rainbowgrendels.zip

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RAINBOW GRENDELS of Risen Angel

The Rainbow Grendels are essentially a grendel version of Amanora's Rainbow Norns. They change colors throughout their lifespan, based on sex. Males start out purple and will gradually shift towards green as they get older, and for females it's the other way around. Their appearance genes are also sex-linked, although first gens have the same appearance regardless; this'll be more relevant for genetically edited individuals or for appearance mutations further on down the line.

Due to all their sex-linked genes, I'm not sure how compatible they'll be with the Nornbinary update; I haven't tested it myself, so be warned if you're using that.

Past that, they're what I call a "fixed CFE" breed, or maybe "quasi-CFF" would be a better term. They're based on the CFE Grendel genome, but with a number of features backported from the CFF and later genomes: 
*They have the Hunger Overwhelmsion and Lactate Cycle CFF edits (allowing them to prioritize hunger, have better chances of surviving drowning, and also won't get stuck limping forever thanks to excess lactate mutations).
*They also breed slower than normal grendels, although they don't have the full Inhibin cycle from the CFF. 
*They can store muscle tissue.
*They can't last quite as long without food as normal grendels (though it's more akin to a vanilla norn than something like the Gizmo Norns).
*All genes in the Uterus are set to female only, fixing an issue where the Time Line organ was vulnerable in male creatures.
*All gait genes and genes related to gaits cannot mutate.
*They have the stimuli genes missing in normal grendels.
**In particular they can reduce their loneliness by approaching other grendels and have an instinct to do so; they'll also head to the Grendel Home if there aren't any other grendels nearby. While they still possess an instinct to approach norns when lonely, it's been greatly reduced in strength.
*Mating costs Adipose tissue.
*They can't breed when their glycogen levels get too low (around when the near death music would kick in). 

While I can't guarantee 100% compatibility, Rainbow Grendels should crossbreed at least a little better than the norn breed they were inspired by (most of the new genes are at the end of the genome). 

Granted, all these features are things I'd like all my future breeds to have, so the Rainbow Grendels aren't special in this regard.

Past all this, they're mostly normal grendels. Which means you should probably think twice before introducing these to your norns; just because they're colorful doesn't make them friendly.

They use the sprites of the standard C3 grendel (Grendel A). 

Installation: Put the .agents file in your ".../Creatures 3/My Agents" folder or ".../Docking Station/My Agents" folder, and you should be able to lay Rainbow Grendel eggs with the Norn Egg Layer or Muco. 

Feel free to alter and distribute this download as you please. Credit would be nice, but isn't necessary. 

Questions? Comments? Contact:
Creatures Caves: RisenAngel
E-mail: *****@gmail.com
Discord: riseengel

Additional Credits:
Amanora - Creator of the Rainbow Norns, who inspired this breed
Vampess - Creator of the CFE genomes, upon which this breed was based
Evolnemesis - Creator of the CFF genomes, from which this breed takes a few features