Biomes

Formation of Habitats and Biomes[]

A Habitat is formed in the Mapmaker with the use of ‘Habitat Flairs’ found on the ‘Habitats’ layer. To make a Habitat, a mapmaker will first highlight an area he/she wants with a rectangle, and then tick on the checkboxes that contains the habitat flairs (you can choose more than one). There are six habitat flairs in total: Cold, Warm, Shallow, Deep, Fresh, Salt; which are further divided into three classes: Temperature Flairs (Cold, Warm), Pressure Flairs (Shallow, Deep) and Salinity Flairs (Fresh, Salt). A biome is a Habitat that have the habitat flairs set by the mapmaker groups.

List of Biomes[]

Below shows the list of biomes in most maps, along with their respective habitat flairs and some brief information (Note, individual pages for all biomes and habitat flairs should be added, they must contain the animals that can live in them). There are currently four main biomes (Arctic, Ocean, Swamp and Deeeep) and many sub-biomes such as Reef.

Biome Table
Base Biomes Name	Image	Habitat Flairs Used
Cold Swamp		Cold, Salt/Fresh, Shallow
Arctic		Cold, Salt, Shallow
Kelp Forest		Cold/Warm, Salt, Shallow
Open Ocean		Warm, Salt, Shallow
Reef		Warm, Salt, Shallow
Estuary		Warm, Salt/Fresh, Shallow
Swamp		Warm, Fresh, Shallow
Deeeep (Cold Swamp)		Cold, Salt/Fresh, Shallow/Deep
Deeeep (Arctic)		Cold, Salt, Deep
Deeeep (Kelp Forest)		Cold/Warm, Salt, Deep
Deeeep (Ocean/Reef)		Warm, Salt, Deep
Deeeep (Estuary)		Warm, Salt/Fresh, Shallow/Deep
Deeeep (Swamp)		Warm, Fresh, Shallow/Deep
PD and 1v1 maps		Cold/Warm, Shallow/Deep, Fresh/Salt
Volcano, Lava and Salt Lakes

Extended Biome Table
Gamemodes	Biome Category		Biome Name	Habibat Flairs
				Temperature		Pressure		Salinity		Other (Without status bar effect)
				Cold	Warm	Shallow	Deep	Fresh	Salt	Reef
FFA, TFFA, TA, Custom Servers	Cold Swamp		Cold Swamp	✓		✓		✓	✓
	Cold Swamp		Deeeep Cold Swamp	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓
	Arctic		Arctic	✓		✓			✓
			Semi-Deeeep Arctic	✓		✓	✓		✓
			Deeeep Arctic	✓			✓		✓
	Kelp Forest		Kelp Forest	✓	✓	✓			✓
			Semi-Deeeep Kelp Forest	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
			Deeeep Kelp Forest	✓	✓		✓		✓
	Ocean	Open Ocean	Ocean		✓	✓			✓
			Semi-Deeeep Ocean		✓	✓	✓		✓
			Deeeep Ocean		✓		✓		✓
		Reef	Reef		✓	✓			✓	✓
			Semi-Deeeep Reef		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
			Deeeep Reef		✓		✓		✓	✓
	Estuary		Estuary		✓	✓		✓	✓
	Estuary		Deeeep Estuary		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
	Swamp		Swamp		✓	✓		✓
	Swamp		Deeeep Swamp		✓	✓	✓	✓
	Other	Only in Deeeep	Volcano/Lava Lakes/Salt Lakes
PD, 1v1, Custom Servers		Only in Custom Servers	Space
PD, 1v1, Custom Servers		Only in Pearl Defence, 1 vs 1 and Custom Servers	PD, 1v1 and Custom maps	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Biome Afflictions[]

Each Animal has its own suitable habitat to live in, which can be a few out of the following: Cold, Warm, Shallow, Deep, Fresh, Salt, Reef. For a Habitat to be suitable for an animal to live in, at least one flair out of each habitat flair class has to be the Animal’s suitable habitats. If not, the animal’s status bar (either Temperature, Pressure or Salinity, Oxygen doesn’t count here since it’s not affected by biomes but by Water and Air) will slowly deplete and the animal will eventually take damage and die. The status bar deplete is determined by the habitat class that didn’t achieve the requirements (i.e. A swamp animal’s Salinity Bar will deplete if it enters a biome without the flair ‘Fresh’). The 'Reef' Suitable Habitat is the only one that doesn't effect an Animal's status bars; instead, Animals with this flair has immunity against Slowing Corals. Blobfish (Previously also Firefly Squid, Squid skin and the upcoming Flashlight Fish pet) changed their appearance depending on whether the animal was in shallow or deep.

Gallery[]

Materials Needed: 1. An animal with a draining Salinity Bar 2. An animal with a draining Temperature Bar 3. An animal with a draining Pressure Bar 4. An animal died of Pressure 5. An animal died of Salinity 6. An animal died of Temperature 7. Reef animal (Clownfish or Lionfish) passing through a Slowing Coral