This is the Extreme Creature Growth Nightime Map & Guide By Gremxula

To get a fully grown creature in 4-6 hours 5-7 years Eden time. (Well I did say extreme) is quite simple when you know how! 

READ THIS GUIDE

Creature Growth Guide by Element.
 
1. Sleep 
Sleep is very important! The very first thing you should teach your creature is to sleep in its pen. (The area outside the temple entrance) If he sleeps here he will grow in size twice as fast as if he sleeps on the ground outside. You should also make him sleep at night since that will make him grow three times as fast. When you make him sleep at night he will continue to sleep even when his tiredness reaches zero until the mourning comes. 

2. Food/Fat level 
The creatures fat level is also considered very important to his growth. After many experiments Ive found out that you should keep him over 40 but under 60. Id say 45 is the perfect fat level. If you teach your creature to feed itself you will have to teach him when (how much hunger he has in %). You must consider what type of diet to keep your creature on, (by diet I mean what sort of food your creature will eat mostly). If you raise a good creature you might want to make him eat grain or fish since animals or humans are considered evil. A small creature shouldnt eat pigs or cows since they contain much fat (if you want your creature to eat animals). Sheep are good because of their small size. You must make sure that your creature doesnt eat too much animals (grain is ok, since he will take as much as he need, unless he is very greedy). Humans dont contain much fat, but if you want your creature to eat people, you should start with small children. 

3. Damage/Hunger/Tiredness 
I believe that while being young (growing, not full grown) you should try to avoid any of these bars to exceed 50%. The hunger bar isnt so important as the other two but will cause the fat level of your creature to drop with one point per 2nd point over 50%. 

4. Miracles 
If your creature is under ca. 65% growth rate (I will explain this more closely) you might want to think twice about teaching your creature a heavy miracle (megablast, heal inc, and/or flock of birds, or any other heavy miracles). He will easily get tired and the chance of the tiredness bar to exceed 50% is high. 

5. Growth Rate 
To find your creatures growth rate, start a skirmish game (like one god) and get your creature in his pen (he doesnt need to sleep). Press [esc] and display the player stats. 
Make it display numeric and find the creature growth rate bar. Now you can see how much your creature has grown. 
Note: A creature is full grown at 89%, not 100! 

Here ends the guide, hope I helped you out.
 Any questions or feedback may be sent to its_me_element@hotmail.com. 

-Element-

THIS IS A TYPICAL GUIDE (actually one of the better ones)and will grow your creature to full size with 20-40 hours of sepervision in any normal(nightime'ised) sandbox or skirmish map. *

  Then there was KAYS map this was EXCELENT as it was built around a small Island with NO VILLAGERS just fish farms this was great as it could produce a fully grown creature overnight UNATTENDED.  Then with nothing better to do I sat down and watched  my new creature grow, after about half an hour and a couple of cans I realised that he was GOING to the fishfarm to eat, GOING to a tree to poo and GOING to the sea to drink.
  All that going is a waste of energy and sleep (SLEEP=GROWTH), so I tweaked Kays map to have a mixed flock(herd) sheep, cattle, pigs and a horses to circle his pen, a short stream just outside for drinking and a giant fish for 10000 grain to put in the back of his pen for eating and/or pooing(v1.10 and above) and just for those who still believe in mushrooms I added a field mainly grey (Dreamers or Growth**),some blues & red. 


How to use ExtremeGrowth map.

1. Start a new game and skip all training. DO NOT FEED

2. Take your new creature to the coast and leash of learning him to a fisherman create a disciple if needed and teach fishing.

3. Repeat with a farmer. Now he knows how to feed himself with fish and grain.

4. START the skirmish map ExtremeGrowth.

5. Get him into his pen as quickly as you can, just outside his pen is a half buried giant fish pick this up and drop it in his pen this will turn into 10000 grain for best results move the grain to the back of the pen.

6.Lightly reward(10%) all of these actions:- feeding himself , stretching and yawning , waking up. If he wanders off( not fishing) just bring him back to his pen with leash. If he picks up a toy lightly punish.

7. After a few mins he should settle into a routine of eat sleep eat sleep with poos and drinking as required. He may even go fishing this is OK if he goes straight back to his pen.

8. Discontinue all interaction and watch for say 5 mins if all goes well continue to 9 else go back to 6.

9. Press Alt 2 for accelerated time, there is a quirk in the way creature time dosent accelerate when game time does SO HE GROWS TWICE AS QUICK.

10. Press c again a quirk the game counts the frames with your creature in to calculate the ammount of attention given so you track him for max attention while doing nothing.

11. Go away do something else for half an hour he should still be sleeping most of the time just getting up to eat poo or drink. If not go back to 6

12. If you got this far then you can watch a vidio go get some fresh air or whatever
for a couple of hours.

13. If all still OK repeat 12.

14. OK so you can't wait or grain is getting low press Esc and exit the map and enter the defeat one god map. If he's in the pen get him out to have a look. Return him to his pen press Esc and under player look at creature growth with him in his pen. The way this works is the ammount he has to shrink in order to fit in his pen 89% is maximum size  (NOT 100%)

15. If your pet hasent grown enough return him to the growth map where he should settle back down quite quickly.

16. Now you have a fully grown creature the real work begins. Your creature is fully grown but Knows Nothing ......CHOOSE YOUR BOOT CAMP  and start your training.

ERRORS IN BEHAVIOR

BY THE NATURE OF THIS MAP MOST ERRORS SHOULD SELF FIX.
 Alignment will stay the same.
 You can't learn anything here it's a special growth map.   


HOW BIG IS HE

1. Bring your creature to its pen IN ANOTHER MAP with a rival god. 
2. Press ESC 
3. Go to statistics (player) 
4. Change the Statistics to numeric 
5.Go look at creature growth (it will be a negative value) 

-79% is half grown
-89% is full grown

A lot of people want to know the size in meters the accepted way of calculating his height at say .64 negative growth is:-
12.5 / ( 1 + (-0.64) )
 = 12.5 / 0.36
 = 34.72 meters 
This is not the true height as creatures of the same neg growth but different species are visably different heights.


INSTRUCTIONS: 
ExtremeGrowth.txt  Install this file to \Black and White\Scripts\Playgrounds\ in your B&W Directory. 
Dance.lnd as above but in the Data\ Landscapes folder.
Then select the map from the Skirmish menu to play.

DISCLAIMER: 
This file is freeware and not to be sold.  You must own a legal copy of Black and White to use this file, no warez, isoz, ect!  I'm not associated with EA, Lionhead, or any other game company.  I'm not responsible if the file does any thing unsual to your computer, in other words USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.


*  Which map did you use? Kilroys? 
You shouldn't leave your creature alone on such a map. Betwenn the other god and his creature doing their thing. Along with a creature that knows all of the miracle and doesn't yet know where to use then. All sorts of things can happen.  

** Lots of people tried to prove the growth/mushroom link the best report that I have seen is that greys improve growth by a staggering 0.1% .....or in time 18 secs for average creature so to get a growth improvement you need to wake ,feed and get your creature back to sleep within this time or feeding mushrooms actually causes a loss of growth!!.



