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Bullockornis

Bullockornis (echo fighter:Dromornis), otherwise known as the demon duck of doom, is a banned bird build. Not related to the ratites, their flightless playstyle only being the result of parallel meta shift (parallel evolution) This build is actually related to waterfowl (Ducks, Geese and Swans), gamefowl (Chickens, Turkeys, Pheasants, and Peafowl), and other flightless bird builds, like Gastornis and Genyornis.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. While it literally shared similar problems with the Terror Bird build (incorrectly pulling off bipedalism by not speccing into powerful slashing forelimbs), It has a few distinct advantages, by speccing into an omnivorous playstyle, eating fruits when other players are rare, something Terror Birds also did not pull off.It also has decent Mobility It was also just as good at crowd control. They can also tank hits that would normally take down most terror bird builds, with Bullockornis weighing up to 300 kg and Dromornis weighing up to 730 kg, slightly smaller than the Vorombe titan.

## References

### Calculations

1. ↑ https://vajiramias.com/current-affairs/elephant-bird/5c19199f2099377308fff9a9/

### General References

1. ↑ https://austhrutime.com/dromornithidae.htm
2. ↑ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16622404-800-the-demon-duck-of-doom/
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/dromornis-stirtoni/ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
4. ↑ https://austhrutime.com/thunder\_birds.htm
5. ↑ http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/australia-s-demon-duck-of-doom/
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastornithiformes
7. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/b/bullockornis.html
8. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150727-the-reign-of-the-terror-birds
9. ↑ https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Bullockornis-Planei-The-Demon-Duck-of-Doom
10. ↑ https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Bullockornis-Planei-The-Demon-Duck-of-Doom
11. ↑ https://carnivora.net/vorombe-titan-v-dromornis-stirtoni-t4025.html
Build Types

Build Types are necessary for when choosing another build or different server.

There are 4 different types of fundamental Build Types.

Tank: The Tortoise and Turtle are well known Tanks. Despite common belief, Tanks do not always need high defense and or Health. Area denial is also very important or at least any way to counter attack. A bad example of a Tank is the Ocean Sunfish, since it doesn't have any way to fight back predators and is often targeted because of this.

Generalist: One most well known generalist builds, is the Rat. Generalist builds tend to fare best when the game is undergoing rapid balance patches.

Intelligence: While they might use or upgrade their stats to make their gameplay better, they primary rely on quick thinking, problem solving and trickery in order to survive. A well known example of an intelligence build is the Octopus.

Stealth: Stealth builds aren't very well known for their stealth, because they often supplement their strategy with other good stats such as Power or Intelligence. Some well known builds include the Octopus, Lion and Zebra. Stealth builds are mostly used for ambushing predators but can also be used to hide from or confuse predators, like the Zebra and Octopus.
Blue-Tongued Lizard

LOOK AT MY TONGUE

The Blue-tongued lizards is one of the more gimmicky lizards. They look like a normal lizard until they open up their mouth and show their blue tongue and makes this build look like it's poisonous. This ability is crucial because blue tongue lizards (like most lizards) have less than impressive offensive and defensive stats. They are pretty intelligent for a lizard probably to compensate for their terrible offensive and defensive stats. They get a high C tier.

## Trivia

The Blue-Tongued Lizard is actually a skink despite its ingame name.
Bandringa

Bandringa was a banned Shark build which is among the first builds to be able to switch servers. This build was also among the first to specc into [Adaptive Gills].

## Unique Abilities

### Adaptive Gills

Type:Support

Effect:No penalty for switching between freshwater and saltwater servers.

### Electroreception

Type:Utility

Effect:Motion shown on minimap

#### Paddle-Like Nose

Effect:Drasically increases the power of the electroreception to allow sensing builds bellow it.

## Tier Placement

C-tier. This build loses what makes Sharks good in order to play a suction-feeding playstyle, much like Nurse Sharks. However, it makes up for this with its other unique abilities like its 3D [Electroreception] and [Adaptive Gills] and decent Health

## References

1. ↑ https://news.umich.edu/ancient-sharks-reared-young-in-prehistoric-river-delta-nursery/
2. ↑ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24845-prehistoric-sharks-were-earliest-animals-to-migrate/
3. ↑ https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/just-for-kids/outdoors-just-for-kids-ancient-sharks-did-opposite-of-salmon/article\_31febeb1-7ef2-5cbb-85fd-f58caf63f4c5.html
4. ↑ http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-nursery-bandringa-sharks-01678.html
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery/extinct-freshwater-sharks-that-spawned-in-saltwater-had-been-mistaken-for-separate-species/
6. ↑ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2013.782875?src=recsys&journalCode=ujvp20
7. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/b/bandringa.html
Bongo

The bongo is the largest playable forst antelope build. It is also the third largest Antelope build in the game, behind both variants of the Eland. This build is actually the only member of its tribe where both genders spawn with the [Horns] attribute. It belongs to tribe Tragelaphini, which is part of the wider Bovinae guild.

## Overview

They specced into horns for extra Power. However, its extremely low Resolve prevents them from being used in a fight. Being able to gather in herds, it has a decent Intelligence stat. It is able to tank a good amount of damage compared to other antelopes. Lastly, it has a great Stealth stat to counter griefers.

## Moveset

**Forest Horns (Passive, Mobility)**- Provides an attack boost and removes penalty for Mobility in forests.

**Ruminant (Passive, Misc.)**- Allows you to consume any kind of plant loot.

## Tier Placement

High C-tier. While they are decent for a forest build, they have many griefers of this build and if caught, the best they can do is hopefully tank off the damage dealt, as it has too little Resolve for its attacks to be effective.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/mammals/bongo-antelope/
2. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=m-zX8zBKogAC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=bongo+third+heaviest+antelope&source=bl&ots=3esaVgCyWw&sig=ACfU3U0JC-dbnZnonPj0W-wNX3QujNdFeg&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf9p3U4srxAhVpwosBHXeCDf0Q6AEwIXoECC8QAg#v=onepage&q=bongo%20third%20heaviest%20antelope&f=false
3. ↑ https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge\_hub/where\_we\_work/congo\_basin\_forests/the\_area/wildlife/mammals/bongo/?
4. ↑ https://www.dnazoo.org/post/marching-to-the-beat-of-the-bongo
5. ↑ http://cincinnatizoo.org/animals/bongo/
6. ↑ https://afktravel.com/112316/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-bongos/2/
7. ↑ https://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/antelope/Bongo.shtml
8. ↑ https://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/bongo\_facts/2085/
9. ↑ https://denverzoo.org/animals/eastern-bongo/
10. ↑ https://fossilrim.org/animals/mountain-bongo/
11. ↑ https://a-z-animals.com/animals/bongo/
Conehead termite

The conehead termite is an insect build that plays on the Caribbean island and North American servers. This build is the only termite build to be polygynous, which means they have many kings and queens in their colonies. This is a great strategy because these termites can multiply faster than any other termite or regular eusocial insect. These builds also have an extremely good range attack where a sticky glue-like substance is shot and immobilizes and does a lot of damage on one hit. Lastly their range attack also functions as a scent where it will announce if there is an enemy in their base. These builds are nothing but S tier.
Anomalocaris

**Anomalocaris** was a dinocarid build that lived during the Cambrian Explosion. It was banned in the mid-Cambrian period due to major climate change.

## Classification

### Species

varies

At the time, Anomalocaris had the highest base stats in the game. They had a high defense stat due to their Armor Ability and high health as well. Their Mobility was great for the time, but their Intelligence and Stealth were very low, as the Cambrian expansion builds never used those stats. They mainly feed on mush.

## Abilities

### Compound Eyes

Most players at the time had poor eyes, so the Anomalocaris build, with the Compound Eyes ability, could see a lot better than most other builds.

## Tier Placement

This build was VERY popular during the Cambrian Explosion balance patch. It had decent stats, but unlike what many people belief it was not an apex predator. Data miners have found that it had a weak bite, meaning it mostly ate mush and could not body trilobites- this makes Anomalocaris a mid A tier.

### Tierzoo's Analysis

Tierzoo, due to his poor research, gave this critter an S tier in this video:[1]

## References

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/101103-giant-shrimp-sea-predator-paleontology-science

https://www.wired.com/2010/11/anomalocaris-trilobite-bite/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/fearsome-ancient-shrimp-had-no-bite-1.972310
Badger

Badgers are short, stout Mustelid builds. It also includes Wolverines and Otters. There are three types of badger builds, the Melinae (Eurasian badgers) Mellivorinae (Honey Badger) and the Taxideinae (American badgers). They are typically omnivorous when it comes to loot sources.

## Overview

The badger build has mostly high stats all throughout, with decent Intelligence and high defensive stats and Power. Their only below-average stats are Mobility and Stealth.

## Tier Placement

Though not officially tiered, the Badger likely falls into B tier. One effective strategy Badgers use to gain XP is to team up with Coyote players. The Badgers are able to dig into Prairie Dog burrows, but do not have the mobility needed to catch them. Working together, the badgers can grab Prairie Dogs scurrying back to their burrows, while Coyotes have the speed and agility to eliminate Prairie Dogs fleeing from the burrows. However, they're not very oppressive compared to the Wolf, Cougar, and Bear builds whom the Badgers get ganked by. European badgers are even less oppressive. Also, some players tend to have some PvP, and sometimes win, against badgers, like the Groundhog.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://animals.net/badger/
2. ↑ https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/b/Badger.htm
3. ↑ https://www.livescience.com/52420-badgers.html
Ammonite

Ammonites were a removed build that first appeared during the Devonian expansion. Despite its appearance, it was more related to Squids and Octopi than to Nautiluses. They were nerfed and banned along with the Dinosaurs in the Cretacous-Paleogene balance patch.

## Overview

This build had a great defense for its time, higher than its cousin the Nautilus. It allowed this build to take hits that other cephalopods could only dream of. They had terrible mobility and intelligence stat. But the mobility stat was at least fast enough to out-sped large mosasaurs, and the intelligence didn't hinder it that much.

## Abilities and Skills

### Jet Propulsion

This build like almost all cephalopods specked into Jet Propulsion, allowing it to get a good burst of speed to evade attacks.

### Ink Screen

This build had the ability to spray ink, allowing it make a small area covered in ink, this allowed it blind predators, as it escaped to safer waters.

### Hard Shell

The user develops a hard shell, makes the player more buoyant, and drastically increases the defense stat of the player. But it also reduces mobility and increases the hit-box.

### Tentacles

This build grows pairs of many tentacles, making grabs easier.

## Tier Placement

This build opted for Defense instead of Intelligence or Mobility by developing a shell. Its a viable option for its time.  It also had good Stealth from the [Ink Screen] skill. But this build is weak to stealth and intelligence builds. As intelligence builds would find ways to break the shell, and stealth builds would be able to catch this build off guard. During its time Ammonites would be at B-tier. But if it was in the current meta, it would be completely destroyed by cetaceans. As the open ocean is full of them.
Babirusa

The Babirusa is a build of pig found on several island servers in the East Indies. The distinguishing feature of this build is the presence of upward-curving canine tusks in male players. It is a relative of other pig builds, including the Warthog and Wild Boar.

## Overview

Babirusas have pretty average stats for a hog build. They have great intelligence and mobility, and decent bulk. Their lowest stat is stealth, which this build really doesn't need, due to the lack of natural predators that are not humans. This is because they live on islands that are heavily covered with forest servers. These builds usually live in groups, except for males who live mainly a solitary life. This build are omnivores, but notably consume grass, leaves, fruits, and small animals.

## Abilities

### Tooth Regeneration

This ability greatly increases the tooth growth of this build. This ability is used mainly for mating purposes, as the females prefer dominant males with long tusks. Besides that the tooth regen is pretty useless. The tusk themselves are very brittle useless for combat, and Babirusas instead use their front feet for boxing to show dominance. This ability also causes the upper tusks to overgrow and break the skull of the male. At least the females lack the upper jaw found in males, so they do not have any issue with this ability.

### Multi-Chambered Stomachs

Unlike most pigs who have one stomach, Babirusas have multiple. Like most builds with this ability, this build can consume digest grass, and other low lying plants, that other hogs can't consume.

### Strong Hind Legs

These builds have pretty strong hind legs for a hog. It allows this build to go biped for a short time, this allows these builds to fight without to use of the tusks.

## Tier Placement

While most pig builds are in A tier due to high intelligence and the ability to dig, this build is stuck in high B tier. This is because of the upward curving canine teeth which can actually lead to a game over if the player plays long enough. Other pig builds do not have this useless ability. Without this ability or their upper tusks they would be in high A tier.
Butterfly

The **butterfly** is an insect build. It is known for its erratic flight in high-level forms.

Butterflies have two forms, depending on level. Low-level form is called caterpillar. After gaining enough levels, a player has to do Metamorphosis quest to gain high-level imago form.

Usually the imago form and sometimes caterpillar form have a lot of points spent into Aesthetics.
Balto

Perhaps one of the most famous of support mains, Balto was a Siberian Huskie Dog main that was active in The Arctic and North American Servers from 1933.

## Balto the Husky support main

Balto, a Siberian Husky main, started his game play in 1919 in the Alaskan portion of The Arctic Server. As a new player, Balto became a support main and became a sled dog for a human player. In 1925, Balto and his crew were tasked with bringing medicine to Nome, a base located in the Alaskan server.

The Run was forced due to all other methods of transportion being down. The game ending diphtheria epidemic players were sweeping through Nome and medicine was urgently needed by the server to counter the virus players.

The trip was hard as Balto had to travel through a freezing overworld and in the middle of whitout conditions, yet despite all odds the trip was succesful and evantually all dipheria virus players were eliminated. In honor of this event the human mains of NYC created a statue of Balto that remains to this day. Though Balto is the one credited for this heroic move, other dog mains, like Togo, played a larger role. Balto played an adventurerous game plan in the Ohio server where Balto's gameplay ended in his stamina regeneration mode..
Blindness

The Blindness debuff is a temporarily or eternal status effect that either limits your ability to see or completely removes it. To it's core it's the inability to see anything, including light.

The most common way to cause the eternal blindness effect to your target is to attack the eyes causing your target to lose their ability to see or at least weaken it. Some cephalopods have the ink cloud ability which reduces the targets sight to 0 for a short time.

A common fact amongst the predators is the global darkness that occurs each night. This limits most builds' sight range and can be countered by the use of night vision.

Even though, the effect is powerful it's not the best of its kind. For example some builds don't even specialise into sight and rely on smell and sound.

The debuff can also be caused by horrible RNG, which can be mitigated by support classes. This is most well known in humans, where they use support classes and the tool "cane".
Cape Buffalo

The (other) Black Death

The Cape buffalo, also known as the African buffalo, is a Bovine build that debuted since the Middle Pleistocene. It has great stats except Stealth. The Cape buffalo build is playable on the African server. It is also one of the "Big five", a group that also includes the Leopard, Lion, Elephant and the Rhinoceros. The group is named because they are dangerous to Humans, who grief them anyway for sport (but this one is the least griefed out of the Big 5).

## Tier Placement

At the top of A tier is the **Cape Buffalo**. Africa is a really tough metagame, home to some of the most dangerous builds in the current game like Lions, Hyenas, Rhinos and Elephants, the **Cape Buffalo** managed to reign supreme as one of the most dangerous builds. As a part of the Big 5, and the second most abundant out of all of them and the safest from the banhammer, thus cementing their position as the best bovine build currently.
Colugo

Colugos (Dermoptera), also called flying lemurs even though these builds can neither fly nor are lemurs,are gliding mammal builds closely related to primates.

## Overview

Despite being among the largest of the playable gliders, these builds still have little in the way of their Health. Their patagium allows them to cloak for great Stealth and provides them with great Mobility. It has low Power due to being a strict herbivore and low Intelligence due to their solitary nature.

## Moveset

**Glide (Active, Mobility)**- Manipulates fall speed, allowing you to cover great distances with little effort.

**Patagium (Passive, Mobility)**- Provides the user with the ability to glide and also provides a passive Stealth bonus.

## Tier Placement

D-tier. This little Mammal build is capable of gliding quite well. Unfortunately, gliding is easy to predict, as you always go straight down, allowing other players to easily grief you when you touch the ground. Additionally, it is easily bodied by Philippine Eagles.

## Summary

### Pros:

* Great Mobility
* Good Stealth
* Gliding consumes less energy

### Cons:

* Easily intercepted.
* Lacking in other stats.
* Below-average matchups overall.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dermoptera-colugos
2. ↑ https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/fall-2018/articles/flying-lemurs-or-colugos-can-t-technically-fly-and-aren-t-technically-lemurs
3. ↑ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27539-zoologger-the-clumsy-tree-dweller-transforms-into-a-gliding-ace/
4. ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2007.213
5. ↑ https://animals.fandom.com/wiki/Colugo
6. ↑ https://edgedavao.net/vantage-points/2019/08/02/fast-backward-flying-lemur-in-bagobo-lore/
7. ↑ https://kidadl.com/animal-facts/colugo-facts
8. ↑ https://www.oneearth.org/species-of-the-week-colugo/
9. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Galeopterus\_variegates/
10. ↑ https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/21972/the-colugo-is-one-of-natures-unlikely-fliers/
11. ↑ https://science.jrank.org/pages/1612/Colugos-Threats-colugos.html
Cretoxyrhina

Cretoxyrhina was a banned Shark build playable in the Western Interior Seaway server. It is also known as the "Ginsu Shark" build because it specced into the [Ginsu Teeth] ability. This build was the one that paved the way for Sharks, like the Great White Shark and the Megalodon, to become top-tier.

## Tier Placement

This build paves its way into S-tier.really easily. The [Ginsu Teeth] ability upgrades your [Bite] move into the [Ginsu Knife Bite], inflicting not only the [Heavy Bleed] debuff, but also breaking armor and earning you more XP. Its superb Mobility assures it can easily evade bad matchups and deal with builds like Xiphactinus. It also had above-average Health.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://oceansofkansas.com/sharks.html
2. ↑ http://www.10tons.dk/cretoxyrhina
3. ↑ http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/evolution/cretoxyrhina.htm
4. ↑ https://www.aquarium.co.za/blog/entry/top-10-prehistoric-sharks#:~:text=Cretoxyrhina%20is%20the%20species%20that,enamel%20to%20keep%20them%20sharp.
5. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/c/cretoxyrhina.html
6. ↑ https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11588035
7. ↑ https://planetsharkdivers.com/cretoxyrhina/
8. ↑ http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2013/11/tylosaurus-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html
9. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/prehistoric/xiphactinus/
10. ↑ https://www.thoughtco.com/oveview-of-cretoxyrhina-1093653
Brown Bear

## Overview

Brown Bears are Generalist Bears, so they are found in a lot of different servers. These bears are omnivores, so they get XP from both plants and animals alike. They are part of the Carnivora guild. The best variety being the Kodiak Bear and the least strong variety is the Grizzly.

## Abilities

Because of the Brown Bear's high intelligence and power stats, brown bears can break in and steal loot from treasure chests that some human players call "Garbage Bins"

## Tier Ranking

Brown Bears sits in A tier. The Brown Bear is a relatively good bear build, but there are better out there. They have good matchups against most players in their server, with the exception of fast mains that can escape and humans with advanced weapons.

## Subspecies

Brown Bears have a variety of subspecies, some of them are:

* Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)
* Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)
* Kodiak Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi)
* Ussuri Brown Bear (Ursus arctos lasiotus)
* Polar Bear? (Ursus arctos maritimus) (possibly)

## Pros And Cons

**PROS:** Large, powerful and one of the best tanks in the current metagame. They possess a high power stat and a surprisingly decent mobility stat for their size, allowing them to outmaneuver and kill moose and elk mains. They have the ability to hibrenate, allowing them to skip the harsh winter season metagame. Bears also have a thick fat ability, allowing them to greatly reduce the damage of sharp attacks, such as tiger claw and a humans sword.

**CONS:** Brown bears can have bad matchups against other tanks like bison. Big cat mains have an advantage in ambush situations and keep them from occupying the apex predator niche when they overlap, forcing them to take more a herbivorous approach. Other bear mains also pose a huge threat to smaller female bear mains or bear cubs, and bear mains, being solitary, often attack and kill other bear mains over territory 1v1 battles. Brown bears are also pack hunted by humans working in large numbers, and are killed for sport and for meat and fur coats.
Cobia

The cobia is a build related to Remoras. It is the only available build in its class. It can be found in tropical and subtropical marine servers around the world. This build is known by the nicknames Kingfish and Crabeater.

## Tier Placement

A-tier These builds are swift-moving voracious predatory builds. These builds can follow Rays, Sharks and Turtles and forage the loot they left behind for easy EXP, similar to the Remora. These build can also counter the Pufferfish build by speccing into a wide mouth and [Poison Resistance], effectively negating their high Defense stat. Their only bad matchups are the Mahi-Mahi and the Mako Shark.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.texassaltwaterfishingmagazine.com/fishing/education/fishy-facts/cobia
2. ↑ https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/66460
3. ↑ https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/cobia
4. ↑ http://www.diveandrelax.com/marine-life-family.php?family=Rachycentridae
5. ↑ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/rachycentron-canadum/
6. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=UNS9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT70&lpg=PT70&dq=cobia+vs+pufferfish&source=bl&ots=o534k3TbhH&sig=ACfU3U29sa-dFfIO6cXeqNy7QDxvZvGZ2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiogaX4kt3oAhXYQN4KHd5KCBkQ6AEwCXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=cobia%20vs%20pufferfish&f=false
7. ↑ https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/66460
Aegirocassis

Aegirocrassis was a banned anolamocarid build which was among the first filter-feeder builds. Its name means Aegir's helmet It wad also among the biggest arthopod builds in the game. The devs thought Anolamocarids were banned at the end of the Cambrian Expansion.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. Not only the first filter feeder builds in the game, this build was also the first Tank ever introduced. However, this strategy removes all your conterplay options against gankers.So, this build has to simply rely on Health and Defense. The strategy of speccing into increased Health was also imitated by many filter feeders, including Whales and Sharks.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://news.yale.edu/2015/03/11/giant-sea-creature-hints-early-arthropod-evolution
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/a/aegirocassis.html
3. ↑ https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.livescience.com/50111-photos-anomalocaridids-morocco-fossil.html&ved=2ahUKEwjy-puMm7jpAhWUEqYKHdncDYIQFjACegQICxAH&usg=AOvVaw2bg1zZJ57uh-cUHJW4o7fv
4. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/03/12/strange-fossil-filter-feeder-was-an-ancient-survivor/
5. ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/11/8191763/yale-nature-study-giant-lobster-aegirocassis-benmoulae
6. ↑ https://2newthings.com/king-of-the-ordovician-seas/
Adzebill

The Adzebill is a banned New Zealandic playable Bird build created by flying rail players from Madagascar. The North and South island builds are echo fighters.

## Overview

It is one of the largest New Zealandic birds. While flightless due to its huge weight, which grants them a good Health stat.It still had good running Mobility with a great Power stat to match.Being a Bird, it has low Defense. It also had mediocre Intelligence and Stealth. This build inhabited various habitats, including grasslands, wetlands, and shrublands.

## Moveset

**Dig (Active, Misc.)** - Used to find legendary loot underground.

**Peck (Active, Attack)** - An attack with the beak which does heavy damage.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. The combination of good stats and abilities make this build viable in the New Zealand server. It also had a generalist loot source, allowing it to easily adapt. It was held back from being S-tier due to its relationship with the Haast's Eagle.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190221110359.htm
2. ↑ https://teara.govt.nz/en/postage-stamp/3628/the-adzebill-aptornis
3. ↑ https://www.canterburymuseum.com/about-us/media-releases/african-origins-for-the-enigmatic-adzebill/
4. ↑ https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Adzebill
5. ↑ http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/south-island-adzebill
6. ↑ https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/whats-an-adzebill/
7. ↑ https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-mystery-of-the-adzebill/
8. ↑ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nzs-mysterious-lost-adzebill-hailed-from-africa/GJPBNQ7KQJSILWGLGL4CTFPXEA/
9. ↑ https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/772878
10. ↑ https://dinoanimals.com/animals/haasts-eagle-the-largest-eagle-that-existed/
Anglerfish

The Angler Fish is a deep sea build which debuted in the Early Cretaceous and with other deep-sea builds, it can't be properly tiered, though it faces little competition in the true Abyssal server, from about 4,000 to 6,000 meters down, and would likely be high tier. There are benthic, or bottom-dwelling, anglers, which are often called Monkfish, and midwater builds like the Netdevils, Whipnoses, and Seadevils.

## Overview

Similar to Viper Fish, Angler Fish players use a baiting strategy with a bioluminescent bait due to their lowish mobility, though they have higher mobility than the Viperfish. This attracts prey hoping for easy exp but the Angler Fish attack stat allows them to one shot a lot of builds that try to attack it or when the Angler Fish tries to go for the kill. This strategy does have its weakness as it can potentially lure more powerful creatures to the Angler Fish players. This strategy helps this build conserve energy, as it basically doesn't really need to move that much to hunt for prey. They also piss dogs off.

## Abilities and Skills

### Pressure Resistance

This build spent points into pressure resistance, allowing it to enter the Abyss server.

### Energy Conservation

By moving very little, putting points into movements that cost less energy, this build can move around effectively, while not having to use that much energy.

### Bioluminescence

This build like most builds in the deep ocean have bioluminescence, which gives off light in certain areas. This build uses it like a lure to attract other builds towards it.

### Needle-like Teeth

This build spent points into needle sharp teeth. Which is used to grab or trap the prey from escaping from its mouth.

### Large Mouth

With the large mouth this build can swallow most builds in its server, increasing the amount of builds it can take down, and gain exp from.

### Parasitic Males

Males angler fish are small and weak, they attach to females and become one with the female, providing sperm as it leeches nutrients from the bigger female. The strategy requires less energy then finding another mate in the abyss server.

## Tier Placements

This build, like most Abyss builds, have very little info. Though from based on what info we have on this build, we can assume it is in high B tier. With a camping strategy that uses [Bio-luminescence] to attract potential prey, and a large mouth and teeth allowing it to consume a wide variety of prey, this strategy is extremely effective in its server. However, using that strategy may attract predators, so that lowers its placement on the tier list.
Aye-Aye

Ayes-ayes are one of the most infamous lemurs of Madagascar. With its long thin middle finger and "odd" looks. Taking the role of a woodpecker in its server.

## Overview

Aye-Ayes are Prosimians, meaning they are members of the Primate guild. They are mainly insectivores, but will eat fruit and fungus if available. Their main strategy to get said bugs is by tapping trees with their extended middle finger, which has a special joint that lets it rotate nearly 360 degrees in any direction an can be used as a sort of dip stick for bugs and their larva. Aye-Ayes generally can't compete with simians when it comes to getting XP and territory, to avoid confrontation, Aye-Aye players are forced into a nocturnal playstyle.

## Abilities and Skills

### Unique Fingers

The Aye aye's middle finger is long but slim, making a good tool to make soft noise to sense if grub is in their or not. And the Aye Aye has a longer and thicker fourth finger used to grab small insects.

### Greater Hearing

The Aye aye has great hearing. Used to check for predators and help it find grubs.

### Color night vision

The aye aye has the ability to distinguish different colors even during nighttime.

### Rodent-like Teeth

With rodent-like teeth that never stops growing, the Aye Aye uses it to break the hard bark of trees to get to grubs.

## Tier Ranking

Not only are they completely outclassed by all of the other insectivores that are currently alive, but they are completely defenseless in a fight. Their strategy is to climb away from threats like what most lemurs do. Due to bad match-ups with day time predators, Aye Ayes became nocturnal. Aye-Ayes are placed firmly in F tier.
Baitfish

Baitfish is another fancy term which refers to Herring builds. Herring are lightweight oceanic builds known as "cluepids" which are playable since the Late Jurassic.They play out as small filter-feeders.

## Overview

Low Health, low Defense, low Power and whatnot. But it has mediocre Intelligence (through the schooling habit), Mobility and Stealth. which are pretty much the only saving grace for this build.

## Moveset

**Filter (Active, Attack)**-Allows looting of builds from the microweight class.

**Bait Ball (Active, Team Play)**-Congregate into a big bait ball for a chance to inflict the [Confusion] debuff. Also lowers Stealth.

## Tier Placement

D tier at best. Their Mobility and Intelligence stats are not enough to speed away from gankers or think of more elaborate strategies, respectively. Sure, that Bait ball ability might sound like a good way to fend off gankers. In practice, however, not only is this ability impractical, it can also be counterproductive as several gankers of this build may force this ability and then the griefers of this build can unleash their big guns (strike the bait ball to randomly take out individual players or use a weapon like tail slaps or swords).They do not even stand a chance against their own weight class, as they can only take out microweights due to [Filter] being their only attack. The other stats are also some of the worst in the game, too.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.saltwatersportsman.com/species/conservation/protecting-herring-and-other-baitfish/
2. ↑ https://www.google.com/search?q=herring+small&oq=herring+small&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l4.2304j0j7&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ip=1
3. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/herring
4. ↑ http://zims-en.kiwix.campusafrica.gos.orange.com/wikipedia\_en\_all\_nopic/A/Clupeiformes
5. ↑ https://www.fishtrader.cz/pacific-herring.htm
6. ↑ http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/organisms/fish/marine/herrings/atlantic.htm
7. ↑ https://oceana.ca/en/marine-life/ocean-fishes/atlantic-herring
8. ↑ https://kids.kiddle.co/Atlantic\_Herring
9. ↑ https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/a/Atlantic\_herring.htm
10. ↑ http://gma.org/herring/biology/what/default.asp
11. ↑ https://grizzlybearwatching.com/grizzly-bear-wildlife-blog/whale-watching-day/herring-bait-balls/
12. ↑ http://www.pacificherring.org/seabirds
Cockroach

The **cockroach** is an insect build from the guild Blattodea, of which four are known for successful matchups against humans.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. These builds have great Defense, Mobility, Health, and Stealth. but this is otherwise ineffective against all other builds. Additionally, this build somewhat relies on Humans to survive in cold environments, as the build requires heat to survive, and Humans' insulation and heating technologies in their dwellings are the only things making places in cold biomes inhabitable, since in the wild, everybody can easily body them due to their small size.

It has an EXTREMELY good matchup against human players as they have the highest Intimidation (100) against most human players. It even ignores the Bravery trait.
Cone Snail

The **Cone Snail** runs a pretty standard Snail build, with one important addition: the ability to fire venomous harpoons into their opponents. This one ability elevates its power stat from one of the lowest in the game to one of the highest. This build is certainly one of the top tiers of the coral reef meta. Their harpoons can one-shot anything from fish to humans and can even pierce mid-tier human aquatic equipment like wetsuits and gloves. So while Snails as a whole are bottom tier, the cone snail definitely has earned a high tier spot. It's only bad match-ups are mollusk-eating vertebrates.

# Cone Snail Nerfed?

The acidification of the ocean deals direct damage to armor and shells, which decreases the player’s defence level. For normal snails and Bivavles this is a huge problem, but for the Cone Snail, it isn’t too big of an issue, due to its incredibly high power stat.
Agnatha

The jawless vertebrates , otherwise known as the Agnatha, are the most primitive faction of vertebrate builds, first appearing around the Cambrian. However, the only playable builds are cyclostomes, which have skeletons made of cartilage and are mostly naked, a far cry from the ostracoderms which have bony scales.

## History

The first jawless fish build is the aforementioned Haikouicthys. They were also the first playable builds to specc into camera style eyes and endoskeletons, making them more mobile than most playable builds during their time. Later agnathans also specced into armor. Ironically, despite being banned, these builds are the precursors to all playable jawed builds. There's also the Tully Monster, a Lamprey build which specced into a proboscis. Modern jawless fish builds include the Lampreys, who played a parasitic playstyle, and Hagfish, which can secrete mucus to continue playthroughs in mass extinction in addition to protecting from gankers, and the ability to grip themselves to snatch loot.

## Notable Builds

### Lamprey

A build that parasitizes other Fishes by sucking the blood out of them. Also, these builds are euryhaline, making the use of [Adaptive Gills] as an instant deep clean useless. B-tier.

### Hagfish

Benthic builds that mostly play as scavengers, they have mucus for defence and can grip loot to acquire EXP faster. D-tier.

## Gallery

No, there is no Agnatha picture by User:Andikito123 because his pictures are only about Gnathostomes.

Playable Cyclostome builds.The full meta tree for this faction.We don't know who put Tullimonstrum on this page and why. Its not know what type of animal Tullimonstrum was but it could possibly be a jawless fish.Psammolepis being attacked by a Laccognathus.Base stats for the Birkenia build.Haikouicthys as it appears in Patrick Leary's Cambrian video.
## References

1. ↑ https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory\_and\_General\_Biology/Book%3A\_General\_Biology\_(Boundless)/29%3A\_Vertebrates/29.2%3A\_Fishes/29.2A%3A\_Agnathans%3A\_Jawless\_Fishes
2. ↑ https://www.elasmodiver.com/elasmobranch\_evolution.htm
3. ↑ https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/chordata/jawless-vertebrates/
4. ↑ http://fsc.fernbank.edu/STT/VertBio/agnatha.htm
5. ↑ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-biology/chapter/fishes/
6. ↑ https://www.dkfindout.com/us/dinosaurs-and-prehistoric-life/cambrian-explosion/what-was-first-vertebrate/
7. ↑ https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory\_and\_General\_Biology/Book%3A\_General\_Biology\_(OpenStax)/5%3A\_Biological\_Diversity/29%3A\_Vertebrates/29.2%3A\_Fishes
8. ↑ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21850106/
9. ↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-tully-monster-scientists-finally-think-they-know-180958422/
10. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/lamprey
11. ↑ https://theethogram.com/2015/01/26/creature-feature-hagfish/
12. ↑ https://www.nature.scot/plants-animals-and-fungi/fish/freshwater-fish/lamprey
13. ↑ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-9768-8\_4
14. ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00131
Cave Bear

## Overview

The Cave Bear was first introduced into the game in the Quaternary time period (Patch 3.3.1). This build is under the Mammal guild and in the Bear Faction. The Cave Bear is a herbivorous build and went extinct in the Holocene (Patch 3.3.2). It later got banned by Humans.

## Base Stats and Tier Place

This build is overrated by Tierzoo. Its basically the Brown Bear but bad. It had a great power and great stats. Well possibly with the exception of mobility due to its bulkier body. Its great stats allowed it to take on a single large foe like a cave lion, but pack hunting builds like Wolves, Sabertooth cats and Humans could easily gank it. Unlike what Tierzoo said, this build was strictly herbivorous, indicating it was taking the same route as the Giant Panda. And as we all now herbivory just doesn't work for bears. Indicating that once the Holocene arrived it started to starve to death since plant loot was becoming rare. Unlike brown bears who use caves only for hibernation, cave bears where extremely reliant on caves. Which was a problem as pack hunting builds like Humans and Cave Hyenas also relied on caves and could easily take it away from Cave Bears. And with their low mobility they would not be able to escape from attacks from pack hunters, OUCH. It could also not body builds that where larger than it like the Ground Sloth since it was solitary. And its worth noting that this is the only Ice Age build whos extinction is confirmed to be caused by humans. This overrated build is a short B tier. If you wanted to play as a herbivorous build during the Ice Age, there where far more better herbivores like that famous hairy elephant build.

## References

Cave Bears where herbivores: http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/herbivorous-cave-bears-08466.html#:~:text=An%20isotopic%20analysis%20of%20fossil,and%20Asia%2C%20was%20exclusively%20herbivorous.

Cave Bears got banned by humans: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/humans-not-glaciers-wiped-out-ice-age-cave-bears-ancient-dna-shows

More info about Cave Bears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave\_bear
Brontornis

Brontornis (Thunder Bird), not to be confused by the dromornithids, which were also called thunder birds, is either a terror bird build or anseriform Fowl build which used to be playable in the Argentinean server during the Early to Late Miocene patch. It was some of the largesgt Raptor (bird of prey) builds ever in the game.

## Overview

Unlike most terror bird builds, this one ambushed its prey, thus having a higher Stealth stat than mostterror birds. In return for this, it had lower Mobility. It had some of the highest Health stats of any terror bird build and great Power.

## Moveset

**Bonecrusher Peck (Active, Attack)**- A modified Peck move thay can break bones.

## Tier Placement

Low A-tier. This build is build for being a heavy DPS among terror birds and can take heavier players. It was banned before the Argentavis build became playable.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/b/brontornis.html
2. ↑ https://kids.kiddle.co/Dromornithidae
3. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4852219.html
4. ↑ https://nixillustration.com/science-illustration/2021/brontornis/
5. ↑ http://miratico.com/largest-birds-currently-extinct-imagine/
6. ↑ https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Brontornis
7. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=aU4ADQAAQBAJ&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=brontornis+slow&source=bl&ots=a\_5k1tB96c&sig=ACfU3U2TbvSJ7DiVtgLFWGP3e-7UpQ6TGw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjk46ry6uj2AhWEw4sBHWWICUoQ6AF6BAg7EAI#v=onepage&q=brontornis%20slow&f=false
8. ↑ https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/10-greatest-ever-beasts/
9. ↑ https://unbelievable-facts.com/2017/05/prehistoric-birds.html/2
10. ↑ https://eweb.furman.edu/~wworthen/bio440/evolweb/paleogene/phor.htm
Burrow

### Used By

Antlions, Eulipotyphlans, Foxes, Dogs, Pigs, many Rodents and Lagomorphs, some Reptiles, most Worms

Burrow is a utility ability that allows the player to dig into natural surfaces, mainly ground. This ability has been around since Cambrian (latest) and it has been used to help protect one from many types of danger like freezing temperature and even extinction events. Parasites have to be optimised in this ability in some way for its play-style.

### Applications:

* Create dens and tunnels
* Pit traps
* Food storage
* Helps hook one to surfaces
* Easier access to underground vegetation
Dinofelis

Dinofelis was a banned Sabertooth cat build that played during the Neogene and early Ice Age. It has been called a griefer of early Hominin mains, though dataminers have proven that it only made up for a small part of its EXP. Its main source of EXP were Chalicothere, antelope, gazelle, okapi, zebra, and new or unexperienced elephant players.

## Tier Placement

Is it worth playing a DPS Rouge class on of the most competitive servers in a time of high power creep? Dinofelis players could grief whatever they wanted that was griefable for their weight class. They could protect the EXP by climbing in the safety of trees, much like Leopards in the current meta. The leopard's main problem are ganking squads, which were not common in the Neogene expansion. This gives Dinofelis A tier. It was not S tier, because it couldn't stand up against other more, OP Sabertooths.
Bioluminescence

Shiny! Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck

The ability "Bioluminescence" allows the user to glow in the dark for communication, bait, and distraction.

Use of Bioluminescence of Communication is quite self-explanatory e.g. signaling danger, teaming with other players.

Best examples of using Bioluminescence as bait is the Viper Fish and the Angler Fish, using glow to attract other players looking for a free win so as to attack other players within a striking range.

Players can use the light as a distraction, almost like throwing a flashbang or flare, similar the smokescreen ability.

Over 90% of deep sea meta creatures uses this ability. Outside the sea meta, fireflies are known to use the Bioluminescence.

* Note:

Using the ability to see other players or your surroundings is one of the worst uses for it.This gives away your position and lures enemy players to attack you so be careful on how you use it.
Bobbit Worm

This build is unique in that, its main method of attack is to ambush and pull the target creature below the sand, to immobilize and blind them, and is capable of moving, but most players choose not to! It is often overlooked, due to ridiculously low int stats, and low mbl stats.

## Overview

Bobbit worms are carnivorous, and can be played in all of the ocean sub servers. Bobbit worm builds have good base stats on average, but their intelligence is of the lowest in the game, which is counter by the fact they have great stats in power and stealth. Their health and defense are average, and their mobility is low. Bobbit worm players make up for their lack of intelligence by not needing it, instead being purely reflexive, which suits the build.

## Abilities

### Burrow

Bobbit Worms spent points into the dig skill tree, allowing it to make long burrows to hide in when camping.

### Mandibles

The Bobbit Worm has two large madibles, used to catch and hold on to prey. The madibles are very strong able to crush most defenses from fish.

### Pressure Resistance

The Bobbit Worm spent points into Pressure Resistance allowing it to inhabit the deep sea floor.

### Toxins

The Bobbit Worm spent points into the venom skill tree, this allows the bobbit worm to inject a toxin into its prey, making it paralysed.

## Moveset

Crunch - User bites on the opponent with full force. Dealing strong blunt type damage. Crushes defenses in the process. High critical hit chance, and may cause bleed or cripple the target.

## Tier Placement

The Bobbit Worm occupies a neiche of a camper, but does it in a way almost no other creature does, and has taken it to the extreme. It is an excellent ambush predator as it uses its large mandibles as a bear trap, which makes it very rare for prey to escape. It is very hard to hit when buried, and the window to get it while above ground is very short. However currently other fish found a way to counter the Bobbit Worm. Due to the Bobbit Worms short range when buried and its terrible intelligence, some fish players learned to gang up with other fish and mob the Bobbit Worm by spiting small jets of water at the Bobbit Worm, forcing the worm to retreat and marking the area for the school to avoid. Also the long hit box of the worm makes it dangerous for the worm to leave its burrow. Because of this the worm sits nicely in High B tier.