Housing

Buildings are built with nature, not against it. In order to give you an insight into what kind of buildings exist on Animagica and how organisms live, a few examples for their specific area are listed down below. Important note: The types of houses and buildings listed do not apply only to human-beings and may vary in sizes, depending on the individuals in there.

Wheat bread houses in Breadscape (Featherlands)

Land:

Food house: house made of food with waterproof layer around. In emergency: magical protection from humidity
Ice igloo
Moving house - e.g. rolling houses which can be arranged differently if wished
Treebridger: Treehouse in forest cities and complexes: built in between different trees which serve as a stable fundament
Treetree: trees growing on trees (similar to Japanese Daisugi) which shape themselves into apartment-like form
Sand castle: Smaller one for smaller animals. Bigger one has magical protection layer for stability reasons
Organic garden house (Life-in-life houses): grown by very sophisticated plants themselves, growing and shaping it in a way that the house itself remains a sustainable room to live and be fed by (e.g. tree trunks building the fundament and branches covering the ceiling). It can continuously grow and regenerate itself.
Forest floor: building or house with one or several floors which consist of a forest. Sizes may vary.
Petrifica: House, plant, fungus or animal turning to or made of stone as very mineral-dense water flows onto it (stalactite and stalagmite effect). Plants often decorate them.
Rock house: house built into rocks at cliff with view onto ocean, using the already existing holes
Cave
Mimic house: mimicking building made of highly sophisticated organisms and non-organisms (e.g. rock, water) that can transform and change color of pigments
Geometrically-shaped house: various types, e.g. wooden house or igloo

Water:

All examples mentioned above applied to underwater conditions - e.g. sand castles which only work with magical protection layer
Moving house - e.g. wooden houses on water which can be arranged differently if wished
Coral cave
Underwater ice cave
Waterscraper (building in or on water) in various types in all possible waters: e.g. a house with an open water level at the bottom of a water. A building attached to seabed or a floating one. A self-sustainable building, using hydroponics for food and desalination organisms. The ocean spiral: sphere made of biodegradable material above water and spiral leading down to different water levels underneath. A cone-shaped or tunnel building etc.
Skeleton house: usually made of bigger dead water animals such as whales

Air:

Cotton candy castle
Moving house complex - e.g. balloon houses which can be arranged differently if wished
Flying apartment
Spaceship house

Subterranean:

Moving house - e.g. roots growing into different directions and are therefore able to move a house or complexes
Earthscraper: reversed building into the ground with several floors
Underground tunnel cities: various types of buildings surrounded by lakes, rivers, landscapes and bioluminescent light

Transport

There are multiple possibilites how individuals can move from point A to B.

Streets

On the ground, usually in more densely populated areas, there are "groundways" which consist of several lanes for individuals with twelve different sizes in both ways (total of 24): one third for walkers, bikers and cars each. The lane names reveal the approximate maximum size allowed, e.g. for the walker lanes: spider lane, squirrel lane, human lane and mammoth lane. Groundways are not covered by tar or asphalt as on Earth. Instead nature remains uncovered in these streets, mostly consisting of rock or flattened soil. Depending on the location, there are different variations such as only biker and walker lanes. The average groundway is about 20-25 meters wide.

Peanut shell boat in the Wild Berry Seas

The same lane principle as for the groundways is applied to airways or air tunnels whose lanes are divided mostly into the size categories firefly, blackbird, hawk and albatross or into various sizes of flying objects such as spaceships. Furthermore, they have different levels (1 to approximately 100, depending on the location) which also goes for the water tunnels (aka underwater rivers or ways) in waters which are for example categorized into shrimp, seahorse, squid and whale. Their levels may range from 1 to approx. 100 as well, depending on the type of water, location and size. Above-waterways however are only divided into sailboat and whale lanes mostly. The species mentioned always refer to the biggest of their kind (e.g. giant squid or blue whale).

There are other types of streets such as cloud highways aka skyways, interplanetary skyways or tree bridges which use the same principle. However, exceptions do exist.

Transport means

All means of transport are biodegradable or recyclable. These are the most common ones used:

Land: wooden pipe systems, organic cars, moving organisms, slides, organic bikes
Air: balloons, zeppelins, flying rooms, tornados and other types of storms, wind, flying organisms, fire and windpower-driven spaceships, cotton candy clouds, wooden bridges
Water: floating rivers, swimming water organisms (also above the sea surface), wooden or other biodegradable boats, slides
Subterranean: organic cars, slides, pipe systems, moving organisms

Cloth spaceship

As it takes effort and much disturbance in the subterranean world, metals are used only in spaceships (resource-saving-efficiently as most of it consists of organic matter such as wood), rarely in tools which help dig and extract them from the soil and shape them, but also some music instruments. However, more and more organisms develop the capacity to accumulate and extract metals organically which makes digging tools obsolete. Any kind of drilling for gas or oil does not happen. Plastic, for instance, is therefore not existent on Animagica

Energy

Electricity as known on Earth is only used in transport technology (cars and spaceships), metal extraction and metal shaping tools on Animagica. The following lines will explain how devices that usually need electricity on Earth are applied in Animagical terms.

Light: multiple sources such as fire, bioluminescent and biofluorescent organisms, e.g. projection plants, fireflies or phoenixes and non-organisms (e.g. rocks)
Fridge: ice houses, ice buildings, underground and windchill systems
Washing machines: water vortexes (some are partially integrated with organic "salad spinners")
Dryer devices: fire oven (e.g. omega-shaped fire bow around rocky chamber), wind, geothermal heat
Computer: internal system in body and mind aka the brain of an organism (for more information, see "Internet" below) - e.g. mimicking plants changing their pigments into a screen or mimicking bioluminescent animals arranging themselves if they feel like it, each one of them being a pixel (e.g. fireflies)
Camera: internal system in body and mind aka brain in organisms (e.g. taking pictures and videos by squinting one's eyes and storing data in brain)
Audio recording devices: internal system in body and mind aka brain in organisms (e.g. projection plants), working similarly to a camera (e.g. recording by ear mechanism)
Blender: rarely used, wind or water mill for flour and similar, teeth (also from plants), hand- or feet-powered bikes which move stone presses etc.
Toaster: fire oven, heating organisms
Heating: fire, organisms (e.g. phoenix), fire clouds (Synnefyr), geothermal heat
Vacuum cleaner: None, instead: sticky broom-shaped rolls with organic material (e.g. resin solution)
Cars and planes: Cars and spaceships are all compost- and wind-power driven with integrated wind turbines, processing the wind energy and the released heat from compost into electricity.

Housing

Wheat bread houses in Breadscape (Featherlands)

Land:

Food house: house made of food with waterproof layer around. In emergency: magical protection from humidity

Ice igloo

Moving house - e.g. rolling houses which can be arranged differently if wished

Treebridger: Treehouse in forest cities and complexes: built in between different trees which serve as a stable fundament

Treetree: trees growing on trees (similar to Japanese Daisugi) which shape themselves into apartment-like form

Sand castle: Smaller one for smaller animals. Bigger one has magical protection layer for stability reasons

Forest floor: building or house with one or several floors which consist of a forest. Sizes may vary.

Petrifica: House, plant, fungus or animal turning to or made of stone as very mineral-dense water flows onto it (stalactite and stalagmite effect). Plants often decorate them.

Rock house: house built into rocks at cliff with view onto ocean, using the already existing holes

Cave

Mimic house: mimicking building made of highly sophisticated organisms and non-organisms (e.g. rock, water) that can transform and change color of pigments

Geometrically-shaped house: various types, e.g. wooden house or igloo

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Water:

All examples mentioned above applied to underwater conditions - e.g. sand castles which only work with magical protection layer

Moving house - e.g. wooden houses on water which can be arranged differently if wished

Coral cave

Underwater ice cave

Skeleton house: usually made of bigger dead water animals such as whales

Air:

Cotton candy castle

Moving house complex - e.g. balloon houses which can be arranged differently if wished

Flying apartment

Spaceship house

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Subterranean:

Moving house - e.g. roots growing into different directions and are therefore able to move a house or complexes

Earthscraper: reversed building into the ground with several floors

Underground tunnel cities: various types of buildings surrounded by lakes, rivers, landscapes and bioluminescent light

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Transport

There are multiple possibilites how individuals can move from point A to B.

Streets

Peanut shell boat in the Wild Berry Seas

There are other types of streets such as cloud highways aka skyways, interplanetary skyways or tree bridges which use the same principle. However, exceptions do exist.

Transport means

All means of transport are biodegradable or recyclable. These are the most common ones used:

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Land: wooden pipe systems, organic cars, moving organisms, slides, organic bikes

Air: balloons, zeppelins, flying rooms, tornados and other types of storms, wind, flying organisms, fire and windpower-driven spaceships, cotton candy clouds, wooden bridges

Water: floating rivers, swimming water organisms (also above the sea surface), wooden or other biodegradable boats, slides

Subterranean: organic cars, slides, pipe systems, moving organisms

Cloth spaceship

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Energy

Electricity as known on Earth is only used in transport technology (cars and spaceships), metal extraction and metal shaping tools on Animagica. The following lines will explain how devices that usually need electricity on Earth are applied in Animagical terms.

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Light: multiple sources such as fire, bioluminescent and biofluorescent organisms, e.g. projection plants, fireflies or phoenixes and non-organisms (e.g. rocks)

Fridge: ice houses, ice buildings, underground and windchill systems

Washing machines: water vortexes (some are partially integrated with organic "salad spinners")

Dryer devices: fire oven (e.g. omega-shaped fire bow around rocky chamber), wind, geothermal heat

Camera: internal system in body and mind aka brain in organisms (e.g. taking pictures and videos by squinting one's eyes and storing data in brain)

Audio recording devices: internal system in body and mind aka brain in organisms (e.g. projection plants), working similarly to a camera (e.g. recording by ear mechanism)

Blender: rarely used, wind or water mill for flour and similar, teeth (also from plants), hand- or feet-powered bikes which move stone presses etc.

Toaster: fire oven, heating organisms

Heating: fire, organisms (e.g. phoenix), fire clouds (Synnefyr), geothermal heat

Vacuum cleaner: None, instead: sticky broom-shaped rolls with organic material (e.g. resin solution)

Cars and planes: Cars and spaceships are all compost- and wind-power driven with integrated wind turbines, processing the wind energy and the released heat from compost into electricity.