Shadow people. will it become a race?

i got a question these shadow people on the dark planets. will they become the next race to be added maybe? they are pretty cool.

 

Tyi has already stated there will be no more playable races added

 

And even if they did add more they would have to have the same body types and builds as other player races in game already due to the way armor and items are shown on players and NPCs

 

As a tenant "race" like the Alpaca, maybe. There is already shadowvillager.npctype found in /npcs/biome/, and it wears an armor set found in /items/armors/biome/midnight/. Plus, there is also the assets in /humanoid/shadow/ and shadow.species in the /species/ folder.

Not playable, but definitely possibly a tenant.

 

Wait, that doesn't make sense though. There's supposed to be 1 more race isn't there? As we learned from the Ark Gate, it originally showed symbols for 8 races, with 2 blotted out. When Novakids were added, one of the blots was removed. Now there's still 1 blot there. I would think that means there's an 8th race coming, as originally planned.

 

Tiy has publicly said there won't be another playable race, so I wouldn't believe some in-game assets more than an official source. It's possible they could add a new NPC type, though.

 

I think they're going to be extinct

 

It would likely be a new race in name only.

 

Like @lazarus78 said, it'll probably be just a NPC race, like the froggy people and the penguins you know, lore friendly

 

The "Froggs" are mute Hylotl wearing green masks, not an actual "race" in terms of mechanics.

 

I'm talking in context, hello btw, long time right

 

wont the extinct race be those guys with the stones on their backs?

 

their "trees" have some weird runes on it too, quite similar to the ancient, maybe they have some a connection of some sort. or they're the souls of our wiped characters from the past

 

thanks for the correction and the last one sounds kind of cool. he could be an overseer or a messenger telling the time when to open the doors...

 

It's interesting because they won't attack or talk to you, they just ignore you. Maybe they're wating the return of the ancient

 

yeah, that stone looks like the ones in the midnight biome. but his eyes are red, like the shrines, the shadow people have green eyes, maybe the gren eyed ones are from a different social class and this is why they're stuck on their planets

 

Could be could be! This is really fun to talk about. i gunna go check the midnight biome a come back[DOUBLEPOST=1450158189][/DOUBLEPOST]alright the trees have an exact match
Edit: No they dont very similar

 

So who are those dark guys anyway? So far I've noticed some things:
- They look creepy and have really creepy shrines. Me likey.
- They are not hostile, unlike some cultists (whose skills now decorate ma cockpit, right 'bove the windshield).
- Wild animals bite them bad.
- They're mute (or have no spoken lines coded -- yet).
- They don't like sssssstabbing (ssssorry, the temptation wasss too much).

Sometimes I think that those dark planets possess an atmosphere full of dust, blocking all sunlight. Perhaps it's a sign of natural cataclysm that happened in the ancient past. Since those planets are mostly in "Fiery" systems, I vote critical volcanic and/or tectonic activity. "Charred" trees and obsidian-crispy soil do make a point.
Or, it could be a result of nuclear or simular disaster, or even war, seeing as the rare "dark structures" resemble damaged ruins rather than houses. Those fellas may be crazed spirits of long dead, trapped in the realm of the living and desperately clinging to their strange beliefs.

Or they can be some malicious creatures obsessed with killing us. While we don't look. In our sleep.

What's your speculations? Throw them in.