Insect gene stuff would be cool.

Aquatic-themed genes, like tentacles arms/legs/extra limbs, increased speed when walking in the rain or bodies of water..

And like Cerealjerk above me, I'd also greatly approve of arthropod themed genes. Spider folk here we come.

Crossover between Alpha animals and Alpha Genes, extractable genes. Maybe something like Aerofleet - > Aerofleet slurry -> random aerofleet gene

wastepack eating gene - depending on its need decay, it could be an easy way to feed your xenotypes, or extremely hard on clean planets

photosynthesis gene - great move penalty due to darkness or night time, opt. forced skin tone. comp 1/2 metab. +4/+6

Originally posted by Egalexandr:

photosynthesis gene - great move penalty due to darkness or night time, opt. forced skin tone. comp 1/2 metab. +4/+6

That's already a thing mate

sorry then, I'm on my way to computer to test it all out

Maybe a gene for if you have ideology that lets the pawn have their own single dryad they can grow? The dryad basically acting like the pawn is a gauranlen tree, being linked to the pawn. The pawn can change the chaste of the dryad, and just like the normal trees it takes a while to spawn a new one if the old one dies and takes a while to change chastes

Didnt test it yet, but as a type 1 diabetic (which is a genetic disease) I'm suggesting a diabetic gene.
Maybe having slower Work Speed but needing less sleep and food or something like that

Bee xenos when?

Game end goal: Genetic ascencion, throught a lot of research and quests you can obtain the Genomancer gene, a gene that have a cheaty amounts of metabolism points and gives you two Abilities.

Steal gene: An ability that allows you to steal a gene of your option from a downed pawn, there will be a chance that the downed pawn dies and turn him in to a puddle of goo.

Reject gene: An ability that allows you to implant a gene of your option and removing it from your pawn.

Parthenogenesis genes: A form of asexual reproduction where an egg can be unfertilised and develop into another female. Could also have a male analog, or have a species be either sexual or asexual depending on conditions, and have egg-laying be either sexual or asexual.

It would also be cool to either have one species (or two species that are locked to male and female that mate with each other) have male genes and female genes, so that you can have two very different sexes, e.g. beautiful, fast, fragile, short-lived males and ugly, slow, longer-lived, durable females.

Something like tyranid genes. Fast af birth through cocoons, something for gene alteration at birth and e.t.c. In short - option to create your army of xenohumans without electricity. Just through cursed biopunk. And yep. Insects are cool. I wanna insectoid genes

Any chance of re-purposing Kikohi's Forsaken and adding them in with new xenotypes?

I had a very odd thought when i saw the wretch xenotype. I saw nothing about new scenario's. So... A scenario with the starting pawns being only of the wretch xenotype? I can see this scenario and Randy being just pure impossible chaos. (Wretch's would start with little research, 1 random pet they found, and it would consist of 3-5 pawns. 5 would be pretty fun, but 3 seems more fair to start so you can keep tabs on what happens to each early without it being too time consuming just to find out what 1 pawn gets that day let alone 5 starting pawns)