Preparing for new animals about exile HOT 2 OPEN

My ideas:
Some kind of large tortoise/other reptile that is herbivorous, found semi-rarely in grasslands in groups of 3-5. These would have a hard shell and can kick or bite you very hard, so hard to hunt unprepared, probably better with a sling since, and the shell would have uses e.g. armor. They would eat a lot of grass, and wander the grasslands in search of it. They could be made tame and controlled, used for the meat and shells, but would require a mobile lifestyle.

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Some Possible new animals:

To fill gameplay gaps:

• A large dangerous herding/hunting animal: e.g Aurochs (someone did one somewhere. Gundul, mobkit?). This looked impressive. I like that it's not "out to get you" but you need to be careful or it will stampede. Potential for domestication, carrying loads.
• A small agile herding/hunting animal: choose your strategy between the two.
• Riding animal: something to fill the role of a horse (but not necessarily an actual horse).
• Small companion animal: something cute and harmless that you just want to have as a pet.
• Large companion animal: something to fill the role of hunting dog (but not necessarily an actual dog).
• small dangerous critter: e.g. like a scorpion, poisonous snake. Kubwakubwa almost fill this role right now. Something that makes you cautious, but isn't actively hunting you down like a large carnivore might.
• Large carnivore: spawning handled by events. Hunts the large herd animals. I suspect things that come out of the sky or deep ocean will be easier to handle spawning e.g. a giant eagle, a giant amphibian??

To fill world building gaps:

• Some flying insects/birds: e.g. Dragonfly. We have a sky, might as well use it.
• Songbird: for aesthetics. I'd like to have a dawn chorus. I think it would add a special touch.
• Fruit/nut eaters: ecologically something would be distributing those seeds
• Pollinators: e.g. butterflies (same reason as above). Bees and honey.
• insectivores: we have a lot of grubs. Something to eat them will keep numbers down.

Just becuase it might be fun:

• Ants/termites: Could do actual swarm intelligence, but typically needs excessively large numbers to work well.
• something freakin weird??: To create the feeling that "Anything is possible here".

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