Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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For a long time I've been meaning to showcase the early biomes, watch them evolve from their super barren prototypes to full fledged environments. This covers most of everything up to 2024 June.

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Music:
TrackTribe - Forest Find (YouTube Audio Library)
Quincas Moreira - Don't Fret (YouTube Audio Library)
jin.x - jigsaw and heroin (soundcloud.com/jinkxbeats)
Jippy - BEAT TAPE 28. (https://jippy.bandcamp.com)
sam webster - Faraway Fairway OST (samwebster.bandcamp.com/album/faraway-fairway-game-soundtrack)
Eirik Suhrke - Downwell OST (phlogiston.bandcamp.com/album/downwell)
Calum Bowen - Pikuniku OST (calumbowen.bandcamp.com/album/pikuniku-original-soundtrack)
Eirik Suhrke - Spelunky 2 OST (phlogiston.bandcamp.com/album/spelunky-2)
potato Teto - Pseudoregalia OST (potatoteto.bandcamp.com/album/pseudoregalia-ost)
Deep Rock Galactic OST
Pool Nation OST
Hot Lava OST
Burger Shop 2 OST
The Eternal Cylinder OST
Rage Racer OST
Blagmoz OST
Vib-Ribbon OST

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro + Preface
1:42 - How do biomes (actually) work?
5:58 - Djord VII (pre-alpha)
9:22 - Closed Alpha
15:28 - Magma Core
19:50 - Fungus Bogs
25:09 - Dense Biozone
31:11 - Radioactive Exclusion Zone
38:05 - Sandblasted Corridors
43:20 - Crystalline Caverns
46:11 - Shallow Grotto
48:24 - Salt Pits
52:20 - Glacial Strata
59:10 - Azure Weald
1:05:44 - Hollow Bough
1:12:25 - Caustic Mire (prototype)
1:14:24 - Sponge Cluster (concepts)
1:15:31 - Earliest Concept Check-up
1:18:25 - Devolution Sequence