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The adolescent lurking lava spider, shows the age when alive, but the corpse (2 adolescent corpses shown below) does not show the age (the aged one does).

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I had a fog spider on my deed, inside my farm, an enclosed outside area. There was one of the same name (Aged) that had set off the alarm of the neighboring village maybe 5-10 minutes before I saw it in my farm, so it could have teleported in rather than spawn there, though from a fair distance away (I didn't know that distance was possible). When I saw it in my farm it was full life. When I mentioned it in Freedom chat, someone said they had a fog spider teleport inside their house. Rumor says it might be intentional that they are able to spawn inside deeds/houses, but I don't believe it. Given the previous gameplay experience that Rolf has been happy with (to my knowledge), I highly doubt it was intentional that these things suddenly start spawning inside peoples deeds/houses. Rolf is a good guy, he wouldn't let these spiders terrorize our deeds intentionally. Starting a new deed is nerve wracking until you get those walls up, which is why people buy the deed and then work so hard to get it done asap. Only once the walls are up can we relax and enjoy the scenery. You pay the money and plant a deed for a safe zone. A little respite from the aggressive creatures to ensure you don't lose the skills you have gained for that day in an unnecessary death. You spend days to weeks building walls to make it safe from wandering aggressives, so that you can AFK safely when RL calls. It's a perfect balance, to allow for the unpredictability that is real life, and to allow people to choose their gameplay experience. If these aggressive fog spiders can spawn inside deeded areas and even inside houses (or even teleport there), then why bother with building anything? Can you imagine a world with no safe zone? How is that playable? If I had to log out to afk and then log back in again, and be on the edge of my seat every moment I am in the game -- it would be an entirely different experience, and not one I'd have stuck with for more than 11 years. I have faith, it will be fixed eventually.

There are other threads that mention spidersilk and I wanted to revive the concept, plus add some specifics I'd like to see with it. First off, there are different types of spiders: Giant, Lava and Fog. I think each should drop silk of different characteristics in armor crafting: 1. Giant drops the strongest silk, providing the best overall physical attack resistance. 2. Lava silk is less for physical, but high flame resists. 3. Fog - you guessed it, bonus to dodge and stealth (those bloody bast...). Spidersilk by default should weigh than cloth and provide the same movement and no impedance to combat or spell casting, but be as protective as leather armor. It should also require it's own skill, under tailoring. "Wurmhole, you jerk! That would ruin all my years of work skilling cloth and leather crafting!" Well, to answer: not if we limit the silk drops to only rare rolls when butchering. Also, we need to make spidersilk behave like leather imping, where the silk QL can be lower than the crafted item. Please consider drake hide armor. Did it kill the leather armor market? Nope. Why not have spidersilk craftable by CT skill? Because I want everyone to have equal opportunity to raise themselves up to master crafter levels, at the time it is introduced. How do we skill this, with it being so rare? We also add a coin pouch. This tiny little pouch can be crafted from a single drop of silk and imped for days on a second drop of silk. In fact, the super stretchy qualities of spidersilk make using it to improve have an almost imperceptible amount of loss over time. - Coin pouch would have the special quality of combining all coins into larger amounts & auto gather coins from praying. - Imping coin pouches raises QL VERY slowly, due to the incredibly intricate nature of the materials (yes, so we don't have to make 100 pouches and have them all taking up inventory space, or using up too much silk to level the skill). I detest the wastefulness of wurm's current craft grinds, making 100 needles, 100 butcher knives, 100 rope tools, 100 ores, etc. Finally, we have to have spidersilk packs! Weigh half as much as a satchel and carry as much as a regular backpack. By the time this is released, I'm sure the excitement of the 10yr knapsacks will have worn off and everyone will be itching for the latest packs to show off. Appearances are everything!! Make the armor and packs reflect the spiders they came from: - White - Orange - Somewhat greyish/foggy/smoky looking, without looking like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown cartoons. I think that covers it, but please add more suggestions or changes to keep this viable. PvP? Not sure how good or bad this will impact it, but I imagine it would be similar to the release of drake hide armor.

In light of recent news regarding Oracle, it occurs to me something ingame would be nice. In memorial I recommend the addition of fog spiders. Now this could range from a whole new critter: a water-based spider much like the opposite of the lava spiders. Even give them the same terrifying radar, speed, flat profile, and damage as the original spiders had. Or just more spiders spawning when the fog picks up. Perhaps even some event message in heart-attack orange (the old event warning about being attacked). GMs would abuse this constantly back then.

So i logged in today and there was the halloween update YAY! But when i went outside my house i saw the ground and there was a spider and i couldnt play anymore The packed dirt tiles feature a spider and a spider web for the halloween textures and i cant look at the spider So i did a support ticket and mamadarkness found a fix for this bug Go into your advanced graphics tab and turn terrain resolution to low NOW THERES NO SPIDER Just thought i'd share this fix for those who need to play in phobia mode, credit goes to mamadarkness I hope the art team fixes this for next year so nobody has to go through this again and can still play with good graphics EDIT: i forgot to mention i play with phobia mode on and the phobia mode didnt remove the spider (im an arachnaphobe)

Just wondering if my mind is playing tricks on me or do i really see green blood splattering from spider each time i hit them? I only see this when killing spiders, not other animals. Were the devs sneaky in this addition or is this old news?

This is just fun and neat. Since you guys regularly have to deal with gigantic glowing spiders, and their ilk, you might enjoy it. More here: http://amechanicalmind.com/a_mechanical_mindnewfullnoold_004.htm

[14:35:49] You try to hit a Old scared mountain lion. [14:36:53] Old scared mountain lion moves in to attack you. [14:36:57] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the chest and irritates it. [14:36:57] You miss with the right hand. [14:37:00] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the right underarm and irritates it. [14:37:01] You miss with the right hand. [14:37:03] You barely evade the blow to the stomach. [14:37:05] You miss with the right hand. [14:37:08] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the chest and irritates it. [14:37:09] Old scared mountain lion takes no real damage from the hit to the calf of the right foreleg. [14:37:10] Old scared mountain lion seems to target your right parts. [14:37:11] Old scared mountain lion fails to move into position. [14:37:13] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the right hand and irritates it. [14:37:13] Old scared mountain lion takes no real damage from the hit to the stomach. [14:37:17] You miss with the right hand. [14:37:17] Old scared mountain lion claws you pretty hard in the stomach and irritates it. [14:37:18] Old huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Aged huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Old starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Old starving hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Aged huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Aged starving hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Adolescent hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:18] Venerable huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:19] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:20] You try to hit a Old scared mountain lion. [14:37:20] Old scared mountain lion moves in to attack you. [14:37:20] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:20] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:20] Venerable huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:21] Aged huge spider seems to target your lower left parts. [14:37:21] Aged starving hell hound seems to target your upper left parts. [14:37:21] Adolescent hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:22] Venerable huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:22] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:22] Old starving hell hound claws you extremely hard in the left underarm and damages it. [14:37:23] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:23] Adolescent hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:23] Aged huge spider targets your lower left parts. [14:37:23] Aged starving hell hound targets your upper left parts. [14:37:24] You try to hit a Old scared mountain lion. [14:37:24] Aged huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:24] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:24] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the left thigh and irritates it. [14:37:24] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the stomach and irritates it. [14:37:24] Old huge spider bites you hard in the stomach and hurts it. [14:37:25] Old scared mountain lion bites you pretty hard in the stomach and hurts it. [14:37:25] Aged huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Old starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Old starving hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Aged huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Aged starving hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Adolescent hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:25] Venerable huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:26] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:27] Aged starving hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:27] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:27] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:27] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the left underarm and irritates it. [14:37:27] Adolescent hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:27] Venerable huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:27] Aged starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:28] Aged huge spider seems to target your uppercenter parts. [14:37:28] Old scared mountain lion takes no real damage from the hit to the calf of the right foreleg. [14:37:29] Old starving hell hound claws you extremely hard in the chest and damages it. [14:37:29] Aged huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:29] Old starving huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:29] Adolescent hell hound moves in to attack you. [14:37:29] Venerable huge spider moves in to attack you. [14:37:30] Old huge spider bites you hard in the left thigh and harms it. [14:37:30] Old scared mountain lion claws you lightly in the left thigh and irritates it. [14:37:30] Aged huge spider targets your uppercenter parts. [14:37:31] Aged starving hell hound claws you very hard in the left shoulder and harms it. [14:37:31] You are dead. I managed to get them all stuck in a cave.

As you can see, that spider is much larger than it has any right to be. I have looked around, found spider corpses of the same age and they aren't that insanely giant.