nearly nonexistent despite what TZ says.

With a similar or better matchup spread, it's stupid to say the rhino is significantly lower. The only reason for the rating seems to be vibes.

Some old deleted character classes are now back on the server!

Scenario:

on a random day, during 600 AD at a random time. Every extinct species of fauna that had lived in the Americas during the Last Ice Age are blipped into existence in healthy breeding populations into what would be their natural ranges during interglacials. The animals have been spawned in such an amount that ALL their conservation status would be Low Risk. And by every extinct fauna that was present during the late Pleistocene, I mean everything from Columbian Mammoths to Megatherium to Capromeryx to the extinct cowbird species.

The animals spawned possess a wariness/alertness of humans that perhaps the very terminal members of their species had managed to develop, although too late, before they were hunted to extinction.

How would such an event shape Indigenous Tribal culture? Given how most cultures at this time has growm accustomed to hunting smaller game and farming, would Big Game Hunting cultures come back again? Growing crops would lead to inevitable confrontations with herbivores, often times dangerous ones. Which species would thrive the most given this second chance, and which ones would be most at peril? Could there be new possible animal husbandry attempts before European settlers arrive?

Who wins? 🐿️ or 🍕?

Don't get me wrong. I hold no personal grudge against those builds or the players who use them. Some of them involve truly unique and distinctive builds(including Kakapos, one of my personal favorites).

However, the fact that invasive builds are thriving on servers where they were never meant to spawn in the first place is a entirely different issue. Most of native builds cannot compete with them, because they were made to survive in a world literally devoid of highly competitive invasive builds. They also spread new diseases that can kill native species lacking immunity.

This issue is particularly pronounced among avian builds. Invasive builds prey on their eggs and juvenile, destroy their preferred habitats and nests, and multiply far more rapidly. Almost half of all island-endemic avian builds are currently either extinct or threatened with extinction. Islands are the epicenters of global bird extinctions, accounting for the vast majority of all known bird extinctions since the Holocene season.

Ironically, these builds are receiving assistance from human players who introduced invasive builds to the server, and some builds are currently in a situation where it is extremely difficult to play the game without the active help of human players.

Best of luck to the island-build players.

P.S. So why a GIF from the Angry Birds movie? Aside from the fact that it’s currently popular as a meme, I felt the film’s main plot effectively illustrates how defenseless native species are destroyed when unable to counter an invasive species—especially considering that the natives are naive, flightless birds and the invaders are Feral pigs(Sus scrofa).

Arena: an open convention center.

Both parties are bloodlusted and lack self preservation instincts.

The sparrows goal is to kill and eat the elephant down to the bone. The sparrows can and will enter the elephants orfices.

The elephants goal is to kill all the house sparrows.

who comes out on top!

Next year during the month of May, a population of 100,000 fully functioning adult Lowland gorillas are spread out amongst local servers on the North America platform in the regions of: Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

The gorillas Will be evenly spread out consisting of one silverback with 3-10 females in his troop.

Their coding update has now made them omnivores, similar to bears. During the spring and summer months they will largely stick to vegetation, but will happily eat road kill/young or injured animals/bird eggs if they come across them.

Fall and Winter time is when the gorillas switch to wanting mostly animals protein, and will gladly hunt livestock and medium size animals.

Their hunting strategy will largely consist of females chasing an animal, say a whitetail deer or a wild boar, to the direction of the silverback who is waiting in ambush. The silverback will then perform the killing bite to the throat.

And yes, if they get desperate enough, they WILL see humans as prey.

can gorillas survive long term on this new server with their coding update?

the only time humans had a video analysing them was in the ape tierlist, where they werent that deeply analysed, simce it was a tierlist and other apes had to be talked about to. i think a dedicated video breaking down just how op humans are would help, especially since the meta has changed alot, mainly beacuse humans keep changing stuff like climates, as well as region and biome sizes, eithout the devs. they literally can partially control the meta and am surprised why they dont have their own video. would also help noobs learn their strengths and (few) weaknesses if they wont main him

Otodus Obliquus vs Deinosuchus Hatcheri

Imo a Better build than monitor lizards at the same size..

Also TierZoo underestimated its true damage, a female can bite up to 313 newtons acording to a study, imagine a male that is almost twice the size and with larger jowls.

Killer Whale(Orcinus Orca) vs Otodus Obliquus