Talk:Floater/@comment-217.42.112.238-20150819135941

My theory for how floaters exist is similar to sea squirts on Earth - they take minerals out of the rocks, and nutrients from the water. However they are bouynt and full of air so that when enough of them attach to a rock, it breaks from the ground and floats through the sea - carrying the floaters a great distance. They then release eggs or spores or whatever which land on new rocks and develop into more, baby floaters (polyps?) that grow up and live the same way.

Giant floaters would do something similar, except their spores - I think - dig deep into the sand, or rock, and then start to develop. They grow very quickly and their growth cracks the rock, until there are so many that large slabs of the sea floor break off, and rise because of their bouyancy. (The underwater giant-floater islands look like they're made from punice rock too, in the game, which might aid to the bouyancy - that and the fact that they are hollow). As the large island slabs rise, small reefs form, but eventually die when the islands reach the surface. Once the island has reached the surface, land plants and animals may begin to colonise it. (For example the massive atmosphere biome island is a floater island already colonised). This is how the floaters, and also the land organisms survive on a planet entirely covered in oceans, and the land organisms are dependant on the floaters. The giant floaters would then release their eggs/spores to wherever the island has floated over to and they would dig into the seabed... restarting the whole process, and generating MORE islands.

Sorry for the giant text wall :P