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Simulating an Ice Age Ecosystem in Prehistoric Kingdom

DinoDude11

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Prehistoric Kingdom now has combat, breeding, and seamless ontogeny all working together, and what better way to test those behaviors than simulating an ecosystem? In this video, I simulated a multi-year ecosystem set right in the Ice Age! We started out with 315 mammals with 7 unique species, and overall, I'm quite happy with the finished result, even if the ecosystem didn't turn out quite how I was expecting. If you guys want to see even more Prehistoric Kingdom videos, let me know in the comments and by smashing that like button!

Download the finished Cenozoic Environment here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

I do not own any of the music used in this video.

Welcome to Update 17, Park Managers!
This update has been a long time coming. Animal combat and hunting are finally making their way into your parks, alongside a collection of management improvements, visual upgrades, new iconic species, and countless fixes and optimizations.
Nearly every part of the simulation has received attention in one form or another, making this the largest update we've released so far as we are near the game's release, next year.

17 Comments

@warlord5295 2 months ago

it was cool to see confrontations between smilodon and cave lions

@user-zt7ds8ej5g 2 months ago

I would definitely start with at least 40 of the cats, and anywhere between 30-50 bears, and maybe upwards of 80 megalocerous. The rest should be at a fine amount. Bison will definitely help when they come to the game as well as horses

@roppie 2 months ago

I actually like the prehistoric mammals more than the dino's in this game.

@Moontisnametobechangedlateron 1 month ago

Another creator who had similar dieoffs at the start of the simulation appears to have been experiencing this because not all the individuals in a species could breed at the start of the sim because, obviously, most were juveniles and babies. This might be at least a partial contributor to your own dioffs.

@PheterGessinguer 2 months ago

The video was great, but like the Hell Creek Formation, the carnivores died because there are not so many animals, i think you would need to have 200 indivuals for each carnivores, and 400 for each herbivore. I would also recommend starting the ecossytem with all babies (0%) for more babies and fertility. But it was interesting seeing the population decline. See you in other video!

@gallimimusjurassic2243 2 months ago

Unfortunately the roster is unbalanced to support some ecosystem. Hopefully the bison will help! also, vivarium animals are good to enrich the environment

@Yapapapapapapapap 2 months ago

Ecos la brea be like: 1:26

@EdizKaan-v9q 1 month ago

Bison and megatherium is a good addition but i would also like hyaenodon and daeodon.

@Instinct245 2 months ago

Loved the mammoths

@ZoeySabatke 2 months ago

I think if you spawned the predators away from each other like one saber here one here to stop fighting as much cause I noticed that was the biggest cause for death

@YourFavPerris 2 months ago

There definetly needs to be a balance of prey and predators in an ecosystem instead of more predators there should be more prey added

@Uzenglazer 2 months ago

some of the animation for the smilos remind me of eco la brea

@Gamingcrab11 2 months ago

Devs-prehistoric animals can breed and hunt and fight now we don’t think or know if a ecosystem will even work so idk 🤷

The public-we will see about that 😏

@Firestar_1123 2 months ago

I would recommend a few years of just herbies to give them a chance to establish and breed and then start adding carnivores. that's what i do on JWE3 anyway, so it might work in Prehistoric Kingdom as well.

@catholic_chasca_mains 1 month ago

Smilodon didn't live on the mammoth steppe.

@davidlawton9307 2 months ago

It's seem like the carnivores need more species they can actually take down and hunt. That plus they are heavy competition for each other maybe there is to many carnivore species?