I’m not the only one who thinks the wildlife is hugely undercooked, am I?

It is really kinda pointless it feels sometimes trying to populate a world with anything that’s not a sapient race. Like fill a world full of buffalo and think they’ll start a sustainable population but they don’t.

That’s my first complaint, breeding between animals is way, way too finicky. The only semi-reliable way to make a baby animal in most people’s experiences are to disable hunger and place them on an isolated pixel, THAT’S how picky it is when two animals will breed or not, and it makes it so you have to pretty much spawn them by hand if they start to deplete.

My second major complaint is that carnivores (and exceptions like the Rhinoceros) are way too aggressive, which just results in them getting killed off very early on because they will charge first towards the nearest settlement instead of hunting anything. The only way you can have them survive is completely locking them away from human contact so they won’t rush to their deaths the moment they exist.

And thirdly, least important because the first two are so bad off that anything that gives humans an even easier time winding up as the only species… Humans interact way too little with wildlife. Having the savage trait be the only way for a civilization to get leather and bones is really bizarre because like, leather and bones are used A LOT even in the modern age, there’s nothing savage or primitive about it. Humans should be able to hunt, gather eggs and milk from different kinds of animals and actually farm them instead of mostly ignoring their existence.