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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has a fair number of [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46ae80459a0e7 machine ecologies]] scattered throughout Terragen space, most the result of feral [[RecursiveCreators Von Neumann probes]], though [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46100d8d49764 Bothyga M'Vau]] was intentionally seeded as an art project and [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/491222f681eed Stanislaw]] might be of Xenosophont origin.

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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' ''Website/OrionsArm'' has a fair number of [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46ae80459a0e7 machine ecologies]] scattered throughout Terragen space, most the result of feral [[RecursiveCreators Von Neumann probes]], though [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46100d8d49764 Bothyga M'Vau]] was intentionally seeded as an art project and [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/491222f681eed Stanislaw]] might be of Xenosophont origin.

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* [[https://www.deviantart.com/zacwilliam/gallery/35530511/The-Cybertronic-Bestiary The Cybertronic Bestiary]] contains one fan's depictions of the [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Cybertronic_wildlife frequently mentioned]] but never seen wildlife of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Cybertron]].

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* [[https://www.''[[https://www.deviantart.com/zacwilliam/gallery/35530511/The-Cybertronic-Bestiary The Cybertronic Bestiary]] Bestiary]]'' contains one fan's depictions of the [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Cybertronic_wildlife frequently mentioned]] but never seen wildlife of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Cybertron]].



* In the world of ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' living things are replaced by anthropomorphic vehicles, for example large farm vehicles replacing livestock.

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* In the world of ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'', living things are replaced by anthropomorphic vehicles, for example large farm vehicles replacing livestock.



* ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'': "Silverlife" composed of NanoMachines is one of three orders of life on the {{Precursor}} artifact that serves as the eldraic homeworld, along with {{Ultraterrestrial|s}} greenlife and alien bluelife. Silverlife "organisms" range from microscopic bots that act symbiotically in the bodies of the eldrae and other multicellular organisms, to giant terraforming robots that the ancient eldrae mistook for [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental spirits.]]
* The planet Laoth in ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'': as Dom rides his robot horse through the "countryside", he sees mechanical insects recharging from solar-powered flowers, only to be eaten by larger mechanical insects.

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* The planet Laoth in ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'': as Dom rides his robot horse through the "countryside", he sees mechanical insects recharging from solar-powered flowers, only to be eaten by larger mechanical insects.
* ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'': "Silverlife" composed of NanoMachines {{Nanomachines}} is one of three orders of life on the {{Precursor}} {{Precursors}} artifact that serves as the eldraic homeworld, along with {{Ultraterrestrial|s}} greenlife and alien bluelife. Silverlife "organisms" range from microscopic bots that act symbiotically in the bodies of the eldrae and other multicellular organisms, to giant terraforming robots that the ancient eldrae mistook for [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental spirits.]]
* The planet Laoth in ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'': as Dom rides his robot horse through the "countryside", he sees mechanical insects recharging from solar-powered flowers, only to be eaten by larger mechanical insects.
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* The planet the game ''VideoGame/{{Hob}}'' takes place on is artificial and made entirely of SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology. The landmasses are a PatchworkMap by design and can be moved around by switches.

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* The planet the game ''VideoGame/{{Hob}}'' takes place on is artificial and made entirely of SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology. The landmasses are a PatchworkMap by design and can be moved around by switches.switches.
* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' is a variant in that the environment is normal, but is maintained by a veritable ecosystem of MechanicalAnimals. [[spoiler:Said robot animals are part of a large terraforming system meant to restore Earth to health after the RobotWar that [[GaiasLament devastated it]] by filling in important ecological niches as the planet is repopulated.]]



* In one possible ending to ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:all organic and synthetic lifeforms in the galaxy are transformed into cybernetic hybrids. This includes simple plants and animals -- at one point in the penultimate cutscene, tree leaves with visible wires are seen]].



* In one possible ending to ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:all organic and synthetic lifeforms in the galaxy are transformed into cybernetic hybrids. This includes simple plants and animals -- at one point in the penultimate cutscene, tree leaves with visible wires are seen]].



* The original PalmTreePanic level from ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' becomes this in the BadFuture, it's a PollutedWasteland and all the trees are mechanical.

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* The original PalmTreePanic level from ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' becomes this in the BadFuture, BadFuture; it's a PollutedWasteland and all the trees are mechanical.



* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' is a variant in that the environment is normal, but is maintained by a veritable ecosystem of robot animals. [[spoiler:Said robot animals are part of a large terraforming system meant to restore Earth to health after the RobotWar that [[GaiasLament devastated it]] by filling in important ecological niches as the planet is repopulated.]]



* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': While not shown on screen, [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Cybertronic_wildlife a wide variety of Cybertronian wildlife]] gets [[CallARabbitASmeerp namedropped]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': While not shown on screen, on-screen, [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Cybertronic_wildlife a wide variety of Cybertronian wildlife]] gets [[CallARabbitASmeerp namedropped]].
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The MechanicalLifeform are "lifeforms" that are considered natural but have mechanical inner workings; basically robots or "living machines". This comes with the question on how they live or come to be, and what kind of environment could support their living.

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The MechanicalLifeform MechanicalLifeforms are "lifeforms" that are considered natural but have mechanical inner workings; basically robots or "living machines". This comes with the question on how they live or come to be, and what kind of environment could support their living.



The concept of MechanicalLifeform applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the [[MechanicalAnimals animals]], plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature. Like the lifeforms, how the ecosystem came to be, despite the concept, tend to be unexplained and just be accepted as "part of its nature". It could be that someone, usually a more "proper" lifeform, started all this, but it's not necessarily so.

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The concept of MechanicalLifeform MechanicalLifeforms applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the [[MechanicalAnimals animals]], plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature. Like the lifeforms, how the ecosystem came to be, despite the concept, tend to be unexplained and just be accepted as "part of its nature". It could be that someone, usually a more "proper" lifeform, started all this, but it's not necessarily so.
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* In the world of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' living things are replaced by anthropomorphic vehicles, for example large farm vehicles replacing livestock.

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* The planet Laoth in ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'': as Dom rides his robot horse through the "countryside", he sees mechanical insects recharging from solar-powered flowers, only to be eaten by larger mechanical insects.
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The concept of MechanicalLifeform applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the animals, plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature. Like the lifeforms, how the ecosystem came to be, despite the concept, tend to be unexplained and just be accepted as "part of its nature". It could be that someone, usually a more "proper" lifeform, started all this, but it's not necessarily so.

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The concept of MechanicalLifeform applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the animals, [[MechanicalAnimals animals]], plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature. Like the lifeforms, how the ecosystem came to be, despite the concept, tend to be unexplained and just be accepted as "part of its nature". It could be that someone, usually a more "proper" lifeform, started all this, but it's not necessarily so.
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* The setting of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' is Biological Space Laboratories , a space station that has artificial environments replicating various habitats from the series for zoological research. This turns out to be a plot point as much as an Excuse Plot to have them all packed together, when the SR-388 habitat turns out to have been for a metroid breeding program. It falls into this trope thanks to the various exposed machinery found around it keeping things ticking over.

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* ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'': "Silverlife" composed of NanoMachines is one of three orders of life on the {{Precursor}} artifact that serves as the eldraic homeworld, along with {{Ultraterrestrial}} greenlife and alien bluelife. Silverlife "organisms" range from microscopic bots that act symbiotically in the bodies of the eldrae and other multicellular organisms, to giant terraforming robots that the ancient eldrae mistook for [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental spirits.]]

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* ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'': "Silverlife" composed of NanoMachines is one of three orders of life on the {{Precursor}} artifact that serves as the eldraic homeworld, along with {{Ultraterrestrial}} {{Ultraterrestrial|s}} greenlife and alien bluelife. Silverlife "organisms" range from microscopic bots that act symbiotically in the bodies of the eldrae and other multicellular organisms, to giant terraforming robots that the ancient eldrae mistook for [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental spirits.]]


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* ''TabletopGame/PlanetMercenary'' has a couple mechorganic ecosystems that blend cybernetics with biology. The Pereri Ring is inhabited by many mechanical plants and animals presumably engineered by the ancestors of the Esspererin to survive vacuum after whatever happened to their home planet. While Ellwor's natives wiped themselves out millions of years ago and their nanotech went wild and formed a HungryJungle of critters with wires for nerves that squawk mating signals over radio.
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* ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'': "Silverlife" composed of NanoMachines is one of three orders of life on the {{Precursor}} artifact that serves as the eldraic homeworld, along with {{Ultraterrestrial}} greenlife and alien bluelife. Silverlife "organisms" range from microscopic bots that act symbiotically in the bodies of the eldrae and other multicellular organisms, to giant terraforming robots that the ancient eldrae mistook for [[ElementalEmbodiment elemental spirits.]]
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* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' is a variant in that the environment is normal, but is maintained by a veritable ecosystem of robot animals. [[spoiler:Said robot animals are part of a large terraforming system meant to restore Earth to health after the RobotWar that [[GaiasLament devastated it]] by filling in important ecological niches as the planet is repopulated.]]

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The concept of MechanicalLifeform applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the animals, plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature. Often overlaps with MechanicalEvolution.

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The MechanicalLifeform are "lifeforms" that are considered natural but have mechanical inner workings; basically robots or "living machines". This comes with the question on how they live or come to be, and what kind of environment could support their living.

One common answer is that their ecosystem is ''also'' mechanical.

The concept of MechanicalLifeform applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the animals, plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature. Like the lifeforms, how the ecosystem came to be, despite the concept, tend to be unexplained and just be accepted as "part of its nature". It could be that someone, usually a more "proper" lifeform, started all this, but it's not necessarily so.

Often overlaps with MechanicalEvolution.MechanicalEvolution, depending on the ecosystem's history.

Compare and contrast ReclaimedByNature, another juxtaposition of the natural and artificial, but in a different way and with a different meaning: that the mechanical is not normally part of the nature, but has since been "assimilated" into them. Also compare and contrast OrganicTechnology: machines that use organic lifeforms as part of their working system.
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The concept of MechanicalLifeform applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the animals, plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature.

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The concept of MechanicalLifeform applied to an entire setting. Not only are the "people" robots, all the animals, plants and sometimes even the landscape itself is mechanical in nature. Often overlaps with MechanicalEvolution.
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* The spaceship in ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone contains a park populated with "tree borgs", artificial trees that filter the air in the ship while giving the inhabitants something nicer to look at than metal corridors.
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* In one possible ending to ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:all organic and synthetic lifeforms in the galaxy are transformed into cybernetic hybrids. This includes simple plants and animals -- at one point in the penultimate cutscene, tree leaves with visible wires are seen]].
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* The Creator/JamesPHogan novel ''Code of the Lifemaker'' features one of these as the result of a [[RecursiveCreators self-replicating and self-repairing]] alien mining ship that had gotten itself slightly fried by an unfortunate supernova and accidentally wound up on Saturn's moon Titan a million years ago. As a result of the damage to the ship, instead of an orderly landscape of alien factories the machines on Titan rapidly become a whole landscape of mechanical lifeforms diversifying and adapting to local conditions through evolution by natural selection.
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* [[https://www.deviantart.com/zacwilliam/gallery/35530511/The-Cybertronic-Bestiary The Cybertronic Bestiary]] contains one fan's depictions of the [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Cybertronic_wildlife frequently mentioned]] but never seen wildlife of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Cybertron]].



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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has a fair number of [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46ae80459a0e7 machine ecologies]] scattered throughout Terragen space, most the result of feral [[RecursiveCreators Von Neumann probes]], though [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46100d8d49764 Bothyga M'Vau]] was intentionally seeded as an art project and [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/491222f681eed Stanislaw]] might be of Xenosophont origin.

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* In the ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars webseries continuation, mortal enemies Bucky O'Hare and Toadborg find themselves stranded on a semi-unknown planet covered in what appears to be a forest of metallic trees. As they travel to an abandoned Toad listening post, Bucky, trying to prevent Sanity Slippage due to hearing voices and seeing disturbing visions, attempts to get Toadborg to help speculate on what could have caused this phenomena, but Toadborg isn't interested. Turns out this planet is actually the homeworld of the Aniverse's owls, an isolationist population of wind mages. When they proved too difficult for the Toad Empire to conquer in the past, Toadborg used an orbital heat ray to smelt the planet's iron deposits, flooding the surface in molten metal in a manner similar to what Mt. Vesuvius did to Pompeii. The supernatural phenomena are the vengeful spirits of the Owlerians trying to kill Toadborg.

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* ''TableTopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has Autochtonia, a world built on the comatose body of the god of invention, all life there is mechanical.
* Mirrodin from ''TableTopGame/MagicTheGathering'' was created by the Golem Planeswalker Karn in his image, making everything on the plane mechanical in nature, including living things.

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* ''TableTopGame/{{Exalted}}'' ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has Autochtonia, a world built on the comatose body of the god of invention, all life there is mechanical.
* Mirrodin from ''TableTopGame/MagicTheGathering'' ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' was created by the Golem Planeswalker Karn in his image, making everything on the plane mechanical in nature, including living things.



* The planet the game ''Videogame/{{Hob}}'' takes place on is artificial and made entirely of SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology. The landmasses are a PatchworkMap by design and can be moved around by switches.

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* The planet the game ''Videogame/{{Hob}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Hob}}'' takes place on is artificial and made entirely of SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology. The landmasses are a PatchworkMap by design and can be moved around by switches.switches.
* Popstar becomes this in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' after the Haltmann Works Company takes it over.



* The setting of VideoGame/MetroidFusion is Biological Space Laboratories , a space station that has artificial environments replicating various habitats from the series for zoological research. This turns out to be a plot point as much as an Excuse Plot to have them all packed together, when the SR-388 habitat turns out to have been for a metroid breeding program. It falls into this trope thanks to the various exposed machinery found around it keeping things ticking over.

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* Popstar becomes this in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' after the Haltmann Works Company takes it over.

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* In the ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars webseries continuation, mortal enemies Bucky O'Hare and Toadborg find themselves stranded on a semi-unknown planet covered in what appears to be a forest of metallic trees. As they travel to an abandoned Toad listening post, Bucky, trying to prevent Sanity Slippage due to hearing voices and seeing disturbing visions, attempts to get Toadborg to help speculate on what could have caused this phenomena, but Toadborg isn't interested. Turns out this planet is actually the homeworld of the Aniverse's owls, an isolationist population of wind mages. When they proved too difficult for the Toad Empire to conquer in the past, Toadborg used an orbital heat ray to smelt the planet's iron deposits, flooding the surface in molten metal in a manner similar to what Mt. Vesuvius did to Pompeii. The supernatural phenomena are the vengeful spirits of the Owlerians trying to kill Toadborg.

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The spaceship in Series/DoctorWho episode Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone contains a park populated with "tree borgs", artificial trees that filter the air in the ship while giving the inhabitants something nicer to look at than metal corridors.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{DragonMech}}'' has "gear forests", areas in the bowels of the various city sized mecha that have developed their own ecosystems, there's even a Ranger class that specialises in these.
* ''TableTopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has Autochtonia, a world built on the comatose body of the god of invention, all life there is mechanical.
* Mirrodin from ''TableTopGame/MagicTheGathering'' was created by the Golem Planeswalker Karn in his image, making everything on the plane mechanical in nature, including living things.

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* The planet the game ''Videogame/{{Hob}}'' takes place on is artificial and made entirely of SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology. The landmasses are a PatchworkMap by design and can be moved around by switches.
* Any time nature is presented in the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series, it is this trope taken to the extreme. Forests are populated by robotic trees, woodpeckers, and caterpillars. Oceans are teeming with robotic fish and sea creatures. Deserts have [[AllDesertsHaveCacti some species of robotic cactus]] in addition to robotic desert animals. You can even see mechanical bits in the rocks and dirt.
* The setting of VideoGame/MetroidFusion is Biological Space Laboratories , a space station that has artificial environments replicating various habitats from the series for zoological research. This turns out to be a plot point as much as an Excuse Plot to have them all packed together, when the SR-388 habitat turns out to have been for a metroid breeding program. It falls into this trope thanks to the various exposed machinery found around it keeping things ticking over.
* The world of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SUos6MgTjA&t=13s Narita Boy]]'' looks like a fantasy setting made from CassetteFuturism technology.
* The original PalmTreePanic level from ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' becomes this in the BadFuture, it's a PollutedWasteland and all the trees are mechanical.
* Machine Worlds in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' are only habitable by robots.

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* In the world of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' living things are replaced by anthropomorphic vehicles, for example large farm vehicles replacing livestock.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' is set in a world where everyone is a robot, including the animals, as glimpsed when a robot dog responds to Rodney saying "Who wants to get fixed?"
* Cybertron is this in some ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' continuities.

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