Teeming with Life is a mod that adds several new alien lifeforms, mostly nonsentient, to the game. It also develops existing lifeforms (from the main game) in new directions. Various non-sentient lifeforms such as the Fuzzy Lummox, the Piranha Bee, and the Megamoeba get new spins and become integral to new quests. We also get to see a new caste of Muktian society.
I had two goals when designing Teeming With Life. The first goal to increase the impact and importance of lifeforms in the game. Many of the lifeforms in the game start out new and exciting the first couple times you play, but become just "cheap stuff that doesn't do anything" after your 20th game. This mod adds new uses to various lifeforms to spice that up a bit. You never know what can happen if you keep that dreamsnake in your cargo hold.
The other goal was to make a mod that has great replayability. You shouldn't feel that you've seen all there is to a mod after two or three games. One thing I did to ensure that was to add multiple versions of nearly every new Quest I introduced in the mod. Certain lifeforms can be incredibly helpful in one game, and downright dangerous the next. I even added new versions of one or two quests from the main game to breathe new life into them. This is a mod you'll want to play again and again.
You can download Teeming With Life v1.2 at the Shrapnel forums. To do so, click on the link in the previous sentence, then click on the attachment link on the first post of the forum thread it takes you to. And, of course, you'll need a copy of Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space to play it.
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