Mob Suggestion: Primalfish

[zealous kernel]

An evil idea came to me at the healthy hours of 2AM about a flying mob that would fire projectiles. An even eviler idea came to me when I realized how funny it would be if it was a silverfish. An even even eviler idea came to me when I remembered Hollow Knight got a sequel recently.

Generally just a rough sketch, it’d probably have silverfish colours. And as illustrated, it’d mainly attack with a spread shot of three projectiles designed to be a nuisance.

I think it’d fit pretty well in the stronghold itself alongside its weaker brethren, though the cramped corridors might weaken its strengths, so what do I know lol

My general hope for the mob would for it to be a general nuisance when trying to focus down higher priority mobs that deal more significant damage

Though it definitely can fight just fine on its own it’ll just die like a chump to coins LOL

I’ll probably draw more concept art of this thing because despite its obvious inspirations I think it can function good

[mellow depot]

woah this a fun idea

[zealous kernel]

extra concept art before I sleep

[zealous kernel]

random thought i had last night but didn't post because i was asleep

it'd be really cool if you damaged or were hit by this mob it'd wake up nearby silverfish from their infested blocks, and it could occasionally spawn underground near the pockets of silverfish infested stone/deepslate that vanilla adds that spawn under mountainous biomes

which, aside from being wherever else you might end up fighting it, would give it more clear connection to its less winged brethren and kind of make it fit into the world a bit more

while also still being kind of a general nuisance

also it'd be weak to bane of arthropods (still not enough to make the enchantment really useful but i like consistency)