Overview
A beginner’s guide. :3
Introduction
Welcome to the beginner’s guide to the World of Niche: A genetics survival game. Before we start, I would like to thank all the other guides that inspired me to make this guide.
Alright, let’s start!
The Journey!
If you are reading this guide, there is a high chance you are new here. If you are, you may have started your journey on Story Mode, as it recommends. Here is a recap of what happens:
Adam gets scooped up by a Bird of Prey.
He then gets dropped off by the Bird, falling very quickly.
He plunges, but is not hurt, thanks to his Big Body.
He wakes up in a island surrounded by water, far from home.
That is when the journey begins.
We will skip the parts that the game tells you to do and move on.
After you go to the next island, the first wanderer you will meet is a female named Eve.
You and Eve will make a family.
That is the end of the tutorial. After what the tutorial tells you, you may get the hang of this. But watch out: If you aren’t careful, Eve might get impregnated automatically. Which leads us to our next chapter:
Rogue Males
Rogue Males are – as the name suggests – rogues who stray from any tribe. You cannot invite them into the tribe, and, according to literally everyone, they are a nuisance.
Rogue males have THE WORST GENES in the entire game: Derp Snout and Deformed Paw.
Some players tolerate the Derp snout, but the gene that they watch out for are the Deformed Paws.
Deformed Paws have no use in the game, and what makes them worse is that Rogue Males have a Deformed Paw on BOTH of their genetics. One boop of their snoot and your baby could be considered useless.
Luckily there is a way to avoid them. If there is ONE female next to the Rogue Male, you can move her away if she has enough stamina.
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Males can help too!
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If there is a Rogue Male next to one of your males, you can defend your females by attacking the rogue male.
However, Rogue Males have a way of protecting themselves. If a Rogue Male you stumble upon has Spiky Body, It may strike back, damaging your creature. If you have Armored Body or Big Body AND double Mammoth Foot, you may be able to resist.
I did not say Big Body ALONE because if a spiky bodied Rogue Male has Ram Horns AS WELL, your Big Bodied creature might as well get harmed.
If a Rogue Male impregnates one of your females, an icon with the head of a Rogue Male will show up.
Ouch!
The game is called a Survival Game for a reason. There are three ways a Nicheling can get hurt:
Predators
Hunger
Environment
Lets start with the Predators.
There are many predators, but the most common are the Bearyenas.
Bearyenas are large compared to Nichelings, and they attack regularly.
However, they can also be good. Sometimes there will spawn a Bearyena Mother and her Baby. You can kill the Bearyena and tame the baby, and once it gets old enough, you can mate with it!
A Bearyena has these genetics:
Bearyena Ears
Bearyena Snout
Bearyena Claw
Bearyena Hindlegs
Immunity G and H
If you mate with a Bearyena with an already Bearyena hybrid, there is a small chance you will have a Complete Bearyena on your side!
The only thing different from other Bearyenas is it’s immunity. If you are lucky enough, It can have Home Island Immunity and either G or H immunity!
There are other Bears, such as the Peaceful Bear, Defender Bear, and the Balance Bear.
We won’t be talking about the Peaceful Bear, but we will talk about the Defender and the Balance.
The Defender Bear is a passive bear similar to the Peaceful Bear and the Balance Bear.
It may be kind at first, but once you kill a creature in its line of sight, it will charge at the attacker.
This explains why the Defender Bear’s scent is yellow.
Balance Bears on the other hand, will charge at the Nicheling until exhausted. If you spend enough time running and attacking, you may defeat it. After it dies, you can pick up its meat, enough food to satisfy a small tribe.
The Balance Bear lives in the mountains and has a red scent.
Another predator that lives in the mountains are Arctic Ramfoxes. Unlike the other predators, the Ramfoxes hunt in packs, surrounding a tribe and one-by-one picking them off.
Ramfox packs come is different sizes. Sometimes it is just two starting a pack, other times its enough to pick off a small tribe.
Luckily Ramfoxes only live in Snow Biomes, so you are safe for now.
Ramfox scents are large blobs of red, and can luckily be avoided until the ends of their lives.
Snow Biomes aren’t the only biomes you should look out for. There are other biomes, such as Jungle and Savannah.
Starting Off with Jungle, we have Apes. Three types of Apes: Seeing Ape, Smelling Ape, and Hearing Ape. All should be watched out for, but they have different attributes.
The Seeing Ape can see farther than the other two, but can be avoided by Nichelings with high Camouflage and can be scared by Nichelings with Distasteful Appearance.
The smelling ape has a very long nose, but can be avoided with Scentless or scared with Distasteful Scent.
The Hearing Ape can hear very well, but can be avoided by nichelings with very high Stealth.
I also wish there could be Distasteful Sound that can be used to scare away the Hearing Ape.:3
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High in the Skies
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Birds Of Prey can be found in almost every island. I say ALMOST because I think Tiny Green and Peaceful Meadow are Bird-Free.
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Ravenous!
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The next way of damaging yourself can be hunger. It can be easy to manage, but in the Savannah and Snow Biomes there is a 5% chance you will lose all your food and lose a creature to starvation.
Here are some ways to avoid starvation.
Gather a ton of food before going to the next island.
Send your highest collecting creature and its offspring to the island.
Bring some Claws along, as well. You can’t live off of berries alone.
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Help!
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The final way is by environmental damage. Ways such as drowning or getting eaten by a carnivorous plant can harm you.
If Eve or any of the wanderers you come across don’t have Water Body, you are up for big trouble in the Archipelago.
In the Jungle, Carnivorous plants – both friendly and harmful – are scattered all around the island. Ways to avoid getting eaten:
Leave at least one fruit left on the plant. This can be done by Nichelings with One or Two on the Collecting Abilities.
Use your scent! If a Nicheling with Poison Fangs or Gills are scouting an area with Carnivorous Plants, there is a 50% Chance they will get eaten. This is why we don’t recommend Gills at Jungles. The reason is: They have very little and/or almost no smelling abilities. If a creature is next to an angry Plant, they can easily get eaten.
Ways to avoid harm during the process:
Have a Nicheling with very high attacking ability. With enough attacking ability, you can free the Nicheling from the Plant. This will also open the plant, but there will be no fruit.
There is a 50% chance the Plant will change back to green, but also 50% it won’t. Vice versa for friendly Plants, if you accidentally take the last fruit.
Back to predators, there is a Bearyena much worse than a regular Bearyena. a Bearyena much worse than a Balance Bear or even ten Defender Bears.
The Killer Bearyena.
With a Three in Defense and Attacking (I think) It has enough power to wipe out a large tribe.
Only the bravest of Nichelings can strike the beast down.
Luckily they are only found in Deadly Hills, so you are safe for now.
Not true predators, we also have Leeches and Razorania.
Alone a single Leech isn’t enough to wipe out an entire tribe, but if you are slow and not fast enough, together is enough to wipe out a single Nicheling.
Ways to avoid this:
Have a Nicheling with very high fishing ability.
If you have a Nicheling next to the creature with the Leech, you can take the Leech off.
You can also rid of the Leech using the Attack Icon once its next to you.
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Wise Guess!
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Sometimes a Leech clings onto a Spiky-Bodied creature. Overnight it may bleed. At first it may not be a big deal, but once you clean the wound, you may get hurt.
Worse is if it has Megaloceros horns, Double Bearyena Claw, Bearyena Hindlegs, Bearyena Snout, and Hammer Tail, which sounds unlikely but it could happen.
In order to survive, you may need Armored Body AND double Mammoth Foot, but sometimes that too isn’t enough.
*SIGH* That was a long chapter, but the guide isn’t done yet!
As ancient as Stone
There are six different ancient genes: Saber Tooth Fangs, Digging Trunk, Armored Body, Mammoth Foot, Hammer Tail, and Megaloceros Horns. All have one thing in common: You must break open a Glacier to find them. This will automatically invite the creature inside into your tribe, but the genes it has are random. It could have a gene you already unlocked.
Even the Strongest Noses…
…Can’t smell certain things.
You can’t smell Coconuts, Leeches, Alga, Razorania, Fish Swarms, Clownkoi, or Water Healing Fruit. The reason behind this isn’t discovered, so watch out when you swim!
Meow!
Speaking of Healing Plants, there are three types of ways to healing yourself.
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The first way is probably the easiest way. It’s to eat a Healing Plant. Not only will it heal you up, but it will also cure you of common cold. It takes a while to regenerate, so choose which nicheling to eat it first carefully.
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The second way is to eat a Water Healing Plant. Like the Healing Plant, it takes a while to regenerate, and can cure you. Unlike the Plant, however, it only cures you of a little, but can give you underwater breathing for a short time. This can be useful as a Water Healing Plant garden, curing a nicheling of injuries gradually.
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The third and least useful if the Purr Snout. Meow! With a face shaped like a cat and a soothing purr, it can be used as a desperate healing for the injured. If there aren’t any Healing Plants or Water Healing Plants around, this can be useful at desperate times.
We made it!
This is the end of this short guide, but I have one more thing to tell you.
Once you reach Adam’s Tribe, you may find one Nicheling that looks suspiciously familiar to Adam. This is called the Home Animal. Home Animals can only be invited and bred in Story Mode, when you reach the end, or Home Island.
The Home Island is an Island full of Sakura-like trees that drop acorns like the regular Oak trees. There are also Berry Bushes, Rabbil Burrows, and Stagmoles for the Home Animals. Nobody can live solely on air!
In story mode, once you reach Home Island, it is the end of your journey, but you can go to somewhere else! I think the place on the right is random, but it might not be. You never know unless you play the game.
Which you may be doing right now. Anyways, thank you for reading this guide. This is the end of our journey for now, but we will see each other again! Have a great day and goodbye!