Nectar and the founding reserve
Nectar is an investment in further nests, not food for immediate hunger.
Ripe nectar lies on the ground as an orange parcel and can be carried and set down like other cargo. In a nest it belongs to the species' nectar reserve. It fills no hunger bar and is not turned into food. Because every slime has only one cargo slot, carrying nectar still competes with food and movable stones along the way. Its value lies in future growth, not in feeding its carrier.
A colony with a living queen can use enough nectar to acquire a lasting right to found another nest. The cost follows the species' actual configuration and scales with its living population. Early in a world, first-time exploration shortens this path; once the land is known, nectar remains the reliable source. A right already paid for remains until a site is reserved and the founding is completed or cancelled.
Finding and knowing
Nectar parcels lie in the shared underworld. A colony does not know them merely because the world was created or because a free camera can see them, but only through actual exploration. Once exposed or brought to the surface, nectar can be carried by any species.
New and lost queens
While the colony has a living queen, enough stored nectar, together with the share of first exploration, becomes a lasting right to found another nest. If a species has lost every queen, the same reserve can instead turn a suitable individual of its own in an existing nest into a new queen. Food parcels still pay for ordinary births; nectar does not replace them.
