Provides a method for creatures to determine how much energy a specific movement action will cost. The slower a creature moves the less energy they expend moving over a specific distance. With this in mind the developer can determine the optimum speed at which to move to a given location versus time and energy consumption.

Determines if a creature is immediately next to or overlapping another creature using grid cells comparisons.

Determines the direction the creature is moving in degrees. This along with Speed can be used to calculate where a creature will be in the future.

Provides information about the Species of the creature through the IAnimalSpecies interface. This should be used to determine the stats of a creature for threat/food calculations.

Provides access to a read-only version of a creature's Antenna. Each Antenna has a specific set of positions that it may be in. Setting states with this information is possible as is passing numeric data.

This property is used to examine the Antenna state of other creatures. If you need to set the states of your own Antenna you should use the Antennas property on the Animal base class.

Determines the number of game cells a creature uses on the screen. Each grid cell is 8 pixels in width and height.

Provides the absolute amount of damage an organism has sustained. Normally PercentInjured is more useful for determining how badly hurt your creature is, but this absolute number can be used for different types of calculations.

Some useful applications include examining the damage taken each tick, determining which creature has the MOST damage, not the highest percentage of damage. Determining if your creature can sustain a hit from another creature without dying. Determining a creature's statistical chance of winning a fight, along with updating this chance each round. Each of these can be done using the Damage property, but not the PercentInjured property.

Describes the reason why the creature died. This is most often OldAge, Starvation, Killed, or Sickness. If the creature is not dead yet then the value will be NotDead.

Determine the current energy state of a creature by comparing the current amount of stored energy versus the various energy buckets.

Determines the amount of food value this creature represents. This can be used to determine if attacking a creature will be worth the effort.

Generation will be 0 the first time a creature is introduced. Each offspring of a creature will be labeled with its generation plus one. This helps define the longevity of a creature.

Retrieves the creature's current grid location. This is useful for movement algorithms and is used by the engine for computing organism location in a fast and memory efficient manner.

Retrieves the creature's current grid location. This is useful for movement algorithms and is used by the engine for computing organism location in a fast and memory efficient manner.

Determines the amount of time in game ticks a creature must wait before they are able to grow. If a creature is not yet mature, and the GrowthWait is 0, then it is possible the creature does not have enough energy or enough space in order to grow. This should be remedied quickly.

A string number in the form of a GUID that uniquely represents this creature in the EcoSystem.

Determines the number of ticks the creature must wait before it has finished reproducing. If your creature just needs to know if it's currently reproducing use the IsIncubating property.

Determines if the creature is alive or dead. This is used by Carnivores so they can find food in the form of corpses.

Determines if the creature is in the process of reproduction. Use IncubationTicks to find out exactly how long the creature has left to incubate.

Determines if the creature is mature by comparing the current Radius to the Radius it will have when mature.

Determines if the creature is moving or is completely stopped.

Determines the decimal percentage of the amount of energy a creature currently has, versus the total amount of energy the creature can store.

Provides the percentage of damage taken versus total allowed damage before the creature is killed. This is useful in calculating which creature makes the best target due to weakness.

Determines the decimal percentage of the amount of life remaining a creature currently has, versus the total amount of LifeSpan.

Returns the creature's current position as a Point.

Determines the actual radius of the creature. This is used to determine how close to maturity a creature has gotten or in various computations on attack, defense, and movement.

Determines if a creature is ready to reproduce based on the elapsed time since its previous reproduction. Use ReproductionWait to determine exactly how long the creature has to go.

Determines the number of ticks the creature must wait before reproducing again. If your creature just needs to know if it's ready the ReadyToReproduce property can be used instead.

Provides the number of ticks a particular corpse has been rotting for. This is useful to determine whether a corpse will be around long enough to be used for food.

Under normal circumstances a corpse will remain for 100 ticks. However, this number may be shortened if the machine is under load and many creatures are dying from sickness.

Describes the characteristics of a creature through the use of the ISpecies interface.

Determines the speed at which the creature is moving. Useful in calculating overtake speeds for Carnivores and run-away speeds for Herbivores.

Determines how much energy a creature has stored. This is used to compute the energy state of the creature.

Represents the age of a creature in game ticks. Once a creature reaches a TickAge identical to its LifeSpan the creature will die from PopulationChangeReason.OldAge.