You've decided to combat the ever-increasing threat of animal extinction? Fantastic! While Releasing your animals into the wild is a noble feat in itself, sometimes that means that the animals truly in need aren't getting the attention they require. This project gives aid to those animals who are already extinct in the wild (or recently extinct) and need to repopulate. It's really quite simple.
When you apply for the Anti-E Project, you receive a randomized extinct-in-the-wild animals for free. Your job then is to breed and release as many as you can, earning rewards along the way. You don't own these animals, however, they are only borrowed. You may not sell or trade them, and all of their offspring must be released as well unless you reach a certain reward tier. You may trade out your Anti-E animals as long as you have released at least one of your current conservation animal species. All of your conservation animals, including offspring and starters, will be swapped for a different random species.
How it works:
- Go to the Conservation Shop and grab your Starter Kit. Inside, you will find 1 MYO slot and 3 "Conservation Animal" items. Go ahead and use your MYO slot and it will tell you what conservation animal you got! The Conservation Animal items are placeholders for how many animals of that species you have. You'll be able to earn more through releasing animals or you can buy extras in the conservation shop if you run out. These Conservation animals can't be sold, traded, or donated.
- If you like, you can request one of your Conservation Animal items to be turned into a MYO so you can have a pair of your starter animal. This will be done on the discord. This is not strictly necessary as you will gain additional animals from releasing and don't need to breed them, but you can if you like!
- Now your job is to release as many conservation animals as you can! Releasing animals requires you to complete the prompts below with art or literature and submit them to the De-Extinction Release prompt. This can earn you some pretty sweet rewards as well as earn you more animals for release! If you release enough animals, you will be able to "keep" some of your conservation animals, turning them into MYO slots that can be sold and traded.
Requirements:
To release, you must complete three out of five specific prompts through art, be it drawing or writing, as well as a mandatory vet check. Each prompt needs to be 3 fame/rolls per animal minimum, not including the release bonus. Generally this would be a fullbody + Shading + simple background. You can feature as many animals as you wish for a release.
Special Literature Rules:
Due to the repetitive nature of releases, the word count rules slightly differ from typical art. Instead of requiring a minimum of words being 600 per prompt per animal, it is instead 200. This is for releases only! Therefore for a full set of release prompts (including the vet check,) the minimum word requirement would be 4,000 words per animal.
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Prompt 1: Vet Check (mandatory)
Before release, the animal must get a clean bill of health! It would be a shame to release animal just for them to pass away from illness. Even worse, a sick animal could contaminate the wild population! Have a vet check out the animal to make sure it's ready
If you have a Veterinarian Award, you are able to skip the mandatory vet check.
Prompt 2: Finding Food
Obviously if an animal is to survive in the wild, it must have a constant source of food. Teach your predator to hunt, or your herbivore which plants are edible to ensure it can feed itself upon release.
Prompt 3: Finding Shelter
One of the other most important parts of being in the wild is finding a place to stay hidden from predators and the elements. Show your animal discovering how to make a den or find a safe place to sleep.
Prompt 4: Social Skills
If an animal is going to pass on its genes, it needs to know how to interact with others of its kind. It must meet others of its kind, preferably unrelated, so that it can learn how to deal with others in its species without being harmed!
Prompt 5: The Release
You did it! Here's the moment you've been waiting for- the release! Your animal is stepping out onto unfamiliar soils and is ready to embark on the journey of the rest of its life. Good luck!
When Submitting:
Step by step process:
Visual Guide 1, Visual Guide 2
- Go to "submit Prompt" and select "De-Extinction Release." Then, enter the URL for your submission as usual.
- Add your full roll brakedown based on the Art Rolls page
- If you have MYO slots to release (instead of Conservation Animal items), link each one. Then make sure to state how many animal of your species you have released, including the ones for the current release.
- Add up how much ZD you'll be earning for this release and add it under rewards.
- If you featured characters in your submission that aren't being released, make sure you add them so they can earn their fame.
- Select any Conservation Animal items you are releasing and add them to your submission. Make sure to add the correct amount!
- Hit submit!
Conservation Rewards:
The more animals you release, the more rewards you get! These Rewards are based on the TOTAL number of each species you release. It starts over if you swap out your species!
Each Conservation Animal released: 12,000 ZD
1 Animal released: x2 Random Crates
5 animals released: You get to keep two of the animals in your conservation area + Random crate
15 animals released: You get to keep three additional animals in your conservation area + Endangered crate
25 animals released: You get to keep three animals in your conservation area + Extinct Crate + Species Savior Award + Your animal will change in designation from extinct in the wild to critically endangered
Achievements:
1 Animal released: Conservation Award
5 animals released: Conservation Excellence Award
15 animals released: Conservation Perfection Award
25 animals released: Specimen Jar