Hello, I recently picked up the game, and played through the first bits of the tutorial. When I go to spawn my first creatures (foragers), I notice that they never are displayed in the legend under the mini-map as the game tutorial suggests, and I never see any physical creatures spawn. When I check the stats menu I can see changes in the plant species over 35+ time, but the species menu appears empty. The menu below it showing the maturing creatures lists several, but they all seem to be locked at age 0....

it'd be very cool to see

maybe I missed it, but is there some kind of game manual or documentation explaining the UI and behind-the-scenes mechanics? Or some guides? For example I'd like to understand the neural network display - what are those nodes and values, why do some links disappear from the window to where I'm not allowed to scroll? How and when do entities learn - e.g. to improve body part movement? During the lifetime of an entity, or only when spawning a new generation? I assume large mutations like new body parts onl...

Assuming no limitations on time, computing power and memory size, do you think this creatures would evolve into some sort of self-aware intelligence?

I can't find them in the menu