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Spider! This article contains spider imagery that could be disturbing. |
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"It's a little baby spider! Kind of cute, in a creepy sort of way. AHH!! Scary baby!" |
| -Max |
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"Where there's one spiderling... there's bound to be more of them." |
| -Pete |
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"Spiderling here! I shall name it... Doug!" |
| -Willow |
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"Maybe that spiderling tastes like popcorn?" |
| -Hoops |
The Spiderling is a hostile creature found in around spider-infested areas in large groups. It is considerably smaller than the player and is easily identified by its white body. The Spiderling's low health makes it a good, early source for Web Fiber. It bears a resemblance to a wolf spider's body shape.
Behavior
Spiderlings remain within a small defined area and will periodically climb on spider webs. Spiderlings move quickly and are not easily outrun. They attack by biting and rear backward before lunging forward to bite at close-range. They only have one bite attack and will commonly loop around the threats while attacking.
Interaction With Player
The Spiderling is hostile toward the player. When the player is spotted, it runs or jumps at the player to close the distance. The player can also spawn up to three Spiderlings when a player bursts a Web Sac. The player can also periodically spawn friendly Spiderlings when they have the Mom Genes mutation.
Interaction With Other Creatures
Spiderlings are passive toward the Hedge Broodmother, Orb Weavers, Orb Weaver Jrs, and Wolf Spiders. They are neutral toward other creatures but defend themselves and become hostile when attacked. They also rest on the webs made by Orb Weavers by climbing on them.
Advanced Loot Table
This is a more advanced covering of the loot-table of Spiderling. Each item has an independent chance and count, in which the chance is the chance it can drop and the count is the amount of items that have that chance. If a count larger than 1 is in one section, then each item has an independent chance from one another (EX: Instead of getting say 2 of a resource, you can get 1 with a 70% chance and another with an additional 70% chance). In terms of Stealing, it can take one item from every section of the loot table, so even if a item count is say 5, the player will only steal one from that section.
Creature Loot Tables also tend to have large amounts of 1% items, which is intended to make stealing more rare items harder, as the player is more likely to steal the large amounts of 1% items than a singular 50% item.
Note: For consistency sake, all duplicate categories have a multiplier next to them, but function as unique loot types when say using Stealing.
| Item | Count | Chance |
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 Spider Chunk
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1 | 1% |
 Web Fiber
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1 | 100% |
| Web Fiber x2
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1 | 1% |
Strategy
Spiderlings can easily be killed with any weapon or armor, though the player must be cautious of the spiders that may be nearby. The player can also create Spiderlings by breaking Web Sacs, though the player should be careful that spiders will approach broken Web Sacs when bursts to investigate the area.
Trivia
- Spiderlings which appear out of websacs are smaller than their natural spawning counterparts.
- It's difficult to say exactly which spider the Spiderling is based off of, as most spiders when they are first hatched are white and actually transparent.
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