This new tree system looks like it's going to be so much better than the old one

Literally one of the only things I still wanted for the game. This is the perfect update and also congrats on the success of your game and channel!

We need another evolution simulated with this update!

How is it possible that every single update is a 10/10, if this continues in 5 updates this will be GOTY

Every new update showcase amazes me again. Can't wait for this game to get the attention it deserves.

I can’t wait to see the log after school! One idea that would be really neat would be a food pyramid. If an animal ate the majority of a certain food type, like a purple spider like species eating the majority of a certain grass species, it would be placed higher on the food pyramid than the grass. Edit: I saw the log and it was just as cool as I hoped

Exactly what always confused me in the previous content; figuring out where stuff was evolving from 😅

It was only until I saw this, that I realised that the game really needed another way to view clades, it is currently a bit of a slog to find any new species that are successful. Got me more and more hyped each dev dairy ngl.

Well... you got me. Im supporting your game, just bought and installed.

You are my favorite indie game dev, these updates are great & you're actually listening to the base. Great job bro, Sapling is 100% going to blow up.

Every time you post an update, my reaction is ranging from "oh nice, glad that was accepted!" and "that's a really cool new idea!". Extremely happy with the direction this project is going in :)

Very excited about this! Getting a good handle on the history of life on our simulated worlds will be so much more convenient!

i love the cladogram, one of my biggest pet pieves was how confusing which species is related to which was

So hyped for this feature! And the epoch system also looks sick as hell

Perfect for your evolution series!

This looks great. I'm so excited for the update!

Cool, you'll be able to see the evolutionary tree

this has got me the most excited not that the others havent but this seems very very very interesting

5:05 6:bonjour It should be atleast like 50 so it won't count a random group dying from old age as mass extension

This update is great. Before we could make the story of our created planet's biology but we could never easily tell what that story was. Now we can and I can see playing this game being a lot more interesting.

YESS! This is SO MUCH of what I've wanted from this game! I love seeing the history of how things have changed in species so this is perfect. Ever since I've played Niche and Spore I've always been hungry for a system just like that in an evolution based game. Very excited!

Oh boy new devlog dropping. I love these and im going to be sad when they finish

Huh I never thought of adding that, but i'm happy that you did!

This is so sick! I never knew I needed this but I really did.

Could you add stones, moss and roots to your game world? This would dramatically improve its appearance, and allow for features like sunbaking on rocks or small root eating creatures! This would be so awesome and completely overhaul your games graphics.

Mate you are crushing these videos. So many so consistently! Props!

This update is shaping out to be fantastic! Super excited to play

Amazing game i absolutely love it cant wait for this update

Oh yeah baby. LET'S GO!!!!!!

Your making the greatest strides ever in evolutionary simulation this it needs to be used as a teaching tool your genius

i was literally going to suggest this for the game today, and I am SO GLAD you’ve added the cladograms. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

This is EXACTLY what I wanted, good work!!

I can finally find species faster, nice work. also some more ideas 9.more cold hardy leaves. 10.a longer daynight cycle with stars and a sun (and maybe moons?)

The complexity of this project simply amazes me. This is definitely one of the most interesting devlog series I have seen.

Perfecrly timed for me to relax at home and watch it

Looking good! I love seeing the progress you make on this wonderful project. I have a few recommendations to consider It may be nice to have a button that can toggle whether extinct species are included in the cladogram. It would also be helpful if there was some more integration of the epoch timeline with the cladogram. Mainly, giving different lines different lengths to visually place the trunk of a clade at the corresponding location on the timeline, to give a good idea to the player when it first evolved and split off from the rest of the tree. I think this could also be toggleable.

I'm really enjoying these videos, you don't waste time and your visualisations are very clear to read and easy to understand. The cuts to in-person footage also helps to break up the video. Good work dude, I look forward to the next video.

This is awesome !!! Thank you so much for all this hard work !!

This looks like a brilliant addition! Well done 👏 👏

Same! I always wanted a clade diagram!

Hell yea man, been playing this game for a bit and love seeing the process.

I'm so hyped ! Can't wait for this update !

Dont ever give up on this beautiful game man please 🙏 Its everything ive ever wanted

I bought this game yesterday and I'm loving it! I've always been really interested in speculative biology and worldbuilding, but always fell flat when it came to creature design/ecosystem design. It's a great source of inspiration for me and other worldbuilders alike!! Keep up the great work :D

I’ll wait till it’s a bit more developed but the Claude things got me hooked. I’m going to keep an eye on this.

i hope this project gets enough funding and attention to become super polished

Loving this series!

Incredible work!! Would it be possible to use biomass rather than organism count? In the "age of the dinosaurs" I'm sure there animal with the most instances would be some ant species or something that swarms, but the most impressive clade were... Well the dinosaurs! Biomass solves that problem nicely

Keep up the good work man

This game is actually ground breaking. Im so excited to see all this done. My wife and i love playing together and she hasn't seen any of these videos yet. Im so ready for the update to blow her away. You rock dude!

Love your videos and the updates!

This system seems really helpful, definitely a great addition Although I did notice, basing success mostly around the number of offspring does heavily favour R selected species, not sure how that could be resolved

Yes!!! This update is one of the best out of all of them, if not the best. Good work, i would love to see these updates in your game.

You just keep giving! Hype for this vid!

This game is awesome even though I can’t play I love watching these

I still think the top-down version is better, even though it supposedly takes up more space. Why not just have a cladogram that can be moved around by the mouse, or at the very least a “this species is less successful so we’ll ignore it” approach? Also I think most people would be more comfortable with that version, as it’s probably the most common.

I bought the game last year. Thankfully KZfaq decided to show me this video. I had no idea you had a channel. I appreciate the effort you put into your videos. It reminds me a lot of the old Creatures series.

Everytime you release a video the game imoroves so drastically. It was already super impressive when i started playing at the beginning of thr year lol

The informational UI showing traits/family/stats/behavior looks great!

Great addition. Only problem I’m mainly having with the sandbox simulation so far is I tried to start a world mostly on a blank slate. Making one animal, one plant, and one algae. The plants and algae diversified like crazy and spread across the map no problem. Took a decent while for other colors of plants to appear but algae colors varied almost instantly which is great. The animal species however while it did diversify a little bit, only ever has like less than 5 species at a time and all are almost identical to the starter species despite some of the branches growing limbs more suited for walking than the previous limbs. They are always confined the water never leaving it or evolving to live in deeper water and most of the oceans are inaccessible to them for this reason. I’ve auto jumped several times thinking maybe changes that drastic must take an extremely long time or are extremely rare but even after turning the mutation chance up to max it still doesn’t make a difference. It makes sense that the ones that were successful are the ones that are surviving obviously but one would think that since they did evolve limbs better for walking then they could take advantage of the plants and thus do better or if they evolved to live in deeper water then they would have more food and space. I did make a fairly simple creature specifically for it to be a blank slate default sort of creature that evolution can add or mutate existing body pieces into whatever path was best but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Are creatures able to evolve new body parts or do they have to mutate from existing parts? Because for them to evolve to live in the deeper water they need to have more fins but if they can’t evolve new parts then that can’t happen. I don’t believe I’ve seen any of my creatures evolve new parts. They only seem to evolve already existing parts into more advanced parts based on the path in the menu.

How does this channel not have 1M subscribers. This content is beautiful!

Yaaa these are some of my favorited videos, I think I’m going there watch the one of the other ones while I wait

This game is two words greatness and greatness i love this game also nice piano songs

An interesting little minigame you could play with this new addition, is to pause the game after a long simulation; then, by going around and collecting the information on the stats and adaptations of each species, try and recreate the evolutionary tree of all the creatures in your world to estimate what evolved from what, and then compare that back to the actual autogenerated cladogram. I'm sure there is some palaeontologist or evolutionary biologist that would find this the most enjoyable thing in the world.

I’ve always loved this series so much! I haven’t actually watched till the end yet, (it might already be there) but I really wanted it so you could grow more type of plants in one biome, some could be really tall and have all the leaves at the top to make it look like a sort of umbrella, that could be cool!

I need to buy this game! Excited to see this game get more development!

This is EXACTLY what i wanted

I'm so hyped

My only criticism is that irl cladograms are usually formatted so that you can see the order in which new species emerged within the clade, it'd be nice to have that as an option as well as ordering them based on number of individuals

loved this video :D

Thanks for this!!

I cannot express how much I adore this game holy hell

Big Challenge. 😮 But you nailed it. 🤓👍 Breathtaking! 🥳 Can't wait to start the beta. 😍

cool vid! It would be really cool if you posted a tutorial about the sandbox mode, balancing ecosystems, etc

I AGREE ITS SO DAMN PRETTY

This is so amazing! Can’t wait until the update releases, I feel like I’m actually going to play semi regularly now with all the UI/UX changes and QOL improvements

Oh man I love evolution

Cannot wait man !

Honesly, being able to see a phylogenetic tree of the creatures in an evolution game is a no brainer

This is the feature that pushed me over the edge into buying this game

I think it's time for another simulation video with all these new features! I would definitely watch the heck out of that.

7:15😂😂😂

I cannot wait for this update

This is very nice !! And based on Kurzgesagt's model I hope you will also correct the bug/crash problems😉

Can’t wait to get this update

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Great update. The new clade is a great feature to have a better overview of the whole ecosystem. There is an idea that i would like to suggest. Have you already thought about a dynamic world developement system that handles small and large extinction event and influence the planet? That would be a system that handles different natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, snowstorms, wildfires, avalanches, volcanoes, meteors, etc. It could be a system that ranks them after their scale of destructiveness (influence on the whole planet) and decreases the probability the bigger the event is. Would be really cool to have different events influence the ecosystem. Anyways thanks for reading and have a nice day.

Please, another evolution simulated!

Excited!

Can’t wait for the update to come out this is going to be huge.

Can't wait to the beta!

Woowwww cool update

Very cool

I absolutely love this and love waiting for the updates can we maybe get a gameplay video soon ?

I just wanted to say, I love your game, and I'm loving the new updates! You spoil us lol. But may I ask for one thing: you could add more levels in the future, I finish the game too fast, then I have to repeat or to go to the sand box, the levels so far are cool!

Yay more updates:D

I love this idea, because often I have to look through all twenty something pages of extinct animals to find a certain animal to see what went wrong or what it evolved from, so thus can really help me classify, and organize everything in the game a whole lot easier. Now a random comment, me and my brother play this game and really like it, but one thing you did wrong In my and my brothers eyes, is getting rid of the default map from before the Aquatic update. I like having the creativity to make my one planet with its own feature and characteristics to see how life can develop, but I would also like to have simple pre- made maps for new players to have something simple that is pre made so they can easily learn how to make a planet, what some planets can look like, how it affects like, and give them further inside into how that whole system works so they are not just thrust into the deep end without help.

this is so cool

YES to all of this!

so sick :)