Skabber

A hostile six-legged cave dweller, and a shield forged from what it leaves behind.

Skabbers are blue-chitined predators that nest in the webbed cave systems of Zone 1. They hunt the way cave spiders do — circling, strafing, closing when you turn your back — and their bite carries venom. Kill enough of them and you can plate a shield with their carapace.

What it adds

The Skabber — a hostile cave predator with deep blue banded chitin, orange joint seams and amber eyes. 60 health, a 23-damage venomous bite on an 8-second cooldown, and the circling combat style of a cave spider rather than a straight-line charger.

Skabber Chitin — drops 0–2 per kill, plus a 40% chance of a Venom Sac.

Skabber's Shield — Uncommon, item level 25. A genuine step above an iron shield and a step below thorium, so it fills the gap in the mid-game shield ladder.

Armorer's Workbench
  Skabber Chitin   x6
  Iron Bar         x4
  Any tree log     x1
  Light Leather    x1

Where to find them

Skabbers live in the webbed cave sections of Zone 1, alongside the cave spiders that share them. They also turn up, less often, in ordinary Zone 1 caves.

They only appear in newly generated terrain, so caves you have already explored will be empty. Start a new world, or head somewhere you have never been.

A shield costs roughly one good cave expedition's worth of chitin. That is deliberate — an iron shield should be the easier option.

Installing

Drop Skabber-1.0.0.zip into UserData\Mods, then enable Skabber in the mod list when you create or load a world. Mods are off by default per world.

This is an asset pack, not a plugin — there is no code in it. It will show as a Pack in the mod list, which is correct.

Requires Hytale build 0.6.x.

Dedicated servers: install on the server only. Clients receive the assets automatically.

Credits

Made by Lowgarr.

The Skabber's texture, its item and recipe design, drop tables and spawn rules are original work. The creature is built on Hytale's own creature model and animation set.