Stalking Stuffers

Stalking Stuffers
Theme	Christmas mini update
Date	1/1/2021
Game Version	1.0.1.0

The Stalking Stuffers Update is a small-ish, holiday themed update that adds some interesting new content, and a Wolfgang rework that vastly overhauls his character.

New Additions

Special

• BRAND NEW BOSS MUSIC for the Hooded Widow, composed by Rampage

Mobs

• Depths Viper, a new cave worm variant during summer/autumn, with a unique berry and crockpot dish.
• Magma Hounds spawn with Summer hound waves.
• Lightning Hounds spawn with Spring hound waves.

Boss

• Added new "Blue" variant for the Deerclops, which shoots icy blue lasers to replace his usual half health enraged mode.

Food

• Gloomberry a berry dropped by Depths Vipers, that gives you temporary worm allies.

Crockpot recipes

• Gloomberry Jam Requires a Gloomberry, and a boomberry, gives you more temporary worm allies.

Items

• Naught Lock, a new veteran's curse item dropped by Klaus, worn in the chest slot it improves the attack speed of melee weapons.
• Crab Claw, a new veteran's curse item dropped by Crab King that can be slotted with multiple gems for different effects.
• Tail O' Twined Rats, a new craftable whip made out of rat tails.
• Ancient Soul Amulet, which drops soul bits based on the damage a player takes, when picked up, they will heal the player. When haunted, it will revive the player and give them temporary invincibility.

Misc

• Lazy Chester, a Chester transformation triggered by giving him 9 Sandstone during the full moon, Lazy Chester will automatically pick up additional instances of items that are placed inside of him.
• Added new Treeguard rooting animation, which has more windup.
• Added NEW Random Night Event, and tuned Random Night Events odds to avoid as many "mob spawn" RNE.
• Added Toggleable option for Imposing Claws to deal 500 damage to crab king when killed (default false)
• Changed the Wilting Dragonfly fight, she now enrages when at half health.
• Added new Winter exclusive RNE

Balance Changes

Food

• Uncooked birchnut usable in crockpots.
• Koalefant trunks can now be added to Crockpots for 2 meat value.
• Simple Salads stats got reduced.
  • Reduced Simple Salad hunger to 4.9.
• Boomberry stats got reduced.
  • Reduced Boomberry hunger to 12.5.
  • Reduced Boomberry wetness gain to 5.

Items

• The Life Giving Amulet no longer revives the player when haunted, it only revives the player if worn at the time of death. (Toggleable)
• Thermal Stones have much less inherent insulation, but now gains 50% of the players insulation
• The Lazy Forager is now fuelable, has increased range, and will harvest various things like Berry Bushes and Grass Tufts.
• Night Armor now prevents the player from taking hitstun.
• Spore Pack now has 14 inventory slots, and has a new ability in place of its old one: When worn, it will release rotting puffs around the player.
• Piggyback no longer has innate movement speed reduction, now reduces player speed based on the amount of items inside.

• Beekeeper Hat prevents player from taking hayfever "damage" from bees, mosquitos, etc.

Mobs

• Snapdragons will now spit up fertilizer every day, Snap Buddys will spit fertilizer based on which seed was planted in them.
  • Snapdragons now eat Fruit Flies and Bulbous Lightbugs, but now have a cooldown time between eating bugs.
• Pigs and Guardian Pigs can now counter attack uppercut + charge enemies.
• Updated Bunnyman drops for the latest major farming update.
• Terrorbeaks no longer have increased range, their taunt teleport will try to avoid spawning them on top of the player.
• Trapdoor Spiders no longer run away from Webber, unless he is hostile.
• Hooded Widow now gives up chasing the player much sooner.
  • She now has an easier time returning to her den.
  • She will now go back to its den when a boss is nearby.

Characters

Wolfgang

Toroic's Wolfgang rework has been added as a base part of Uncompromising Mode! (Wolfgang changes are now a toggleable option)

BUFFS:

• Wolfgang can now carry heavy objects on his back at normal speed and with his hands free while mighty.
• Wolfgang now ignores the speed penalties from piggyback and marble armor while not wimpy.
• Wolfgang is much faster at carrying sculptures and marble pieces while in normal form. (45% normal speed instead of 15% normal speed)
• Wolfgang's rowing is much stronger while mighty.
• Transforming animations can be cancelled by moving. (Credit to Rezecib for the code)
• Hunger drain in Mighty form now tops out at 2x instead of 3x.
• Wolfgang's damage uses the same scaling while mighty but normal form is now 1.25x.

NERFS:

• Wolfgang's size and speed are now a consistent 1x. Items no longer grow when he uses them while mighty, and he no longer has a speed boost while mighty or slowdown while wimpy.
• His health does not increase above 200 while in mighty form.
• His maximum sanity was nerfed to 150 instead of 200.
• Wolfgang loses sanity at 1.3x the normal rate instead of 1.1x from darkness and insanity auras.
• When under 10% sanity, Wolfgang now gains induced insanity (just like a purple amulet) which increases the number of shadow creatures that can spawn to 5 (up from 1-2).

Misc

• Removed Mactusk and Werepig RNE.
• Added new Veteran's Curse warning upon being activated for the first time, and new visual/audio effects when curse is activated.
• The Veterans Curse now makes the player absorb health and sanity from foods over time.
• Sleeping now regenerates at a faster rate, while it drains hunger at an equally faster rate, and now regenerates maximum health loss.
• Webbed Cocoons now drops silk based on the size of the Cocoon.
• Updated Wicker's books further for the latest major farming update.
• Increased Pollenmite Den growth timers.
• Pollenmite Dens no longer spawn Pollenmites when the player steps on their webbing.
• Veterans Curse items will now try to be added to the players inventory instead of dropped when an uncursed player tries to equip them.
• Removed the Blooming Shot, since Klei added an offical method for manually blooming Wormwood.
• Improved Cookpot Mod compatibility.

Bug Fixes

• Giant Tree loot drops no longer damage debris immune targets. (like Maxwell shadows)
• Fixed statues regaining collision upon being picked up and placed again.
• Fixed Beefalos crashing the game when trying to charge attack without a combat target.
• Ice Hounds no longer apply freezing to frozen targets.
• Abominamoles no longer target Webbed Cocoons forever.
• Beardlings now drop monster morsels instead of regular morsels.
• Fixed Trapdoor Spiders walking in place on rare occasions.
• Snow/Wet ground no longer causes visual errors with the hooded forest shadows.
• Added TheSim ~= nil check to snowpiles to fix rare crash.

Trivia

• This is the first update to the mod in 2021

Gallery

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