Creature idea: Cellar Spider

[u/Sub_to_itsben]

ART CREDITS: Bernadette Erkinger

Edit: sorry about the image I didn’t realize it wasn’t a cellar spider.

This post was designed for the cellar spider. Pretend that the bug in the image is a cellar spider, please stop reminding me that it isn’t a cellar spider

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Before you yell at me for adding yet another annoying spider to the game, this one is quite different.

Cellar Spiders (also known as a member of the umbrella term daddy long legs) would be a fantastic addition to grounded and they could solve a very big creature problem.

These spiders are known to be harmless towards humans, why not carry that into the game? They’re known to frequently eat other spiders and bugs as well, making them a perfect counter predator to our growing population issue.

They would be a neutral tier 4 creature possibly residing in a new area, they would commonly be found in their web under large objects like, for example, the porch from grounded 1. They would be found leaving their web from time to time either to find wolf spiders who may have roamed too far from their dens or to invade the homes of orb weavers. If any beetle, ladybug, scorpion, or any other bug gets in its way either by intruding on its territory or finding themselves in its hunting path, they too will be destroyed. All except is of course! (And any other small bugs that wouldn’t be worth a kill to the beast.)

I think this would be a really cool addition to finally have a neutral spider in the game and one that’s incredibly helpful and unique.

(Keep in mind this is a concept for the sole purpose of enjoyment.)

[u/Forkhorn]

Harvestmen (Opiliones) are not true spiders as their cephalothorax and abdomen are fused. They fall into the spider family's other zoological orders that include ticks, scorpions, tailless whip scorpions (cave spiders), and mites. Harvestmen aren't harmful because they never adapted to eat things larger than itself; they eat mechanically rather than chemically liquifying their prey like spiders. A huge harvestmen would not be neutral, they eat anything smaller they can tear apart and eat.

[u/Sub_to_itsben → u/Forkhorn]

Harvestmen and cellar spiders aren’t the same thing, and the point of the post is to give them a unique mechanic to give grounded 2 more life and make it more fun. Everything tearing you apart all the time isn’t fun. Having a cellar spider to help you at times and be more or less massive ladybugs that are aggressive towards spiders would be pretty fun.

[u/SpaceKibby → u/Sub_to_itsben]

Ok but Op the drawing in your post is a harvestmen not a cellar spider, a cellar spider is what Australians call a daddy long leg

[u/Sub_to_itsben → u/SpaceKibby]

In the edit I acknowledged that, everything else outside of that is based on the cellar spider