Did they get rid of the floating worm?

[bdj011073]

Once upon a time I loved playing this game, but quit once the giant floating worm was introduced. By chance have they gotten rid of it? I'd love to come back and play the game again but refuse to because of that stupid worm creature.

[RequiemsRose]

Unfortunately no, that's something we are stuck with. The good news is that it is a rare spawn that typically doesn't start spawning until after day 40 or after you've beaten the boss (whichever is first technically). You can also turn build destruction off (during gameplay even) so that even if it does show up it at least doesn't nuke your buildings.

[bdj011073]

Alright, thanks for letting me know. I was going through my list of games to play while waiting on the PZ update to drop. Thought about picking it up against for another extended play through.

Originally posted by RequiemsRose:

Unfortunately no, that's something we are stuck with. The good news is that it is a rare spawn that typically doesn't start spawning until after day 40 or after you've beaten the boss (whichever is first technically). You can also turn build destruction off (during gameplay even) so that even if it does show up it at least doesn't nuke your buildings.

[Dolly ✨🌈🔧]

It's never been a problem for me. You can turn off building destruction as part of the regular game settings as the other response states, it's no longer a cheat. Furthermore, saving and loading your game will unload all enemies. If the worm shows up, save, quit to the menu and load, and the worm will be gone, and won't be back for a long time.

[Scipio]

What is the name of this monster?
I just called it 'Wormsy'.. I don't see a developer command or ID for it unless its something unrelated. "armsy" looks like that monster from "The Thing", "vags" is that multi-female part looking deal... "fat" is that giant meat truck that knocks everything over. "baby". "fireman", the various "skinny" types, "pale", "male", "female".... Is it a spawnable mutant?
I have met up with it twice so far.. Once was just barely outside my fort and it busted in.. the second time it was right in my fort stuck in some of the buildings and elevated walkways.. and it tore the living hell out of everything.
I actually like to met up with it as it makes me redo the fortress and make it stronger.

[Dolly ✨🌈🔧]

I don't use commands so I wouldn't know how to summon it directly, but if you beat the game, you can run into the Megan mutant in the wild. If you kill it, a worm piece will spawn and begin to multiply into a full size worm.

It's canonically named "John" based on evidence in the labs.

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by Scipio:

What is the name of this monster?
I just called it 'Wormsy'.. I don't see a developer command or ID for it unless its something unrelated. "armsy" looks like that monster from "The Thing", "vags" is that multi-female part looking deal... "fat" is that giant meat truck that knocks everything over. "baby". "fireman", the various "skinny" types, "pale", "male", "female".... Is it a spawnable mutant?
I have met up with it twice so far.. Once was just barely outside my fort and it busted in.. the second time it was right in my fort stuck in some of the buildings and elevated walkways.. and it tore the living hell out of everything.
I actually like to met up with it as it makes me redo the fortress and make it stronger.

If trying to spawn it via commands it's "worm", but most of the mutants do have at least 2-3 names in game. Usually at least a canon/lore relevant name and at least one common nickname from the community, like spider/virginia/vags or octo/armsy. If i recall right you can find the command under both the "spawnmutant" and "spawnenemy" sections of spawning command info on the wiki, but i wanna say its the "spawnmutant worm" command that works for me rather than the spawnenemy version. It has been a bit, the sausage links of doom are not my favorite enemy so I don't spawn them in often, but they are indeed spawnable.

Also worth noting that for those interested in/willing to mod the game I do believe there IS a mod that also disables the worm spawn if you dont want it (and another that makes it less rare if you did want it more often). I just don't really mod so i cant help much beyond "hey, it exists to find" info lol.