The Kiiwin is a Tier 1 gliding photovore. The species is available in the Photovore Explorer Gacha. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 15♂/150♀ Shooms.
Description
“ | Kiiwins are an adorable edible snack. Due to their tiny stature they often live in comically large flocks to increase any individuals survival chance. When they are actually attempting to stay alive, they often resort to perching high up, holding on with their talons. | „ |
~ In-game Description |
Behavior
- Kiiwin flocks will hang in trees together as a giant colony.
Appearance
Kiiwins are small photovore creatures, they resemble kiwi birds, with a stocky body, short legs and a sharp, thin, pointy beak and a kiwi fruit pattern on their necks, coxofemoral joint area, and legs. It has two pairs of average-sized wings, which sport kiwi patterns. Several plumage tufts can be seen on their backs, chest and head base, and a pair of elongated, kiwi-themed feather-like horns can be seen sprouting from their foreheads. whisker-like feathers can be seen stemming from the beak sides. Its color palette resembles that of kiwi fruits.
Males
Males have no additional features.
Females
Females have three extra whisker-like feathers sprouting on their forehead.
Abilities
Main Article: Creature Abilities
This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Kiiwin. (editor list)
- Area Water Restore is a ranged active ability that has a cooldown of 600 sec (10 min). Refreshes part of drinkable water sources quality in range.
- Injury Block/Block Injury is a passive ability that grants the creature resistance to getting Injury status from melee attacks at the very least, and every other source at most. It is percentage based, e.g. if an attacker deals 5 Injury per hit and the receiver has 60% Injury Block, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 Injury.
- Block Poison/Poison Block is a passive ability that grants resistance to poison status once they reach max age (100). Like many other block defenses, it works by blocking a percentage of the ailment received. If a creature's Poison Block is 100%, then they are immune to those stats (and will be healed instantly if they are somehow applied) once they reach age 100.
- Burrower is an active ability that allows the creature to place up to 4 (or a specific creature limit) burrows anywhere on the map, and use other burrows from other creatures. Burrow entrances are two-way, so the exit can be accessed inside the burrow. If a creature places more entrances than the maximum allowed, the oldest burrow and exit will be replaced. A creature cannot place a burrow entrance inside its own burrow or inside someone else's burrow. Sometimes some creatures can place on certain areas one-way entries, which can lead to making a burrow prison. There is a 3 second cooldown between entering and exiting burrows, not including entering after its initial placement.
- Charge (Gore) or Gore Charge is an specific type of Charge that inflicts Bleed Status and Deep Wounds on the victim.
- Day/Night Time Status are an environmental status effect that confers a +5% damage, +25% stamina regen, -10% growth time, +15% health regen; and -5% damage, -25% stamina regen, -15% health regen; respectively, to photovores and photocarnivores.
- Glide is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight and inherent to all gliders and glider semi-aquatics have this ability as primary. However, due to the fact glider semi-aquatics got absorbed into Semi-Aquatics, the correct recode terminology would be to say that all Gliders and a few Semi-Aquatics and Aquatics have this ability as primary. Flier (and all-terrain) creatures have this ability as well, but the Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight button is not their primary, but the toggle glide button. Creatures with glide ability cannot jump per se, they instead enter flight or glide mode, unless jump supersedes them via some jump age value. If there's not enough stamina, the creature can hardly glide. Depending on some creature factors like tier and glide stamina regeneration, as well as some environmental conditions, a creature can or cannot regain stamina while gliding.
- Yolk Bomb is an active ability available only after reaching adult stage that drops an egg directly below the user only when such creature is flying or gliding close enough to the ground, and not when it is on the ground or swimming. The egg explodes on contact with the ground and has a radius of 40 studs. All creatures within the range of the explosion receive a consistant knockback (regardless of species), 2 Slowed status, and 4 of the variable status effect specific to its type (e.g. frostbite, burn, etcetera). It has a cooldown of 30 seconds.
Carry-able Creatures
The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Kiiwin is carried by, can carry (grab), can latch, and can be latched by in RECODE. To see the lists and their toggles to view each, click on the collapsible text to the right of the table below, to Expand or Collapse the list.
Can-Grab ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Kiiwin can grab and carry (pick-up), taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Kiiwin (a(n) photovore) is a tier 1 with 800 lbs of weight and as long as it has the Grab Ability, it can pick up any creature of lower or equal tier with enough lighter weight difference.* There is no creature which the Kiiwin can currently carry
Grabbed-By ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab and thus carry a non-elder fully-grown adult Kiiwin taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Kiiwin (a(n) photovore) is a tier 1 with 800 lbs of weight and can be picked up by any creature of higher or equal tier with enough heavier weight difference and the Grab ability, as follows:[ Expand Collapse ] Carry-able by:
Can-Latch ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Kiiwin can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Kiiwin (a(n) photovore) is a tier 1 with 800 lbs of weight and as long as it has the Latch ability, it can latch into any creature of higher tier with enough heavier weight difference.* There is no creature which the Kiiwin can currently grab but not carry
Latched-By ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab but not carry (latch onto) the non-elder fully-grown Kiiwin discounting special abilities. The Kiiwin (a(n) photovore) is a tier 1 with 800 lbs of weight and can be latched onto by any creature of lower tier and enough lighter weight difference.* There is no creature which can currently grab the Kiiwin |
Trivia
- Designed by BlueFlame950 in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- "The Kiiwin is a kiwi bird mixed with a kiwi fruit, purely a joke." There doesn't seem to be any inspiration for it, other than a kiwi and a kiwi bird.
- Modeled by Erythia.
- Redesign concept by icecreamNavacodo.
- Redesign modeled by ScratchyPaws and rigged by Mezzioli.
- Redesign animated by SleepyNorsil and Zyraphes.
- It was the first photovore/glider to be added to the game.
- Its calls used to be the same as the Brequewk.
Gallery
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