recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Kingsnake

Scarlet Kingsnake

### Relatives

Garter Snake, Tiger Keelback, Racer Snake, Boomslang, Vine Snake and other Colubrids

## Classification

### Species

N/A

Kingsnake is at the top of Colubrid family in terms of success. They are also the one of the few constrictor builds in the family, They have a more colourful skin than most other snakes.

## Overview

Since Kingsnakes are constrictors, they have no venom so it is not capable of high DPS. It has a normal size and weight for a snake so it is not as effective as Pythons and Boas with their tankiness. It also possesses a unique **[Venom Resistance]** so they already have a huge advantage battling other snakes. Not only that, they can accurately strike the head of their targets for critical damage.

## Tier Placement

C Tier. Kingsnakes are pretty solid as a constrictor build even though they do not have high hp or defense to tank counter-attacks. Counter-attacks can be negated by their precise head biting. They still do have a lot of the normal match-ups like most other snakes.
Man o’ War

The Man o’ War commonly confused as a jellyfish is a build that trades off its mobility for the Death Touch ability that paralyzes small fish and the sail ability which helps it “move” in the water.

## Overview

The Man o’ War named after the Portuguese battle ship “Man Of War” it self. It is a Siphonophore build that put its evolution points into the “Death Touch” ability even though this is a weak type of Death Touch only being able to kill small fish its still viable. The Man O’ War is also made up of a colony of small organisms that band up to make a build that would be hard to defeat like Ants. This didn’t really plan out as well as these small builds expected as Sea Turtles, The Violet Sea Snail and even a low tier fish like the Ocean Sunfish have great matchups against them, especially since they cant move by themselves. Their defense is also very low, Cnidarians have great defense against blunt force but horrible defense against slash, claws or bite attacks. Like all Cnidarians they have low HP and no intelligence, being the few builds dropping their intelligence entirely.

## Abilities & Skills

### Death Touch

Weaker compared to the Box Jellyfish or Sea Anemone but it still deters and kills fish, crustaceans and other builds.

### Sail

To make up for the no mobility it has a sail that is determined entirely by the wind and ocean currents.

### Beached Touch

Even after the Man o’ War has a game over it can still sting for quite a while which can sting unknowing human players and other players in the beach meta, while not benefiting the Man O’ War

## Tier Placement

The Man o’ War is definitely B Tier, it has great matchups against small fish but it falls hard to Sea Turtles, Violet Snails and Sunfishes. Cnidarians cant surpass A Tier in general as maxing out the power stat isn’t always a viable strategy especially in the open ocean.
Eusocial

some eusocial bees in a hive that they made through this ability

Eusocial is an ability that was introduced in the Jurrasic expansion. It is one of the rarest Traits in all of Outside, meaning that a build would have to deliberately go out of its way to dump a lot of evolution points to unlock it, but it's incredibly rewarding when unlocked. This ability means fundamentally changing the build's traditional control of a single build in favor of a more RTS-style gameplay involving the simultaneous control over thousands, if not, millions of the same builds at once and specializing them into casts of queen(s), drones, and workers, effectively creating a Hive Mind or biological internet. This makes them to be able to do great things that individually controlled builds could never accomplish and human dataminers are just beginning to know how many players that are in a phrase, stupid things can create such great things.

This ability tends to get frequently confused with the Colonial trait/ability, except that unlike colonial players, eusocial players are not physically connected to one another, allowing for better attacking, evasion, or overall just great mobility options. Most eusocial build mains only really have two terrible matchups. The first bad matchup being against players who rely on large AOE attacks, while the other being against other, higher-level eusocial build mains.

## Users

* Ants
* Bees
* Termites
* Naked Mole-Rat
* not human, they are social sometimes in a monarchy, but most humans aren't willing to give their lives to protect the leader so no we are not eusocial.
Echo Fighters

Echo fighters are builds that share many qualities with other builds and copy them. Sometimes, they rank similarly on the tier list as the build they copy whilst others rank lower or higher

## Echo fighter examples

* Bonobo (Echo fighter of Chimpanzee): The pretty much play the same as chimpanzees just their legs are longer, their arms are narrower, and their head is smaller
* Colossal Squid (Echo fighter of Giant squid): They are very similar to Giant squid but larger
* Bobcat (Echo fighter  of lynx`): Their stats are mainly the same but they trade the snow paw ability for the forest paw ability. This suites it better for forest biome than the lynx
* Chipmunk (Echo fighter of squirrel): Their stats are mainly the same but this build is better at hoarding loot due to the cheek pouch ability
* Whitetip reef shark (Echo fighter of Black tip Reef shark): Mainly the same just with a slight size difference. Both are a great introduction to the shark class
* Cornetfish (Echo fighter of trumpertfish): The Cornetfish is larger than the trumpetfish with the same abilities
* Mouse (Echo fighter of rats)-Mice are just rats but from a lower weight class. Both have the same abilities.
Leopard

The Leopard is a build that has been playable since the Pliocene. It is a powerful, large cat build, with high stats. The Leopard is an assassin-rouge build utilising high stealth as well as good power and mobility to hunt.

## Overview

The leopard has great stats and exceptional stealth. It's only weakness is its sub-par defense and health. Its high stealth allows it to attack prey without letting it be seen. It's decent health and mobility makes this a good stealth hunting build. The Leopard has unlocked the padded paw ability which makes the Leopards steps much quieter than other builds giving it a huge stealth boost. One of the Leopards unique abilities is its tree climbing abilities. The Leopard is the single best tree climber in the big cat family being able to carry its kills up a tree to stop them being griefed by stronger builds such as the Lion and Hyena.

## Tier Placement

With the Leopards unique stealth stats and good strength and mobility, it earns itself a high spot on the tier list. They are one of the few animals that can grief primate mains such as the chimpanzee and gorilla, and can even carve out a living in Siberia. But because of bad match-ups against builds such as the Lion, the Tiger, and somewhat decent match-up against Hyena, Eurasian wolf, and Asiatic black bear and mid hunting success rates, as well as the Amur variety being exceptionally vulnerable to humans it brings the Leopard to the A Tier

## Moveset

1. **Growl**- Intimidates other builds causing their resolve to be decreased
2. **Padded Paw**- The leopard gets a stealth boost and increases its stealth by 50%
3. **Climb** - allows player to avoid threats like lions and hyenas + great stealth bonus.
Giant African Threadfin

The Giant African Threadfin is a threadfin build found in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the African server.It occurs in shallow and muddy waters from Senegal to Congo.

## Tier Placement

Basically what happens when you combine a Catfish with a Perciform. This build has the [Adaptive Gills] ability, allowing them to play in river servers as well as marine ones. They have decent Mobility as well. They also have a playstyle similar to Catfish, with their [Barbels] ability. B-tier at best

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/519253-Polydactylus-quadrifilis
2. ↑ http://bigfishesoftheworld.blogspot.com/2013/01/a.html
3. ↑ https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b19c506f-17a4-4e50-8d9f-b76cf225c08a
4. ↑ https://www.fishbook.co.za/my-quest-for-a-giant-african-threadfin/
Hyaenodont

Hyaeodonts were a removed build from the Miocene. This guild was notable for having teeth that resembled the Hyena build, even though they are optimized for shearing, not crushing. The heaviest weighed 500 kg, much bigger than the Tiger of the current expansion.

## Tier Placement

S-tier. High Power and Health and a good size advantage and area denial for scavenging as well as a unique ability called [Self Sharpen] as well as decent bite force. [Self Sharpen] actually allows the player to increase the amount of XP gained from defeating players. They also have the [Olfaction] ability. Lightweight builds would have hunted like Wolf mains of the current meta. Heavyweight builds use their ambush tactics to body other heavyweights. In the Paleocene, they were too OP to body. However, in the Miocene, Hyaenodonts became D-tier after the arrival of the generalist Bear Dog buillds.
Glofish

Glofish is a fish that was made by human data miners to find polluted lakes

### History

The original zebrafish build (or zebra danio, *Danio rerio*) is a native of rivers in India and Bangladesh. It measures three centimeters long and has gold and dark blue stripes. In 1999, a pro Human Main named Dr. Zhiyuan Gong and his colleagues at the National University of Singapore were working with a gene that encodes the green fluorescent protein (GFP), originally extracted from a jellyfish, that naturally produced bright green fluorescence. They inserted the gene into a zebrafish embryo, allowing it to integrate into the zebrafish's genome, which caused the fish to be brightly fluorescent under both natural white light and ultraviolet light. Their goal was to develop a fish that could detect pollution by selectively fluorescing in the presence of environmental toxins. The development of the constantly fluorescing fish was the first step in this process, and the National University of Singapore filed a patent application on this work. Shortly thereafter, his team developed a line of red fluorescent zebra fish by adding a gene from a sea coral, and orange-yellow fluorescent zebra fish, by adding a variant of the jellyfish gene. Later, a team of researchers at the National Taiwan University, headed by Professor Huai-Jen Tsai, succeeded in creating a medaka (rice fish) with a fluorescent green color, which, like the zebrafish, is a model organism used in biology.

The scientists from NUS and businessmen Alan Blake and Richard Crockett from Yorktown Technologies, L.P., a company in Austin, Texas, met and a deal was signed whereby Yorktown obtained the worldwide rights to market the fluorescent zebrafish, which Yorktown subsequently branded as "GloFish". At around the same time, a separate deal was made between Taikong, the largest aquarium fish producer in Taiwan, and the Taiwanese researchers to market the green medaka in Taiwan under the name TK-1. In the spring of 2003, Taiwan became the first to authorize sales of a genetically modified organism as a pet. One hundred thousand fish were reportedly sold in less than a month at US$18.60 each. The fluorescent medaka are not GloFish, as they are not marketed by Yorktown Technologies, but instead by Taikong Corp under a different brand name.

### Tier Placement

Glofish are a D tier build. While their resistance to pollution has granted them unique defenses, they get twice as much more easily bodied by the Largemouth Bass & Eastern Mosquitofish.

It also doesn't help that their playerbase is less aggressive. While this has absolutely nothing to do with the Official Tiering System, it certainly doesn't help.

Another interesting thing to note is that they are more attractive to mates from other species.
Caiman

Caiman are part of the reptile guild and play on the Central American and South American servers. Caimans are one of the best builds in the Amazon River server. They easily grief other builds, low tier and high tier alike. However, they get bodied by Jaguars and Anacondas. Otter ganking squads are a problem, too. If they had specked into greater Defense, Power, or Health, they would be OP, but they have not, thus are placed in Low A tier
Livyatan

Livyatan was a banned build of Sperm Whale builds which are great DPS builds. These builds competed with the Megalodon build, another S-tier. This build was inspired by the Leviathan meme, The Livyatan build fulfilled the same spot in the meta as Orca builds, having a great matchup against Megalodon builds. It, however, was banned before its competitor.

## Tier Placement

S-tier. This build is actually a Sperm Whale build that hunted baleen whale mains and even the formerly game-breaking Megalodon. Their advanced [Echolocation] skill can even function as a damaging skill on top of great stats overall. This is actually the third build that broke the game, first being Mosasaurus and second being Megalodon
Lingcod

The lingcod is a Sculpin build, one of the heaviest builds known from its own guildThis build can reach up to 100 pounds, much heavier than the Lionfish at just 2 pounds and the Stonefish at a significantly greater, but still much lighter weight of 5 pounds. Despite its name, it is not a cod but a greenling build.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. It is a build which has some of the highest Health stats in the Sculpin guild. It speccs into [Textured Camouflage]and long, sharp teeth to avoid unfavourable matchups. And they do all this without sacrificig the Sculpin's signature ability, its sharp spines.

## Referrences

### Calculations

1. ↑ https://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/lionfish\_facts/476/
2. ↑ https://blog.padi.com/2014/10/07/stonefish-the-most-venomous-fish-in-the-world/

### General Referrences

1. ↑ https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:4a969e27-3c4a-485d-a53a-6e3f7a969e6e
2. ↑ http://www.lingcodfishing.net/
3. ↑ http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view\_article&articles\_id=252
4. ↑ https://thisfish.info/fishery/species/lingcod/
5. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ophiodon\_elongatus/
6. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/scorpaeniform
7. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=SOMaEEL-4FAC&pg=PT21&lpg=PT21&dq=do+ling+cod+have+sharp+spines&source=bl&ots=s8DdMouFK1&sig=ACfU3U0tcfQ7K4GPIHltxwlmiAp0q7A9Sw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3uoeyxLDpAhVFeXAKHaDUA4kQ6AEwDHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=do%20ling%20cod%20have%20sharp%20spines&f=false
Kenorland

**Kenorland** is one of the first Superservers added to the game propably at 2.72 Gya during Neoarchean Subupdate. It is compromised that crust from this Subupdate now is a part of the core of today's North America, Greenland, Scandinavia, Baltic, Western australia and Kalaharia (large portions of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.).  Core files for Kenorland may have been added over 3.1 Gya.

## Removal

**Kenorland** was good until Magma Plume events started rifting it apart around ~2.48 and 2.45 Gya.

During period when **Kenorland** was playable Great Oxidation event happened.

After the removal of Kenorland everything started to freeze but an iniciative from players with Photosynthesis ability stabilized the atmosphere.

## Funfacts

* Zircon Crystals added 4.4 Gya were found in crust from Kenorland.
* Kenorland was named after the Kenoran orogeny (also called the Algoman orogeny)

See also: Removed Servers List

## References

1. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230822361
2. ↑ Salminen, Johnna; Pehrsson, Sally; Evans, David A.D.; Wang, Chong (2021). "Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic supercycles". In Pesonen, Lauri J.; Salminen, Johanna; Elming, Sten-Ake; Evans, David A.D.; Veikkolainen, Toni (eds.). *Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth*. Elsevier. p. 466.
Leedsichthys

Leedsichthys was a removed build that was available during the Jurassic expansion. Although often called a Teleost, its true phylogenetic position is still controversial. This build was among the largest osteichtyian builds ever introduced in the history of the game.

## Overview

It had decent Intelligence, due to it living in shoals. Being a gentle giant, it likely had little Power. It also had a deceptively high Mobility stat for their size. But their best stat is Health, highest among ray-finned osteichtyian builds and some of the highest in the entire history of the meta. It also likely had mediocre Defense and little Stealth.

## Moveset

**Filter (Active, Attack)**- Allows looting of microweight players.

**Greater Growth (Passive, Misc.)**- Increases the growth rate of this build. This allows it to get out of the early-game pretty quickly.

## Tier Placement

B-tier . Leedsichthys occupied the same playstyle as the current Filter-feeding shark builds. This tank build had no strategies to counter griefer builds like Liopleurodon other than living in shoals, and relied mostly on its size for defense.

## Summary

### Pros:

* Maximum Health.
* Above-average Mobility.
* Plays in shoals.
* Fast growth rate.

### Cons:

* Average Intelligence and Defense
* Very low Power and Stealth
* Stone Wall
* Lacks better offensive options.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/science/Jurassic-Period/Vertebrates#ref257901
2. ↑ https://en.glosbe.com/en/en/Leedsichthys
3. ↑ https://alchetron.com/Leedsichthys
4. ↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-study-suggests-theres-no-metabolic-reason-giant-bony-fish-cant-exist-today-180969206/
5. ↑ https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/\_archives/2007/07/19/3102484.html
6. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/seamonsters/factfiles/leedsichthys.shtml
7. ↑ https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/bony-fish-03423432/
8. ↑ https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-leedsichthys-1093679
9. ↑ https://www.dkfindout.com/us/dinosaurs-and-prehistoric-life/prehistoric-fish/what-was-largest-fish/
10. ↑ https://carnivora.net/leedsichthys-problematicus-t158.html
11. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/130827-paleontology-leedsichthys-problematicus-fish-oceans-science
Lemming

The **Lemming** is among the worst currently-playable Rodent builds in the game. It's a common misconception that Lemmings have such a low Intelligence stat that they group and end their playthroughs together. The actual lemming playstyle is only slightly more effective. Lemmings are one of the few Rodent builds to fall into F tier.

## Outside Hall of Shame

We call people lemmings as an insult. On top of that, as mentioned before, people think they commit suicide when it gets too crowded. There was also a game called grizzy and the lemmingswhich showed them to be hard to control, and stupid. People make fun of lemmings, so it is clear that this is not a good class to play if you don't like being insulted.

## Abilities

### snow digging

Lemmings revolve entirely around hoping that the Blizzard world event happens and creates the Deep Snow biome. If it happens, Lemmings can use it as cover and build extensive tunnel networks through the snow.

## Weaknesses

Lemmings have zero defensive options and end up getting bodied left and right. As a result, their playerbase drops hard until the next big snowfall. On top of that, rising global temperatures are making snow biomes disappear across many servers
Gigantoraptor

Gigantoraptor was a removed dinosaur build that was playable during the Late Cretacous Expansion. Their guild got its name from its representative build, the Oviraptor, which was thought to loot players in the character selection screen. Further datamining suggests that this was not valid. However, this build is more closely related to the caegnagnathids.

## Overview.

This build was rather intelligent for its time, being able to avtively brood its young, like most oviraptorids, which also had above-average Intelligence. It also has a high Mobility stat. It has claws for a good amount of Power. It also had a high Health stat. However, its ornamental feathers likely reduced its Stealth.

## Moveset

**Claw Scratch (Active, Attack)** Deals moderate slash damage to an enemy.

**Gigantism (Passive, Misc.)**- Allows a build to grow giant.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. This build had large claws for maximum slash damage as well as good Health, Mobility, Intelligence and a generalist. However, it had even less jaw power than most other theropods, to the point of completely lacking teeth, making it less efficient in extracting other players for loot. Its claws also did not have much reach, so this build would require quck reflexes to pull off enough attacks to scare a potential griefer away.

## Summary

### Pros:

* Above-average Intelligence, Mobility and Health.
* High Power.
* Slightly omnivorous.
* Claws can deal a good amount of damage.
* Well-rounded stat spread.

### Cons:

* Terrible Stealth stat.
* Completely toothless.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6272413\_Gigantic\_bird-like\_dinosaur\_from\_the\_Late\_Cretaceous\_of\_China
2. ↑ https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/defining-dinosaurs/info-uwh.html
3. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/o/oviraptor.html
4. ↑ https://quizlet.com/ca/494785254/dino-test-2-flash-cards/
5. ↑ https://www.thoughtco.com/things-to-know-gigantoraptor-1093788
6. ↑ https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Gigantoraptor#Paleobiology
7. ↑ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gigantoraptor-nightmare-of-a-find-in-inner-mongolia/OMOJ7GFTEJF6JRCPCD3QPIEF5I/
8. ↑ https://www.dinosaurhome.com/gigantoraptor-37409.html
9. ↑ https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-06-14-0706140169-story.html
10. ↑ http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2016/03/gigantoraptor-beast-of-week.html
11. ↑ https://www.givskudzoo.dk/en/animals/dinosaur-park/gigantoraptor/
Gammaray Burst Resistance

"Oh no. A Gammaray Burst. Oh wait, I have my Gammaray Burst Resistance!"

This is another joke Ability put in by the Devs.

## Effect

Reduces Damage taken from Gammaray Bursts for the Player

However, like the Supernova Resistance, this Ability is completely useless because of how much Damage Gammaray Bursts can deal to the Player. Only a tiny bit more useful than Supernova Resistance.

## See Also

Other ridiculous abilities include:

* Radiation Resistance
* Meteor Impact Resistance
Live Birth

if you don't want a disgusting picture then this is what you get

Live Birth is an ability that allows players to set their respawn point inside another player. It increases safety at the cost of lower reproduction rate.

## Notable users

* Therian Mammals.
* Some Reptiles (e.g. Viviparous Lizard)
* Most Caecilians
* Common Suriname Toad
* Some Fish
	+ Seahorses and Pipefish. Unlike most other, it's the male players who use this ability.
	+ Viviparous Eelpout
* Many Sharks
* Many Velvet Worms
* Some Aphids
* Moon Jellyfish
* Some Entoprocta
Himalayasaurus

Himalayasaurus (Himalayan Lizard), also known as Tibetosaurus, is an Icthyosaur build closely related to the Shonisaurus builds. This build is playable during the Late Triassic Expansion in the Tibetan server. This build is known only from fragmentary remains.

## Overview

This build is known to have a high Health stat due to it size. However, large size also means low Stealth. Its teeth, reminiscent of Thalattoarchon, also gives it a high Power stat. Like Shonisaurus, it had low Mobility.

## Moveset

As it is a build that specced into stats instead of abilities, this build does not have many unique abilities.

**Warm Blood (Passive, Utility)**- Faster stamina regeneration, at the cost of higher loot cost and vulnerability to [Heat Vision].

**Parental Care (Passive, Utility)**- Protects early-game players and players stuck on the character selection screen.

**Live Birth (Active, Utility)**- Carry respawn points with you, which decreases risk of spawnkilling.

## Tier Placement

What do you get when you combine the extreme Health of a Shonisaurus build with the high Power of the Thalattoarchon? You get this extremely decent S-tier that is this build. These stats ensure that it had barely any gankers.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://ancientmarinereptiles.tumblr.com/post/180565971339/himalayasaurus-tibetensis
2. ↑ https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/ichthyosaur
3. ↑ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194742
4. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8499779.html
5. ↑ https://en.linkfang.org/wiki/Himalayasaurus
6. ↑ https://www.paleocodex.com/species/101148
7. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/sharp-toothed-thalattoarchon-was-the-first-ruler-of-the-triassic-seas
8. ↑ http://palaeos.com/mesozoic/triassic/carnian2.html
9. ↑ http://earthsci.org/expeditions/ichthyosaurs/Weight.html
10. ↑ https://alchetron.com/Himalayasaurus
Domestic Turkey

Base Turkey stats (Varies from Domestic Turkey)

The Domestic Turkey is an under-statted land fowl build that humans have exploited and consequently is an easy source of EXP for them. Unlike the chicken, duck, & their wild counterparts (Wild Turkey), they sacrificed their flight ability and lowered their overall Mobility, which isn't surprising, considering human mains breed them to carry more meat on their bones. They usually get bodied by human mains for the Thanksgiving event. They are selectively bred to be larger for more meat with lesser power and a weaker immune system as a result of captivity. Unlike wild turkeys, they cannot be territorial. Their only meaningful defense is to run away.

## Pros & Cons

### Pros

* Slightly higher MBL stat than their wild counterparts

### Cons

* No access to flight, a staple in bird builds
* Griefed by human mains for their Thanksgiving event
* Despite their MBL stat, they're a lot slower than their wild counterpart
* Very poor defensive capabilities
* No offensive capabilities

## Tier Placement

F tier. The domestic turkey receives a Mobility debuff like most domestic builds, despite their slightly higher MBL stat than their wild counterparts. They also have sacrificed their flight ability, which is too powerful to sacrifice, thus getting that F tier ranking. Its wild counterpart has many gankers (AKA griefers) of this build, ranging from the Coyote and Fox to the Raccoon, Opossum, and Otter. However, this build (domestic turkey) is being griefed by the notorious human (a parasite to the domestic turkey (just for reference), which prevents this build from getting out of F tier (AKA "low-tier-trash"). They are A-tier food source to humans though.
Hyrax

Hyraxes, also know as a rock rabbit, is a build that looks lime a robust Guinea Pig. They are playable in Africa and West Asia. While they look like Rodents, they are more closely related to Elephant and Manatee. These builds, in the Bible are referred as "cony" or "coney" instead of pikas, which are "true" conies.

## Overview

This build has deceptively high Mobility. However, they have a low Health stat, which means that they are unable to take much punishment. Their small size also means a low Power stat, even though the have sharp teeth that they can use for Intimidation. They also have surprisingly higher Intelligence than was once thought and can even live in colonies. They also have decent Stealth

## Moveset

**Clinging Pads (Passive, Mobility)**-Allows the player to have nearly full 3D terrestrial Mobility.

**Big Eating (Passive, Misc.)** Can acquire a massive amount of EXP in a short amount of time.

## Tier Placement

They live in decent colonies, and can fit in tight holes and gain Stealth bonuses due to this. Additionally, they can absorb a massive short burst of EXP, giving it time to hide easily. However, they lack the ability to thermoregulate themselves, meaning thatthey have huddle together or bask, which makes them a prime target for gankers. Additionally, once gankers get inside their burrow, if they ever resist the intimidation attempts, its game over. Thus, this build is only C-tier at best.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.awf.org/wildlife-conservation/hyrax
2. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/hyrax
3. ↑ https://blog.degruyter.com/big-city-life-hyraxes-making-palestinian-urban-areas-new-home/
4. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=Usy5BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA341&lpg=PA341&dq=hyrax+cony+pika+not+rodent&source=bl&ots=bnrpo\_q1jk&sig=ACfU3U05BXSfgcAcN1N3jd7tJzzqdtecBA&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiivb2uw7vxAhWKP5QKHX5hCS0Q6AEwHXoECCgQAg#v=onepage&q=hyrax%20cony%20pika%20not%20rodent&f=false
5. ↑ https://a-z-animals.com/animals/rock-hyrax/
6. ↑ https://www.wired.com/2014/01/the-creature-feature-10-fun-facts-about-the-rock-hyrax-or-are-you-ready-to-rock-hyrax/
7. ↑ https://www.treknature.com/gallery/Africa/South\_Africa/photo268310.htm
8. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17729868
9. ↑ https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/rock-hyrax
10. ↑ https://southafrica.co.za/where-rock-hyrax-live.html
11. ↑ https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/mammals/rock-hyrax/
12. ↑ https://zooboise.org/animals/rock-hyrax/
13. ↑ https://oceanadventures.co.za/interesting-facts-on-dassies-procavia-carpensis/
14. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160609-time-to-bust-a-myth-not-all-mammals-are-warm-blooded
Haikouichthys

Haikouichthys

Haikouichthys was the only mobility based player in the Cambrian meta. Haikouichthys formed schools and with their flexible bone structure dodged attacks for other players. Haikouichthys was the first fish build ever and an extremely small one. They also decided to go for camera style eyes while didn't have a 360-degree vision in exchange they were better at focusing. This was helpful for letting them see through camouflage. Later became one of the most powerful classes in the game, but for now, it sits in A tier.
Henodus

Henodus was a banned placodont build which resembles a Turtle main. This is the only freshwater placodont build.

## Overview

This build has a amazing defense stat. Like some placodonts spent point into a shell increasing its defense. They had great power, if the data miners are correct about henodus preying on shelled animals, then this build could crush defenses easily. They had like most shelled vertibrate low speed. Henodus, unlike the sea turtles had shells that reduced drag. Henodus lacked that due to it shell that favored defense over speed, as it was very wide.

## Unique Abilities

### Shell Defense

TypeAttack

Effect:Activate to bolser defense, warding off all non-piercing blows.

### Filter (probably)

Type:Attack

Effect:Allows looting of players from the Microscopic weight class.

### Armor Crusher (probably)

Type:Attack

Effect:Negates most Defense that armor gives to players.

### Stout Limbs

Type:Attack

Effect:Reduces XP gain from ripping off limbs at the expense of Mobility.

## Tier Placement

This build is playable in freshwater servers, allowing it to avoid predator mains. It has a wide shell, which makes achieving a grab on this build nearly impossible.It could either break armored players with [Armor Breaker], or farm off easy kills with [Filter]. Eiter strategy is viable. It is brought down to B tier due not being that oppressive compared to other builds through out history, having a vulerable early stage as the young didn't start off with the hard shell ability, not having any penalty for repeated attacks, and being too specialized making them unable to change like the rest of the meta.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.reptileevolution.com/henodus.htm
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.dinosaurfact.net/Marine/Henoduschelyops.php
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/h/henodus.html
4. ↑ https://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/11/04/henodus-the-placodont
5. ↑ https://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/braingames/iknowthat/Stickerbook/sbr/Dinosaurs/Marine%20Animals/DiscoverMore/Henodus.htm
6. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/articles/placodonts.html
Fire

**Fire 🔥**

Fire is one of the deadliest elements in the game and seems to cause death in all organisms.

The devs increase the difficulty of the game with fire with forest fires and grassland fires which have many causes. It can also come in the form of lava, volcanic ash and meteor impact/showers etc.

**Users**

Not many players can make use of fire as a weapon as most are afraid of it and can't utilize without being harmed by it themselves like a double-edged sword.

Humans unlocked this a while ago in the stone age and managed to solve many problems with it, giving them heat, light, cooking ability (for XP) and intimidation weapon for hunting and defense from predators. They eventually started to use it to upgrade their technology and crafting techniques and it is still used in some of their super OP weapons like flamethrowers and bombs.
Hoatzin

Hoatzin are bird builds that play on the South America server. Known for being very elusive

## Overview

The hoatzin has a high mobility stat though that is mainly because of their climbing ability as they are not very good flyer. They on purpose go for poor stealth for aesthetics. Their other stats are not very good with bad power, defense, and above average intelligence. They mainly forage on plants including leaves and they travel in groups

## Abilities

### Specialized stomach

The Hoatzin invested evolution points to digest leaves where their stomachs are a home for bacteria that help the hoatzin digest the leaves. Unlike the sloth the hoatzin can eat other plants

### Wing claws

The hoatzin has claws on their wings so they can efficiently climb up trees

### Stench

Their diet of leaves gives them a stench which can ward away predators

## Tier Placement

The hoatzin is in B tier. They are not awful as they can climb trees well and have all the pluses that come with playing as a bird. However they lack offensive abilities and are not as intelligent as builds such as the parrot
Machimosaurus

Machimosaurus is a banned thalattosuchian build. A build once thought to have been banned at the end of the Jurassic Expansion. The existence of this build suggests that a build must have survived into the Cretacous balance patch.

## Tier Placement

S-tier. Like all Crocodile builds, this one used ambush tactics to body other players.Weighing at 3 tonnes, it has some of the highest Health stats of all Crocodile builds. This build is one of the best tankbuster builds in the game.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.em-consulte.com/en/article/981706
2. ↑ https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-m-rex-biggest-marine-crocodile-ever-found/
3. ↑ https://nationalpost.com/news/world/machimosaurus-rex-paleontologists-discover-terrifying-ancient-crocodile-the-size-of-a-bus
4. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/01/160111-ancient-crocodile-marine-largest-paleontology/
5. ↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-and-whales-ancient-crocodiles-evolved-spend-their-time-sea-180974714/
Fiddler Crab

The Fiddler Crab is a strange crab build that specced into a comically large claw, used by male players. They aren’t known for much outside of their claw.

## Species

### Location

Western Atlantic, Eastern and Indo-Pacific

### Relatives

Other Crabs, Lobsters, Crayfish, Shrimp and Prawns

## Overview

The Fiddler Crab is a crab build with the strange choice of having a huge claw that is used by male players that are dueling for Party Leader. This claw obviously has nothing good in combat and with the Fiddler Crabs small size, they get bullied hard by pretty much every build in the Beach biome. One of the only advantages they have is their generalist play style allowing them to adapt to changes in the Meta and expand to a bunch of servers.

## Tier Placement

Low D Tier, they have pretty much bad matchups against every build in the beach biome. They are a lot better than builds like the Hermit Crab because of their permanent shell and generalist playstyle.
Embolomere

Embolomeres (Embolomeri) were Amphibian mains which were more closely related to Amniotes than "conventional" Amphibians, which include Temnospondyls and their modern derivatives. which became some of the earliest large carnivorous tetrapods, therefore becoming top predators. They were first playable during the mid-Carboniferous expansion, but then declined until they were banned during the late Permian expansion.

## Classification

### Class

Amphibia (more closely related to amniotes)

## Overview

Most of the info here is derived from Eogyrinus.

As a predator, they had great Power.They was also capable of conducting death rolls. They also had decent Mobility. They also had a rather decent Health stat for a slender and long build. Lastly, they also have above-average Stealth.

## Moveset

**Slim Body (Passive, Mobility)**- Allows you to hide in obstacles and kill other players hiding inside them.

**Death Roll (Active, Attack)**- A powerful grab move that allows you to rip chunks of meat as Loot.

## Tier Placement

High A-tier. It had extremely good stats and has nothing to body it other than a few builds.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embolomere
2. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/a/anthracosaurus.html
3. ↑ https://dbpedia.org/page/Embolomeri
4. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/41407668
5. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346751264\_The\_youngest\_occurrence\_of\_embolomeres\_Tetrapoda\_Anthracosauria\_from\_the\_Sunjiagou\_Formation\_Lopingian\_Permian\_of\_North\_China
6. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/4523372
7. ↑ https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Eogyrinus
8. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=HVRLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=eogyrinus+swim+fast&source=bl&ots=505kSe9QRl&sig=ACfU3U0i0bldQXvsfOnUXGa4oeVoTP0roA&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0nqnorofzAhWTAN4KHYleC9gQ6AF6BAgqEAI#v=onepage&q=eogyrinus%20swim%20fast&f=false
9. ↑ http://scotdir.com/home/sciences-3/facts-about-the-extinct-eogyrinus
10. ↑ https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2637634
11. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/e/eogyrinus.html
12. ↑ https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Eogyrinus
Haast's Eagle

The largest Raptor in the games history, the Haast’s Eagle had the highest health, and power stats of any Raptor, as well as a surprisingly high stealth stat for its size, giving it dominance in the New Zealand Meta, during the Pleistocene expansion pack.

## Abilities

#### Talon Claw

The Haast's Eagle, just like all other raptor builds, specked into the talon claw ability. Unlike the Harpy claw ability the talons of the Haast's Eagle were not very large compared to the size of the raptor, but its 11 cm talons are outsized by the 13 cm talons of the Harpy Eagle but has thicker, more robust, and stronger talons than the Harpy Eagle thanks to its gigantism. The ability allowed the Haast's Eagle to deal devastating bleed damage on its opponents, and the crush damage caused often also caused a game over on its own.

#### Island Gigantism

The large size of the Haast's eagle, specked into thanks to the meta seclusion tree, allowed for an increase to stats across the board, other than stealth. The talon claw and gliding flight abilities were also extenuated, truly giving this Raptor S-tier status.

#### Eagle Eye

The eagle eye is ability is the strongest stealth debuff in the animal kingdom, allowing for an eagle build to spot a rabbit from 3.2 km away. As the eagle descends from the sky to attack its prey, the muscles in the eyes continuously adjust the curvature of the eyeballs to maintain sharp focus and accurate perception throughout the approach and attack, allowing for deadly accuracy. The addition of color vision in the New Zealand Grassland Meta is devastating for the prey of the Eagle.

#### Soaring Flight

This ability allows the Haast's eagle to fly for great distances, without needing to stop to recover stamina. This is great for the New Zealand Grassland biome as the eagle has more time to spot its prey while in the air.
Domestic Dog

The Domestic Dog is a domesticated wolf build known for being the best Human support build in the game, even surpassing the Domestic Cat. Due to it's usefulness for the Humans it's supporting, the Domestic Dog is considered to be in S tier. However, Humans like to give them the [Neuter] status effect, making the main questline impossible. Due to this lack of agency, they are placed in F Tier. For simplicity, the Domestic Dog is often referred to as simply, the Dog. This is not to be confused with the Dog guild as a whole.

## Abilities

### Good Boy

The base Dog build without leveling up or specializing already has access to the most powerful morale-boosting aura ever seen across any of the expansions or servers. This can completely nullify mental debuffs such as depression, stress, or loneliness and can affect any player, not just humans. This powerful ability is available immediately at the start of a Dog player's game and lasts for their entire playthrough. However, it actually has the opposite effect on players with the Cynophobia debuff.

### Other Abilities

Aside from their massive morale boost, higher level Dogs can also mitigate the Blindness debuff, crowd control, block attacks, grab targets to start team combos, track down loot, quest objectives, or players, intimidate intruders or aggressors, and many more incredible feats.

## Strategy

### Optimizing the Build

The most important thing for a Dog player to do is to try to unlock all the bonus specializations possible. Even though the base Dog build is already a powerhouse when it comes to it's abilities and base stats, to truly reach the upper limit of the build's potential, the player should try to unlock one of the prestige classes such as a hunting Dog, police Dog, or seeing-eye Dog.

### What to Avoid

One thing a Dog player should watch out for is to not play too many playthroughs as a moral support class. This can start to lead to the problem where Human players try to spec the Dog's build for the Dog player. A lot of times, they will put too many points into aesthetics, sometimes at the cost of the player's other stats. Other times they may even accidentally cause the aesthetics to roll over into a negative.
Hermit Crab

Base stats with maximum caps

Hermit Crab is a crustacean build that lacks a carapace or shell, with non-calcified abdominal exoskeleton but is able to wear various shell options. Almost all of them are aquatic but a handful of species are semi-terrestrial.

## Tier Placement

Like other Crustaceans, Hermit Crabs are at a big disadvantage with low terrestrial mobility and they do not fair well with birds. However, this build have all its base stats low and is an outlier to the notion of crustaceans having a great defense. They have long abdomen that has softer exoskeleton to help fit to various shells. Once they have equipped a nice shell, their defense jumps to one of the highest in the game. They tend to prefer snail shells. Its signature ability circumvents min-maxing using a great number of evolution points. It is able to switch between shells that have different patterns and colours to best blend into its environment - smooth, lightly-coloured for beach, dark and jagged for reefs. They can upgrade their shell further with sea anemones on it to deal venom damage. Low intelligence makes it hard for them to discern viability of shells. Hermit crabs sometimes hold shell trades.

Some hermit crabs team up with Bryozoa players instead. In exchange for greater mobility for bryozoan players, hermit crabs gain self-upgrading equipment, meaning that they do not need to search for a new one.

## Abilities

### Signature Ability - **Armor Scavenge**

* Allows it to boost its defense higher than its natural limitation through equipping different vacant shells

### Amphibious

* No movement or accuracy penalty in either land or water.

\*The Coconut Crab is a variation of hermit crabs with great crushing force and size and may drop armor scavenge ability at high level.

## Nerfed in Balance Patch

* Increasing Ocean acidification that dissolves shells partially - leading to the Snail player-base drop, increasing competition for hermit crabs.
* Plastic pollution - Plastic shells are inferior to calcium shells.
Lionfish

Lionfish are venomous marine bony fish builds known as Pterois. These builds have caused power creeps in several Ocean servers. There are 12 variants available.

## Overview

Lionfish have a great defense and power stat. The defense comes from its venomous spines, but besides venom, this build has no other good form of defense. The power is very high, as it needs it to one-shot builds. Lionfish have very high Intimidation, which it uses for its advantage to force their prey into the desired location to be attacked. Besides these stats, the other stats are not that good.

### Tactics

Lionfish are pack hunters but are able to hunt alone if needed. If alone the Lionfish will search for suitable prey hiding around rocks or coral. They will use their large fins and intimidation to scare the target back into the rocks, limiting their options.  The Lionfish will approach the target until it is close enough to attack, in which it uses its powerful jaws to suck up the prey.

If the Lionfish is pack hunting, then it will locate prey and drive it towards the other lionfish, and surround them. Cutting off all other escape options. When surrounded the Lionfish will start picking off the prey one by one, till theirs no prey left.

## Abilities and Skills

### Venomous Spine

The Lionfish's fins are covered in venomous spine, deadly enough to kill most predators.

### Large Pectoral Fins

Lionfish spent points to larger Pectoral Fins, this grants better control in water and higher intimidation, but drastically lowers its speed.

### Large Mouth

Lionfish have spent points into having a largemouth, this drastically increase the suction force, and allows it to grab a larger variety of prey.

### Water Jet

The Lionfish has spent points into the ability to shot a small Water Jet. If it hits another player smaller than itself, it will cause the [Confusion] Debuff.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. Good Power and Defense. This build is one of the few builds to use Elemental moves. Its [Venomous Spine] ability is very effective against many ganker builds. It has also been causing various powercreeps from various ocean servers. However, their defense can be counteracted by attacking this build head-first, many players in their native server found out, like Moray Eels, Groupers, and Cornetfish. And other are just immune like Bobbit Worms and Sharks. Besides their defense, they really have no other defense strategies. As they are very slow and their low stealth allows predators to easily target them.
Entelodont

Entelodonts were an even-hoofed, pig-like omnivore that was most viable during the late Paleogene and early Neogene expansions. They are also known as Hell Pigs or Terminator Pigs.

## Overview

Entelodonts had phenomenal stats with extremely high power and HP and Decent defense and mobility these builds were a force to be reckoned with. Their only downfalls are their mild intelligence and low stealth but Entelodonts didn't use stealth that much. They also had broken intimidation being able to scare off most builds. They were also omnivores giving them the ability to eat plants along with meat.

## Abilities

### Fangs

Entelodnts had sharp fangs similar to sabertooth cats that were great for piercing into other builds. They could also be used for intimidation

### Strong Jaw

Entelodonts also had very strong jaws which had the ability to crush bone

### High Stamina

Entelodonts had robust muscles like hyenas do today so they have high stamina

## Matchups

### Medium Herbivores

The Entelodon could completely counter medium herbivores like the Chalicothere builds with ease.

### Other Predators

Other predators like Hyaenodonts stayed away from Entelodonts as they could easily steal kills from them. However, if the other predators were in large enough parties, they could drive off an Entelodont.

### Paraceratherium

A raging Paraceratherium could possibly one-shot an Entelodont with a stomp attack.

## Tier Placement

These builds were the top build in the meta at the time. They had amazing stats and could counter most builds in the game. So they are worthy of high S tier. They were banned due to more droughts and competition with other predators, like the Bear Dog build, alongside the cold weather with the coming Ice Age.