Ursine

“ "So the humans died, what's the worry? Now they won't ruin the woods." ”

Another slow-moving melee tank. Exists mostly as an excuse to add the hibernation mutation.

The threshold mutation of this category is called Bear ingame.

Traits

Bad Temper BADTEMPER Possible Starting Trait LIZARD URSINE CHIMERA

Cancels: Optimist Point cost: -2

"Things just keep getting you down. You tend to be unhappy, and it takes some doing to cheer you up."

Normal Mutations

Ursine Vision URSINE_EYE URSINE

Cancels: Fey Eyes, Reptilian Eyes, Avian Eyes, Feline Eyes, Compound Eyes, Night Vision, High Night Vision, Full Night Vision, Near-Sighted Point cost: 1

"Your visual processing has shifted: though you can see better in the dark, you're nearsighted in the light. Maybe glasses would help. Activate to toggle NV-visible areas on or off."

Shaggy Fur URSINE_FUR URSINE

Requires: Lightly Furred Cancels: Rough Skin, Scales, Thick Scales, Sleek Scales, Feathers, Down, Lightly Furred, Furry, Gray Fur, Sleek Fur, Lynx Fur, Chitinous Skin, Chitinous Armor, Chitinous Plate, Hairy Chitin, Furred Chitin, Furred Plate, Phelloderm, Bark Point cost: 4 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3

"Your fur has grown out and thickened, providing noticeable protection from attacks as well as considerable insulation."

Claws CLAWS BEAST URSINE RAT

Requires: Long Fingernails Cancels: Tentacle Arms, 4 Tentacles, 8 Tentacles, Long Fingernails, Rat Claws, Stainless Claws, Retractable Claws, Large Talons Changes to: Retractable Claws, Rat Claws Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 2

"You have claws on the ends of your fingers. If you aren't wearing gloves, your unarmed attacks deal a minor amount of cutting damage."

Padded Feet PADDED_FEET BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE

Cancels: Toe Talons, Hooves, Roots, Rooter, Chloromorphosis, Leg Tentacles Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 1

"The bottoms of your feet are strongly padded. You receive no movement penalty for not wearing shoes, and even receive a 10% bonus when moving barefoot."

Stubby Tail TAIL_STUB URSINE

Cancels: Tail Fin, Long Tail, Cattle Tail, Rodent Tail, Thick Tail, Raptor Tail, Fluffy Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail Changes to: Long Tail, Thick Tail, Tail Fin, Rodent Tail, Raptor Tail Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 2

"You have a short, stubby tail, like a rabbit's. It serves no purpose."

Ursine Ears URSINE_EARS URSINE

Cancels: Canine Ears, Lupine Ears, Feline Ears, Pointed Ears, Rodent Ears Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 1

"Your ears have grown longer and rounder, much like those of a bear. You can hear things a little farther away."

Fat Deposits FAT URSINE

Requires: Strong, Very Strong, Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong Leads to: Hibernation Point cost: -1 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 1

"You've put on some additional weight around your body. It slows you down a little, but helps your swimming and warmth."

Inconveniently Large LARGE LIZARD URSINE CATTLE

Requires: Strong, Very Strong, Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong Cancels: Little, Tiny Changes to: Large, Freakishly Huge Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 1 / Ugliness: 1

"You have grown noticeably taller and broader. Much of it is useful muscle mass (Strength +2), but you find it throws off your balance and you get in your own way (+10 torso and arm encumbrance)."

Freakishly Huge HUGE URSINE CATTLE

Requires: Inconveniently Large, Large Additional requirement: Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong Cancels: Little, Tiny Changes to: Huge Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 4

"You have grown even more massive, to the point where you cannot usefully fit into human-sized clothing or vehicles. Much of it is powerful muscle mass (Strength +4), but it's a real pain to haul around."

Smelly SMELLY2 FISH BEAST URSINE SLIME CHIMERA

Requires: Strong Scent Leads to: Insect Pheromones, Mammal Pheromones Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 5

"You smell awful. Monsters that track scent will find you very easily, and humans will react poorly."

Badly Deformed DEFORMED2 BEAST URSINE PLANT

Requires: Deformed Cancels: Pretty, Beautiful, Very Beautiful, Glorious Changes to: Grotesque Point cost: -3 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 7

"You're hideously deformed. Some people will have a strong negative reaction to your appearance."

Ursine Muzzle MUZZLE_BEAR URSINE

Requires: Snout Cancels: Mandibles, Folding Fangs, Bovine Snout, Lupine Muzzle, Rodent Muzzle, Reptilian Muzzle, Proboscis, Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Hummingbird Beak Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 4

"Your jaw and nose have extended into a bearish muzzle. You could bite with it, and it looks impressive, but it prevents wearing mouthgear."

Broad Paws PAWS_LARGE BEAST URSINE

Requires: Paws Cancels: Large Talons, Paws, Insect Limbs, Insect Arms, Arachnid Limbs, Arachnid Arms, Tentacle Arms, 4 Tentacles, 8 Tentacles Point cost: -4 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 3

"Your paws are much larger now. Manual dexterity is difficult: permanent hand encumbrance of 20, serious problems crafting, and no gloves. But you can swim more effectively."

Ponderous PONDEROUS1 URSINE

Cancels: Fleet-Footed, Slow Footed, Road-Runner, Very Ponderous, Extremely Ponderous Changes to: Very Ponderous Point cost: -3

"Your muscles are generally slow to move. You move 10% slower."

Growling Voice GROWL LUPINE URSINE RAT

Changes to: Snarling Voice Point cost: -1

"You have a growling, rough voice. Persuading NPCs will be more difficult, but threatening them will be easier."

Post-threshold mutations

Hibernation HIBERNATE Targeted Mutation Only Threshold Mutation URSINE

Requires: Very Heavy Sleeper Additional requirement: Fat Deposits Point cost: 3

"You've developed the ability to stockpile calories and then sleep for extended periods of time."

Resilient MUT_TOUGH Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST URSINE CATTLE MEDICAL CHIMERA

Requires: Large, Huge, Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong, Pain Junkie Cancels: Flimsy, Frail, Fragile, Glass Jaw Changes to: Solidly Built Point cost: 2

"You can survive injuries that would incapacitate humans: you get a 20% bonus to all hit points. Stacks with Tough, etc."

Solidly Built MUT_TOUGH2 Targeted Mutation Only Threshold Mutation URSINE CATTLE MEDICAL CHIMERA

Requires: Resilient Cancels: Flimsy, Frail, Fragile, Glass Jaw Changes to: TAAANK Point cost: 3

"Not much scares you. You get a 30% bonus to all hit points. Stacks with Tough, etc."

TAAANK MUT_TOUGH3 Targeted Mutation Only Threshold Mutation URSINE CATTLE

Requires: Solidly Built Cancels: Flimsy, Frail, Fragile, Glass Jaw Point cost: 4

"You can simply take the punishment from lesser beings and keep going. You get a 40% bonus to all hit points. Stacks with Tough, etc."

Culler PRED1 Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR

Requires: Carnivore, Bear Cancels: Pacifist Changes to: Hunter Point cost: 2

"You've had a revelation: by killing the weaker creatures, who would only die anyway, you preserve resources for those better able to survive. You are less bothered by the deaths of others: their own weakness invited these fates upon them."

Hunter PRED2 Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR

Requires: Carnivore, Bear Additional requirement: Culler Cancels: Pacifist Changes to: Predator Point cost: 3

"Your brain has a lot more in common with a predatory animal than a human, making it easier to control misplaced reactions to the death of your prey. Additionally, combat skills, which you use to hunt, are easier to learn and maintain."

Predator PRED3 Targeted Mutation Only Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR

Requires: Carnivore, Bear Additional requirement: Hunter Cancels: Pacifist Changes to: Apex Predator Leads to: Sapiovore Point cost: 3

"You consider yourself something other than human and no longer empathize with them. Combat skills are easy to learn and maintain, but your critical thinking, so characteristic to these creatures, suffers."

Apex Predator PRED4 Targeted Mutation Only Not purifiable Threshold Mutation BEAST URSINE CHIMERA RAPTOR

Requires: Carnivore, Bear Additional requirement: Predator Cancels: Pacifist Point cost: 2

"Your mind and brain have adapted to your new place in the world: as one on top of the food chain. You can effortlessly master and maintain combat skills, but your critical thinking has atrophied further."

Sapiovore SAPIOVORE Targeted Mutation Only Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR

Requires: Carnivore Additional requirement: Predator, Apex Predator Point cost: 1

"The hairless apes make as good eating as any other meat."

Large LARGE_OK Threshold Mutation LIZARD URSINE CATTLE

Requires: Inconveniently Large Additional requirement: Strong, Very Strong, Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong Cancels: Little, Tiny Changes to: Freakishly Huge Leads to: Resilient Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 1

"You carry your rugged body with the dignity you deserve. Strength +2."

Huge HUGE_OK Threshold Mutation URSINE CATTLE

Requires: Freakishly Huge Additional requirement: Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong Cancels: Little, Tiny Leads to: Resilient Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 3

"Your cardiovascular system has caught up with your muscular physique, so who needs pathetic human cars? Strength +4."

Insanely Strong STR_UP_4 Threshold Mutation BEAST URSINE

Requires: Extremely Strong Leads to: Resilient Point cost: 7 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 2

"Your muscles are noticeably bulging. Strength + 7"