Really hoping for some charts and graphs and maybe even a generation tree or family tree for them. Looking forward to getting sucked back into the simulation too. Watching these events make me want to play it more.

Maybe you can encourage predation by lowering plant calories even more and making meat and injured bibites "bleed" a pherhormone trail that allows carnivores to track them

You might have to separate the diet gene. I talked about it a bit on the last video. The fact of the matter is that it takes way too much time to "un evolve" plant digestion and transform it into meat digestion for carnivores to ever evolve. Instead of making them *choose* between plants or meats, just have an individual gene for each. This would make it possible for a bibite to have maximum efficiency in both plants AND meat, however you can balance this by making such a metabolism extremely costly in energy. I don't know exactly what else can be done to promote evolution to carnivore, but at the very least you shouldn't punish them for trying by having them lose their main food source entirely. I don't know if even this will help fix the predation problem, it's just a guess.

This is where there is actually a lot of value in having genetic material that is “useless”. The useless parts of the genome are great for determining how (and when) they diverged. Because that DNA doesn’t have any function, it’s very unlikely to be similar as a result of convergent evolution, and much more likely a result of common ancestry.

I think each bibite should be assigned with a random letter and number when they are born from nothing and each of their kid would have the same number. This would make it easier to track migrations and extinction events, as it would act like an ID to identify species with a common ancestor. In your own simulation, it would have been really useful to make sure that the inutilus truly migrated to other islands.

There are many evolution projects on UKposts, but the Bibites are by far my favorite. Their pixel art has so much charm and their complexity is unmatched elsewhere. Nice job!

The Bibite's ability to swallow food whole made me realize that the implementation of parasitism would be interesting. If a small digestion-resistant bibite gets eaten by a larger bibite, it could eat food inside the bibite, reproduce, then spread after the bibite dies. Just something I thought could be cool to add.

Maybe, short of full saves, you could have the program randomly save the genes of a small number of creatures as the simulation progresses. It wouldn't be a full DNA database, but it could have a few samples... the little fossil evidence to help you figure out how things evolved.

what i would love is a family tree to be added into the game so you can see how a species evolved it would make it some much more interesting in my opinion also great video i love what your doing

I forgot how much I love The Bibites. Maybe someday it could be used as an educational tool or something!

While creating actual automatic taxonomic classifications would be downright impossible, have you considered creating a UI which allows you to click on a bibite and view all of its ancestors? Since bibites reproduce asexually this would just be a single sliding scale through time. Issues with storage may arise, which is why I would also implement a slider that lets the user decide how many generations back they want it to be saved.

A helpful feature would probably be an auto saver. Set a 1, 5 or custom hour timer and don’t have to worry about missing stuff. Rozoculi hostis will definitely conquer the island. Love the project. Keep it up 👍

I absolutely love this series. The only issue with it is the wait between uploads is so long (which is understandable), I have to spend a minute attempting to remember what the last episode taught us! A lot of it is common sense though, so that isn't too difficult :)

14:45 I don't believe that's a bug! I think the bibites evolved a habit that displays this emergent organization.

You are the first evolution project people I've seen actually release it to the public for people to play with it themselves Thats pretty cool of you

I think it’s great how you managed to recreate the struggles of a palaeontologist by complete accident

I’m really excited for this since it has been a while since a long simulation(which was only 1 hour and was 2 years ago). Also P.S people on the thebibites reddit have done significantly longer simulations.

Love the naming ideas! It's like I'm watching a real documentary about an alien planet.

The sheer dedication and complexity of this project definitely makes it one of the best evolution sims you can find for free, not to mention the style of the editing and pacing of the video is very easily digestible. Overall, well done, can't wait to see this project get bigger and more popular!

Man, I don't know about other people, but this content is so great that I could wait an age for more. I'll always be around to catch more of this amazing series. Thank you.

You know you've suceeded in creating a good simulation when even things that you didn't intend to happen (like bibites crossing the void and migrating) somewhat follow real world patterns Amazing job!!

An autosave feature might be a good idea. Also as some others have mentioned being able to see any individuals family tree (or a shortened version of it where it only shows creatures of any significant changes) would be real cool.

I remember seeing your old version of the simulation a long time ago. Glad to see you're still developing it! It looks really great too! There are so many different creature sprites for a lot of variety. And a lot of different genes that affect behavior. I also have a suggestion, I feel like from a scientific/experimental perspective. It's important not to tamper with a simulation after it has started. So I would suggest making it so eye colors mutate more slowly. Or make it where eye color is attached to certain genes. And those attachments are also randomly selected, but they don't mutate often. So the eye colors only noticeably change when a creature makes a large stride in mutation.

Great video ! Maybe keeping some basic info of the family tree (coord of birth, parent genes (or a name based on a region? done manually or randomly through evolution)) for each bibite could help you figure out which species are responsible for big changes and wipeouts in an area. You can keep maybe 2/3/or more ancestors worth of info to avoid performance issues and still have a kind of archaeologic path to follow. Combined with the random creatures saving mentioned by @nacoran, it could give you 100 hours worth of work :D to study the history of an 100h simulation and narrate its story to us, story that only you experienced.

"He recently implemented something along those lines and suggested I do the same" "I recently implemented something along those lines and I suggest you do the same" I don't know why this was so funny to me Reminds me of Kung Pow Enter the Fist: "A good friend of mine told me there will be a chosen one" "There will be a chosen one" "And then he told me of its significance" "It will be significant"

It'd be neat if you could have some kind of barrier or object that blocks out bibites of a certain size. This could mimick areas like thickets where smaller animals are dominant, allowing for one ecosystem to have multiple niches that interact with eachother. The bibites could learn to flee to these areas in case of predators, or to spawn their young there because there's less competition.

Oh my gosh, I love this analysis of the genes and brains of the bibites to try to figure out ancestry. Fantastic job!

Suggestion: Trace mutations with numerical/hex codes. Basically creating DNA. That way, if two creatures create the same behavior with convergent evolution, you can do what biologists do and analyze the genome to see where they actually evolved from. Regarding the useless brain connection - there’s no pressure against such things. Do more connections cost more energy?

You should add a feature that saves the simulation after a certain amount of time periodically

One suggestion I have to make ancestry identification easier would be to pick like 20 or so “base colors” and then make it so that the color can only be used by one initial spawn at a time. As long as early individuals die at a rate faster than new initial spawns are added, this should work. Then, make it so that color mutates incredibly slowly. Like perhaps the value of the color gene is divided by a factor of a fifty so that it requires 50 successive mutations for the color change to be visible. Otherwise the best option would be to store all the ancestry data and make it possible to search individuals in the ancestry tree and determine relationships that way (though you probably chose not to do this because it is very data intensive)

I have quite a few ideas but firstly: this is incredible. I discovered you recently and every episode has left me astonished. I can't wait to see what else you add! Here are my ideas now: (i should preface that i havent yet played the game myself, so i have no idea what im talking about most likely) Firstly, **camouflage.** This could be a game changer. (wait is that a pun NOO) Camouflage could allow for some species to escape from predation, or perhaps sneak up if the predator was camouflaged. However, it should definitely cost energy to be camouflaged, or have some other downside, such as being bumped into or something. Instead (or maybe along with) camouflage, **patterns.** The aesthetic that the species have could be used in the brain structures. Kind of like the flashy patterns that some poisonous species' have. Maybe it's what kind of wing or arm or whatever is there, or maybe how red a species is. Or, some kind of stripe, dots, or even horns. Maybe even some harmless species will adapt these patterns! My next idea works alongside camouflage. Some kind of **sleep system.** When you transitioned from a white screen to a black screen I thought about a day/night cycle, and sleep works perfectly with that. It could either be to gain energy or prevent the loss of energy or some other weird effect. This next idea is about **the herds.** A few episodes back (so probably years at this point) you created herd behavior. Now that's all fine and dandy for the herbivores, but what about the carnivores? Could predators hunt in packs? Or, maybe like bees and wasps, certain species would be able to defend themselves by using herd behavior (I think you mentioned this before, but i cannot remember) Here is something you definitely mentioned. **Evolving plantlife.** I don't know if you're working on it right now or if you will in three years, but here are some ideas: Thorns. Some kind of gene that tries to prevent itself from being eaten. Or maybe some kind of pheromone. If a pheromone that is released by a plant to signify "hey, dont eat me" is the same pheromone that can be released by other species, then some kind of very interesting deception tactic will develop. You mentioned a long time ago something about **waste.** Now, I don't know if you're still doing that or if it's in the game already, but it will be a very interesting dynamic. Perhaps some species are only able to eat the waste, and that is why plants can form. Or maybe, it has viruses in the waste. Or even parasites! And here's a big one. Other than Bibites, what species' are there roaming around? What adaptations do they start with, or are able to adapt at all? I'm proposing, along with biomes and stuff, certain **species specific adaptations.** Kind of like how certain species can only consume certain foods. So, how would birds work in this simulation? They can pick up prey and kill them in a variety of ways, or perhaps dive down to get plants. But they need a spot to lay eggs, they can't just do it anywhere. It takes both energy AND time. Or maybe worms that can be either parasitic or decomposers. Also, to add to the biomes. Some kind of dark area, or cave or something that goes along with both the sleep system and vision. I know someone else also mentioned water patches. Sadly, I do not know who. But I can say that is a great idea. I don't know if you're gonna see this, or add any of these features, but I hope you do. I'm going to post this comment on Reddit also, just to try and improve the chances that possibly you will see it. I just hope you add at least a few of what is mentioned here. edit: i dont know how bold works lmao

Honestly this is becoming one of my favorite channels, I really love what you're doing and how you are presenting it, and can't wait for more

A useful tool for this kind of thing would be fossils. They would easily allow you to see what had happened between intervals, but may also be detrimental to preformance.

this is by far the best evolution simulation I've seen!! I'm absolutely in love with the graphics, the way the colors indicate family more than traits is cool! Their shape and size, too.. it's so great! I'd wait forever for more of this!

as a separate simulation, you should have 3 islands: 2 of them alternate between producing a lot of food and producing only a little, and while one produces a lot, the other produces a little, like they're seasonal on opposite hemispheres. the third island stays fairly consistent but doesn't produce that much food, like, a bit less than the average of each of the other 2 islands.

Keep doing this man, I followed you for a long time - this kind of stuff is going to be fundamental to our future

Love this series man, I think two things you could do to improve the quality of life in the sim would be some form of a family tree tied to each bibit, and an auto saver with a controlled timer. It would be so cool to have a base world you saved previously that you could then tweak with new params to see how the bibits there would survive. Also, since predation seems to take forever to evolve, maybe add "bleeding" to the bibits when they're attacked, that way predator bibits could tracks the trails like pheromones. This could also be it's own food source, which might lead some bibits to take on a "hit and run" approach to getting food from prey :)

You should add a field to your bibites that documents their ancestry. This would be valuable for you to track changes of lineages, which seems to be a thing you like to do. Either that or export each generation into a separate database containing its lineage and genes so you can restore any given generation at-will.

Great video as always, it's so interesting to see how strategies are formed over time. I love the research you did on the topic it actually makes the video so educational(and the naming scheme for the bibits was a top notch). Keep up the good work. 👍

This is my first time in this channel and this is exactly the concept project I wanted to attempt after advancing in programming skills. It’s incredible! I love what you did. I thought up an obviously far less complex version but still with energy, food and stuff to begin with. I’m glad that I’ve found your channel as you’ve shown me that such a project is realistically feasible.

You should make a program that takes makes a life chart showing every mutation and who that mutation came from. Both in terms of evolution tree and where it is and where their ancestors primarily lived. This way you can keep it running without missing anything.

While it is fun to see the detective work done to fiure out where the new species come from, I think this shows that your simulation would really profit from having trackers implemented: some sort of family tree of the species, and the ability to draw a graph of the population over time of a branch of the tree, of or the amount of bibites that fit in a parameter set (two imperfect ways to define a species). This way you could see the development of a species much more closely!

This project is insanely cool and I love it a lot. PS: Not being a biologist makes your insights more important to me as I will have some bias. PSPS: Also you are learning first hand evolutionary concepts which is really cool and I cant wait to show your project to other interested people!!! PSPSPS: I think an evolutionary armsrace will happen between the Rozoculi species with eventually the infensus as the winner since they probably wont lose their generalism.

This stuff is so cool, love that you keep showcasing it. Been following for a few videos, have been fascinated by the results. Keep up the good work dude!

This is pretty cool, you should make some kind of automated species timeline generation recording system and the option to observe and possibly even copy different bibites from this automatically-generated timeline to see their characteristics and possibly place them in the world, this timeline would greatly help with finding the complete timeline for a run

I love to see how the AI software EVOLVES too. This is starting to get very interesting.

This is probably the coolest evolution sim series on yt I have found. I'm binging all of your videos right now.

This is freaking cool! I'd never heard of an evolution simulator before, and I'm not entirely sure why UKposts decided to suggest this to me.... but damn, I'm glad it did! Such an interesting project to work on :)

Sugestion in Portuguese: Implemente um número de identificação para cada indivíduo. Um número duplo. Um número que representa a ordem de nascimento do próprio indivíduo, e outro herdadado do seu progenitor. Assim os os indivíduos originais de uma simulação podem ser representados assim: (0, 1) (0,2) (0,3) por exemplo, na hipótese de cada um ter duas crias, seus números de identificação seriam por exemplo: (1,4) (1,7) (2,5) (2,8) (3,6) (3,9), assim fica fácil de perceber, (até mesmo a olho nú e mais facilmente para o caso de muitos indivíduos com uma função simples), qual é o padrão de descendência entre os indivíduos da simulação, mantendo uma lista dos indivíduos que nasceram. :) Isso deve resolve e facilitar a identificação. E pode funcionar como uma prova para vários aspectos à serem abordados nos próximos vídeos. :)

Welp, guess I'm staying up for 20 hours •-•

Just found your channel and loving the cute lil guys. I like that you’re sticking with this one simulation and just improving it over time I’ll be following their growth for sure :)

Great video! The analysis and comparisons are so interesting. Would love to see more of these!

Kinesis for the win! It is really interesting watching how this played out, and to see the struggle identifying a lineage. There has to be a good solution for that, like tagging the bibites with some arbitrary ID that cannot mutate. I wish I could say that I have a solution that I recently implemented and suggest you do the same, but I'm really at this point, I'm not sure what the ideal solution would be.

This is literally a national geographic documentary, what the hell??

i had this randomly recommended to me and this is super interesting already. i love evolution simulators so much

Super funny editing, it is one thing to be able to make that kind of complex simulator but it is another to be able to express the result of your work in a funny and interesting way. Please continue your work ! (salut de la part d'un ingénieur normand;) )

"Cleanse the members that difference too much from our Eye-deals" *Presses the Thanos button.*

The plants should evolve too

Hey, I think you should add an air composition system. Different organisms would breathe and emit different compounds. The more of a certain compound is in the air, the healthier the affected bibites would be. They'd benefit from augmented lifespan, size, speed, etc I've always loved evolution simulators and I think its awesome we're getting one from Québec!

This is amazing! Most evolution simulators have a set amount of neurons, but this system really lets them grow in complexity by themselves. And the digestion system is just brilliant in all the new options it provides!

Yayyyy I love this stuff though I dont understand a single thing about evolution or coding

So it's a video about genocide 💀

For being so utterly hilarious and interesting, you earned a sun. Love the work here man.

A very cool evolution simulator! Simulating natural selection in a way that is interesting is a very difficult task, and there's a lot of complex information theory that goes into it. You want large populations (to avoid extinction and gradual information loss) , and slow mutation rates (since most mutations are deleterious). These factors require a lot of memory and compute power. I love your use of "islands" to separate groups, but of course each additional island multiplies the population size you need to simulate. It's always very interesting to see how different creators approach these problems and produce interesting results.

I want to try a similar thing and think the Islands are a fun idea, but everytime I start the simulation the spawn areas are inside eachother or only a bit away

I think the 3 seconds video reactions add nothing to the video and they're really awkward to watch, maybe you should consider removing them... (you would also reduce your editing time!)

New Upload! Poggers, dude. Thank you :D

This is such a cool simulation man! It already has so much depth its crazy! I'm really excited to see where you take it :)

Wants to simulate evolution .. Starts playing god the minute the simulation produces something he doesn't like ..

Love your format of videos! Really enjoy the family tree feature and it was very clever to create different habitable locations!

de bibitss ! malade haha (my first video on your channel, good work man !)

I’m not sure if you remember me but a few years ago I saw one of your videos about this project, I left comment about how interested in the game I was. I just got the game this morning and I have to say I’m very impressed, I will say the saving and loading worlds could be a little better. Also having a chart/family tree for each species would really help those who want to see how they changed overtime. All said and done I hope more people discover the game and give you the support you deserve, allowing you to make more incredible stuff.

Your project has an enormous capacity to succeed, you and your team are doing an awesome work! :D I'm kinda curious about one little thing, it's about how the omnivorous creature system would work

You should definitely make more videos like this during dry spells for content, I can't imagine this taking more work than an update. Also it is a good way to show the cumulative features from new updates.

Hey! I am also not a biologist, but I have some ideas to help push your simulations to evolve predation. The first is to create a more dynamic environment. In an environment where plant food is plentiful there won't be a lot of incentive for predators, since there is always enough plant food. On the other hand, if food is too scarce then there won't be enough of *anything* to allow for evolution. One solution is for plant food availability to swing up and down. When plant food is readily available, populations will thrive and increase, especially smaller individuals like babies. When the plants are not available there will be a much stronger pressure to consume other bibites. I think there should be multiple cycles at different periods, like a daily cycle that doesn't swing *too* far in either direction, maybe a longer "yearly" cycle that shifts the daily min and max up and down together, and then a semi-random "drought" and "flood" that drastically swings everything up and down. You could even have regions with different levels so that bibites can adapt to conditions in one area only to have those conditions change, forcing them to migrate. Invasive bibites could end up being better suited for predation in the new region, or provide a better prey species for the native bibites. As a real-world example, some of the most complex early life on Earth began tide pools, where the tidal cycles periodically stranded life in pools, where they had to survive until the next cycle. Even earlier, mobility in microbes probably evolved so that photosynthesizers could follow the Sun, away from shaded areas. It also allowed them to sink down into safer, deeper waters at night, then move back up into the Sun during the day. Relatedly, introducing sporadic mass extinction events frees up resources already "claimed" by a dominant species. More immediately, it dumps a ton of "meat" resources into the environment. In a previous video, you mentioned that scavengers were a necessary intermediary to predators. Like the availability of plant food, changes in the amount of "scavenger" food can push species towards true predation - the huge initial increase in meat to be scavenged puts pressure for bibites to be able to capitalize on it as scavengers. When that inevitably runs out, they will (presumably) evolved away from being able to efficiently consume plant food again, forcing them into predation. Finally, allowing the plants to have some variation beyond just size could push for predation. If plants become indigestible to some bibites, they will have to find another food (in the form of other bibites). Like the dynamic environment, this still allows for a large population of prey bibites that can still consume the plant pellets, while also stopping other bibites from relying on the plant pellets. Traits could include increasing a toxic "alkaloid" that poisons some bibites but not others, changing the energy cost to digest the pellets, making them "spikey" or "tough" so that only certain kinds of mouthparts can eat them, etc. Looking forward to the next video!

Hi! I really like your evolution simulation running wildly! It has its own unique graphic style so its fun to watch, and also it has one of the most builded evo sim game i could possibly find out! Congratulations!

I think you should add an optional auto save/snapshot feature. Make it an option with a time parameter, that way you could just set it to five hours and then not have to worry about missing key evolutionary events, like the pinkeye migration. Loving this!!

I can't believe that looking through some evolution simulators and remembering bibites and finding a brand new video when I search for it! I am so happy!!!! :D

absolutely awesome video. feels like speculative evolution, but it's actual evolution! and also awesome how far it came from what i knew !

Wow man, this is an amazing project and so interesting 😁. Very nice content👍🏻

Really looking forward to the plant update. I think it's really going to be a game changer, especially if you put some more environment stuff.

I got recommended this randomly, do Im commenting as someone whose first exposure is this very video. The depth of variables that effect both the world gen and the species variation seems very impressive, I particularly liked the inclusion of pheromones, a trait that is unlocked later on through random evolution, even though it doesnt have any benefit, but can as a result create its own reaction loop in the system, showcasing the adaptiveness of the similation and also making it so that not every species starts with every feature, resulting in greater variance. While the video did not focus on it, I noticed some of them flashing red upon collision as if taking damage, which did not happen with all of them, leading me to believe that there are mechanics in place for carnivorous evolution lines, which not only gives variance to existing "tactics" but also introduces brand new ones, in return forcing the system to react to a carnivore, wheter by speed or armor. This looks very impressive. One last addition of praise would be how the genetics seem to effect their physical appearance, allowing one to differentiate them past simple color coding.

Very well done video. Your humor matches mine quite well. Thank you for the info and the laughs.

I love your facial and body expressions throughout the video, they are so goofy yet still charming and funny, you look like a fun person to have as a friend.

Perhaps a tracker value could be useful too? Assign a random hex value to every *original* species, which descendants would all inherent. It wouldn't give a full picture, but it would be helpful in those "which population did this species come from" cases and shouldn't affect processing speed afaik

Nice man! I was creating my own visual simulation on ecosystem evolution, but you did a great great job, so I don't have this burden anymore.

Continue comme ça chum, j'aime ça voir de notre monde percé dans un domaine!

It's good to see the improvements in graphics, as atmosphere is a very important part of these slow-paced spectator type games. Simple mainstream videos like this are also the right direction for attracting more people

Not only do I remember watching the original attempt at this, but I love your warning about your education.

i rly like this video and i cant wait to watch part 2 also could u implement something like evolution tree by generations to acctualy see how something evolved

Let me just say, that I really love the sort of little skits of yourself that you put into the video, they make it more interresting and enjoyable ( and they are quite funny ). As for which of the two is going to survive - I think that both will, but the Rozoculi Infensus will imo develop some sort of carnivore gene and start hunting the Rozoculi Rigicutis, which will than try to adapt - perhaps by growing more armour, which could lead to the Rozoculi Infensus hunting in packs in order to kill them effectively. This whole sort of battle could also lead to evolution of carnivores which eat the remains of the battles of these two.

I really loved this video, I think it's your best yet! I especially loved the genealogy aspect and showing the species and how they diverged.

I'm glad to see your still working o n this simulator.

Fantastic in numerous ways - from concept, through creation, through (enjoyable and funny!) presentation. Thank you for sharing!

I wish I found this earlier! I think evolution is so cool, and sims like these are so great to watch. Thank you for the amazing ass content! :D

Oh my god I have been waiting so long for this lets goooopoooo!!!!

I think I have a good idea to implement into the game at some point. You could add a random name generator to name virgin birth species and after some number of mutations or generations a new species name or genus name is generated. Not only does this let us track the divergence of species more easily but the names could be used by the species as a way of identifying relatives and a gene could control levels of aggression towards them, so predators have the ability to choose not to eat their babies, or encourage species to herd as a family group.

This project is so so cool and has inspired me to get started on a project of my own! Any good resources you know of to get started on the practical elements of coding something like this out? Once again, SO cool. Keep up the great work man!

I'm loving the near-immediate concern over trying to figure out the evolutionary taxonomy.

I propose to make the void(optionally) 100% deadly, in order to be able to have several isolated populations without risk of invasions between them