Ex Nihilo Fauna Coming soon

Fourteen creatures that make a sky world feel alive. Seven pests that get in the way of your work, and seven friends that help with it.

Creatures#

Creature	Type	Where it spawns	What it does
Crow	Pest	By day on dirt, farmland or leaves under open sky	Lands on farms and eats grown crops back to seedlings, sometimes trampling the farmland. Keeps clear of fields a scarecrow watches.
Ember Newt	Pest	Near lava in the dark, and in the Nether	A fireproof lizard that sets wooden things alight: logs, planks, barrels, sieves. Water and rain hurt it.
Void Wisp	Pest	At night in pitch dark, over the void	Drifts up from under the island and shoves players toward the nearest drop. Light keeps it away, so a torch-lit edge is safe.
Silk Moth	Pest	At night near leaves, in the dark	Hatches from infested leaves and infests other trees. Nibbles dropped saplings into string, but never the last one. Shears catch it for string and a silkworm.
Sieve Mite	Pest	Very rarely from blocks being sifted	Hops along your sieves knocking blocks off their meshes. One hit kills it, and it may drop an extra ore piece.
Pebble Imp	Pest	Pops out of cobblestone being hammered	Throws pebbles. They barely hurt, but the knockback is dangerous near the edge.
Brine Crab	Pest	In and around brine pools	Nips players who come close and walks off with a stack from a strainer. Kill it to get the stack back.
Firefly	Friend	At night around trees	Drifts and glows near where it appeared. Catch one with a glass bottle for a firefly jar.
Pollen Beetle	Friend	By day near leaves	Buzzes from fruit to fruit; every fruit it visits ripens a stage.
Hermit Crab	Friend	On sand by brine or water	Pulls into its shell when hurt or approached (sneak to get close). Every 15 to 25 minutes it outgrows its shell and leaves a nautilus shell behind.
Sapling Sprite	Friend	On dirt near trees	Picks up saplings lying on the ground and plants them on free dirt or grass nearby, two blocks clear of other trees.
Leaf Snail	Friend	On leaves or dirt while it rains	Leaves a slime trail now and then. Scrape the trail up for slime balls: the only early slime a sky world has.
Root Mole	Friend	On dirt and grass	Every few minutes stops to dig and turns up a small find: a seed, a pebble, a root or a bone.
Songbird	Friend	By day in trees	Perches and sings, and snaps up Silk Moths and Sieve Mites that come near its tree.

Grace period#

Pests never spawn naturally near a player who is still in their first forty minutes, so a new island gets a calm start. The length is in the config.

Blocks#

• Firefly Jar: a firefly caught in a glass bottle. A soft light source.
• Slime Trail: left by Leaf Snails. Scrape it up for slime balls.

Config#

Settings live in config/exnihilofauna.json. Spawn weights and group sizes are read at startup, so restart after changing them.