The Skitter

The Skitter adds a massive procedural spider that grows, adapts, and relentlessly hunts players across your world. It isn’t just another boss—it behaves like a persistent predator with advanced movement, hunting, and survival mechanics.

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Features

Procedural Creature

The Creature is built entirely from procedural Block Displays instead of a traditional entity model.

Features include:

– Fully procedural FABRIK IK legs
– Speed-matched walking and galloping animations
– Spring-based body movement
– Dynamic terrain tilt

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Growth System

The Creature evolves through 5 growth phases.

– Starts at roughly 3 blocks tall
– Reaches over 11 blocks in the final phase
– Grows by hunting mobs

Each phase increases:

– Health
– Damage
– Detection range
– Attack reach
– Movement speed

Health scales from 60 HP to 230 HP.

Detection radius increases from 30 to 115 blocks.

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Hunting AI

Players are always the highest priority target.

Behavior includes:

– Remembers players that attacked it
– Hunts nearby hostile and passive mobs
– Requires line of sight before attacking

Mob attacks:

– Captures prey with web
– Pulls victims toward itself
– Eats them to continue growing

Player attacks:

– Heavy melee attacks with knockback
– 30% chance to grab players in its jaws
– Escape by landing 3 successful hits
– 45% chance to inflict Poison for 3–5 seconds

Shields block all attacks until Phase 5, where powerful strikes can break through defensive positioning.

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Siege Abilities

Unlocked from Phase 3 onward.

Abilities include:

– Mines through walls, floors, and ceilings
– Player-like mining animations
– Cannot mine obsidian

Power Jump:

– Crouch wind-up
– Camera shake
– Ground impact
– Optional block destruction during flight

Anti-tower behavior:

– Jumps at nearby players
– Pulls distant players down using webs
– Sneaking does not prevent web pulls

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Adaptive Behavior

The Creature is designed to feel unpredictable.

Examples include:

– Freezes when first spotted
– Slowly stalks its target
– Performs false charges
– Searches the player’s last known position
– Uses sound cues while tracking
– Occasionally retreats before attacking again
– Stores grudges against players
– Ambient sculk-like clicking sounds
– Feeding roars

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Escape Mechanic

At 10% health, the Creature attempts to survive.

It will:

– Sprint away
– Burrow underground
– Disappear temporarily
– Return roughly 30 seconds later at full health

Final Phase death causes:

– Cobweb explosion
– 3–5 venomous spiderlings
– Spiderlings can climb walls

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Commands

Available commands:

– `/spider summon <1-5>`
– `/spider remove`
– `/spider hunt`
– `/spider phase`
– `/spider status`
– `/spider scale`
– `/spider reload`

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Multiplayer

Spider Hunt supports multiplayer worlds.

The Creature behaves consistently across players while remembering targets and continuing its hunt.

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Good luck.

You’ll know it’s nearby before you ever see it.