Spinnerets

Spinnerets

	Physical
	3
	Spinnerets
	no
Infobox data from game version 2.0.206.63

Spinnerets

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You can spin sticky silk webs.

While spinning, you leave webs in your wake as you move.
Duration: (level based)
+(level based) to saves vs. forced movement
Cooldown: 80 rounds
You don't get stuck in other creatures' webs.
+300 reputation with arachnids

Spinnerets allows a creature to spin webs (and to spin phase webs while phased). Having Spinnerets also makes a creature immune to getting stuck in other creatures' webs. Furthermore, it makes a creature immune to getting stuck in any substance (such as asphalt or honey). Beginning to spin webs is a free action that does not take up a turn.

As the level of Spinnerets is increased, the save difficulty for other trapped creatures to escape the webs increases, as does the maximum weight that the webs can hold. Phased webs are slightly stronger than normal webs in this regard.

Formulas

The following formulas are used to determine various features of the Spinnerets mutation.

Spin duration	Level + 5
Save bonus against forced movement effects	Level + 5
Save difficulty for escaping webs	14 + (2 × Level)
Max weight held by webs	120 + (80 × Level)
Save difficulty for escaping phase webs	18 + (2 × Level)
Max weight held by phase webs	520 + (80 × Level)

Advancement Table

Mutation Level	Duration	Forced Movement Save Bonus	Save Target		Max Weight
			Unphased	Phased	Unphased	Phased
1	6 rounds	+6	16	20	200	600
2	7 rounds	+7	18	22	280	680
3	8 rounds	+8	20	24	360	760
4	9 rounds	+9	22	26	440	840
5	10 rounds	+10	24	28	520	920
6	11 rounds	+11	26	30	600	1000
7	12 rounds	+12	28	32	680	1080
8	13 rounds	+13	30	34	760	1160
9	14 rounds	+14	32	36	840	1240
10	15 rounds	+15	34	38	920	1320
11	16 rounds	+16	36	40	1000	1400
12	17 rounds	+17	38	42	1080	1480
13	18 rounds	+18	40	44	1160	1560
14	19 rounds	+19	42	46	1240	1640
15	20 rounds	+20	44	48	1320	1720

Mutation Level	Duration	Forced Movement Save Bonus	Save Target		Max Weight
			Unphased	Phased	Unphased	Phased
16	21 rounds	+21	46	50	1400	1800
17	22 rounds	+22	48	52	1480	1880
18	23 rounds	+23	50	54	1560	1960
19	24 rounds	+24	52	56	1640	2040
20	25 rounds	+25	54	58	1720	2120
21	26 rounds	+26	56	60	1800	2200
22	27 rounds	+27	58	62	1880	2280
23	28 rounds	+28	60	64	1960	2360
24	29 rounds	+29	62	66	2040	2440
25	30 rounds	+30	64	68	2120	2520
26	31 rounds	+31	66	70	2200	2600
27	32 rounds	+32	68	72	2280	2680
28	33 rounds	+33	70	74	2360	2760
29	34 rounds	+34	72	76	2440	2840
30	35 rounds	+35	74	78	2520	2920

Ability Cooldown

Spinnerets' cooldown (CD) in rounds depends on the user's willpower (WI) attribute:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	108	15	84	21	60	27	36
10	104	16	80	22	56	28	32
11	100	17	76	23	52	29	28
12	96	18	72	24	48	30	24
13	92	19	68	25	44	31	20
14	88	20	64	26	40	32	16

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Creatures that are stuck in a web are unable to move and, as a result, have a fixed DV of -10, making them very easy to hit
• It makes it far easier to kite hostile creatures, as it gives the player time to move away and pick them off with a ranged attack
• Creatures normally avoid dangerous gases as well as grenades set using the Lay Mine / Set Bomb skill. Webs can force them to stay in range.
• The bonus to saves against forced movement (incl. being restrained, tripped, or knocked down) is passive and constant.
• The immunity to becoming stuck makes tarry biomes and the Asphalt Mines safer and less frustrating.
• The ability to, while phased, create phase webs, allows safe and consistent harvesting of phase silk;
  • Phase silk can be cooked into dishes which either grant or improve phasing-based effects.
  • This can also be used as an effective method of money farming.
• The Reputation bonus is enough to bring a player from "disliked" to "not cared about" by the Arachnids faction.

Disadvantages

• Most creatures are intelligent enough to avoid webs if they are not placed in choke points or other narrow spaces
• Relatively long cooldown
• Moderate mutation point cost

Considerations

• With high enough movement speed or quickness, one can abuse creatures' hesitancy to move through webs to kite them.
• With either the Burrowing Claws or Force Wall mutation, or a digging implement, the player character can create their own choke points.

Creatures with Spinnerets

• phase spider(Level 7)