![]() ![]() This is a more advanced covering of the loot-table of Orb Weaver. Orb Weavers are also hostile towards Stinkbugs and will attack them on sight. They will become hostile to smaller creatures stuck in their webs. They're neutral toward other creatures but defend themselves and become hostile when attacked. Orb Weaver Spiders are passive toward the Orb Weaver Jrs, Spiderlings, and Wolf Spiders. The cone webs it spins while patrolling do not immobilize the player and cannot be harvested. A player stunned by its web attack can swing an equipped tool to break the web and escape. When the player is spotted, it will let out a roar-like hiss and may shoot a web or run at the player to close the distance. The Orb Weaver Spider is hostile toward the player. They also may rear upward & spread their fangs indicating a long delay lunge attack. Hitting the same threat with multiple webs will stack the stun effect. ![]() There is a short period before another web can be shot again. For threats further away, they may shoot a small web that temporarily stuns and blocks movement. A variation of the attack may be used during which the spider rapidly sidesteps and bites three times. They rear backward before lunging forward to bite at close-range. They attack similarly to Wolf Spiders and mostly bite except they do not apply venom. When engaged, their eyes glow and they hiss. Orb Weavers move quickly and are not easily outrun. If a perceived threat is spotted, they break from their patrol routes and chase. They may sleep by lowering their bodies to the ground and curling their legs close. They periodically spin webs and Web Sacs that can be broken for Resources. Orb Weaver Spiders semi-randomly patrol on the ground within a small defined area. Smaller variants with less health, known as Orb Weaver Jrs, can be found near them in most areas. It's considerably larger than the player and is easily identified by its yellow abdomen. The Orb Weaver is a hostile creature found primarily in the lower sections of the yard, especially the Flower Bed and Hedge. ![]() Status Effects Inflicted Status Effect Inflicted Weakness & Resistances Elemental Weakness Can drop spider chunk and web fiber on death. "Wherever there's an electric field in the spider's natural environment," she says, "there is also likely to be some air movement."I don't want any part of that spider! Not one bit!"īright yellow and black arachnids that hunt in areas across the yard. She says there's a lot more work that needs to be done to see how this plays out in a natural environment, and how this relates to their use of wind. So you can see that this electric field is providing enough force to lift them against gravity." And then you can switch it back on again and they will rise. "If they manage to become airborne, and you switch the electric field off, they will then slowly fall. "And you can change their altitude by switching the electric field on and off," Morley adds. Some spiders even became airborne in the lab. "I was delighted when I saw them responding. They perform this tiptoeing behavior, and try to balloon," Morley says. The spiders reacted when the electric field was switched on. "And the spiders were then put in this electric field, and we could switch it on and off and look at changes in their behavior." "So between the two plates was an electric field," says Morley. The top plate was connected to a voltage, and the bottom one was electrically grounded. They rigged up a box with two metal plates, one on the top and one on the bottom. "There wasn't actually any empirical data to support or dispel this hypothesis so that's what we tackled," Morley notes. Morley and her colleague Daniel Robert got interested in this after reading a recent paper that showed electrostatic spider flight was theoretically possible. The idea that atmospheric electric fields might affect flying spiders has been around since the 1800s, but until now, there's been no evidence that spiders could detect or use them. What's more, ballooning silk is made of lots of strands that are released at the same time, "and these sort of splay out, as though there's a repulsive force present," Morley says. Scientists also wonder what triggers mass ballooning events - when thousands of spiders suddenly take to the air.Īll of those are hints that spiders rely on something more than just the wind. And some larger spiders manage to get up in the air even when it seems like there's not enough wind to make that happen. It then releases long strands of silk and becomes airborne.Ĭuriously, Morley says, spiders balloon only when the winds are very low, like a light breeze. ![]() She explains that a spider will go to a high branch on a tree or to the top of a tall blade of grass and stand on tiptoe with its abdomen pointing up. "Although they don't have wings, they're actually pretty good at flying," says Morley. ![]()
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