DoubleOyimmy Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 OOOO pretty, I like this creature concept but it's cuteness is what has my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenorachnoide Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 I absolutely love the peacock spider reference in it, would be a fun add On 7/8/2023 at 2:01 AM, Sovira said: [Artwork done by myself.] 🕸️Hello allies of the Ark! My submission here is a jumping spider species that is said to have lived once between 23 and 15 million years ago, and the excitement of that discovery led to its last name, eureka! I genuinely hope to see Maevia eureka find its way to Ark some day, any support for it is infinitely appreciated, please take a moment to toss it a vote if you would like to see it around in Ark! These are my thoughts on how Maevia eureka could fit into the world we play in, in a way that reflects real life jumping spiders combined with genetic modifications from other spiders, and how they might fit into Ark in a fun and meaningful way that reflects other creatures of Ark and how important each and every one of these creatures is. I felt that, as Maevia is more of a taming companion, this gives us a different way to tame creatures using a non-harmful method! As it is in Aberration, there are many risks you take while engaging with your targets due to the fact that aberration can be quite chaotic so having to be weary of your surroundings at all times is one thing, but the larger the creature, the weaker the bola... You may find yourself having to maneuver around an area and keep your targets attention while allowing for your jumper to gather enough venom to ensnare it once again. 🏞️Habitat This is a creature that is capable of being added to any map in the game due to its likeliness of living in caves, but also as jumping spiders can be found in so many different environments, there particularly are no limits to where they could be found! 🕷️Ability - Prey Lure You're out roaming around on your two equus when one of them begins to pick up an irresistible scent coming from a nearby cave wall. Your equus is nibbling on a suspended droplet when you notice the faint glinting coming off the web it's attached to, within an instant a jumper has lunged at your equus covering it with its bola and is quickly wrapping it up in its webbing, but in order to free your companion you need to tear at the webbing, as a few good hits will send that jumper scurrying up the wall to hide! 🕷️Ability - Tranq Bola The thought is that jumpers could take the droplets they store and work them into their webbing to create venom-coated webs that could be thrown like a bola. The webs would have a tranquilizing effect whenever touched, thus causing their target to build up torpor and eventually go unconscious. 🕷️Ability - Latching As a jumping spider, they have outstanding agility and the ability to crawl on walls, but at a more rapid pace, maybe even with the cost of stamina drain for balance! An optional thing I had given thought to was the ability to fully latch onto smaller prey in order to accurately cover the target with their readied net. 🕷️Ability - Locking On This is the single feature that would make this creature so invaluable, and even possibly make it require a very difficult feat for taming it due to that power, as with the spiders extreme accuracy, it could 'lock onto' a target, and the net cast would be immediate, rendering even jumping managarmrs unable to jump, though I do feel that stamina might be a way to balance this out! 🕷️Trait - Scary Face This spider was designed in thought with evolving to be able to terrify larger than normal predators, making it an incredibly useful tame for bases, keeping your creatures better protected when having to move them around the map, I imagined it could come with an extra ability to raise its back legs with its abdomen to stay in this stance on the ground, or you could enable an option within the radial menu allowing it to find and hang down from a nearby pole, perhaps even a new item for the spiders and flyers alike, akin to a perch? 🕷️Trait/Ability - Dance! Jumping spiders in the real world have very little differentiation on sizes between male and female. The idea was that the males would be the ones that allow you to get close enough to tame them, while females will try to kill you if you do this, and when you find a male companion, he has the ability to dance when you find a female, you can engage in this dance, maybe a left/right/up/down type of button combination you have to get right in order for her to find your boy worthy of her prescence, and in the meantime you can shower her with presents of food until she wants your boy to dance for her again, gradually gaining her trust. When a movement is not corrected quickly enough, she would become hostile and attack, and you may have to wait for her to cool off before you can attempt this ritual again! 🕯️Dossier!🕯️ If there's one thing I can say about Maevia eureka, you do not want to be caught in its sights! I once witnessed a jumper locking onto its prey with the most incredible accuracy, lunging at it with lightning speed and within the blink of an eye, its prey was being saved as a snack for later. They seem to have the genes of a few other spiders like that of the ogre spider, as it can cast a gathering of its webbing along with a little dab of the venom droplet it keeps stored on its head, working that into its web to create paralytic bolas that seem to render its prey unconscious. I have reason to believe the hairs that grow on its back legs came from the peacock spider, but due to its need for protection, it also uses these 'feathers' as a menacing face that can scare off large predators, I've seen some tribes set up posts that they can hang from around the fronts of their bases. I will say one thing is for certain, though they are nearly the size of a dire bear, they are quite the cuties, especially for being a spider, there is a certain intelligence you can see when you look into their eyes, I just can't place it, but they truly make remarkable companions with the ability to rapidly scale walls, caves, cliffsides and such. By no means are they a beast of burden, however they make up for this with their abilities to constrict or assassinate their targets. Maevia eureka can take down much larger prey with its torpor inducing bola, the net cast, and this makes them remarkable allies for taming other creatures. Though I haven't been able to get close enough to befriend one of the females, the males don't seem to mind me being in a remote vicinity with them as much. I wanted to add some other suggestions in a simplified form, key points from what Ark allies have mentioned before! - Droplets could be used as a nameless venom alternative, slower to produce but useful in situations or great when you have a plethora of jumpers. - Alternative where the male is small, female is massive, male used as a shoulder buddy that has major utility such as making ziplines, grapple, and large bola, where female is the tamer albeit slow with a few things to keep the balance. - Gacha coccoons, small creatures could be snatched and turned into coccoons, hung up and could produce goodies or other useful materials. - Radial menu where production, torpor, and other things could be enhanced, as well as weight of creatures depending on torpor percentage, for how small/medium/large the taming capability could be for jumpers. - Torpor resistance due to thick fur/hairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpinosaurIso Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Man I really love this one. I think it would be a good fit for AB too... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpinosaurIso Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Not somebody having the dedication to downvote every supporting comment 😭 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laviathann0970 Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Oh man. Being arachniphobic I hope if this wins we get a mod for people like me. I read this and it's an amazing concept but I threw my phone when I saw the artwork lol if this does win I hope it's only on one map. I'd hate to not be able to play ark anymore XD I already can't go into caves or lava biomes because of the spider we have now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricricri Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 What app did you use to draw your creature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cage123 Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Personally I don't want it to win this vote because I want something not cute HOWEVER if there's something like a Valguero vote I really hope it wins something like that or it gets a similar treatment to the char. May the best creature win this vote. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tr3v1x0 Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Nice job, looks great 😜 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogboyaidan Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 So cute 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonyCR Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 great dino. perfect for aberration 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexgaming Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 I would like to vote for it but i dont know how.😥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mochy Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 I have a phobia of spiders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sovira Posted July 12, 2023 Author Share Posted July 12, 2023 1 hour ago, rexgaming said: I would like to vote for it but i dont know how.😥 They made it to where you have to post comments at least 6 times (can only post 3 comments per day iirc) before you can get out of the early bird status in order to vote 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sovira Posted July 12, 2023 Author Share Posted July 12, 2023 5 hours ago, Laviathann0970 said: Oh man. Being arachniphobic I hope if this wins we get a mod for people like me. I read this and it's an amazing concept but I threw my phone when I saw the artwork lol if this does win I hope it's only on one map. I'd hate to not be able to play ark anymore XD I already can't go into caves or lava biomes because of the spider we have now. I feel that those with arachniphobia might be the only one thing truly keeping this from making it into Ark if it doesn't and that alone is totally understandable since spiders and snakes have the worst reputations on earth. Far too many have told me it belongs on Aberration specifically, it feels like it's the one best chance that it has I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to check out the concept despite your fear! It does mean a lot, and I know those with the phobias cannot help it, maybe a costume of some type added later on in the game would however! ❤️ Fortunately there is no need for a mod as you can just disable them in your .ini settings and will have nothing to worry about! You can do this as well with the Araneos so you could go into the caves finally! You could even take and replace them with something harmless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydeivid Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 On 7/8/2023 at 2:01 AM, Sovira said: [Artwork done by myself.] 🕸️Hello allies of the Ark! My submission here is a jumping spider species that is said to have lived once between 23 and 15 million years ago, and the excitement of that discovery led to its last name, eureka! I genuinely hope to see Maevia eureka find its way to Ark some day, any support for it is infinitely appreciated, please take a moment to toss it a vote if you would like to see it around in Ark! These are my thoughts on how Maevia eureka could fit into the world we play in, in a way that reflects real life jumping spiders combined with genetic modifications from other spiders, and how they might fit into Ark in a fun and meaningful way that reflects other creatures of Ark and how important each and every one of these creatures is. I felt that, as Maevia is more of a taming companion, this gives us a different way to tame creatures using a non-harmful method! As it is in Aberration, there are many risks you take while engaging with your targets due to the fact that aberration can be quite chaotic so having to be weary of your surroundings at all times is one thing, but the larger the creature, the weaker the bola... You may find yourself having to maneuver around an area and keep your targets attention while allowing for your jumper to gather enough venom to ensnare it once again. 🏞️Habitat This is a creature that is capable of being added to any map in the game due to its likeliness of living in caves, but also as jumping spiders can be found in so many different environments, there particularly are no limits to where they could be found! 🕷️Ability - Prey Lure You're out roaming around on your two equus when one of them begins to pick up an irresistible scent coming from a nearby cave wall. Your equus is nibbling on a suspended droplet when you notice the faint glinting coming off the web it's attached to, within an instant a jumper has lunged at your equus covering it with its bola and is quickly wrapping it up in its webbing, but in order to free your companion you need to tear at the webbing, as a few good hits will send that jumper scurrying up the wall to hide! 🕷️Ability - Tranq Bola The thought is that jumpers could take the droplets they store and work them into their webbing to create venom-coated webs that could be thrown like a bola. The webs would have a tranquilizing effect whenever touched, thus causing their target to build up torpor and eventually go unconscious. 🕷️Ability - Latching As a jumping spider, they have outstanding agility and the ability to crawl on walls, but at a more rapid pace, maybe even with the cost of stamina drain for balance! An optional thing I had given thought to was the ability to fully latch onto smaller prey in order to accurately cover the target with their readied net. 🕷️Ability - Locking On This is the single feature that would make this creature so invaluable, and even possibly make it require a very difficult feat for taming it due to that power, as with the spiders extreme accuracy, it could 'lock onto' a target, and the net cast would be immediate, rendering even jumping managarmrs unable to jump, though I do feel that stamina might be a way to balance this out! 🕷️Trait - Scary Face This spider was designed in thought with evolving to be able to terrify larger than normal predators, making it an incredibly useful tame for bases, keeping your creatures better protected when having to move them around the map, I imagined it could come with an extra ability to raise its back legs with its abdomen to stay in this stance on the ground, or you could enable an option within the radial menu allowing it to find and hang down from a nearby pole, perhaps even a new item for the spiders and flyers alike, akin to a perch? 🕷️Trait/Ability - Dance! Jumping spiders in the real world have very little differentiation on sizes between male and female. The idea was that the males would be the ones that allow you to get close enough to tame them, while females will try to kill you if you do this, and when you find a male companion, he has the ability to dance when you find a female, you can engage in this dance, maybe a left/right/up/down type of button combination you have to get right in order for her to find your boy worthy of her prescence, and in the meantime you can shower her with presents of food until she wants your boy to dance for her again, gradually gaining her trust. When a movement is not corrected quickly enough, she would become hostile and attack, and you may have to wait for her to cool off before you can attempt this ritual again! 🕯️Dossier!🕯️ If there's one thing I can say about Maevia eureka, you do not want to be caught in its sights! I once witnessed a jumper locking onto its prey with the most incredible accuracy, lunging at it with lightning speed and within the blink of an eye, its prey was being saved as a snack for later. They seem to have the genes of a few other spiders like that of the ogre spider, as it can cast a gathering of its webbing along with a little dab of the venom droplet it keeps stored on its head, working that into its web to create paralytic bolas that seem to render its prey unconscious. I have reason to believe the hairs that grow on its back legs came from the peacock spider, but due to its need for protection, it also uses these 'feathers' as a menacing face that can scare off large predators, I've seen some tribes set up posts that they can hang from around the fronts of their bases. I will say one thing is for certain, though they are nearly the size of a dire bear, they are quite the cuties, especially for being a spider, there is a certain intelligence you can see when you look into their eyes, I just can't place it, but they truly make remarkable companions with the ability to rapidly scale walls, caves, cliffsides and such. By no means are they a beast of burden, however they make up for this with their abilities to constrict or assassinate their targets. Maevia eureka can take down much larger prey with its torpor inducing bola, the net cast, and this makes them remarkable allies for taming other creatures. Though I haven't been able to get close enough to befriend one of the females, the males don't seem to mind me being in a remote vicinity with them as much. I wanted to add some other suggestions in a simplified form, key points from what Ark allies have mentioned before! - Droplets could be used as a nameless venom alternative, slower to produce but useful in situations or great when you have a plethora of jumpers. - Alternative where the male is small, female is massive, male used as a shoulder buddy that has major utility such as making ziplines, grapple, and large bola, where female is the tamer albeit slow with a few things to keep the balance. - Gacha coccoons, small creatures could be snatched and turned into coccoons, hung up and could produce goodies or other useful materials. - Radial menu where production, torpor, and other things could be enhanced, as well as weight of creatures depending on torpor percentage, for how small/medium/large the taming capability could be for jumpers. - Torpor resistance due to thick fur/hairs. cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betoito Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Flipan los colores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raniux15 Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Yet im not into invertebrades, the spidy really looks useful, this is my second favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margifish Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Okay, as someone who as a rule doesn't like spiders this thing is awesome and would be perfect for Ab (and other maps). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threshern Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 absolutely love the designs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertoFlores Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Very good creature I really have expectations 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterLitera1 Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 We already have the Bloodstalker, do we really need this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErPanco Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 (edited) It's not bad I think but in the habitat as it is aberration I think that such a cute creature is something very disruptive for the environment at least that's what I feel with the colors I understand that they are still for reference but I will surely end up with similar colors Edited July 12, 2023 by ErPanco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErPanco Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 It might be a good idea as well as in all DLC that they release, this is the typical cute creature, it is serious in a very obvious way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sansgoti Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Beautiful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sovira Posted July 12, 2023 Author Share Posted July 12, 2023 6 hours ago, MisterLitera1 said: We already have the Bloodstalker, do we really need this? The bloodstalker is literally nothing like this lol 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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