Field Guide
Where every name comes from, what each place has lived through, and the facts behind the creatures you play. Turn on Biome Knowledge before a run and these pages become your study guide — answer a question correctly mid-game and you earn a snake coin plus a boost to whatever you need most.
🐊 Everglades Swamp
A river of grass, sixty miles wide and six inches deep.
Agkistrodon piscivorus — the cottonmouth.
Boa constrictor — the snake whose common name is its species name.
Python bivittatus — the Everglades' famous invader.
Nerodia floridana — harmless, heavy-bodied, and often mistaken for a moccasin.
Crotalus adamanteus — the largest rattlesnake on Earth.
🌲 Pacific Forest
Damp conifer shade from California to British Columbia.
Lampropeltis zonata — banded red, black, and white.
Diadophis punctatus amabilis — tiny, slate-grey, orange-bellied.
Crotalus oreganus oreganus — the West Coast's common rattler.
Charina bottae — the boa that feels like an eraser.
Contia tenuis — a slug specialist the size of a pencil.
⛰️ Asian & African Mountain
Thin air, hot rock, and long sightlines for hawks.
Bitis arietans — Africa's most medically important snake.
Dendroaspis angusticeps — a green ghost in the canopy.
Dispholidus typus — the rear-fanged snake that changed herpetology.
Python sebae — Africa's largest snake.
Bitis gabonica — the longest fangs of any snake.
🐛 Caterpillar Meadow
A world of leaves where you are the smallest thing that matters.
Danaus plexippus — poison borrowed from milkweed.
Pyrrharctia isabella — the caterpillar that freezes solid.
Actias luna — a moth named for the moon.
Manduca quinquemaculata — the gardener's nemesis.
Acharia stimulea — a green saddle on a brown blanket.
Megalopyge opercularis — soft-looking and dangerous.
Papilio spp. — bird-dropping disguise, then eyespots.
Malacosoma americanum — the silk-tent architect.
🌵 Mojave Desert
North America's smallest, hottest desert.
Crotalus scutulatus — the "Mojave green".
Crotalus cerastes — the horned rattlesnake.
Lichanura trivirgata — slow, gentle, three-striped.
Masticophis flagellum — a snake that hunts by sight and speed.
Chionactis occipitalis — it swims through sand.
🌴 Amazon Rainforest
One in ten known species on Earth lives here.
Corallus caninus — coiled in saddles over a branch.
Eunectes murinus — the heaviest snake alive.
Lachesis muta — the longest viper in the world.
Bothrops atrox — the fer-de-lance of the Amazon.
Micrurus spp. — small mouth, serious venom.