Needs and Care
Keeping your human fed, watered, rested, clean and comfortable.
The needs
| Need | How to meet it |
|---|---|
| Hunger | Human Chow in the food bowl, soda, alien food, or carrots from the garden |
| Thirst | The water cooler (fill it with the pitcher) or a can of soda |
| Energy | The bed (the couch works too, and the floor in a pinch) |
| Hygiene | The shower |
| Fun | Toys, crafts, the exercise wheel and mini golf |
| Bladder | A toilet or litter box, depending on the human |
Trust and stress matter too. Both are covered in Health and Medicine.
Your human only uses furniture that is upright, on the habitat floor, not being held and not blocked. If something faces the glass and they cannot get to it, turn it around. Move or pick up furniture while they are using it and they stop ("Hey! I was using that!").
Food
Tip the Human Chow box over the bowl and pellets pour out with real physics. Pellets that land in the bowl fill it; the rest make a mess. A box holds about five bowls, with a little window showing what is left, and it disappears once it is empty and you let go of it. Buy more at the Glorpax Food Bazaar.
- Hungry with an empty bowl, they complain about it.
- Starving with nothing in the bowl, they get down on their hands and knees and crawl from crumb to crumb. Food off the floor carries germs.
- Pour chow right on them and they think it is icky, unless they are starving. Then they open wide and chase the stream.
- Alien food from Glorpax fills them right up, and changes them a little (see Mutations).
Water and soda
Fill the water cooler by tipping the pitcher over its jug. The pitcher never runs dry. Pour it on your human and they get soaked; pour it on the floor and you get a puddle.
Soda comes in a carrier of four cans. A thirsty human takes a can, cracks it open, drinks it and puts the crushed can back. It is a bit more fun than water.
Sleep
Tired humans go to bed. With no bed they nap on the couch, and with nothing at all they sleep on the floor (which is not as restful). The light lid keeps them up if its lights are on, and they will let you know about it. Hunger only wakes a sleeping human if there is actually food to be had.
Washing
In the shower they step in, pull the curtain, sing and scrub. Singing trains their voice. Bashful humans yell if you peek over the top. Low hygiene shows as stink lines.
The bathroom
Every human has their own bathroom habits:
- Anywhere humans go wherever they happen to be.
- Corner humans pick a corner.
- Holder humans refuse to go until they have an accident.
Each one may or may not accept a litter box, which fills up as it is used. Everybody uses a toilet, though bashful humans cover their face and ask you not to look. Turning a litter box or a used toilet upside down makes exactly the mess you would expect.
Cleaning up
Grab the vacuum and hold the trigger. It sucks up pellets, poop, puddles, spilled litter and loose pills. Your human gets pulled toward it if they are close, and right on the nozzle they get stuck, kicking and screaming. Pull them off with your other hand, or switch the vacuum off.
A messy habitat spreads germs, and your human will comment on it.
Reset
Press Right B to reset. Everything outside the habitat goes back to its spot on the shelf, right side up. Things inside the habitat and things in your hand stay where they are. If your human is outside the habitat, they find their own way home.