The Sapling
Wessel Stoop Developer
Wessel Stoop Publisher
2019-12-12 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(1442 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:- The Sapling Linux [149.82 M]
Patch v12.34Fixing bugs that show up in long running simulations
- Fixed a gamebreaking problem that could emerge with hormone instincts after an animal lost a hormone
- Fixed a save file corrupting problem related to saving instincts and diets for the non-default sex
- Removed various log messages slowing down the simulation when sped up
Balancing plant evolution from algae
- Areas automatically get their nutrients filled up by nearby water, so in these areas plants can evolve without the need for fungi
- Added more random variation to the 'starter plant' that evolves from algae
- Fixed a problem where the shown statistics of the stilt (mangrove) roots didn't match its statistics in the simulation, leading to plants not growing in 'high moisture, max softness' areas
Fixes for the daily challenge
- The daily challenge now uses a less extreme variant of the planet generator, to prevent planets that are too hot or windy for starter organisms
- Medium moisture is now the default planet setting (instead of maximum)
- Fixed seed selection mechanic, so it should no longer be possible to get the exact same daily challenge two days in a row
- Fixed bugs that caused the daily challenge to not always lock for the day after trying
- Fixed 'animals that change sex during lifetime' objective not registering
- Time is now paused until you click 'let's go'
Various changes to the animal editor
- Sleep pattern buttons are now greyed out for the smallest body size, because their lifespans are so short that they will die before they get tired
- Dropped support for multiplacement mode (CTRL)
Performance optimization
- Hearts to indicate mating now only appear when the animal is somewhat close to the camera
- Zzz to indicate sleeping now only appear when the animal is close to the camera
- Merged all colored spheres for the flypaper trap into 1 object, so they no longer have a measurable impact on performance (fewer draw calls)
Other changes
- Fixed a bug where opening the detail view for multiple species in quick succession caused their names to be mixed up
I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or thesaplinggame@gmail.com.
[ 2025-01-18 07:09:48 CET ] [ Original post ] The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Features
- Design plants and animals.
- Fast-forward time to and watch the ecosystem work like a charm or slowly fall apart (probably the latter :) ).
- A sandbox mode where you can skip time and turn on random mutation, allowing true evolution.
- An instinct system where you can specify what an animal should do when it hears or sees something.
- A procedural animation system so any animal can perform any animation.
- Procedural music mixed on the fly.
- Everything set up to be easily extended by players.
This looks just like Spore!
Wessel Stoop has wanted to play a simulation game where you can build your own plants and animals, put them in a world, and see what happens since 2002. You can imagine his excitement when Will Wright, the father of simulation games, demoed his latest game Spore to an enthusiastic crowd. When Spore turned out to be all game genres except simulation, Wessel decided he wanted to try to make the game by himself. The Sapling is the result of that attempt.
MINIMAL SETUP- OS: Ubuntu 16 or newer
- Processor: A processor with SSE2 instruction set supportMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.
- Storage: 150 MB available space
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