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The fishing spider will be the optional challenge creature for the 4th tier levels – this means it is likely to not be in the game with the initial release of the fire ant levels, but added in after in an interim update between the 4th and 5th tiers (following the pattern for the 2nd and 3rd tier challenges). Ready to strike – keep your distance, ants! Air bubbles that get trapped on its body mean that as long as it is not submerged for too long, it will emerge completely dry. It is capable of fully submerging itself for a time, breathing from a pocket of air it takes with it. Its prey includes insects (both aquatic and ones that have fallen into the water) and small fish.
It can lie in wait (float in wait?) patiently for many hours for a suitable prey item to drift or swim to within striking distance. It lurks near the bank, exploiting a hydrophobic (water-repelling) coating on its skin, surface tension and air bubbles to stay afloat. The six-spotted fishing spider ( Dolomedes triton) is a large semi-aquatic spider native to North America. I’m not sure I like those odds Six-Spotted Fishing Spider They represent the largest group of Aranae (true spiders). Jumping spiders are highly intelligent, even curious in nature, carefully observing targets before making the decision to pounce at the opportune moment.
Cute but cunning – a magnolia green jumper It will be the 2nd jumping spider in the game, after Psecas viridipurpureus from the 3rd tier. The magnolia green jumper ( Lyssomanes viridis) hunts using excellent eyesight & powerful back legs that allow it to jump many times its body length. Lurking in the leaves Magnolia Green Jumper This is in contrast to, for example, the whip spiders of the 3rd tier, which are arachnids but not true spiders. Like all three of the spiders being introduced in this newsletter, it is what is known as a “true” spider, being a member of the order Araneae. It can also defensively spit venom a long distance – a very rare adaptation, and we felt this trait made it ideal for our game. It is an active hunter, seeking out prey rather than building webs, in a similar way to wolf spiders. The green lynx spider ( Peucetia viridans) lurks in foliage, using its pigmentation as camouflage. Or is it that, despite our intelligence, deep down we know that nature perfected functional physical form long before our ancestors could sharpen a stick? Whatever the reason, today we have three spiders to introduce that will battle your fire ants in the 4th tier levels! Green Lynx Spider Maybe it’s that they’re all business at one end, many eyes and fangs staring right back at us. What is it about the form of the spider that makes them so intimidating to us, despite very few of them posing any real threat at all? Perhaps it’s the unpredictable stop-start movements they make. Spiders elicit fascination in us as much as they instil dread. There’s also a beetle larva to show that wasn’t ready in time for the last newsletter. We’re (almost) moving away from insects for our newly-finished critters this time, into the world of spiders! We apologise in advance to any arachnophobes who already find looking at them difficult. Last time, the creature feature was all about beetles. A whip spider observes a trail of Atta cephalotes from Crazlex9 on our Discord We’ve also decided that now is the time to expand our dev team, and we’ve brought in a fantastic new artist to work on our environments – I’ll introduce you to Dan (yes, this is the 2nd time in the past year we’ve hired someone called Dan) a little later in the newsletter. It’s been an important last couple of months for Empires of the Undergrowth, and those of us at Slug Disco Studios! Work continues apace on the fire ant update, and we’re not too far away from having all of the 4th tier creatures complete and ready for placement in the levels.
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