#calamity-update-talk
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sapphire is one of these words that fuel my english rot
where i end up overcomplicating words that arent complicated
the English Rot
yea thats fair lol
ruby is staying mostly the same design wise
neat
i just want to make it a bit smaller and shift its proportions so the head is the focal point more
(Bigger head )
i think it was the best looking one already so lol
tbf i do like it being kinda big, i think it fits well with it being a t3
so i hope even if its a bit smaller its still large
diamond is getting a full redesign i think.. was planning to maybe emphasize its wings, make the wings be part of its main attack maybe like allowing it to spread them open and do a huge diamond light flash at the player
they could be some cool tough earlygame enemies
cave size
issue is that we can't have them be too big cause vanilla cave generation is usually not that big
i mean it will be bigger than the player
that is fair
Weren’t the scuttlers each gonna have like a unique drop or something too and if so like what were they gonna be
t2 and t3 yes
t1 are basically just critters arent they
t1 just share the scutler gem accesory ( gemerald heart )
gem trees are so cool
imagine if these guys like hung around them kinda
i feel like you could have so much more with the little gem caves that spawn
Also is amber’s idea of being like encased in a ball of amber still gonna be the case for it
they could definitely be like full mini biomes like granite and marble i think
yes
and the beetle being the one punching it
was there another iteration wave before this and the previous one
not counting the chudlets that r ingame
talking less about tiny changes and more like full switches on ur vision for em
cuz afaik its just been
the first wave and this second remake wave now
I forgot about ancient emerald crawler, ngl
I do wonder like alongside the actual gems getting scuttlers and that one geode quail if theres gonna be any more scuttlers for other things
scutlers are only for gems
theres prismback for sso in (undefined) time
if perennial gem get real it will get a scutler
idk if therell be any others
and prismback is a scuttler ye
it needs a resprite
it should problably come with the other crawlers tbh
Wasn’t there like also a geode quail too right
geode quail yea.. he is a cousin
no way sunken sea content real life
if you finish the resrpite for prismback id be down to program it alongside the others
i forgot this was a thing
When they making the lumenyl scuttler too
sso yesterday
im glad i killed it for fox
Fair
its not rare-ish like the other gems
sorry we have to remove a few enemies so its actually -1
Albeit like prism shards aren’t really rare at all either currently
true
but prismbacks are already a thing so
i guess them dropping prism shards is kind of secondary
I guess yeah thats fair
they're kinda just there
fry can you make prismbacks cool and not lame pls. can you make their ai good
thanks
Life crystal scuttler when
they aren't but its just nice to have an creature down there that has managed to incorporate them into its biology in some way
hhhngrg im gonna PRISM YOU! says the prismback
ass it prisms you
to death
as*
not ass
what even are the plans for prismback behavior
i dont think we were ever told
beyond them being neutral i think?
reviving crystal scutler as a little lizard goblin creature that steal from your (your gold ) and hold it in a bag and run away as it laughs
🔥 🔥 🔥
need to convince xyk to code in the greedy beetle
evil golden beetle that appear if you have too much money, hit you, make you drop coins which it steal then run away
i love pushing around amber bouldrs says the strong yharim beetle
i feel like it could be smth other than a beetle
if only cu fables already has a sort of greed-themed beetle already tbh
Ofc multiple projects can ahve the same ideas but
Yharim beetles that post-yharon will actually go find auric ore and try to punch it into a boulder but get eviscerated when they try it
I feel like it'd feel a bit derivative, even if not intentionally
yharim
maybe it could be a creature actually commonly associated wtih greed
like a fox or crow
WHY A GOBLIN SHARK
Dragons are associated with greed so make it a dragon
canon landshark would go crazy
goblins are normally related to greed and stealing, and goblin sharks are cool
post moonlord amber scuttler
thats AURIC
auric slime real
I shuppose but ig it just feels kinda random ,,,
plese put a seal in calamtiy mod
auric beetle being the first hint at yharim actual moveset
i NEED the yharim amber scuttler lore to be real so bad
it will be fun animating amber beetle since i want to do some taunts and anime poses for it
its funny in vaccuum
Sky seals for the eventual sky overhaul which look like they’re made of clouds
but also
genuinely good worldbuilding if u stop to think abt it
it shows yharim's impact on the world, how even the littlest of guys were influenced by him in one way or the other
no more aquatic creatures in the sky im sick of it
and as long as ur not directly namedropping YHARIM on the bestiary and instead vaguely allude to him
i think amber beetle little side fact if implement well is cool.. but my only fear is to end up with a clad crab situation
clad crab is goofy like
what does the crusade have to do with anything in this context i dont get it
why did they have to adapt
where the clad crab god worshippers
no i mean how its bestiary just start talking about the crusade out of nowhere
feels kinda forceful and silly
yeah thats what im talking abt
see i think this is easily addressed
ok hold on let me make an example
I love how like theres a weird amount of crab enemies in calamity
Clad crabs, flak crabs, slab crabs, crabulon
"yes we have this amoeba that live in the sulphur sea, in the great war that happened 300 years ago people used to eat gelatin and bones as they didnt had food"
this is funny as fuck
i forgot what clad crab was for a second and thought you were talking about slab crab
i was like "what the fuck are tou alking about" for a second cheese im ngl
people were eating them?
idk its kinda uncanny
clad crab bestiary entry feels like the manifestation of the "this will affect the trout population" meme
scarab bestiary entry: "These powerful insects push the heaviest gems they can find, trying to prove themselves as the strongest of their kin. It's said they idolize a great warrior that they saw shatter a boulder with a single punch many years ago."
Don't just
yharim soldiers hated clad crabs
namedrop yharim
allude to him, vaguely
And if the post ml version becomes real
u can actually make it more clear then
only thing would be integrating better the "Punch a boulder" thing
because like its kinda silly to imagine yharim just going to the desert, punching a boulder and leaving
Yeah def lol
The slab crab bestiary entry is a little confusing to me because like it starts by saying how strong they are but then talks about how they struggled to survive which is a little confusing at least to me
i mean him being in the desert is understandable, ilmeris
and stuff
but like the boulder part
Just, some sort of feat of strenght
yea a feat of strenght in general
yea and it never mentions
what caused it to strugle in the crusade specifically
obsessed with this mental image
it was rumored this specific boulder was the god of minerals
strongman in a desert village challenged him to a test of strength once and he decided to annihilate an entire boulder to show off
Post ml scarab: "A scarab that has succesfully shattered its gem and became an elite member of its clan, respected by all others. It covers itself in gold to try emulating the gilded armor of the warrior it idolizes."
Its a simple but effective progression!
yharim heard about the god of minerals so he traveled the earth punching every boulder he found until he eventually killed them
i think its cooler if its golden armor is actually the amber from the boulder it shattered
warrior guy > WAIT GOLD? GOLD LIKE YHARIM? THE WARRIOR WAS YHARIM NO WAY!
yharim carving a xeroc shaped boulder and punching it out of anger
it still is not making it like super obvious
but itseasy to understand
with some reading comprheension
that it was yharim
also tthis is true
Make their armour out of pyrite since thats fools gold or something idk
something bestiary needs to get better at is avoiding namedropping things like
YHARIM
THE CRUSADE
it's so silly sorry guys
need to sprite the sanguinesquito and The Tick eventually (blood moon content
)
buggys :)
sanguinesquito having a entry about how it killed 500 yharim soldiers during the crusade with sickness
The Tick is so fucking menacing
it's ok to mention Crusade and Yharim in the entry for Yharon
but please dont mention them in random prehardmode enemy #63
we add 1 million bug to calamity mod
The Tick
divergent evolution
all three enemies are a single syllable with LA in the name
they had to adapt to the crusade.
and what adding stones to its body helped with during the crusade
it feels like a shitpost ngl
like
when i first readi ti genuinely thought it was one
new forest enemy, called "the crusade" that eats clad crabs, and its an trail of ants
im still wondering if its supposed to be
that crusade together
When we getting the glad crab
town pet
Town crab pet would go hard
the stones made them look less like crabs so the yharmy soldiers were like "nah nvm that cant be it that dosent look like a crab"
yes a town pet crab won a spot in the critter contest 3 years ago
Oh i didn’t realise that woah
its funny, you can put helmets on it
god was that actually 3 years ago
im so old

ill be as old as the funny number next year
thats fucked up
im literally gonna be calamity mod 22 in real life
2 years ago..
im turning 23 this year but after calamity’s 10th
i’ll be 22 on that day
2 is still pretty long for at least one not to be added ngl
2, 3 50% margin of error, same thing
fish mines...
yeahhh
fryzah user.. if its fully sprited
need that hog done..
would you code the ant crusade
yes
having a critter contest bebe after hog update would be neat
Crusader Ant
new enemy
also i'm ngl i think rotdogs are actually a pretty decent enemy even if they're just reused vanilla code
What else one like the critter contests
they're not super well made on the programming side of things but like
just need to add a ant eater creature then you have the full ecosystem of crusade ants eating clad crabs, the ant eater eating crusade ants (what defeat crusades.. )
On the design side yeah i think a charger enemy that's slightly rarer than zombies and demon eyes but has relatively low health and only spawns after u killed one of the game's first bosses, so it adds a bit of difficulty to ur usual pre hardmode nights but only after youve likely beaten 1 or 2 bosses?
yeah no man thats acutally like
not bad enemy design
all things considered even if they ARE just like reused i i wouldnt mind if they just stayed like that
plus their like. actual visual design. is good too
it fits with other night enemies
its a zombie! cuz theres undead at night!
i mean blood moon is getting a lot more stuff
so i think rot dogs could get a bit of love with some proper ai and polish
but its a z ombie dog, so its faster than human zombies, and it charges at you, like a evil feral dog
That is fair they could still be polished don't get me wrong
it has a "miniboss" now, 2 new enemies (sanguinesquito and tick )
but if thery didn't i think this is one of the few cases
yeah i wouldnt mind
this enemy isn't hte most expertly programmed but it's actually fairly decent
evil feral dog? you know what is also in the blood moon post EoC now?
When is the rot cat that jumps at you and scratches all over your face
its not horribly designed and its lack of complex programming dosent subtract from the concept too much
gulp ...
i remember archon had an idea for rotdog changes a while back
rotdogs arent blood moon only btw, theyre just regular night enemies
might hit them up soon and see if i can get that implemented sometime
i think rotdog changes should be fairly insubstantial, like
the concept shouldn't be completely flipped over its head
it should just be polished and improved a bit
i think, personally, that it should remain a fairly simple enemy
cuz its good at that

yea it was pretty much building off of what was already there from what i remember
i will also say id personally change it to be
after u kill any 1 boss
rather than specifically eoc
cuz that fits the same niche but now if you like. kill desert scourge first or something
or king slime
pangolin, aardvark or ant eater for the crusade ant destroyer.. which is cooler
it bothers me so much how rotdogs are creatures that come from the same origin as demon eyes but theyre like just regular domestic dogs with collars and stuff
i mean
wait the bestiary right
i thought u emant like
same origin as in they're night enemies
ngl yeah id change their bestairy entry to just be
the bestiary says its from the same origin as demon eyes..
theyre undead dogs bro
arent they just zombie dogs yea
theyre like zombies but theyre dogs
ya
Pangolins would go hard
I like the idea of Crusader Ants
It rolls of the tongue better than
Crusader Pangolin or Crusader Aardvark
and i just think it feels liek a more ,
dunno how to describe it, grounded? fitting? concept
"a creature tailored specifically to kill people" and its a regular ass dog zombie with a collar
Crusader ants do sound like it’d work as an actual name for an ant species
so the crusade ants would be like soldiers, clad crab is a fortress, what should the pangolin be..
fitting the thematic

army ants:
"These foul ghouls used to be trained guard dogs, loyally assisting their masters in wars. Even after death, they are still loyal, searching for brains to eat alongside their now equally hungry and equally undead masters."
Some bullshit
Tank?
I like the general idea i have here but i think the wording could be a bit better
true or a catapult, catapult tank pangolin that uses it tail to hurl large boulder at the ants (and the player )
It getrting a abit silly at the end is fun, but, i kind of want to not reuse "masters" twice
i feel like pangolins would fit better in the desert than in the forest tho
them being neutral surface desert creatures would be fun
hmm, wait, idea
the pangolins and ants have a rivalry
clad crabs arent desert..
And they could have a unique interaction where they fight
Yeha but pangolins in a forestj ust feels
weird
theyre notably not rly forest animals
Add crusader ant lions for the desert and desert clad crabs
clab crab desert variant...
they do eat ants
ArsenalLab crabs when
fry user.. how hard would it be to make armadilo attack crusade ants, and crusade ants gang up clad crabs
forest militia
"Once loyal guard dogs trained to protect their masters in wars & combat, they have become foul undead. Even after death, however, they still follow their masters, who they have become just as brain-hungry as."
I like this better
not hard at all but im interested in how big the ants would actually be spritewise
like this i think (upper one)
THEY ENSHITIFFIED HIM
should be fine then yea
compressed
I feel like
Also would the crusader ants be like hostile towards players or no
Armadillos would be neutral, Clad crabs are territorial right now, and the ants would be aggressive
was worried it'd be too small and you'd see a poor armadillo getting attacked by single pixels 😭
the ants would be fuckin evil
clad crabs arent completely hostile
they only get hostile if u get way too close
the ants would chase eyou and eat you they hate you
armadillos only attack if u attack first
🥺
Let the player use the bug net on the ants but the ants crawl around your inventory and damage you
i assume it would be a group of 5, with a big headed shield ant on the front (like these ants that are used as doors, but its head is used as a shield ) and 4 spear ants behind (spear head or spear jaws )
falinks ants
i did want to make changes to clad crab's behavior to make it truly neutral actually
its sitting on my computer rn just haven't touched it in a while
Clad crab behavior is a bit lame rn i cannot lie
It dosen't really do much beyond just being like a guy
but having the ants would be good since those can act as protection to some of them
would be neat if it actually camoed as ar ock
but that'd require anims ...,,
is shockstorm shuttle rework + post ml move in hogwild again? idrm if it was that for a later update
Hear me out let the player use the clad crab as a platform, like have its top be able to be stood on
later
i cant wait for post ml to go from like 8 to 9 enemies itll be so beautiful
heartwarming: major game tier gets 1 piece of non-boss exploration content ♥️
I really hope that eventually post-moon lord will actually have a lot of unique enemies and general creatures because like rn it has so few new creatures
in the future ™
i feel like if ants and armadilo get real + clad crab being better
triangle user do u have any random ideas for post ml enemies yet
New jungle enemy post-moon lord thats a mossier hornet
in hm u should have
the claddest crab
or actually
a Crusader Ant Queen would b cool
for surface desert i only really have the mata mata turtle (glass one ) and goblin sand shark
genuinely just evil
arent wasps super close to ants
idk anything about bug biology
militia wasps in the jungle that are the cousin of crusade ants, and they just shoot the player to death while in a group and there is balistic shield wasps protecting them
ants specifically r basically super derived wasps that lost flight completely
yea
evil
22 hornets are the most dangerous
enemies that works in group are kinda fun.. severe lack of them
post moon lord ocean enemy that is a non-irradiated aquatic scourge lol
ocean scourge real life
hornet behavior in death mode 😈
i thin khe snow biome could use more critters
theres only penguins
can we get a seal critter
and like a bigger reindeer cuz more ambient large creatures are COOL. thanks
wasp fly-by shooting
I could see like maybe some post-moon lord marble or like maybe crimson enemies that are like meant to be like a group of highly trained soldiers who like maybe had ties to the god of war or something
crimson and corruption post ml content should def have
strong ties to dogma/war
flesh soldiers
actually aardvark tank instead of armadilo could be fun too and it use its nose like a tank barrel to shoot
beloved aardvark
aardvark plane
Have a crimson post-moon lord enemy thats an undead warrior thats riding an armoured herpling or something
I can see structures being added to corruption/crimson in the evil biome update too
that are like. ruins of the former god council
this sounds like something from wild kratts but i dont think its from wild kratts
its something from real life
Yeah that'd be neat
herpling horse
Neigh.
what even are herplings i never understood them
a pale horse
dumb fucking shits
i think they're just
i hate them
I think they’re evil crimson slugs maybe
piles of flesh
they kinda look like slugs but i dont think they even actually are sludges its moe like
kinda like how blood crawlers arent actually spiders
but just
very deformed and mutilated bodies morphed into the shape of one
herplings r like that but a slug instead
Bouncy slug
the crimson becomes way more fucked up if you think abt how that shit looks outside of the funny pixel game filter
fucked up evil flesh slipper
oh herplings is based off herp derp i thought the name was based off herpes
like its some fear and hunger body horror shit
I will say if the evils 2 rework ends up like scrapping basically the perforators themselves from the fight using them as an enemy inspiration for post-moon lord crimson enemies could be cool
i'm unsure of how u could tie a worm to themes of war and such going with this interpretation
maybe they could just be pre hm enemies instead
i'm trying to think of smth but i cant think of much
A really long horse
like u could make ti so the worms are like spears ig
but that feels kind of forced i feel?
war so fucked up even the chunks of flesh are active combatants
Or like a bunch of soldiers amalgamated together in like a battle formation
I can see this actually yeah
Like
The "head" is a bunch of bodies carrying weapons stikcing out
yeah i can see that
arms sticking out of the segments letting it burrow and crawl around quickly too
true!
imagine its little arms
in the segments
can start like, spinning blades around
making its entire body like a uzzsaw
I imagine t being really long and being able to make loops in the terrain
And then it slows down after trapping you inside of its loops
and starts spinning the blades around
So it's a strong area denial enemy
u wanna avoid being cornered/trapped by it
call it Platoon or something
reference
I could also see like an enemy that is like a guy with a giant battle war-horn thing as part of the design
the current scutler names are Amethist Scutler, Topaz Hopper, Sapphire Surfer, Emerald Basher, Ruby Rammer, Diamond drifter and Amber Bouncer
I like those alot
Bouncer because they bounce the boulders around and like party bouncers..
still do sorta prefer Clinger over Basher but other than that
yeah bouncer is awesome
drifter is def better than soarer or whatever it was i had
is fry "john enemies" zahh writing this shit down right now 😭
i know what you are
im ngl i already have the behavior planned out in my head lol
i need to start making a habit of sketching these things tho
its literally. a platoon! of soldiers
sure
YAYYY REFERENCE
become lgl
designing and coding enemies is addicting so i get you

again. favorite thing to code for roy is enemies but alas i cannot do that right now
incoming master doc of my enemy behavior ideas
Hear me out post-moon lord versions of the vicious critters that are just now wearing little gladiator helmets and armour
i should be a dev i wont do anything but i can ideasguy i promise
i remember when i was
looking at fabsolian sso changelogs
i just kept seeing
weapon rework weapon rework boss changes
id constantly go on calamity update talk
PLEASE
PLEASE A SINGLE ENEMY
PLEASE I'M STARVING
PLEASE
PELASE IM TIRED OF WEAPON AND BOSS CHANGES PLEASE IM BEGG
plagiarism mod
we have weapon reworks to feed you for
DS weapon concept, what the users think
that feels more like a mage weapon
there were honestly quite a few of them merged onto main by the time i joined so im not really sure why they never made it on there
class identity is dead and all that but it REALLY feels like am age weapon
Yeahh i get that its a ammoless ranged weapon n thats cool but the whole like
the vibes, the aesthethics
from what im hearing
REALLY scream mage 😭
other than that tho, cool
feels like a good crowd control weapon
tho people at the time seemed to be very secretive about new sso content so that probably played a part in it
2 years of weapon rework spoilers
rainstorm
will all of DS's weapons be replaced or will some be kept still
the only one i'd be bummedi n losing would be the melee one tbh
sahara slicers living
yea
would be cool if they had a sort of oasis theming to them
genuinely 99% of class identity being dead just means it has the vibes of a class
Is the dried starfish staff staying or dying
being moved
Ah okay
urchin
ah so it'll just be Not Dry
aye fair enough
urchin will get a mage weapon and a rogue weapon or does the rouge weapon die
i wouldnt mind if the rouge weapon died
its nothing
nothingburger weapon
summoner
the starfish that gives you defense
even if functionally it doesnt act like a weapon from that class "should" if the visuals can make it look like something from that class then it can be part of that class
Random idea for a post-moon lord desert enemy I just came up with: A cassowary, an ordinary cassowary
it will be fun making the DS weapons fit with AS later
acid watering can or bubble watering can
yes someone will care
corroded watering can ,,,
instead of sahara slicers its chernobyl slicers
😭
i forgot about these.. i need to make them eventually
i love ideasguying in cut
I do kind of hope if it get redesigned it gets changed to maybe like visually look like a shield a bit so the defensive ability makes a bit more sense and fits its actual theme
i remember these
that'd be cool
green humor thumb buddy
case and point 90% of people that have issues with burning sky as it is now (minus the ranged reforges i hate the ranged reforges) would not have an issue with it if it had usestyle 1
yeah it rly is just vibes
the watering can having a magicky aesthethic, and doing the verym agical feeling ability of spawning cactuses
makes it feel mage imo
If it was just like
throwing the watering can
or just shooting water with it
i could see it being ranger
you are watering down and sprouting cactus
just how you water plants to grow them up
the ranged reforge is peak and its not like it was benefitting from fucking melee size anyway
Maybe others dont feel the same way i do but it just feels very magepilled
i think if it were thrown into sprouting cactuses rather than it spawning magic water droplet it would feel more ranger
yeah but then it kinda loses thea ppeal of being a watering can
yea but also 10 times more boring
yeh
i mean it could be the mage weapon but then it would need a ranged option
unfortunate consequence of ranged being ranged
yeah id personally do that
Ranged ammoless weapon
That's like
Desert scourge head
Sandgun upgrade scourge drop trust it’d be peak
that is kinda boring compared to others
want to be more whimsical with it and not just make it be "DS jaw and it shoots sand"
summoner for example is a cactus bat that let you hit and do home runs with nuisances
but that feels kinda fablespilled
Make the ranged weapon an atlatl that lets you fire darts and stuff
ana tlatl would be quite cool
Alternatively this is going to sound a little weird but like a sand vacuum cleaner thing that sucks up enemies and sand in a small vortex and launches them out when you stop using the weapon
well i did have the mental image of a living lizard the player hold and vaccum sand with, then spit a sand ball
but it would be kinda uncanny
me and my dragoon drizzlefish
thta feels very terrariapilled if anything lol
like yeah red would add shit like that
are there plans for rogue btw?
the weapon i mean. for ds
i love ideasguying and hearing about dev's ideasguy endeavours in cut
its really fun. so fun
and also makes me
excited for future updates
:D
all weapons besides mage have concepts yea
I guess one could say that you love brainstorming ideas, maybe ones that’ll be in an update
nervous gulp
To be fair
It's not unheard of for certain bosses to be more important for certain classes
its good design even cuz it means ur prioritizing certain specific fights in diff playhtroughs
so if DS were to have 2 mage weapons, that could be fien imo
though it feels a bit odd to prioritize mage specifically with DS
its not a very magical creaturei dont think
relies more on physical strenght and such
I will say a lizard charmer flute might feel a bit too similar to the snake charmer’s flute at least from a basic concept of the item so maybe like making it a different wind instrument or something could work better as an idea to not feel to confusing with scf’s existence

