Looking for spider type suggestions

[Dr.Webber]

Any ideas for two more spider types with the switcherdoodle recipe, including garden crops?

• Garden spiders:

(create three new types of switcher doodles with corresponding new spiders)

Flame touched spiders:  has built in scale mail as well as can cook

Switcherdoodle: 2 monster meat, 2 silk, 2 fire nettle fronds

 

Concept art by @chenxx

 

 

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Also do you think the old spider monkey design should be incorporated in to a skill in Webber’s skill tree

here’s the idea either something like the curse trinkets made by Webber with regular spidersand given to slumonkeys charging normal spiders with unnatural energy somehow and having them attack slumonkeys

[Radicaljoe]

A durian spider that attacks for only 5 damage, but has the highest target priority and armor. Maybe even has spikes when attacked to hurt the attacker.  But the main idea is that enemies will be attacking this spider instead of something important like nurses.

Pomegranate spider that upon death, pops into about 3-5 smaller forge-esque red mini spiders. These mini spiders only last 4 minutes and have half the health of the pomegranate spider. Mini spiders will have no collision because they're tiny, so they can get to the enemy in case you have a giant crowd of spiders.

[Dr.Webber]

6 hours ago, Radicaljoe said:

A durian spider that attacks for only 5 damage, but has the highest target priority and armor. Maybe even has spikes when attacked to hurt the attacker.  But the main idea is that enemies will be attacking this spider instead of something important like nurses.

Pomegranate spider that upon death, pops into about 3-5 smaller forge-esque red mini spiders. These mini spiders only last 4 minutes and have half the health of the pomegranate spider. Mini spiders will have no collision because they're tiny, so they can get to the enemy in case you have a giant crowd of spiders.

What should each be called 

Also what should be the crafting recipe 

Edited August 22, 2025 by Dr.Webber

[Radicaljoe]

Durian should be "Spike-der"

And Pomegranate should be "Spi-dozen"

I imagine the recipe would use 2 leafy meat instead of monster meat, then 2 of each respective crop. And maybe 1-2 silk as well.

[Dr.Webber]

15 hours ago, Radicaljoe said:

Durian should be "Spike-der"

And Pomegranate should be "Spi-dozen"

I imagine the recipe would use 2 leafy meat instead of monster meat, then 2 of each respective crop. And maybe 1-2 silk as well.

I think I’ll just keep it as monster meat

Also, each spider should have one non-fighting ability as well as something that makes some resistant damage

[Dr.Webber]

Also let me know if you have any more ideas ideas for crop based spiders because I haven’t fully land on what I’m going to use yet

[lowercase skye]

Some real life spiders that may fit your purposes, similarly to how Nurse Spiders or Sea Striders are based on real spiders with a fantastical twist:

- Orb Weavers are commonly found on garden plants, and build large circular webs to catch pests. In DST, maybe they could make webs in your gardens to trap the Lord of the Fruit Flies, or even Brightshades? Their switcherdoodle could be made from basically any farm plant, but I'd go with tomatoes to give those a good use as Webber, since they can't be eaten by spiders for healing like veggie-eating followers do.
- Red Spider Mites, though not technically spiders in real life, are a big pest to eggplant crops and love to eat away at their leaves. In DST, maybe they could be small swarming mobs that can quickly "eat" through trees, chopping them down fast but eating the seeds right up, leaving only wood. Their switcherdoodle could be made from eggplants.
- Green Huntsman Spiders have a green grassy pattern almost akin to a watermelon, and use this as camouflage to hide in the foliage and ambush prey that wanders by. In DST, maybe they could be commanded to stay in one spot with lots of plants. When you check in on them later, they may give you some morsels or meat, letting you have a share of whatever animals they were catching offscreen. Their switcherdoodle could be made from watermelons, like the pattern on their abdomen.
- Cellar Spiders are very long-legged spiders that make messy webs in the corners of rooms like cellars, basements, or attics, and oftentimes will even catch other spiders for food. In DST, these could function like a clean-up crew, being able to safely walk into large groups of spiders, out of reach due to being so tall, and lunge down to eat those spiders whole, including the meat and silk they would normally drop. This would let you get infestations of spiders under control, for example when a group of dens gets so out of hand that spiders respawn faster than they can be killed. Their switcherdoodle could be made from potatoes, a very common crop to store in a crop cellar.
- Black Widows are an infamously venomous spider, able to paralyze and even LIQUEFY their prey, which ranges from small insects all the way to larger animals like lizards and snakes. Coincidentally, the appearance of their eggs is often compared to garlic cloves! In DST, this paralyzation could be implemented in many ways, the easiest being putting mobs to sleep for a few seconds, allowing the other spiders a chance to heal and get in a bunch of damage before they wake back up, with a heavy cooldown following that so they can't just put a mob to sleep over and over. Their switcherdoodle could be made from garlic, like how their eggs look.

[Dr.Webber]

2 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

Sea Striders

Sea striders I’m pretty sure are based off of water striders that if I’m not wrong aren’t even arachnids so I guess the expanse the options

 

2 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

- Orb Weavers are commonly found on garden plants, and build large circular webs to catch pests. In DST, maybe they could make webs in your gardens to trap the Lord of the Fruit Flies, or even Brightshades? Their switcherdoodle could be made from basically any farm plant, but I'd go with tomatoes to give those a good use as Webber, since they can't be eaten by spiders for healing like veggie-eating followers do.

I like this idea not sure if this is what you mean but what if you can catch all types of bugs in orbs of web and tends to crops

 

2 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

- Green Huntsman Spiders have a green grassy pattern almost akin to a watermelon, and use this as camouflage to hide in the foliage and ambush prey that wanders by. In DST, maybe they could be commanded to stay in one spot with lots of plants. When you check in on them later, they may give you some morsels or meat, letting you have a share of whatever animals they were catching offscreen. Their switcherdoodle could be made from watermelons, like the pattern on their abdomen

What if that shoots a water to hunt that can also why are  water crops

2 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

Black Widows are an infamously venomous spider, able to paralyze and even LIQUEFY their prey, which ranges from small insects all the way to larger animals like lizards and snakes. Coincidentally, the appearance of their eggs is often compared to garlic cloves! In DST, this paralyzation could be implemented in many ways, the easiest being putting mobs to sleep for a few seconds, allowing the other spiders a chance to heal and get in a bunch of damage before they wake back up, with a heavy cooldown following that so they can't just put a mob to sleep over and over. Their switcherdoodle could be made from garlic, like how their eggs look.

What if it can fertilize crops with the liquid remains

 

also, since Dorians are a monster food I was thinking of making a monstrous switcherdoodle any ideas for that?

On 8/22/2025 at 5:58 AM, Dr.Webber said:

Flame touched spiders:  has built in scale mail as well as can cook

Switcherdoodle: 2 monster meat, 2 silk, 2 fire nettle fronds

Also, if you don’t mind, could you format the ideas like this just makes it easier too collect all the ideas both in my mind and suggested to me when they can just be copied over

also, do you think I should add the ability to eat Dorians without damage to this skill

• No picky eater: Webber has the ability to eat pig skin, bunny puffs, or any non human edible meats that pigs and spiders eat for 50-60 hunger

Edited August 24, 2025 by Dr.Webber