Cataloguing Rain World's Wildlife | The Flora and Unclassified

Wow who drew that art they must be so cool and awesome and also have wonderful skills at video games Seriously tho I love these types of videos and was so hyped to offer up a bit of art :) this was an awesome video to watch at 4 AM while I avoid my responsibilities!!

Well the slugcat having a strong resistance to bad smells would make sense since they're made to clean pipes and all that

Flashbangs are likely rich in white phosphorus or a base metals, breaking the thin membrane exposes the innards to the wet air and makes the light the fact that the effect lingers might mean the fruit is granulated, like a citrus or pomegranate

The more i think about them the more the bubble fruits make sense. During dry phases they are protected by a hard shell that protects them from animals. Once the rain comes all the animals seek shelter. The fruit then absorbs the water and swells into a rather flexible looking orb. This orb could have the purpose of protecting the seed inside from the physical blunt force of the rain, allowing the plant to spread its seeds without being in much danger from either animals or the environment.

Rain World is a game not made for everyone, it can be punishing & boring at times, & other times it just doesn't feel very fun at all. But DAMN, once it hits you with one of those special moments the game will never leave your head, & you're gonna be left wondering "When will Rain World 2 come out" forever. It's understandable why so little people pay attention to this game, but that will never make it any less sad...

Couldn’t bubble weed just be like those marine algae that hold themselves up with air bubbles? Thus the bubbles are either a vestigial trait from an aquatic ancestor or used when the water level rises.

The karma flower allowing you to "Contact yourself in another world"[Paraphrased] is the mechanism by which it protects your karma. Essentially you send a message of your run to a version of you that's asleep.

As someone who invested over 500 hours into this game and yet somehow never had the time to gather up all the lore pearls for myself, these lore videos were incredibly informative. With my subscription, I will watch your career with great interest.

In reference to the void worms and what they are, I think you're right to an extent. In the very end when you ascend yourself, you move towards a large glowing area. The view of the area is circular in shape and contains either other versions of yourself or other members of your species. In either case, perhaps this orb is in reality the basis of a worm, and once a creature ascends, it becomes said worm, the location of ascension being like an egg.

It's worth noting that iterators are even more biological than mechanical - things like "processing strata" of microbes are mentioned! And neuron flies are probably not mechanical, since you can get nutrition bubbles from eating them!

18:16, speaking of the weird devices, personally I always thought they were just oversized parts of Neuron cells, The first long arm appears to be just a long Axon with Myelin sheath and an axyon terminal at the end, which also implies that iterators move information via chemicals and I guess they are either directly feed to a receiver or picked up by a neuron fly to carry it further I dunno. The red arm appears to be an oversized Betz cell, in our bodies they are basically neuron cells that send movement information down our spinal cord, as for RW lore I guess they are the connection between neuron flies and some iterator spinal cord wich acts as a information highway. Great video anyways.

I wonder what food the writers of this game ate before writing it

I personally think worm grass is probably a animal specifically a type of tube worm that's adapted to live on land

Amazing video! Also some info and theories on karma flowers (ok mostly slugcats). They are created whenever you die making me think slugcats were artificially created by iterators. They seem to be the only creatures (besides guardians) that can interact with karma in any way, and NSH just straight up makes hunter to help Moon. Also when moon is given the magenta pearl she says that slugcat is likely a descendent of a purposed creature. This makes me think they were created shortly after the rain started to clean out the pipes in filtration and drainage system. Oh and a cool thing is if you die in a hunter run after running out of cycles, if start a survivor or monk run afterwards and go to the room you died in a karma flower will be there. This comment probably belongs in the other video but it mentions karma flowers like twice so too bad. Also early congrats on hitting 1000 subs! Its gonna happen soon so why not say it now.

Technically, Iterators should not be included in the fully-mechanical classification, since they are actually bio-mechanical. The living cells are what Five Pebbles attempted to tinker with so he could kill himself, and Moon's interruption let it spread rapidly and maliciously, becoming what is essentially cancer. This also ties into the nature of the soul in Rain World, something Moon mentions, though to be fair, her saying she felt "pain in her soul" could just be an expression, but I believe it isn't. The Ancients were all into the repeating cycle, and if they wanted to find a solution that would let all lesser beings ascend, the creations should also be made to feel the pain of reincarnating cycles so as to inform their work on finding a solution. While machines will die and stay dead as they have no soul, Iterators will persist even when killed, as their biological components, and perhaps their "soul," will live on. This also ties into Neuron Flies, which could very well count as food to the slugcat because they may have some nutritious biological component. I mean, if mushrooms don't provide nutrition but these things do, I think it's safe to assume they have some nutritious and biological component, a tie to the Ancient's beliefs, as realistically, something built to transfer information in something as big as an Iterator would be better suited being purely mechanical and not biological in any way.

if the Void Worms are ascended ancients it would explain why Echoes look like fucked up half-worms

20:10 No way neuron flies are fully mechanical. They must be mostly organic because they provide food to sluggcat. 5P looks like bio electronic hybrid being with is probably true to the other ones too.

i feel like the bubblefruit could actually make a ton of sense. they could be letting themselves dessicate on the stem, becoming hard and inedible, so that creatures will not eat them before theyve had the chance to move. Then, they rehydrate when the rains come in order to sweep them away, like you suggested. Once they're popped, i think the vulnerability is intentional--they want to get eaten by creatures further away from their birthplace so that those creatures will pass the seeds in a region very far from competition from their parent plant

I feel like the ancients' thought process when making all these explosive plants was "Bombs, bombs, bombs? You want it, it's yours my friend!".

Interesting thing I've noticed - from what I can tell, Pole Plants never appear in water naturally, and in fact seeing a half-submerged pole is usually enough to tell me that that pole is safe to climb on. On the other hand, Monster Kelp absolutely loves water, preferring to grow with its roots and stomach submerged.