Style Guide

General Guidelines

 * Avoid excessive use of future tense, e.g. "When thrown, these objects will ignite in a bright blue flash.". Use present tense for general description and instead write "When thrown, these objects ignite in a bright blue flash.".
 * Avoid unnecessary prefacing language, e.g. "Note that it is also possible to.." or "Interestingly it is also possible to..". Avoid padding sentences out and instead write "It is also possible to...".
 * Use American English orthography, e.g. "color" over "colour", "center" over "centre", and "defense" over "defence".
 * Use double quotation marks only when quoting or otherwise referring to in-game dialogue or text, e.g. "I think I know what you are looking for." over 'I think I know what you are looking for.', and They are edible when 'popped'... over They are edible when "popped"
 * Treat all creatures, places, and objects (basically everything with a wiki page unless specified otherwise) as proper nouns, e.g. "Slugcats are both the primary protagonists..." over "The slugcat is both the primary protagonist..."
 * Capitalize the names of creatures, regions, and objects, but leave the names of game mechanics lowercase, e.g. "Holding a Noodlefly Egg aggravates Adult Noodleflies, turning them hostile until the item is dropped.", and "Once at the hibernation screen, the amount of food consumed during the cycle is shown, as well as current karma level and passages if any are in progress or attained."

Writing
When adding content to the wiki, consider these questions:


 * Is your addition speculative?
 * Is this your own interpretation?
 * Is there not enough information to be certain about this?
 * Does the information lack an official source?

If the answer is yes to any of these questions then the content does not belong on the wiki. Speculation and non-canon interpretations can very easily be taken as fact when published on a wiki article, even with disclaimers.

Some pages cover lore which is inherently open to interpretation. For these pages, make sure that fan theories and speculative ideas are confined to an Interpretations subheader.

Formatting
This wiki is formatted using Wikitext, a guide to which can be found here. A cheatsheet can be found here.

Headers
Headers should use  where necessary, and both terms should be capitalised when this is the case.

e.g.  and

Images
A guide to MediaWiki image use can be found here.

GIFs
Animated GIFs will not embed and play on a page when the total GIF size (width × height × number of frames) exceeds 20 million pixels. More information can be found here.

Gifs also have a heavy impact on page loading times, especially for visitors on slower internet connections, or using mobile data.

Templates
Frequently used templatesː


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The  template can be used to mark a page for overhaul:
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Categories
Categories are used to index pages together for easy navigation and reference.

Frequently used categoriesː


 * Category:Creatures - For all creature pages.
 * Category:Objects - For all items that can be picked up, carried and used.
 * Category:Regions - For all region pages.
 * Category:Maps - For all region map images.

Categories can be inserted at the end of a page, in source edit mode, like soː

Every gameplay page should belong to its relevant category.

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