Mob Regarding monsters and 'parenting' behaviours

Really hope this hasn't been suggested yet. Can't find anything similar, so here we go...



I don't know whether this is in Starbound or not, but if it isn't; if a player attacks a baby monster, adult monsters of the same race, whether hostile or neutral, if in range of said baby, should come help the baby monster fight the player, regardless of the baby being the adult's child or not.



I hope I wasn't too confusing. Also, if it HAS been suggested / is already implemented, just post it in the comments (preferably with the source), and I will delete this post immediately.

 

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Good point, I voted up.
Anyway this suggestion belong more to the "Mechanics" section.

 

This is a good idea. I actually kinda implemented that idea into one of my suggestions, called the Syradons.

 

I like this idea! For any creature it is natural to defend a helpless baby if it is threatened!

 

Yeah, I guess it should go on Mechanics; I had my doubts since it was a mechanic related to mobs

That is quite the interesting suggestion, if it doesn't make it into the game, I'd happily test a mod with it

Thanks! It was quite weird watching the dev streams where the adult monsters just stood there, watching their baby die, without helping it.

 

It'd be neat to have mechanics like this, see a lil' baby bird lying around, and if you hit it once (or even make it squeal) it's giant momma comes to the rescue. . . If you die, then when you come back for your stuff, the momma bird regurgitates a body part of your previous incarnation for the baby bird. . .

 

I think I just lost my appetite!

Anyways, are there any creatures that could feasibly be bad parents, and not care (e.g. the sea turtle just leaves their eggs to hatch on their own)?

 

Plenty do, rabbits, mice, stuff like that. But that's because they're an n-weighted species, meaning that they consider children to be like potato chips, they'll make more.

 

Haha, potato chips! So translated over to StarBound, only small and fast reproducing creatures will not care about their young.

 

MMhmm

 

I recommend assigning creatures a 'parenthood' value. This value determines how the creature will react when it sees a baby attacked.

1. This creature doesn't have babies per se. It reproduces asexually, via mitosis or self-cloning. Baby creatures of its species don't exist. (RL Examples: Jellies, Oozes)
2. This creature has absolutely no attachment to its young. If predatory, it may even eat its own young. (RL Examples: Most small reptiles.)
3. This creature has protective and nurturing instincts towards its own young. (RL Examples: Larger reptiles, like crocodiles; most birds and smaller mammals)
4. This creature will protect and nurture its own young and others of its group. (RL Examples: Most larger mammals)
5. This creature will protect and nurture young of its own species, even outside its own group. (RL Examples: Some herd animals.)
6. This creature will protect and nurture the young of any species (or perhaps a specific species) that isn't hostile to it. May be found with "adopted" baby creatures of a different species. (No RL examples I can think of.)
7. This creature has a parasitic reproductive cycle. Its young will be found in the nests and company of another species. It does not care for its young, but the species it parasitizes will. (RL Examples: Common Cuckoo, Cowbirds.)

 

I like your way of thinking, I shall kill you last.

 

maybe creatures created in a lab (if you can create creatures through labs) or raised from an egg could think of you as their parent depending on the parenthood value.

 

That would be so cute! I would love to have a hatched little monster as my pet!
Also, this happens in real life, it's called imprinting.

 

YES! Ninja wolf, here we come!