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OMNIDENS, Absorbing Bullets and Menace from the sea. NEW CROP?!?
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Meet Omnidens Aequtor, a massive creature that resides in the deepest areas of the Ark. Name: Omnidens Species: Omnidens Aequtor Diet: Carnivore Time: Cambrian Temperament: Ambushing WILD: With lengths greater than those of Giganotosaurus Omnidens aequtor, it is probably the largest invertebrate that has ever existed. It resides in the depths of the ark, waiting for its prey to pass near it, most of its life is spent. Due to its size this creature seems to only feed on large creatures, and it will pay no attention to small creatures. the raisin buried in the seabed. Due to its large size, it cannot swim, to move, it uses its strong legs to adhere to the seabed and crawl through it easily. DOMESTICATED: No survivors have been able to tame one of these beasts, but if they could, the Omnidens Aequtor would make a magnificent siege mount. Thanks to its large size, I see no problem equipping Omnidens with a platform saddle. Its large pincers (on the tip of its massive mandibles) are especially adept and with each one it is capable of grasping creatures of considerable size, and if the animal probes to be too large I think it will be able to grasp them with its massive madibles. Omnidens secretes a very dense substance through his skin, I have seen survivors shooting it with heavy ammunition and the bullets are not able to pass through this dense mucous layer, also, when Omnidens feels threatened, it is capable of launching huge balls of acid from its back, this balls are extremely acidic and are capable of melting throuh metal gear with ease. Now lets explain everything in detail: NEW CROP: When Omnidens emerges from the hole in the seabed, different materials will come out that vary depending on the rarity, some of the objects that can come out are: Pearls, Stone, Sand, Rotten meat, Black Pearls, etc... Also creatures can come out of the hole, in this case only two come out: Trilobites and Eurypterids. And the rarest thing you can get is a Rangeomorph egg, this egg will only grow into an underwater Crop. I explain the process: 1) Place the underwater crop first, inside the crop inventory place Stone or Sand as Soil. 2) After some time place Rotten meat, this will create a Microbial Mat, thanks to this our Rangeomorph egg will grow. 3) Once the Rangeomorphs have grown, when you hit them with a wooden club or a sword you will get free organic polymer in your house, keep in mind that from time to time you have to fill the crop with rotten meat so that our Rangeomorphs can feed. TAMING: Taming an Omnidens is not an easy task, in the wild Omnidens are buried in large holes in the seabed, if you pass over their lair with a large creature, Omnidens will quickly come out of the depths and grab said creature (it does not matter make the creature immune to grabs, for example Basilosaurus). The recommended way to tame an Omnidens is to go with a small creature like an Icthyosaurus, an Anglerfish, a Diplocaulus or a Manta, since these creatures are too small to attract the attention of the Omnidens. Let's go step by step: 1) Find an Omnidens buried on the seabed. 2) Go with a small creature, the only creatures that will not attract the attention of an burrowed Omnidens are the Icthyosaurus, the Anglerfis, the Diplocaulus and the Manta. 3) Place C4 in the Omnidens hole. The number of C4 will depend on the level of the Omnidens. Once placed, explode them, this will cause a commotion and cause the Omnidens to be stunned for a few seconds, this will let you feed the Omnidens an item from a Marine Alpha creature, this will give about 25% taming (and maybe some extra stats once tamed). 4) Once this is done, Omnidens will have to be put to sleep like the rest of the creatures, thanks to the explosion of the C4 and the shock, Omnidens receives 50% more torpor. Omnidens is immune to any damage he takes on his armor, so you'll have to shoot tranq ammo under or through it (he's only immune when wild). 5) Once asleep, feed it with its favorite food (remains of marine alphas like Alpha Leediscthys Bubbler, Alpha Megalodon Fin, etc...). After a while you will have a tamed Omnidens. Omnidens can also be tamed if it is pulled from the seabed with a larger creature than the ones mentioned above. In this case, none of the benefits mentioned above will be obtained. Also, the grabbed creature will receive 5 ticks of damage and a lot of torpor due to the Omnidens. ABILITIES AND ATTACKS: - Passive: Omnidens cannot swim, it walks easily on the ocean floor and is capable of climbing any surface, both in and out of the water. - Passive: Omnidens takes reduced damage if hitted in his shell. - Left Click: Bite - Hold Left or Right: Pickup/Release creature with respective claw. This induces the creature a little torpor. - Pressing C : Pickup/Release big creatures with mandibles (Brontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Quetzal and other big creatures can be grabbed with this attacks), this attack induces a moderate amount of torpor. (Omnidens cannot drag aquatic creatures out of water with its grabbing abilitys). - CTRL+C: Bulletproof Mucus, this mucus allows Omnidens to ignore bullets for a short period of time. This mucus layer comes with a cost tho, to perform this ability Omnidens needs in their inventory: two full Water jars, a stack of biotoxin, 5 Anglergel and 5 Omnidens acid (Explained later). Bullets fired at Omnidens while this ability active will be sent to the Omnidens inventory. - Space bar(Mortar mode): Omnidens will shoot acid balls from its back, preventing it from moving. When this mode is activated, the rider of Omnidens will be granted a bird's-eye-view (like exo-mek). When this is activated Omnidens can launch acid balls to a determined position, making tons of damage to metal structures and gear, this attack is also capable of damaging tek structures. To cancel mortar mode press space bar again. To not make mortar mode OP in offline raiding I've thought of two ways to make Omnidens fair for everyone, the first way would be that in order to shoot acid balls Omnidens would need a new item called Omnidens acid, this item would be passively generated inside Omnidens inventory each 30 minutes or so, this item would be stackeable. The second way would be that for each acid ball that Omnidens shoots it would lower its food stat, something like daedon with healing allies. So that's my submission for the center, i based its color scheme on Bobbit worms and other annelids, hope you all enjoy it ^^.