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Roller Snakes

Adds a new critter species to the game called the Roller Snake. It can be found in care packages or in an entirely new biome called the Desert which is found on a new asteroid called Tetrament. In addition to just Roller Snakes this mod also includes two new plant species called the Spiky Succulent and the Aqua Bulb. Read below to learn more about the new critter, plants, and biome!


Living in the Desert is a peculiar type of snake that moves around by rolling up into a loop and rolling around. Roller Snakes are a new species of critter introduced in the Desert Biome. They come in two variants with adult and baby versions.

• Roller Snakes are the default type of Roller Snakes and have a distinct red color.
  
• Tough Roller Snakes are a morph of Roller Snakes that are more likely to appear when a Roller Snake eats Obsidian. They have a distinct blue color.

Roller Snakes eat a diet of Sand and Raw Minerals. They excrete Coal at a somewhat less efficient rate than Hatches. However, Roller Snakes have a metal rich rattle that may be sheared off at a Shearing Staion like Dreckos. They regrow this rattle every couple cycles, providing a consistent source of metal.

• The default Roller Snakes have a rattle formed of Gold Amalgam and can only grow their rattle in Oxygen.
  
• The Tough Roller Snakes have a rattle formed of Steel and can only grow their rattle in Carbon Dioxide.

• The Spiky Succulent is a new fruiting cactus plant that produces both an edible flesh and flower each time it is harvested. Although it requires more Water to grow than a Bristle Blossom its heat tolerance makes it much easier to feed from a Steam Geyser or Hot Water Geyser than alternate food options. Investigate both the Electric Grill and Gas Range to learn of the two new meals that can be created with the food of the Spiky Succulent. The tooltip for the Spiky Succulent says it only produces cactus flesh; this is a bug - it actually produces both the cactus flesh and cactus flower which is about 2x the kcal of just the cactus flesh that is shown in the tooltip.
  
• The Aqua Bulb is a new foragable plant that provides one-time Water. It is similar to the one-time food of the Muckroot and Hexalent. In order to extract the Water from the Aqua Bulb your Duplicants must use a Rock Crusher since its membrane is too thick to be broken with conventional means.

The Desert biome brings an interesting mix of critters, plants, elements, and geysers to your world. In addition to bringing 1 new critter and 2 new plants, the Desert biome has a unique mix of elements. It is made up of the following critters, plants, elements, and geysers. Explore the Desert in game to figure out in what proportion each is present:

• Roller Snake
  
• Slickster
  
• Sun Bug
  
• Spiky Succulent
  
• Aqua Bulb
  
• Sand
  
• Sandstone
  
• Oxygen
  
• Carbon Dioxide
  
• Iron Ore
  
• Coal
  
• Fossil
  
• Crude Oil
  
• Steam Geyser
  
• Oil Reservoir

There are also some unique points of interest for your Duplicants to discover in the Desert.


The asteroid Tetrament is the new asteroid added by this mod where you can play with the Desert biome. It is not intended to be a challenging map - instead it mostly serves to provide variety and a slightly different play experience than typical.

Tetrament's in-game description is: "A location with moderately hot temperatures, Tetrament is home to large expanses of hot, dry desert in addition to its lush forests, swamps, and jungles. Tetrament is an ideal location for Duplicant life. Its environment is quite different from other locations but is not any more challenging."

The biomes that you can find on Tetrament are as follows:

• Forest
  
• Desert
  
• Caustic
  
• Swamp
  
• Tide Pool
  
• Frozen
  
• Space/Surface
  
• Volcano/Core

If there are problems with the mod please reach out on the (un)official Oxygen Not Included Discord where I hang around on the modding channels as @test447. I don't pay full attention to steam comments.

Code is open source and may be found in my ONI-Mods Github repository. Feel free to look at, copy, modify it, etc.. Art assets and animations may also be found in that repository but cannot be redistributed without permission.
Github repository link here[github.com]