Environment

The environment in Creatures of Sonaria is majorly characterized by Seasons, Weather, and Natural Disasters.

Seasons

There are currently eight (seven in legacy mode) "seasons" in-game: Summer, Autumn (Legacy) / Fall (Recode), Winter, Spring, Famine, Cherry Blossom (Legacy) / Sakura (Recode), Drought, and Mythic (recode-only).

On Legacy, each season lasts 12 minutes and go in order Spring > Summer > Autumn > Winter; with Cherry Blossom, Drought and Famine replacing Spring, Summer and Winter sometimes, respectively. Servers always start on one season, but they are not synced, meaning each server could have a different season.
On Recode, each season lasts 15 minutes and follows a set order; Mythic > Spring > Summer > Drought > Fall > Famine > Sakura > Winter, repeating. All servers running the game all share the same season simultaneously.
- When a full season cycle ends, a new year has passed. As of the 10^th January 2024 update, an official in-game Calendar exists, divided on Eras, Years and Seasons.
  - Eras follow Roman numerals and are named according to the Warden's lore names. Eras are counted from the time Sonaria (both lore-wise and in-real-life) was created, and, unless told otherwise, all eras last 365 real-life days and their beginning and end do not mark anything beyond Sonaria's anniversary, nor any lore-related events. There are as many Era names as Wardens, with their names being in the following order and looping once the sequence ends:
    - Era I - "Qhualhul".
    - Era II - "Zohutek".
    - Era III - "Farhaus".
    - Era IV - "Nukzeh".
    - Era V - "Mors'vuhk". At 10^th January 2024 update, the current Era is Era V, the Era of Mors'vuhk.
    - Era VI - "Omnibus".
    - Era VII - "Serphelius".
    - Era VIII - "Malveathian".
  - Years are also used to measure how long has a creature been living without dying or menuing.

Mythic

Mythic is a recode-only season, and the starting season when all servers are initialized, but there's no one synced yet. During mythic season, the air takes on a purple/light blue hue and many objects take a similar tint, noticeable from tree leaves, bushes, and even the stone and sands in the mesa and desert.

Side Effects:

Rare Warden's Nebula weather condition can appear.
Food spawn multiplier remains 1.0x
Applies Mythic Boost:
- Causes creatures to age 10% faster than normal.

Spring

In spring, the plants transition to a light green/green hue.

On legacy, spring is the starting season for all initialized servers.

Side Effects:

Spring alters the amount of food:
- On Legacy, the amount per newly-spawned plant is 150% of its original.
- On Recode, the multiplier is 125%.
On Legacy, herbivores and photovores grow twice faster.

Summer

When summer begins, plants transition to a dark green/green hue. There are currently no creature buffs or debuffs for summer.

On Legacy, a volcanic eruption is guaranteed to occur after eight summers. It is not yet known if that's the case with Recode as well.

Side Effects:

Summer alters the amount of food:
- On Legacy, makes the amount of food per newly-spawned plant 135% of its original.
- On Recode, the multiplier is 1.15x.

Autumn

Autumn's is legacy's version of Fall. At the beginning of Autumn, plants transition to a yellow or orange/red hue; wind and air drafts are more common, beneficial for fliers to boost while flying. There are currently no creature debuffs for autumn.

Side Effects:

Autumn makes the amount of food per newly-spawned plant 85% of its original.
If you nest a player at night as a flier during this season or Winter, you will unlock the Astrothi in Gachas.

Fall

Fall is Recode's equivalent of Autumn, but with so-slightly differences. At the beginning of Fall, plants transition to a yellow or orange/red hue.

Side Effects:

Plants transition to a yellow or orange/red hue.
Fall makes the amount of food per newly-spawned plant 85% of its original.
There are currently no creature debuffs for fall.

Winter

In winter, the grass and plants transition to a white hue. Glaciers and ice appear in water as a solid surface. The edges of a player's screen turn into white clusters of spots to simulate the effect of cold weather.

Side Effects:

Food amount gets modified by:
- Legacy: only bushes and by 0.70x
- Recode: All kinds of food, by 0.80x.
During the winter season in legacy, ice bridges around the world will connect landmasses, allowing grounded creatures to take shortcuts.
On Recode, frostbite effect is applied, AND there's a chance that sometimes Snow effects and Freeze status may apply to creatures, regardless of having Frosty status or not, albeit it's possible Frosty negates its effects.
- Frostbite effect from this season deals the following:
  - Hunger depletion 10% faster.
  - -25% stamina regeneration.
  - 8% longer bite cooldown. This one varies the more frostbite there is.
On Legacy, the longer a player stays outside of shelter during winter, the more debuffs they will experience over time. Winter debuff status effects will not go away until a player gets to shelter, and can only recover from winter debuffs by remaining in shelter until they are completely gone. A Winter creature cannot get the current cold effect debuff, but it has been known that somehow Winter creatures as well as fully sheltered creatures might get (probably due to a bug) the simpler, older debuff that preceded the current one, which was just decreasing walk speed.
On Legacy, if a player enters water during the season, the player receives "hypothermia" damage while swimming in water unless they are an aquatic, semi-aquatic, all-terrain or Winter creature. Do not confuse with Hypothermic debuff, since hypothermia damage only lasts as long as you remain underwater and deals damage much faster.
On Legacy only, if you nest a player at night as a flier during this season or Autumn, you will unlock the Astrothi in Gachas.

Winter Side Effects (Legacy)
Name	Range	Effects
Cold	[0-10]	Decreases walk and run speed by 10%. Stomach drains 10% faster.
Frostbite	(10, 20]	Decreases walk and run speed by 15%. Stomach drains 25% faster. Decreases stamina regeneration by 20%.
Hypothermia	20 and above	Decreases walk and run speed by 20%. Stomach drains 30% faster. Decreases stamina regeneration by 50%. Deals 0.25% of your max health in damage every second.

Cherry Blossom

Cherry Blossom is legacy's equivalent of Sakura, and has a 10% chance of replacing Spring. As such, it is a rare-occurring season. During this season, plants and terrain adjust to a light pink hue.

Side Effects:

Saukuryn's Secondary Color Palette can only be obtained during Sakura season.
There are currently no creature buffs or debuffs for Cherry Blossom.
Bush food amount gets modified by 1.15x.
Sweet Explorer Tokens will spawn.

Sakura

During Sakura season, plants and terrain adjust to a light pink hue. This season is known as Cherry Blossom in Legacy mode. Unlike legacy, it's far more common.

Side Effects:

There are currently no creature buffs or debuffs for Sakura season.
Food amount gets modified by 1.15x.
Sweet Explorer Tokens may spawn.

Famine

During a famine, plants begin to deteriorate, food resources deplete, and carcasses rot quicker. In Legacy, foliage takes on a brown hue, and in Recode, they become dark teal.

On Legacy, famine has a 10% chance of replacing Winter. Famine is deemed to be a rare occurrence among the other seasons. Like winter, if a player enters water during famine, the player receives hypothermia damage while swimming in water unless they are an aquatic, semi-aquatic, all-terrain or Winter creature, and inflicts the cold, freezing and hypothermic conditions while not sheltered, albeit both on a lesser degree (less damage and speed, respectively).

Side Effects:

Famine alters the amount of food:
- On Legacy, makes the amount of food per newly-spawned plant 50% of its original.
- On Recode, the multiplier is 0.8x.
Winter debuffs, albeit at a lower rate (cold is gained slower) on legacy, or reduced level/practically non-existent in Recode.
Monster Exploration Tokens will spawn.

Drought

During drought in Legacy, the plants transition to a red/purplish grey hue. In Recode, plants become a pale green. The effects of this season in Legacy, and possibly Recode, are:

Side Effects:

Causes thirst to drain 10% faster.
Adds 2 stages toward the Volcano disaster event.
Photocarnivores gain a boosted growth rate of 8% (growing from Child to Adult).
Monster Exploration Tokens will spawn.

In both legacy and recode, it seems the amount of food is kept at nominal levels (x1.0)

Weather

Basic and more specific weather (and other temporary patterns) occur at different times, and may have side effects. All weather types last approximately 5 minutes.

Acid Rain

An Acid Rain is a recode-only extreme weather pattern, which, as the name suggests, will make green rain visual effect particles appear, and will give an Acid Rain status. Such acid rain status will cause a 3% HP damage per tick, and will deal 2 poison status per tick, unless the creature is sheltered.

Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis is a recode-only pattern that imitates real-life aurora borealis and aurora australis on the sky, often at night. Interestingly enough, during Winter Event 2024-2025, aurora borealis' effect could also happen anytime without the game actually indicating it was the actual pattern on the weather area (with other weather patterns happening at the same time).

Side Effects:

None.

Blizzard

Blizzards are a recode-only specific extreme cold weather pattern that only happens during Winter and Famine.

Side Effects:

Blizzards causes hypothermia status effect, inflicting a stamina debuff of -98% and health depletion in different measures (sometimes being up to 194%!). Laying down nullifies the health decline, but stamina will not recover until the blizzard ends.

Blossoming

Blossoming is legacy's version of flowering, and only occurs during the Cherry Blossom season, when there are random bursts of pinkish or whitish leaves near trees and other pinkish plants.

Side Effects:

None.

Blue Moon

A Blue Moon is a recode-only weather (it is not an active disaster, as change weather can stop a blue moon) which can theoretically only happen at night (in practice, it happens also at day), unlike the Blood Moon, it gives mostly "positive" effects for healing and recovering stamina through the Blue Moon status, which grants +50% Health Regeneration & Stamina Regeneration, along with -50% Damage. The event is accompanied by a visual Blue Moon in the sky, as well as faint misty cloud-like effects.

There is not currently a known way to guarantee a Blue Moon, unlike the Blood Moon which has a token to summon it, but can be summoned by the Change Weather ability.

Clear Skies

Basic, common weather with no effects at all and may occur during any season.

This weather can be activated with a 10% chance by using the Weather Change ability when the weather is either Rain or Snow.

Side Effects:

None.

Cloudy

Basic, common weather with no effects at all and may occur during any season in Recode. There are extra clouds in the sky.

Side Effects:

None.

Flowering

Flowering is recode's version of blossoming and occurs during the Sakura, Spring, Summer, and Winter seasons, when random bursts of pinkish or whitish leaves near trees and other pinkish plants happen. When this weather begins, the screen will gain a green tint for a few seconds. Pink petals occasionally fall from trees.

Side Effects:

Applies 100% Egg gestation Speed.

Fog

The basic fog weather may occur randomly during any season.

Side Effects:

Decreases general visibility.
Disables snif fing.

Heat Wave

A Heat Wave is a recode-only extreme weather pattern. This effect gives a "Heat Wave" status, a parallel to the Acid Rain status, dealing 1% HP damage and 2 burn per tick, unless the creature is sheltered.

Rain

Rain can occur in every season except winter. It causes the environment to look rainy.

Some tokens can change the weather to rainy:
- On Legacy, it's only the Storm Bringer Token.
- On Recode, it's the Random Weather Token.
This weather can also be changed by special abilities:
- On Legacy, a creature with the Weather Change has a 10% chance of causing rain when the weather is Clear Skies, and removing it if it was rainy. It also requires the season to be Summer, Cherry Blossom, or Spring.
- On Recode, a creature with Change Weather has an undetermined chance of modifying the weather.

Side Effects:

It becomes hard to fly, which means flight speed is reduced; however, flying is still possible.
- On Recode, this is due to the Rain Ailment applied by the weather, which deals a certain % of status debuffs:
  - Takeoff multiplier +15%
  - Also +50% to water sources.
  - From 1^st September 2024 update onwards, prevents moisture loss.
Air drafts are removed (Legacy).

Snow

Snow only begins during winter or famine. It cannot start in seasons other than winter or famine; however, when transitioning from winter or famine to another season, it can appear to snow during other seasons such as Summer as seen in this post.

This weather can be activated manually:
- Either by a token:
  - On Legacy, using the Storm Bringer Token.
  - On Recode, it's the Random Weather Token.
- Or by an ability:
- On Legacy, this weather can be activated with a 10% chance by using the Weather Change ability when the weather is Clear Skies during Famine or Winter seasons.
- On Recode, a creature with Change Weather has an undetermined chance of modifying the weather to snowy during the appropriate seasons.

Side Effects:

It becomes hard to fly, which means flight speed is reduced; however, flying is still possible.
- On Recode, this is due to the Snow Ailment applied by the weather, which causes a takeoff multiplier debuff of 10%. Non-fliers gain this ailment but have no effects.
  - +10% takeoff multiplier
Air drafts are removed (Legacy).

Sunny

Basic, common weather with no effects at all and may occur during any season in Recode during day, except now it looks like having some extra sunlight.

Side Effects:

None.

Sunshower

Sunshower is a recode-only variant of Rain, which combines the effects of rain with powerful sunlight.

Side Effects: identical to Rain at the moment

It becomes hard to fly, which means flight speed is reduced (however, flying is still possible), due to the Rain Ailment applied by the weather, which deals a certain % of status debuffs:
- Takeoff multiplier +15%
- Also +50% to water sources.

Thunderstorm

Thunderstorms are a recode-only phenomena which may occur randomly during any season. When a Thunderstorm is invoked, with a lot of rain pouring down, it will almost always invoke a flood of some magnitude too (meaning Floods and rising sea levels are even more common than with each weather separated). Additionally, some lightning can be seen across the map and falling to certain areas.

This weather can also be activated manually:
- Either by the Thunderstorm Summon Token.
- A creature with Change Weather might have an undetermined chance of modifying the weather to a thunderstorm.

Side Effects:

Thunderstorm Status Effect
- +25% takeoff multiplier
- +100% water levels (regenerates fresh water and makes non-fresh water rise)
  - Almost certainty of Floods
- From 1^st September 2024 update onwards, prevents moisture loss.

Warden's Nebula

Warden's nebula is a recode-only weather. It can seemingly appear during all seasons, but has an increased chance during Mythic season. The sky turns dark throughout the day, and various stars, galaxies, and a large purple nebula can be seen in the sky. A purple/pinkish light is also cast over everything standing under the sky.

Side Effects:

Inflicts Warden's Nebula Status
- Creatures age 25% faster

Wind Storm

Wind Storms occur randomly during any season with a chance of spawning a tornado. Grass blows around during a Windstorm, but other plants remain stationary.

Side Effects:

Tornadoes can spawn.
LEGACY: When a Windstorm is invoked, it will almost always invoke Fog weather too (meaning Tornados are even more common than with each weather separated) unless Fog was already present, and usually Fog disappears far before Windstorm.
RECODE: Windstorm Status Effect: +25% stamina regeneration, +15% fly speed, +15% walk speed, +15% sprint speed, +5% glide regeneration.
RECODE: Violent Winds Status (for a shorter period than Windstorm status effect): +25% stamina and glide regeneration.
- If a tornado has spawned, sniffing is blocked.

Natural Disasters

Natural disasters occur after a set time, or at random. They serve as fun (albeit possibly deadly) mini-games and may yield rewards during or after the event, depending on the disaster. More than one natural disaster can happen at a time, which means they can stack to make up a thrilling experience.

In Recode, natural disasters will prevent Change Weather abilities and tokens from being used.

Apart from the ones listed below, there is one confirmed (as of now) disasters: drought (meaning that water will evaporate).

Blood Moon

A Blood Moon is a recode-only disaster which can only happen at night, where the most dangerous foes are not the environment itself, but fellow creatures frenzied by its effects.

Before a Blood Moon occurs, all players will hear a low, ominous chime indicating its impending arrival. The rise of the Blood Moon is accompanied by a global message and low, droning music which plays for the duration of the night. Once active, all creatures will be given a significant buff to their combat capabilities, including 50% damage, 50% stamina regeneration, and 50% bite speed buffs.

The event is accompanied by several visual effects, most notably a red tint across the entire map and neon red eyes on the creatures which have them (which will be most, if not all), making them easier to spot. While the Blood Moon and its associated buffs do not usually last the entire night, the music and eye effects will persist until morning.

Although they occur naturally, Blood Moons can be forcefully triggered using Blood Moon Summon Tokens.

Earthquake

This Recode-exclusive disaster, which can happen during any season or also triggered manually by using an Earthquake Summon Token, often lasts no more than a minute.

During an Earthquake, several events happen:

While unsheltered, the map will shake for the user. Only a creature flying or swimming grants green shelter.
Water levels rapidly oscillate, simulating water changes from a tremor.
All creatures receive Earthquake status, which will inflict 2 stack of Injury Status per tick as long as the creature is not sheltered, sitting or laying down. This injury effect can be resisted or nullified by creatures with Block Injury as well.
If a creature has some terrain above its head (for example, under an arch or inside a cave), there is a risk of boulders falling from the sky and hitting it, causing % damage, regardless of being sheltered or not.

Flood

Floods are a natural disaster consisting of the temporary, gradual but extreme rise of sea levels across Sonaria, and are usually the result of thunderstorms. The conjunction of specific day/night factors (which offer a relatively milder sea-level oscillation) as well as the thunderstorm itself may increase their severity to the point that very few places will remain dry.

Floods are map-wide and can prove lethal to creatures who are unfamiliar or unprepared for this event. While they may vary in severity, most floods will typically cover the map's entire "ground level" and force terrestrials to move to elevated locations. Floods will often swallow high-altitude areas as well, such as the swamp hill or tundra.

Flooding allows for fully aquatic creatures to easily traverse areas of the map that they would otherwise find hard to reach, provided the water is deep enough to swim in. Only seawater is affected by floods; drinkable water will never move and is even accessible under the seawater level once it is submerged. While floods cannot be triggered by a player directly, a Thunderstorm Summon Token can be used to induce flooding.

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Tornado

Legacy Tornado

The tornado was a feature disabled in late Legacy game, several months before Recode became the new core game.

This natural disaster randomly appeared somewhere in the map and travels very slowly as a large, flipped cone shape with wind effects surrounding it.

The tornado has a targeting pattern that begins with a list of every spawned player in the game. It begins by going through all of the players in this list, and eliminates players that are under total shelter (have the green house icon), and also eliminates players who have recently been grabbed by the tornado or are currently inside of the tornado. Finally, it selects a random player out of the list of remaining players, and moves towards them. Because of this, when in a crowded server, usually players in far, underpopulated places tend to be safe. This selection process executes once every 20 to 35 seconds. If the tornado catches its current target player, the target is immediately re-evaluated.

If a player gets too close (within 100 studs), the tornado will cause their creature to float and catch them inside of the vortex. Some text will appear and tell the player to click on rock debris to escape. By clicking on at least 7 of the rocks that appear, the player may escape the tornado and will slowly drop down. If not, the player's creature will lose about 50% of their health and will be dropped down from the tornado.
- If a creature dies within the tornado, a piece of meat will be thrown where the player was supposed to land after inflicting damage by the tornado.
There is a house icon next to the hunger meter that displays how sheltered they are from the outside. An orange icon means they are not sheltered very well, and a green icon means they are under complete shelter.
- If a player is under partial decent shelter (yellow house icon) the tornado won't directly chase them, but it may pick them up chasing someone else.
- If a player is under total shelter (with their creature model completely covered), the tornado will not only not chase them, but it will not pick them up.

Recode Tornado

In Recode, tornadoes came back as functioning feature, but with several modifications compared with its legacy counterpart, amongst them that several tornadoes can spawn at a time during a windstorm.

Tornadoes may vary in size, from normal to GOLIATH.
Being close to a tornado can drag creatures into it. When that happens, the movement is far more dynamic than in legacy; it will not only be dragged by the tornado, but will rotate around it.
- Depending on tier and tornado size, a creature may be able to resist getting dragged by a tornado. Creatures too big for an specific tornado can just fly through such tornado without anything happening to them.
When a creature is trapped by a tornado, a minigame related with clicking enough times fast enough will begin.
- If the creature fails to fill the click bar, the victim will be flung away, suffering 12.5 Injury and 15 Shredded Wings debuff status effects, which will reduce the creature's speed to almost 0 and will prevent it from flying/gliding and darting/jumping.
- If the player had managed to fill the click bar, the creature will be flung at moderate speeds away from the tornado, but with far less severity of status effects, being 4.37 Injury and 5.25 Shredded Wings. Successfully escaping lets the creature heal from these debuffs faster.

Volcanic Eruption

Legacy Volcanic Eruption

Each summer, the volcano will slowly fill with lava until the arrival of the eighth summer, upon which it will erupt. When it erupts, the player screen's color will shift to a red tint, and ash will darken the sky. Music that is only played during Volcanic Eruption begins, which can be found here. Igneous rock will begin falling from the sky and target random players. Upon impact with a player, they will deal 25% of a player's total HP as damage. These rocks have a 5% chance of dropping a Shoom after landing, but other rocks have a chance of destroying them. Sometimes two disasters could happen at once, like a volcanic eruption and a tornado.

After that, a second wave will take place. Meteors will fall and spawn twice as fast.

There is a 3% chance of the rare scale dropping during a meteor strike (10-15 meteors per strike). Upon collecting the scale, players can unlock access to the Arsonos in applicable gachas (such as the Bleeder, and Carnivore Gachas).
- Note: Players only need to collect the rare scale 1 time to permanently unlock Arsonos in gachas. Players can roll for Arsonos multiple times, similar to other normal creatures.
An overwhelming number of players collect the scale from a taller looking Shoom and do not see the scale itself. It's recommended to collect as many Shooms as possible to be sure, since it may be a challenge to tell the difference if a player has not already seen the tall Shoom.

Side Effects:

Inflicts clogged lungs effect during eruptions, which is visually displayed as gray, cracked lungs and describes the effects as filling a creature's lungs with ash. This is a debuff and will slow a creature's health/stamina regeneration and speed by 25%.

Recode Volcanic Eruption

On Recode, and due to the use of specific tokens (Volcanic Eruption Summon Token) as well as maybe some modified cycles, this disaster can happen during any season. Additionally, volcanic eruptions are more active and shorter, capable of hurting even flying creatures, and the meteors are no longer client-sided only. On the other hand, the hits are slightly more randomized and deal noticeably less damage (around 5%). During the season, some shoom-like tokens will spawn at places where meteors fell and can be collected for 2 Shooms each, and will disappear a little while after the disaster ends.

Additionally, while the rising lava levels on Volcano Island can work as an indicator of how much close Sonaria is from an eruption, the aforementioned tokens make this unreliable. When a volcano is full and about to erupt naturally, an ominous horn sounds as a warning and is heard by all creatures.

Side Effects:

Inflicts ashy lungs effect during eruptions, which will slow a creature's stamina regeneration by 25%.

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Trivia

Originally, all seasons were randomized, back when Legacy was the only gameplay available; some having a higher chance of occurring than others as a result, with the same season potentially occurring one or more times in a row, resulting in a long-lasting single season.
- Spring had a 20% chance of happening.
- Summer had a 30% chance of happening and a high probability of being chosen for the following season once again.
- Autumn had a 15% chance of happening.
- Winter had a 15% chance of happening.
- Famine had a 5% chance of happening.
- Cherry Blossom had a 10% chance of happening, but during Valentines Event 2021 it was far more common.
- In early recode, Sunshowers used to cause a mini-flood, but was eventually changed when recode became accessible to everyone.

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