Ecosystem Table

Ecosystem Tables are used by the game code to generate species of fauna on worlds.

Every world's ecosystems have tables assigned to them which determine which specific creatures will exist there, as well as their statistics such as size and spawn rate. These tables are regulated by ecosystem Archetypes, each of which generate species from one or more ecosystem tables.

Ground Tables

• Alien Ground Table
• Butterfly Ground Table
• Maybe Butterfly Ground Table
• Giant Herbivore Ground Table
• Large Herbivore Ground Table
• Medium Herbivore Ground Table
• Small Herbivore Ground Table
• Medium Herd Ground Table
• Large Player Predator Ground Table
• Medium Player Predator Ground Table
• Large Predator Ground Table
• Medium Predator Ground Table
• Plant Cat Herbivore Ground Table
• Plant Cat Predator Ground Table
• Arthropod Herbivore Ground Table
• Arthropod Predator Ground Table
• Robot Ground Table
• Walking Building Ground Table

Weird Ground Tables

Game data suggests that weird tables can happen on Low, Mid, or Full Fauna worlds.

• Weird Roll Ground Table
• Weird Roll Predator Ground Table
• Weird Crystal Ground Table
• Weird Crystal Predator Ground Table
• Weird Float Ground Table
• Weird Butterfly Ground Table

Flying Tables

• Big Bird Air Table
• Common Air Table
• Common Lizard Air Table
• Common Snake Air Table
• Busy Air Table
• Flying Lizard Only Air Table
• Flying Snakes Only Air Table

Underground Tables

• Common Cave Table

Underwater Tables

• Common Underwater Table
• Crabs Underwater Table

Additional Information

• The ecosystem subtype descriptors were extracted from the 3.12 version of BIOMEFILENAMES.MBIN game file by pc player Ertosi.
• See Outdated Ecosystem Tables for listings of additional, unused ecosystem tables.
• Pre-Origins, the most fauna slots a world could theoretically have would be 19 (950 ). To score that high, a world would need the Busy Ground Table which has 8 ground creatures, a full Underground ecosystem with all 3 possible spawns, a full Underwater ecosystem which passed the 50% chance to include a Prionace species, and the Busy Air Table which is the only Flying ecosystem which has a chance for 3 aerial species.
• Pre-Origins did not have the Big Bird Air Table. At that time the available air tables, and their relative selective chances, were as follows: Common (55), Common Lizard (10), Common Snake (5), Busy (20), Flying Lizard Only (5), and Flying Snakes Only (5).
• The Plant Cat Herbivore, Plant Cat Predator, Arthropod Herbivore, Arthropod Predator, and Walking Building ground tables were added with the Worlds update.