Charger (Upcoming)

Chargers are a possible Evolution of Infected Adventurers, belonging in the Evolved tier. They are blind yet highly mobile melee combatants.

Spawning

• Evolved from an Infected Adventurer when it obtains at least 1 Evolution Point and its 5 minute Evolution timer expires. Once it does, it has a 22.5% chance to Evolve into a Charger.

Hyper Evolution

If a Charger obtains at least 7 Evolution Points and its 10 minute Evolution timer expires, it'll Hyper Evolve into a Berserker.

Unique Behavior

• Chargers are capable of visibly wearing Armor in their head, chest, and legs slots. When a Charger Evolves naturally from an Infected Adventurer, it will keep any head, chest, and legs slot Armor the Infected Adventurer wore. When a Charger spawns via any other means, it'll retain the same values as Infected Adventurers do for spawning with Armor and a name.

• Chargers are blind and cannot see targets like other Spore Mobs.

  • Very similarly to Wardens, Chargers will listen for sound events within a 20x20 block area around themselves. Projectile sound events take priority over mob sound events. Chargers will not detect other Spore Mobs making noise (walking, breaking blocks, etc.). If hearing a sound, a Charger's ears will vibrate (this visual has a 5 second cooldown) and it will run towards where the sound occurred. As it runs, it checks every 10 ticks within a 2 block range of itself for any target-able entities. If the Charger finds any, it'll target and attack them as normal. If the Charger reaches the location, it will wave its arms, feeling for any target-able entities within the 2 block range. Chargers will forget noises they hear after 5 seconds have passed without a Charger reaching the location of the sound origin.

  • Chargers check every second for any target-able entities that are currently touching their hitboxes. If a Charger finds any, it'll target and attack them.

  • If a target-able entity damages a Charger, it'll immediately target and attack them.

  • If a Charger is unable to deal damage to its current target for 2 seconds, it'll deaggro its target.

• Every time a Charger attempts to wander to a new location while idle, it'll fire 2 to 6 'echo projectiles' in random directions from its body. Additionally, when reaching the location of a sound signal, there's a 30% chance a Charger will fire 3 echo projectiles. Echo projectiles travel slowly in the direction they were fired in and last for 6 seconds. If an echo projectile comes in contact with a block or a living entity, there's an X% chance it'll disappear and notify the Charger of the location, causing the Charger to run towards where the echo projectile hit, utilizing the same AI as when it hears a sound normally (see above). The chance depends on what the echo projectile hit (20% chance for blocks and 100% chance for living entities).

• When pathfinding, if a Charger is unable to reach a location due to a height restriction of 2 blocks, it's capable of crouching, reducing the height of its hitbox in order to reach the desired location or target. If a height restriction of 1 block, it's also capable of crawling, again reducing the height of its hitbox in order to reach the desired location or target.

• Chargers are immune to suffocation damage.

• Chargers have 1.0 knockback resistance, meaning they can't be knocked back by attacks.

• They are capable of opening Wooden Doors if in the way in order to pathfind.

Behavior

• Chargers are hostile to most non-Spore mobs, with the exceptions being Animals and Fish (unless Should attack Animals is enabled via the Config) and mobs included in the Mobs Not Targeted blacklist within the Config.

• Chargers inflict Mycelium Infection I for 30 seconds when dealing melee damage.

• Capable of breaking Glass and Leaves.

• Cannot ride Boats.

• Can perform short dashes in liquids to pursue a target.

• Chargers have a 5% chance to drop a Scent upon death unless they are freezing.

• Chargers can create a Search Alert upon death.

• Able to utilize Kill Points to grant themselves buffs.

• Present a weakness to the cold.

• Chargers are not influenced by Horde Mentality; they are blind and cannot pair up with other Mobs. However, Infected, Evolved (excluding Chargers), Bairns, Scampers, and Gastgebers will attempt to pair up with Chargers.

• Chargers can be Linked.

• Are affected by the Despawning System.

• Are not affected by Vanilla Despawning.

• In regards to Frostbite, have a Body Heat of 2 and Enum Percentage of 7.5%.

Related Advancements

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Drops

• Armor Fragment (80% chance for 4 - 9)

• Claw Fragment (80% chance for 6 - 9)

• Mutated Fibre (70% chance for 1 - 5)

• Mutated Heart (10% chance for 1)

• Experience Points (5)

• Naturally-spawned Equipment (8.5% chance with random durability)