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[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 its target in order to accurately cover them 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 has the ability to lock its attention onto its prey, much like our real world jumping spiders who wait for the right moment to pounce, and this could also be useful for when using its projectile web net, or if grappling with a single web possibly! This is a pretty big part of what makes them 'jumping' spiders after all! 🕷️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! There is a last minute really nice alternative way of taming these and obtaining females specifically that I would like to add, suggested by an ally of maevia! Alternative method for obtaining females! This would make it to where you would need to take your male that you tamed into the wild, and challenge it with a female! If you win the dance, the female will allow breeding and allow you to stick around, defending her in her vulnerable moment, giving you an egg (or web-wrapped little gift sac with a jumper in it or an egg or two)! This egg sac could provide a male or female you could have! 🕯️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 the 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. - Potentially immunity to radiation, which would help a tremendous amount when seeking rockdrake eggs.

Sorry this was just something quick I drew up to show my thoughts on how the creature looks... Common Name: Manul Genus: Otocolobus manul Time: Late Miocene Diet: Carnivore Temperament: Aggressive Ello ARK survivors! The creature submission I present to you all is the Manul which is said to date back 1.4 million years ago. Now this Feline is the size of a small wildcat, but as this is a suggestion for Aberration I wanted to try and tie in some ARK lore involving mutation from the intense radiation on the map! This creature will be large carnivore and help with navigating the whole map with its unique abilities. If this creature interests you slap a vote to help support it’s way into ASA! Wild: Due to the intense radiation on Aberration the once small Manul feline has been mutated into an aggressive 6-legged beast of large proportions. The large beast roams the cliffs in the depths of Aberration usually found by the pure elemental rivers. Their extra set of legs gives them an advantage to be able to go toe to toe with even the reaper queens that roam in the same habitat. Due to the radiation as well as living near the molten elemental rivers this large feline developed an immunity to the radiation as well as the molten element giving it the ability to swim in the molten element without taking damage. Domesticated: This creature can be useful to traverse the cavernous bioluminescent biome of Ark. With it's innate climbing ability it will help you scale the cliffs of Aberration and through the winding radiation zone to snag some Rockdrake eggs. Once tamed this creature's ability to ward off the radiation proves to be helpful as it effects the rider and anyone standing in the range of this large feline giving survivors the chance to live near the dangers of the deep. Its size is around the height of a Spinosaurus back but no higher than the start of the Spinosaurus large spines, making it a good rival to fight off Rockdrakes and if the survivor is brave enough, they could tangle with the Reaper Queens. Habitat: This creature roams around in the radiation of Aberration, usually found around the elemental rivers as the element has become a sort of cat nip to these mutated felines. These felines are territorial, and one does not usually see more than two or three in some places as these cats are more solitary creatures except when the breeding season is upon them. ✨ Abilities! ✨ Passive Ability - Aurora Borealis Protection AOE Radiation Armor (Protects from Radiation when around the tamed Manul due to the fur collecting and creating an electromagnetic field with its large fluffy fur) [AOE visual effect is a small Aurora Borealis to see the range] This is based on the how the electromagnetic field surrounds the earth which would represent the static electricity the Manul creates using its huge fur and the solar flares symbolizing the radiation of the Element in Aberration. And when the solar flares happen it creates the Aurora Borealis which is why it would be a neat affect to add to show the AOE range of the Manul's radiation protection. The reason I haven't suggested it being dependent on a certain stat is to give people the option of living in the radiation zone if they would like! Passive Ability - Night Roam These creatures will get a boosted attack damage as well as a speed boost when nightfall hits. [Without the daytime debuff the Megalosaurus have to make this creature more map friendly] I truly enjoy using the Megalosaurus but due to the daytime debuff it isn't really used much that I have personally seen except for on Aberration which is why it would be neat to implement it on another dino but remove the debuff. Passive Trait - Fluffing Up When near an alpha creature (Alpha Basilisk, Alpha Reaper. Ect.) The Manul's fur will fluff up to indicate the Alpha is nearby. [Similar to how a Rockdrakes feathers raise when a reaper is nearby] This ability I feel would make it easier to find Alpha Basilisks as well as Alpha reapers on at least Aberration. Attack Ability - Creature Slam Creature grab and slam attack (both front legs for larger creatures [trike/para/ect.] and only 1 leg for smaller creatures [ravagers/raptors/ect.]) Using its most front pair of legs it can pick up and slam a creature down dealing not only a lot of damage to the creature it is slamming down, but also any creature in a small vicinity. It can do this attack as it is able to use its extra set of legs to balance as it performs this attack. Active Ability - Wall Climb The Manul is able to climb walls with ease (full movement including side to side, as well as up and down) can also attack while on the wall to be able to defend against Rockdrakes or Wyverns if you plan on using the Manul to steal some eggs! This could also prove helpful to those who use creatures to build bases. This ability would cost stamina as you move but would not cost stamina if you are standstill on the wall. If you dismount while clung to a wall, due to the creature's size you would be able to stand on its head as to not fall to your potential death, this would also be useful to jump into nest spots as well, as the creature would be too big to fit into them. Taming: My thoughts for taming it is to wait until it's sleeping on its back (this is completely based off how my cat naps and can be changed XD) - crouch walk up and give it some Element Essence* - it will be friendly for a short while after you do that and when you hear it purr you have to pet it - then when you do that run away cause when it stretches the Element Essence* will wear off and you will have to do the process over again until it's tamed. *This taming item can be crafted from Element Ore and Nameless Venom (to make use of 2 items that otherwise do not get much use) and make something maybe called Element Essence, my version of cat nip due to the Manul's love for the molten element river it resides by. If you have made it this far thank you for reading and if you happen to have a suggestion, I am all ears so be sure to leave a comment! I am excited to see the world of Ark in ASA, good luck to everyone who has also submitted a creature!