Dealing with Thumper and Spiders

[Khalani]

Since the Thumper was my Nemesis on lower moons for a long time, I thought I should share my tip how to deal with this bad boy.

Apparently he is not that difficult to kill as long as you are ready for it.
I always just jump on a railing and shovel him to death, it seems like he has a difficult time to reach you up there.

I'm not 100% sure if this always works and you need some sort of high ground for it.

My advice for the spider is, avoid its "lair"
The spider builds webs around an area and then goes into "hunting" mode, where it stays somewhere at a wall and doesn't move until one of its webs are triggered by either stepping into it, or destroying it.

If you happen to trigger it anyway, you can just run away, since you are faster, or you can also try to shovel it.
As long as you keep a little distance you can hit the spider without it hitting you, BUT if you take 2 bites, you are dead.
It's a risk, but better than going home empty handed

[unlvcky]

So i if the spider built its webs in the lair, it doesnt hunt me until i step on a web? So can i go around safely there then? My ass has arachnophobia and i just died on the last day because i couldnt proceed further because of my phobia, i hate it.

[Khalani]

Well it depends what you call safe. If you walk right next to it, it will probably trigger but other than that, as soon as its done building all the webs you can avoid it as long as you keep distance.

Someone said today, that the "jump on a railing to smack the thumper" tactic is also viable for spiders. Haven't tested it myself yet.

[Scyushi]

Thanks for this post! Wanted to add a bit and say that when all webs are down and the spider is in it's idle state, it doesn't seem to attack UNLESS hitting a web.

I ran right beside it to get into a room behind it and it stayed idle.. like maybe if you smack it or get close enough your player touches it's hitbox, it might wake up, but it seems to prioritize being idle.

[BronzeThunderbeard]

Anyone know how many shovel hits to stop a Spider? I think I hit one 7-8 times and still couldn't stop it

[SIGNAL]

Originally posted by unlvcky:

So i if the spider built its webs in the lair, it doesnt hunt me until i step on a web? So can i go around safely there then? My ass has arachnophobia and i just died on the last day because i couldnt proceed further because of my phobia, i hate it.

I think so, yeah.
If a spider isn't actively wandering and hunting, then it's essentially passive unless you go up right next to it or touch a web. Don't know if destroying webs also triggers them but I wouldn't try.

[SIGNAL]

One other thing about spiders from what I've seen is that when they aggro on someone, they tend to ignore other people. One run I had, a spider was blocking a doorway that I needed to get to, so I had a friend touch a web to gain aggro and then bolt out of there. I crouched and sat on the side of the hallway as the spider passed me to kill him.

[Khalani]

Originally posted by SIGNAL:

One other thing about spiders from what I've seen is that when they aggro on someone, they tend to ignore other people. One run I had, a spider was blocking a doorway that I needed to get to, so I had a friend touch a web to gain aggro and then bolt out of there. I crouched and sat on the side of the hallway as the spider passed me to kill him.

Destroying their web also triggers them but you can use that as you described.
I even once had to run after the spider with my shovel because it ignored me.

Wouldn't trust it 100% though. Better play it safe if you can ;)

[RaidRapT0R]

So getting to higher ground like a railling??? DOESNT WORK… they can easily kill u when u are on a railling

[Jayscee]

Originally posted by SLIF3R:

So getting to higher ground like a railling??? DOESNT WORK… they can easily kill u when u are on a railling

You can try looking at the date of the post.
You've just necroed a thread from the previous patch when it DID WORK. This has been removed since.

[[Z]ebra]

Update 47 is going to fix Thumper. It's gonna act like charge-attack monsters in other games - it hits the wall, it loses its speed and get slowed down for some time. It seems like this functionality was intended all along, but didn't work properly for some reason.