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The Old-Evolution-Mind control fungus!

Counter-Evolution-No mind control fungus!

[Derekristow]

F5 v2: Second mouth at rear of creature specifically for waste.  Should be good enough for now.

Wait, maybe we can use it as is.  Could this function as some sort of a highly disturbing smokescreen?

[Armok]

Shouldn't Hive mind and Parasite also be listed as castes?

[breadbocks]

Wait, maybe we can use it as is.  Could this function as some sort of a highly disturbing smokescreen?

OH HELL YES!

This in so many ways.

[Lillipad]

Send the hunter, and 5 of your drones out to hunt. Send 10 drones out to discover new species.
Send the Nautilus out to gather nearby food for you. Have your 5 armored fish stay to guard you.

[omagaalpha]

Send the hunter, and 5 of your drones out to hunt. Send 10 drones out to discover new species.
Send the Nautilus out to gather nearby food for you. Have your 5 armored fish stay to guard you.

This sounds good.

[USEC_OFFICER]

You send your hunter and five of your drones to hunt. 10 drones search for new species to infect, while the Nautilus goes off by itself for food. And of course, the five guards stay nearby, incase you need them.

The hunters come back with 10 chucks of dead fish, not nearly enough to feed everyone. Luckily, the nautilus comes back with six dead bodies, so that helps.

The ten fish haven't found any new species. Thankfully, they don't bring anymore infected fishes, to aggrivate your food supply.

Hive:
Hive-mind: 1 (You)
Infected fishes: 21 (Five armoured)
Infected Nautilus: 1
Hunters: 1

Materials:
Food: 8 (Food needed: 24)

Spoiler: DNA Library (click to show/hide)

Mind-control fungus:
Leaves
Brains (Chemical/electrical)
Reproductive chemicals
Fungus body
Roots
Stomach

Fish:
Skeleton
Jaw
Tail
Muscle
Eyes
Stomach
Gills
Intestines
Reproductive parts.
Armour plating

Nautilus:
Tentacles
Pin-hole eyes
Buoyancy bladders (Have fun with those)
Hyponome (What allows jet propulsion)
Shell
Radula (Aka, its mouth)

Spoiler: Castes (click to show/hide)

Hunter:
The form of an armoured fish, with tentacles and leaves and a hyponom. It has no eyes with which to see, instead relying on its sense of smell. Mind you, it also has to vomit to expel wastes.

[Evergod41]

Give ourself a circulatory system for which we can grow larger than a cell tall...

[Lillipad]

Since we can just assume we'll be doing this for a while can we do a time skip to whenever our food reaches the next growth point/a new species is discovered? Also change it to 10 drones + hunter searching for food, while 5 drones look for new species, and the Nautilus can still go do its own thing.

Side note; The next time we can evolve the hunter we should completely remove the eye sockets. We should also give it intestines, and an ink bladder so it doesn't have to give up its smokescreen. We'll have it evolve into sight once we reach land.

[Fortis]

We gotta do something about the food situation. Eventually, the hunter/gatherer drones are going to deplete the area of it's food resources, leaving the hive to starve if it can't make it's own. Maybe we should make a class that focuses on doing photosynthesis and making sugars and nutrients for all the members of the hive mind, maybe in the form of some sort of nectar or such.

[kilakan]

or we could have a filter feeder/plant-like class that produces energy and food which can be moved to other drones like ants.

[breadbocks]

Send all  but your guards out for food.

[FuzzyZergling]

We gotta do something about the food situation. Eventually, the hunter/gatherer drones are going to deplete the area of it's food resources, leaving the hive to starve if it can't make it's own. Maybe we should make a class that focuses on doing photosynthesis and making sugars and nutrients for all the members of the hive mind, maybe in the form of some sort of nectar or such.

The Hive photosynthesis its own food, but converting some of the fishdrones into Hive-like structures would lessen our food costs.

[Argonnek]

I think we should expand the hive mind stage. First, with a simple circulatory system, and later with super-expansion abilities. We will coat the sea with green!

If this happens, we can then create long, kelp-like communication tentacles that passively communicate orders to all of our horde.

I dream big.

[Lillipad]

I think we should expand the hive mind stage. First, with a simple circulatory system, and later with super-expansion abilities. We will coat the sea with green!

If this happens, we can then create long, kelp-like communication tentacles that passively communicate orders to all of our horde.

I dream big.

We're eventually going to have to leave the sea you know?

[USEC_OFFICER]

You ponder about your food situation. Sure, you could keep on hunting, but there will be a time when you'll run out of food, right? You decide to evolve once more, to find a way to solve this problem.

You can specialize one more cell/create one more organ. You can improve 6 cells/organs.