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Rhyacian

**Rhyacian Period** is the second phase of the Paleoproterozoic Subupdate. It started at 2300 Mya and ended 2050 Mya.  There are no major events marking start and end of this period.

## Events and geology

From the start of this phase Great Oxidation Event and Huronian glaciation were happenning and lasted about 80% of this period.  After the end of them only ~1% of players stayed at the game.

During GOE **Asgardarchea** and **Alphaproteobacteria** guilds made an alliance forming **Eukaryotes** Faction and unlocked new abilities like Sexual Reproduction.

Because of this Events there's fan name for a period between 2250 to 2060 called **Eukaryian** or **Jatulian** basing on real events.

## Timeline

**Due to the game's history corruption, what is shown here is just speculation from game dataminers so this information may be outdated, if that is the case, please update this page.**
 Huronian glaciation ends
 Great Oxidation event ends

## Funfacts

• Name of this Phase comes from word *rhýax* meaning "Stream of Lava"

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060819001043/http://www.stratigraphy.org/geowhen/stages/Rhyacian.html
2. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00241160410006492
3. ↑ http://authors.library.caltech.edu/1015/1/KOPpnas05.pdf
4. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994803
5. ↑ https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020NatGe..13..302M
6. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1016%2FB978-0-444-59425-9.00016-0
7. ↑ Gradstein, F.M.; et al., eds. (2012). The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Vol. 1. Elsevier. pp. 361–365.
Ptychodus

Ptychodus was a banned Shark build with an unorthodox loot sorce, bivalve players. It was available to play during the Late Cretacous Expansion in the Western Interior Seaway server, the server with giant mosasaurs and sharks.

## Tier Placement

High A-tier. This Shark build specced into rounded teeth over sharp teeth, thus losing the ability to inflict the [Bleed] effect in favour of the [Armor Crusher] ability. As a bottom-dwelling build, it could easily avoid its main bad matchups, the Mosasaurus and Cretoxyrhina. Held back from S-tier by its specialized loot source.

## Refferences

1. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/02/22/ancient-shark-was-a-shell-crushing-giant/
2. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/p/ptychodus.html
Prosimians

## Overview

There has been no prosimians that have been in C tier or up the reason is that they waste their evolution points on stupid things like large claws and especially nocturnalism (except for one).

## Abilities

### Night Vision

Allows these builds to see well in the dark

### Semi-Prehensile Tails

This is allows them to climb easier but isn't as good for emergency or fast climbing.

### High Intelligence

like most primates prosimians especially Ringtail Lemur Has a high intelligence stat

## Notable Builds

### Aye-Aye

this build wasted all of there Evolution Points on a large thin claw which helps them get food but they make a loud noise making try hard predator players will come towards you

### Tarsiers

This build has a ultrasonic abilities which help them find prey but they have a slow Mobility stat and stealth because of there big eyes which can alert over player prey and predator

### Bushbaby

Also known Galago These builds are F tier because they use there urine to track each other down which can give away your location making it easy for predator builds to find you

### Ring-Tailed Lemurs

They do have a decent social structure but are still nocturnal and have no backup plan if they can't flee from a predator resulting in high D tier. They do reach C tier in the Madagascar server as they don't need to compete with simians and have better stats especially intelligence.
Radiation Resistance

"IT'S TIME TO STOP!!!!!!! IT'S TIME TO STOP, OKAY!!!!! NO MORE!!! WHERE ARE YOUR PARENTS?!!! WHO ARE YOUR PARENTS??!!!! I'LL CALL CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES!!!! IT'S TIME TO STOP!!!!!!!" - Filthy Frank

### Used By

Tardigrade, Cockroach, Human(Hazmat Suit tool equipped)

***"Radiation resistance? Okay, exactly how often do you think that's gonna come in handy?!"***

    - Tierzoo

**Radiation Resistance** is a joke Ability put in by the devs.

## Effects

Radiation resistance causes the player to become resistant to ridiculous amounts of radiation, up to one thousand times that of any other build. This ability is largely useless in the modern-day meta because there is no build that uses radiation. There are also no significant areas where radiation would pose a threat.

Despite this ability being almost entirely useless, the Tardigrade has specced into it along with other abilities such as Supernova Resistance. It is worth noting that the Cockroach build does not actually possess this ability. It is also used by robots which are generally unharmed by radiation.

## See Also

Other 'stupid completely useless, waste of evolution point what are you doing with your life?' types of moves are...

* Supernova Resistance
* Meteor Impact Resistance
* Gamma Ray Burst Resistance
Placoderm

Placoderms (Placodermi) were a banned and primitive faction of vertebrates that were characterized by bony plates, usually around the head and neck, but sometimes in other regions. They were found worldwide in freshwater and shallow saltwater. They were successful as a whole in the Devonian period and lasted 80 million years since Early Silurian before their eventual ban at the end of The Devonian Expansion.

## History

The [Jaw] skill tree was first pioneered during the Siluran Expansion from the gill arches, originally as a way of gathering more oxygen spawns to cope with increased base stats. However, It soon turned out to give them a huge advantage in Power and Defense. Prior to the discovery of Entelognathus and Qilinyu, Placoderms were thought to be a failure of a Fish faction. **The discoveries also show that all playable jawed fish builds, from Acanthodii and Chondrichthyes to Sarcopterygii and Actinopterygii are minmaxed versions of Entelognathus and Qilinyu**. They reached their peak during The Devonian Expansion where they had some of the highest Health stats of any build during that time. They also pioneered the first playable filter-feeding chordate tank build. Because they were very tanky (Tank builds are the first to get the short end of the stick during balance patches) and are too heavy to get to land as well as having the inability to breathe air, they were banned during the Devonian-Carboniferous Balance Patch.

## Notable Builds

* Dunkleosteus
* Gorgonicthys
* Titanichthys
* Carolowilhelmina
* Coccosteus
* Heterosteus
* Bothriolepis
* Bungartius
* Diplognathus

## Gallery

ArthodireBothriolepis StatsHeterosteusCoccosteusA variety of Placoderm mains.User:Andikito123's drawing on the Placodermi faction!The Placoderm build playable around the Cleveland Shale.
## Referrences

1. ↑ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-biology2/chapter/jawed-fishes/
2. ↑ https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/basalfish/placodermi.html
3. ↑ https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chew-on-this-we-finally-know-how-our-jaws-evolved/
4. ↑ https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Placoderm
5. ↑ https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wdev.337
6. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=UtrBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=why+did+the+jaw+first+evolve+respiration+efficency&source=bl&ots=ahO3WfPlsz&sig=ACfU3U25uY9o0QCqTSP73b\_YjLq0nknVhw&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQga\_-z5vyAhUhGKYKHWhFCe44ChDoAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=why%20did%20the%20jaw%20first%20evolve%20respiration%20efficency&f=false
7. ↑ https://opentextbc.ca/biology2eopenstax/chapter/fishes/
8. ↑ https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/659466
9. ↑ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/25/226143474/ancient-fish-with-strong-jawline-could-rewrite-history-of-faces
10. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648279/
11. ↑ https://sunyorange.edu/biology/resources/library/prehistoric-life/placoderms.html
12. ↑ http://www.devoniantimes.org/who/pages/placoderm.html
Siderian

Reconstruction of the Overworld map

**Siderian Period** is the first phase of the Paleoproterozoic Subupdate spanning 200 mln years from 2500 to 2300 mln years. There were no events marking the end of this phase.

## Events during this period

Large quantities of Banded Iron Formations were added in files early in this period because of Cyanobacteria Playerbase with Anaerobic status (Oxygen is toxic for them) started using too much Photosyntesis ability forming oxygen that combined with Iron from thermal vents biome and made rust that killed many players living in this biome. During this period iron was removed from oceans and propably oceans went clear but without iron oceans became filled with Oxygen and it slowly leaked to the atmosphere starting the Great Oxidation Event that propably triggered the Huronian Glaciation.

## Timeline

**Due to the game's history corruption, what is shown here is just speculation from game dataminers so this information may be outdated, if that is the case, please update this page.**
 Great Oxidation event starts
 oxygenian period starts

## Funfacts

• Name of this period comes from Word *sídēros meaning "Iron"*

• There is Fan made Period named Oxygenian from 2420 to 2250. Start and end of this period is based on real events.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868609
2. ↑ http://authors.library.caltech.edu/1015/1/KOPpnas05.pdf
3. ↑ Gradstein, F. M.; et al., eds. (2012). The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Vol. 1. Elsevier. pp. 361–365.
Skill Tree

The skill tree is a mechanic that allows you to customise traits of your character.

## Intelligence Traits

### Intelligence

* Neurons
	+ Perception
	+ Reaction
* Cephalization
	+ Coordination
	+ Navigation
* Central Nervous System
	+ Senses
	+ Instinct (Level 1)
* Brain Stem
	+ Memory (Level 1)
	+ Instinct (Level 2)
* Cortex
	+ Memory (Level 2)
	+ Decision Making
* Corpus Callosum
	+ Language
	+ Understanding Rick and Morty
* Problem Solving

## Power Traits

### Slash

* Claws
	+ Short Claw(s)
	+ Claw(s)
	+ Robust Claw(s)
	+ Long Claw(s)

* Horns (Slash Type Damage)
	+ Slash Horn(s) (See: Horns)

### Stab

* Antlers
	+ Short Antler(s)
	+ Antler(s)
	+ Normal Antler(s)
	+ Robust Antler(s)
	+ Large Antler(s)

* Tusks
	+ Small Tusk(s)
	+ Tusk(s)
	+ Robust Tusk(s)
	+ Normal Tusk(s)
	+ Stab Tusk(s)
	+ Ram Tusk(s)

* Horns
	+ Short Horn(s)
	+ Horn(s)
	+ Robust Horn(s)
	+ Normal Horn(s)
	+ Long Horn(s)
	+ Curved Horn(s)
	+ Ram Horn(s)
	+ Slash Horn(s) (Slash)
	+ Tissue Piercing Horn(s)

Battering Ram

These words ("Battering Ram" if somebody deleted those words.) I did not know what to do with, so I've left the words there. - KidOfPokemon

### Bite

* Serrated Teeth
* Heavy Bleed
* HP Drain
* Curved Teeth
* Regenerating Teeth

* Bite Force
	+ Lock Force
	+ Destroy Armor
	+ Crush Bones
	+ Bleed

### Venom

* Damage
	+ Cytotoxic
	+ Hemorrhagic
	+ Dissolve Tissue
	+ Necrotoxic
	+ Hemotoxic
	+ Myotoxic
	+ Proteolytic
* Disruption
	+ Neurotoxins
	+ Paralysis
	+ Fast Acting
* Pain
* Tracking Compound

## Defense Traits

### Poison

* Repulsive Odor
* Stinging
* Sickness
* Death (Small Animals)
* Death (Medium Animals)
* Death (Large Animals)
* Immediate Paralysis and Death
* Convulsions

### Armor

* Thick Skin
* Osteoderms
* Plates
* Exoskeleton
* Shell

### Resistances

* Cold

* Heat
* Toxin
* Radiation

## Stealth Traits

### Camouflage

* Colors
* Patterns
* Textures
* Color Change
* Pattern Change
* Texture Change

### Sound Masking

* Sound-Reducing Feathers

* Cushion Pads

## Body Structure Traits

### Skeleton

* Basic Musculature > (Claws, Teeth, Horns)

### Skin

* Scales
* Feathers
* Fur > Sunburn Protection > Basic Warmth > Basic Slash/Crush Resistance > Cold Resist > Intermediate Slash/Crush Resistance > Advanced Cold Resist

## Chemistry Traits

### Cleaning

* Cantharidin > Benzoquine > Dual Chamber > (Fire Blast Attack)

### Smelly

* Hydrogen Peroxide > Peroxide Spray > Dual Chamber >(Fire Blast Attack)

## Team Play Traits

* Solitary > Gregarious > Social > Ordered > Eusocial
Quetzalcoatlus

## Basic Azhdarchid

The azhdarchids are a removed build that included the largest flying builds to have ever been introduced to the game. These builds often lived off defeated players or PK lightweight Dinosaur builds themselves. Builds no smaller than a domestic cat have also been found. In fact, Hatzegopteryx was actually specialized to take down heavyweights as well.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. While these builds have the [Flight] ability, as well as being great for defeating lightweights and midweights, as well as a great size advantage and area denial good for scavenging, some of these builds can actually get griefed hard by Tyrannosaurus or Dakotaraptor players. Their long necks also easily expose their weak spot.

In Hateg Island

However, they rank in S tier in Hateg Island (Romania) because their competition was dwarf dinosaur. And because of that, they have no problem dealing with their competition.
Mantis Shrimp

Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda, branching from other members of the class Malacostraca around 340 million years ago.

They have second pairs of appendages, the first is smashers and second is spearers. Smashers are used to attack snails, crabs, molluscs, and rock oysters, their blunt clubs enabling them to crack the shells of their prey into pieces. However, their spearers appendage is prefer used to slice the meat of softer animals, such as fish, which their barbed claws can more easily slice and snag.

Tier Placement

Because of their high power stats and high defense stats, also their good matchup against other builds. They were ranked in A tier.
Saiga

Saigas are mammals that play on the Asian server on grasslands

## Overview

The saigas highest stat is their mobility. Their mobility allows them to escape dangerous situations from predators. The saiga also specked into a long nose similar to a filter where it filters dust and controls the temperature for the air that enters their nostrils. They can eat several species of plants including ones that are poisonous to other animals. Wolves, foxes, and eagles can prey on saiga but their mobility can allow them to escape. Lastly saigas can travel long-distance fast and they can swim

## Tier placement

These builds would be higher on the tier list if their relationship with humans wasn't so bad. Humans have eliminated them from the Chinese and European servers. They make into C tier.

## References

https://www.animalspot.net/saiga-antelope.html
Robber Fly

Robber Flies are an A tier fly. They have all the traits of the regular fly as well as some unique traits. First of all, robber flies are spacers. They use their long legs to slowly pacify and destroy their resolve to find an opening for its armour piercing bite attack. Robber flies will occasionally bite players in larger weight classes when provoked.
New World Monkey

New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini) is a term used to refer to 94 playable builds in its parvorder. These include the only playable nocturnal Primate build, the night monkey.

## Tier Placement

New World Monkeys easily have Old World Monkeys beat when it comes to Arboreal Mobility due to their special ability, Prehensile Tail. This gives them much higher Arboreal Mobility, and makes reaching loot such as eggs and fruit very easy. Spider monkeys are perhaps the best example of this, and are the best New World Monkey builds. However, for what they gain in Mobility, they have sacrificed from their other stats, having lower Intelligence and Power. Couple this with the fierce competition found in the jungles of Central and South America, and it's undeniable that old world monkeys are in a much better spot in the meta. Still, it is a decent low A-tier build.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/monkey#ref253702
2. ↑ https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/new-world-monkeys-148121150/
Myxozoa

Myxozoa is a cnidarian build that the devs had a complicated time putting in. The devs kept on changing the classifications on Myxozoans but for now, they are a type of Cnidaria.

## Overview

Myxozoans are currently the smallest animal build in the game. They have a really long life cycle and only 100 players have experienced the full playthrough of the Myxozoa guild. Myxozoans are a build that was introduced early into the game, all the way as far back is the Protozoic update in the alpha versions of the game. Myxozoans are parasites and have a two-host life cycle. Myxozoans feed on fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and are most commonly known for hosting on Bryozoans and annelids. All of the stats for  Myxozoans are low except for stealth which as parasites, they really need.
Rhinoceros

Range: 78

## Overview and Tier Placement

The Rhino build is a tank variant of the horse and donkey build characterized by their high defense and power via their horn, but poor eyesight and overtly aggressive nature due to them not speccing that much into Eyes. As a result, they are in D-tier.

Their spot on the Tier List is because while their defensive stats rival the tortoise, and they do well against the various competition in the African server, they are solitary animals, and their eyesight is abysmal, but make up for it by possessing incredible smelling capacity. They are also this low due to being unable to tell friend from foe, and is thus liable to attack anything that the player thinks is trespassing in their territory.

## Attack Method

A rhino's signature move is charge. This deals piecing type damage and also can be devastating if it hits, further made possible by its horn weapon. However, due to their poor eyesight, rhinos sometimes charge for no reason, and sometimes pause their charge altogether. If you are being charged at, it will also use its horn for a combo involving Stab.

## Counters

As per usual, it has a poor matchup against humans. Their desired ivory from their horns combined with their weaknesses make them particularly susceptible to poaching, with some human players using the horn to make medicine.

A smart player could successfully defeat a Rhinoceros by abusing its poor eyesight with audio and smell-based trickery.

## Build Variants

There are 2 forms of rhino: the African horned build and the Asian 1 horned build along with the Javan rhinos. With that said, during The Ice Age expansion pack, the Woolly Rhinoceros build was B-tier because despite having the same issues of modern rhinoceros, defense and power were important during this time. The Paleogene and Neogene expansions saw other high tier rhino builds, like the S-tier Paraceratherium and the A-tier Sinotherium.

An average rhinoceros can stand 19 feet tall at the shoulder, they are the second largest land builds in the entire server,

# Evolution History:

In the early Eocene Hyrachus was built and was found 50 million years ago. Amynodontidae was a group of rhinos that included hippo like rhinos. Hyracodontidae. Juxia was one type of hyracodons and Urtinotherium, Paraceratherium was the tallest and heaviest land build to ever walk the earth. Elasmotherium, or Siberian Unicorn was also one species of Elasmotheriinae. Woolly Rhinoceros was a very historic species of rhino. And then finally came the modern rhinos. Which are: White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), Indian Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) and Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis).
Muskellunge

The Muskellunge is a Freshwater build that has a very powerful ambush attack. It’s long and thin body and colouring gives it good camouflage.

## Tier Placement

A tier. These builds have good Power and are known for their strategy of luring smaller fish builds into shallow water where they are usually safe. They also have good camouflage and even can hurt larger builds.
Mars server

The Mars Server is a low gravity, cold, low pressure server with no oxygen. No native builds currently exist, but some may have existed.

## The Area

Mars can be split into 3 main areas, which can be split themselves.

#### **The North**

Back in the alpha, this area was an ocean, but as it became clear that Earth was the only server getting played, the Devs drained the ocean, in the eastern side of the north is a mountain, most likely an island in the alpha.

#### **The South**

The land half of the server, the main spots to look out for is the small crater (light blue, split with **The West**) and the large crater. (dark indigo)

#### **The West**

The worst area to be on mars, filled with mountains, these are much taller than the mountains on Earth, so never go here, ever.

## The Atmosphere

Being mostly CO2, (I already know the plant players are watching.) and very thin, there isn't much to talk about, but when combined with Solar Wind, "Ruststorms" form, the sizes range from small areas to covering the whole planet. The only ways to counter are to ether block rust from getting on the skin, or to dig underground. Flying here isn't like on Earth, low gravity makes for easy take off, the thin atmosphere makes any biological way to fly impossible, but robots can fly, but it wastes lots of energy.

## The 2 Biomes

On mars, only 2 biomes are present, going by many names.

#### **The Rust**

The regular biome, it is a rusty desert. Ths biome is mostly dust with some rocks and stone, all red when viewed from outside the server, and butterscotch/goldenrod when viewed directly.

#### **The Ice**

The polar biome, most of the ice is CO2, but some is H2O (water).
Monoplacophore

Monoplacophore is a relatively obscure Mollusc guild. Many of them have opted to bottom feeder playstyle. Their low top speed is somewhat compensated by their relatively high defense which they get from their shells.

One faction in Monoplacophore guils, *Micropilina* have unlocked brooding ability.

This guild used to be more popular but nowdays is played only in deep sea biomes as it is not very competitive outside these parts.
Pelagornis

Pelagornis was a bird build that played on servers worldwide. Known for being the largest flying bird of Outside.

## Overview

Pelagornis had a decent power stat due to having teeth good for shredding up fish. They also had decent mobility though not as good as other birds due to the fact that Pelagornis couldn't just fly anywhere it had to go to a ledge and then jump off and glide. They also had low defenses due to hollow bones and average intelligence. Lastly their stealth was not great due to large size and their white coloring. They mainly ate fish.

## Abilities

### Glide

If Pelagornis jumped off a cliff they could glide across the whole world.

## Tier placement

These builds are in low S-tier.These builds take a guild normally known for being only viable in terrestrial and freshwater servers, and adapt it to the marine meta. They are the largest bird builds in the game.They can fly across the world if the want to. They were the dominant marine bird builds during that time.
Onchopristis

Onchopristis was a banned build which resembles a Sawfish build. The build however, was actually a member of the Sclerorhynhiform guild.

## Overview

This build had great Intelligence from its schooling behavior. It had a barbed saw, drastically increasing its Power. It had a good Health stat, a godsend when your server had builds that made the Amazon River look like a small stream by comparision. It also had spines for extra Defense. They also piss dogs off.

## Moveset

**Electroreception (Passive, Utility)** - Motion shown on minimap.

**Barbed Slice (Active, Attack)** - A heavy-hitting spacing attack that inflicts [Bleed].

**Adaptive Gills (Passive, Support)** - No penalty for switching between freshwater and saltwater.

**Spines (Passive, Defense)** -Return 10% of damage taken back to an attacker.

## Tier Placement

B tier. It is a decent build in it's own server, able to avoid most bad matchups. It's barbed saw drains a lot of stamina, vut can deal a lot of damage doe to its barbs. Luckily, it can regenerate the effectiveness of it's saw. It was also countered by the Spinosaurus build.

## Summary

### Pros:

* Spines deflect some damage back to an attacker
* Great Health
* Highly devastating attack
* Adaptive Gills
* Above-average Mobility and Intelligence
* Anti-Stealth abilities
* Weapon durability automatically regenerates

### Cons:

* Average Stealth
* Weapon uses up a lot of stamina
* Easily countered by Grapplers
* Playable in one of the most dangerous servers

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/o/onchopristis.html
2. ↑ http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon\_no=34711
3. ↑ https://surprisinganimals.com/2015/10/15/onchopristis/
4. ↑ https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/this-huge-ancient-sawfish-had-harpoons-on-its-face/
5. ↑ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200424132617.htm
6. ↑ https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/tag/kem-kem-beds/
7. ↑ https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/onchopristis-is-a-sawskate-not-a-sawfish/
8. ↑ https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/tag/onchopristis/
9. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257588887\_Aberrant\_rostral\_teeth\_of\_the\_sawfish\_Onchopristis\_numidus\_from\_the\_Kem\_Kem\_beds\_Early\_Late\_Cretaceous\_of\_Morocco\_and\_a\_reappraisal\_of\_Onchopristis\_in\_New\_Zealand
10. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/34995373/The\_biology\_of\_extinct\_and\_extant\_sawfish\_Batoidea\_Sclerorhynchidae\_and\_Pristidae\_
11. ↑ https://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2013/06/16/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-sawfish-rostral-tooth-from-the-upper-cretaceous-of-morocco/
Penguin

Penguins are a common build in Antarctica but can be seen up to the Galapagos Islands on the equator. Penguins eat, fish and krill. Penguins main predator is the leopard seal which has a pretty large player count but they have a high enough player count for penguins to still be a common sight to see. Overall they're a pretty good build and earn high B tier although with the recent climate patch added, maybe the ones playing in the Antarctic server will be bumped down to C, D or even F tier, only the devs know and the devs do not say. See Antarctica and Bird.
Procoptodon

Procoptodon, also known as the Giant Short-Faced Kangaroo,is an banned Australian build that lived during The Ice Age expansion. This Kangaroo build is ironically known for its inability to hop.

## Overview

The Procoptodon has a decent amount of Intelligence for a Marsupial build, often being hyped as having the Intelligence of a sack of bricks. Like playable Kangaroo builds, this build could still kick off gankers.It had a good Health stat for many builds of its time. And lastly, ironically for a build without the ability to hop, it had mediocre Mobility.

## Moveset

**Binocular Eyes (Passive, Misc.)**- Gives decent depth perception.

**Grasping Claw (Passive, Misc.)**- Allows you to grasp loot.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. It had good Intelligence, Health, and surprisingly, Mobility. It also can fend off gankers by kicking. However, it has bad matchups against builds like Megalania and Marsupial Lions.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/articles/megafauna/procoptodon\_goliah.php
2. ↑ https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/austropalaeo/2015/12/fossil-factfile-procoptodon/
3. ↑ https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/procoptodon-goliah/
4. ↑ https://www.livescience.com/48304-hopless-extinct-kangaroos.html
5. ↑ http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/cave/beasts-nullarbor
6. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/p/procoptodon.html
7. ↑ https://enhm.com.au/museum/megafauna/procoptodon-goliah/
8. ↑ http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/articles/megafauna/procoptodon\_goliah.php
9. ↑ https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/disappeared-species/giant-shortfaced-kangaroo.html
Sea Snails

## Tier placement

sea snails have good defense and average health and stealth but you can’t look past this builds horrible intelligence, mobility and power stats. Which makes the Sea snail free XP for any reef player with the armour crusher ability. But it’s defense helps it against those foes but their defense can not save them from bigger builds like a scuba diver, this puts them in D tier?

### Why not F tier?

I wondered the same question but I think i get it now. Some Sea snails are high tier which balances out the sea snails tier rating. It also might be that there are other things that are worth more XP than sea snails or it could be that there are less apex predators attacking and more mesopredators attacking.

## Abilities

### Shell

snails defense protect them from sharp attacks but not blunt attacks and can hide from predators from going inside their shell.

### Underwater build

This build spends their evolution points into breathing in water.
Salamander

Salamanders are an amphibian guild that is known for their lizard-like appearance. They h

## Stats & more

### Tier

F on average

ave a slender body which is flexible, blunt snouts and limbs coming from the body at a right angle.

## Overview

Salamanders are really customisable with ranging sizes, different abilities and sometimes even getting rid of some limbs. Some salamanders have really brightly coloured skin and patterns giving them an aposematic look while others go for a more stealthy approach. Salamanders are carnivores and prey mostly on small and slow things but sometimes will eat larger things like mice although it usually has trouble with these. Salamanders do have the poison ability but this is much more present in low-level players than high-level players. Salamanders also will drop the happiness stat of a player when a salamander touches their tongue which means that players will learn not to eat the salamander. A salamander has great night vision and smell. They can't hear but can detect vibrations underground and use their tongues to taste and smell. Salamander also have the regeneration ability increasing their health.

### Stat Overview

Salamanders are much more intelligent than frogs with some even being able to believe to count. As previously mentioned their defense is decent because of the poison they make. So newts are actually really poisonous and can really harm a player. Their defense stat is also lowered because they are very fragile and are weak to chlorine, the oils lotions etc on human skin and more. Unlike frogs or caecilians, salamander have teeth, well, not the best teeth but still teeth. This means that they have a higher power stat than most amphibians. Salamanders are generally quite slow but sometimes they have bursts of speed and their slender bodies make for weaving in and out of places easier. They are the most suited amphibian build for an aquatic playstyle. As said before, salamander range in many different sizes so there's no way to tell the health stat but they do have the regeneration ability increasing their health. As also previously mentioned, most have aposematic colours while some have camouflage.

## Tier Placement

Salamanders are amphibians so they do have some of the weaknesses of the amphibians like highly susceptible to change in the climate etc but overall they would belong in D-A tier because of some of their assets and human noticing and keeping them in captivity safe from the outside world and some of their abilities and stats.
Old World Monkey

Old World Monkeys (Cercopithecidae) are a varied guild, being able to exploit several different strategies. They are divided into two, the cercopithecines (the ones with cheek pouches) and the colobines (leaf-eating monkeys).

## Tier Placement

Old World Monkeys don't have the Prehensile Tail ability, but they are much more versatile than New World Monkeys. Unlike New World Monkey which rarely ever come down from the treetops, Old World monkeys are well suited both for climbing and for running on the ground. Since they don't need to worry about whether or not trees can support their weight, ditching this restriction also allows them to bulk up, leading to some genuinely beefy builds, such as the Baboon. They can be a great build in the Indian City biome. The best Old World monkey is the Mandrill, which combines Power and intimidation with aesthetics for a truly threatening fighter in mid A-tier.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Cercopithecidae/
2. ↑ https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/old-world-monkeys-83033815/
3. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232179/
Monitor Lizard

Monitor Lizards are lizard players that decided to go for the higher weight classes in terms of lizards. This granted them a buff in HP, offense and defense. This comes at a cost of a signature ability. This turns out to be advantageous and therefore, are the only S tier lizard with the highest ranking being the Komodo Dragon which disappointingly isn't a dragon.

## Tier Placement

S Tier. Monitor Lizards have great base stats, especially for a lizard build. They are also one of the most versatile builds, being a generalist carnivore that adapts to different environments. Their powerful bite is enhanced by their venom that handles smaller prey effectively and give a medium sized animal mild ailments.  It is also very difficult and demanding for preys to escape them since they are able to pursue across the island. It still struggles with large grapplers like Crocodiles and pack hunters like Hyenas. They also provide a safer spawning point for their children as they lay eggs in underground nests and for some species, in termite mounds.

1. ↑ https://www.nparks.gov.sg/gardens-parks-and-nature/dos-and-donts/animal-advisories/monitor-lizards
Mobility

**Mobility** is one of the six stats currently in the game. It determines how well builds can move around. Mobility factors in speed, endurance, and agility.

There are four mobility skill trees available. They are aquatic, terrestrial, arboreal, and aerial. Most builds specialize in only one mobility skill tree, but some builds split their evolution points speccing into multiple mobility skill trees.

Mobility is a key stat for the Rushdown playstyle.

Mobility is also a stat used in some medium tank builds to run away from predators. This strategy is okay at best but can be countered by stealth or a predator with a higher speed stat.

## High-Mobility Builds

### Aquatic

Marlin, Sailfish, Swordfish, Tuna, Mako Shark, Dolphin

### Terrestrial

Cheetah, Antelope, Lion, Ostrich, Hare, African Painted Hound, Kangaroo, Horse, Donkey, Greyhound, Humans, Wolf, Coyote, Zebra, Tiger, Hyena

### Arboreal

Non-Human Primates, Squirrel , Anole lizard

### Aerial

Falcon, Eagle, Frigatebird, Pigeon, Goose, Albatross, Mexican Free-Tailed Bat, Horsefly, Hummingbird
Pikachu

**Pikachus** are a build that have been around since the Neogene expansion. They are not real, but rather Fan content.

## Overview

Pikachus are a member of the Faction Rodentia, who infamously specced into fangs that combine with electric organs to deliver a powerful shock. Despite having this amazing weapon, they actually follow a generalist playstyle. Most Pikachu players make up for their low BST (aside from great Intelligence & Power for its size) by joining up with other players to form competitive clans, Though their main strength is in their adaptability, which allows them to

## Stats & more

### Tier

A

effectively live in the very common Human-made City biomes, and allow them to get a lot of loot from human mains undetected. Pikachus are members of the order Rodentia, meaning they get the signature ability of rodents, their constantly growing teeth. These teeth give them the ability to bypass many barriers to obtain sequestered loot. Their high intelligence stat also lets them come up with basic strategies (as well as making them a target for human data miners.)

## Stats

### Intelligence

Pikachus are rodents which by standard are high in intelligence, as it has been seen that they have many of the same high quality traits as rats such as dodgeing traps that humans set up.

### Mobility

Pikachus aren't the fastest of creatures but at only around 12 kilometres per hour but they can fit through smaller place giving mice just a slightly higher mobility stat than rats as rats are larger in size meaning their hitbox is larger so that they can't get through smaller sizes all though their incisor teeth do give them a bonus

### Health

Mice are small meaning that they don't have as high of a health bar. Another disadvantage of being small is cancer as cancer is usually more prevelant in smaller builds. This means that mice have a slightly lower health stat than that of a rat.

### Stealth

Going along with the common thing of being small, being small also grants a higher stealth bonus. However their yellow coloration makes this fall apart. They specced into this to warn greifers about they [Electric Fangs] perk.

## Tier Placement

Pikachus make it into high B tier for their exceptional adaptability and the spread of the player base. Their accessibility to players who are just starting out also makes them very convenient. This openness stems from newbies being able to join clans for protection. In cities they are S tier, being exceptionally adaptive.
Sauropod

## Basic Sauropod

Haha HP go brr.

Sauropods were the guild that is known for breaking the physics engine and denying the size limit (known in the community as the square cube law) that the devs coded in. It's size also meant that it had a lot of range with its tail whip and head bash attack, more on that later. The builds only real weakness was the fact it required large amount of XP to sustain itself. Luckily, during the dinosaur meta, large amounts of XP were readily available in the form of leaves atop the boring tree mains.

They used the herd strategy in combination with the maximum health meaning that if an attack did land on a sauropod (which is unlikely because they were so tall they could pretty much see over anything), it could tank enough hits until its teammates came to help.

The Sauropods tail whip and head bash were great at a long distance but not so effective at close range if so they could use one of the most OP moves this game has ever seen, the move stomp. This would 99% of the time lead to a game over. Even tho they had no special abilities apart from the herding ability and parental care ability, this was still a ridiculously overpowered build and easily the top tier of the mesozoic meta.

## Abilities

### Herd

This allows the guild to travel in herds providing protection to all other teammates.

### Parental Care

This allows the user to care for low-level players until they were mature enough to fight for their own.

## Traits

### Warm Blooded

Can only gain energy by gaining XP, allowing it to survive in cold conditions.
Red Deer

The red deer (*Cervus elaphus*) is one of the largest playable Deer builds. This build is playable in Europe and Asia, as well as the Atlas Mountains in the African server and has been introduced into Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. While it was never in danger of becoming banned, its playerbase was once in danger in parts of the European server but conservation measures have made their playerbase have a comeback.

## Species

### Location

Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, North America, Australia, New Zealand

## Overview

This Deer build has a good Health stat. It's Power stat is also something to bring home about, and it has a great Mobility stat like most members of its guild. Its Intelligence is certainly high enough for it to form herds. Other stats are basically similar to a run-of-the-mill Deer build.

## Moveset

**Charge (Active, Attack)**- A charged (no pun intended) attack and provides an Intimidation bonus.

**Mane (Passive, Utility)**- Nullifies 25% of damage from critical hits. Also increases Intimidation.

**Ruminant (Passive, Utility)**-Removes EXP penalty from eating grass.

## Tier Placement

These builds are decent herd-based builds that can reliably run away from their predators, and even the females can reliably defend themselves against most griefers. It has successfully spreadcto servers far beyond its natural range. However, it can still get griefed by Wolves and Brown Bears, thus earning it only a Bottom B-tier.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://www.scirecordbook.org/red-deer-south-america/
2. ↑ http://www.scirecordbook.org/teaser/index.cfm?specgroupID=393
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 https://animals.net/red-deer/
4. ↑ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8011605/
Monstrous

Such savagery...

Monstrous is a high level ability that allows the user to bypass a percentage of the enemy's defense. Originally used by high damage builds such as the Dunkleosteus during the Paleozoic era, this ability has drastically decreased in popularity since most herbivores started to favor agility over armor.

## Notes

* At level 1 this ability bypasses 15% of the enemy defense, when maxed out it negates a whopping 80% of a target's defense.
* By itself this ability if not all that viable, since most tank mains also sink a large amount of points into health. Unless you are fighting high defense, low hp builds like the crabs or tortoise, it is recommended to also pick other offensive abilities.
Mantidfly

Range: 55

Mantidflies are one of the many insect builds in the current Anthropocene meta. They are known to the community as a hybrid between a mantis and a wasp (although it has no stinger). This page will specifically talk about the late game (if someone wants to add the early game than sure).

## Abilities and Skills

### Aposematic Colours

Aposematic Colour means that the user intentionally spends evolution points on lowering their stealth to manipulate low stealth to their advantage.

#### Effects:

* Increases effectiveness of intimidation attempts
* Decreases stealth

### Raptorial Forelimbs

The mantis is the most famous build with Raptorial Forelimbs.

#### Effects:

* Increased Grab Accuracy
* Bonus Damage to Grabbed Target
* Escape Struggle Threshold Raised

## Moveset

* Claw Swipe
* Intimidation Stance
* Lick Wounds
* Fly

## Pros and Cons

### Pros

* High Attack
* Flight
* Compound Eyes
* Protected Abdomen
* Lick Wounds
* High Intimidation success chance

### Cons

* Low Defensive capabilities with targets in higher weight classes and aerial builds
* Terrible aerial movement capabilities

## TierZoo Video

https://watchnebula.com/videos/tierzoo-lets-play-outside-mantidfly
Ordovician Update

Monogamy is trait where a certain player only completes the main quest once. Few builds have this trait and affect the player in a few different ways. Because some builds are monogamous, they don't need to have features to attract females and fend of other males. This means that they can rellocate some of their evolution points towards other things. This is why in polygamous builds, males have more pronounced features than females while in monogamous builds, males and females look relatively similar.
New Zealand

New Zealand is a small server that is part of Oceania (Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Tasmania, New Guinea & etc.). Unlike Australia, it is usually seen as a casual server that facilitates build experimentation with many low tiers.

## Geography

New Zealand is found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, consisting of the North Island and South Island with numerous smaller islands. The North Island features hot springs, mud pools, and geysers dotted throughout the region. On the other hand, the South Island offers alpine scenery, scenic fjords, and pristine lakes. It is home to the Southern Alps, with its snow-capped peaks.

## Difficulty

Often known as the "easy mode" server, New Zealand lacks native terrestrial mammalian predators since the archipelago was isolated from other landmasses for millions of years. The only native land-based mammals in New Zealand are bats, which are not predators. Thus, this server does facilitate build experimentation. New Zealand has a mild climate, with warm summers and cool winters. This means that there is a year-round supply of fresh plant material for herbivores to eat. However, this does mean introduced predators have a much more harmful effect on the native wildlife in this server than others. Yet again, Human mains are making ecological reparations over problems that they created for everyone else.

## Builds

### Notable Native Builds

* Kiwi
* Sea krait
* Kakapo (Endangered)
* Kea (Endangered)
* Tuatara (Endangered)

### Notable Introduced Builds

* Sheep
* Cow
* Deer
* Hedgehog
Psammolepis

Psammolepis is a banned Heterostracan build playable during the Middle Devonian expansion, to be specific, near the Russian server. It belonged to a guild of frying-pan shaped Fish builds which have among the highest Health stats without possibly speccing into jaws at all.This is also the only playable Heterostracan guuld to survive into the end of The Devonian Expansion. It is also playable in Europe and North America.

## Psammolepis

A Psammolepis showcasing his ability to shrug off a large hit from Laccognathus, an amphibious, flattened and euryhaline Sarcopterygian build.

## Overview

This build had some of the Health stats of any ostracoderm build. Not much is known with the Mobility of this build, but it had a flattened body, judging from Drepanaspis, a similar build, which gave it increased Stealth Also, this build is playable in fast-flowing parts of the freshwater meta. While it is an ambush predator, having no jaws is a real letdown to its Power stat. Its Defense is also great, allowing it to shrugg off attacks with relative ease.

## Moveset

**Pancake Camouflage (Passive, Misc.)-** Provides a 50% Stealth boost.

**Dentine Plate (Passive, Defense)-**Blocks off critical hits 90% of the time.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. Its size allowed it to shrug off hits from the gankers that it was playable alongside with, such as Laccognathus. However, it is not really dominant in its home server.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P149938.html
2. ↑ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030114090032
3. ↑ http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon\_no=149938
4. ↑ https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Drepanaspis
5. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4815358.html
6. ↑ https://en.linkfang.org/wiki/Psammosteidae
7. ↑ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.0703
8. ↑ https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Psammolepis
9. ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/500257c
10. ↑ http://spinops.blogspot.com/2015/08/psammolepis-venyukovi.html
11. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971664/
12. ↑ https://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/46571