The Cantapodi is a Tier 1 land photocarnivore. The species is available in the Photovore Explorer Gacha. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 
15♂/150♀ Shooms.
Description
| “ | Cantapodi are opportunistic, desert dwelling scavengers. They are nomadic and are bult to run long distances in search of food. The cacti on their bodies stores water, to keep the cantapodi hydrated during during its endless search. The cantapodi's large, hooked foreclaws assist it in combat, usually against other creatures trying to steal their meal. | „ |
| ~ In-game Description |
(Note: 'during' is repeated twice in the actual In-game Description.)
Behavior
- Similar to snakes, Cantapodi will bury their eggs to keep them safe from predators and to shield them from the scorching sun. When they hatch, they band together and form a temporary pack as a defense before eventually branching off as they mature.
- While the Cantapodi are blind, they can map out their surroundings using a “sixth sense” not unlike that of a modern platypus. Their sense of smell and adept hearing also helps make up for the lack of sight.
Appearance
The Cantapodi displays a colorful skin pattern, with the default colors being tan, pink, dark brown, and green. The Cantapodi has two toes on each foot, resembling a chameleon, and is intricately decorated with numerous spikes and prickly pear flower buds. It has the natural stance of a kangaroo and other creatures with long tails, using it when walking and leaning on it when idle. It also has a long, spiky tail with three flowers at the tip, emulating a giant long cacti. It appears shorter than it is due to the spiral curvature of its spine-covered tail. Adult Cantapodi present three horns on the frontal region of their head.
Males
Males have a petal-like longer collar mane.
Females
Females lack any additional features.
Abilities
Main Article: Creature Abilities
This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Cantapodi. (editor list)
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] ability list:- Ambush is a recode-only ability, inheritor of the Ambush control in Legacy, and thus shares some similarities to it. Ambush can be toggled by pressing (not holding) the correct active ability key (which may vary between creatures). It will automatically deactivate after a set period of time, after stamina runs out, or after halting movement, whichever happens first. Like legacy ambush, recode Ambush ability allows a temporary speed boost according to an ambush multiplier inherent to the species (e.g. x 1.5 or x 1.25), usually granting a faster Sprint (except when the multiplier is x1.0 or lower). It will not be stopped by entering or leaving water once initiated; but at a higher stamina cost and a possible decrease in turn speed, directly making a creature unable to turn while ambushing. Similar to legacy, a creature can know if ambush is toggled not only from the the evident speed boost while moving, but because when pressing the activation button, the camera FOV zooms out a tiny bit. Ambush can be used while sprinting. However, unlike Legacy ambush, pressing the appropriate key again will not stack max time and stamina consumption, and can be initiated underwater by creatures with the appropriate mobility type (however, it still keeps the Legacy characteristic of keeping creatures not adapted to water from initiating ambush underwater). Additionally, Ambushing disrupts strafing.
- Bleed Attack is a passive ability, where a creature offensively inflicts a specific amount of melee bleed status on a creature with every bite (not with breath/ranged abilities or reflecting abilities). A negative value means that it heals an amount of such status upon biting.
- Bleed Block/Block Bleed is a passive ability that grants the creature resistance to getting bleed status from melee attacks at the very least, and every other source at most. Recode's equivalent of bleed defense; it is percentage based, e.g. if an attacker deals 5 bleed per hit and the receiver has 60% bleed defense, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 bleed.
- If a creature's Block Bleed is 100%, then they are immune to Bleed inflicted by melee direct attacks once fully grown. This ability is gained gradually as the creature ages, that is, a creature with 100% Block Bleed will have some fraction of bleed defense while growing, being such fraction bigger as it grows.
- A negative value in-game may indicate an extra vulnerability to the status effect this ability is supposed to protect from.
- Frostbite Block/Block Frostbite is a passive ability that grants the creature resistance to getting frostbite status from melee attacks at the very least, and every other source at most. It is percentage based, e.g. if an attacker deals 5 frostbite per hit and the receiver has 60% block frostbite, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 frostbite.
- Burrower is an active ability that allows the creature to place up to 4 (or a specific creature limit) burrows anywhere on the map, and use other burrows from other creatures. Burrow entrances are two-way, so the exit can be accessed inside the burrow. If a creature places more entrances than the maximum allowed, the oldest burrow and exit will be replaced. A creature cannot place a burrow entrance inside its own burrow or inside someone else's burrow. Sometimes some creatures can place on certain areas one-way entries, which can lead to making a burrow prison. There is a 3 second cooldown between entering and exiting burrows, not including entering after its initial placement.
- Charge (Gore) or Gore Charge is an specific type of Charge that inflicts Bleed Status and Deep Wounds on the victim.
- Day/Night Time Status are an environmental status effect that confers a +5% damage, +25% stamina regen, -10% growth time, +15% health regen; and -5% damage, -25% stamina regen, -15% health regen; respectively, to photovores and photocarnivores.
- Defensive Bleed is a passive ability, where a creature defensively inflicts a specific amount of melee bleed status on an attacker upon getting bitten.
- Egg Stealer is an active ability that allows certain creatures to actively interact with nests in order to eat the eggs from a nest , stealing them as edible food to consume later. Previously, you could steal your own eggs, but currently you cannot unless the egg and nest range have areas where they don't overlap. Creatures with this ability can pick up eggs and must break open the egg to eat them, via biting. Any creature can break a stolen egg. A creature may know how close is to open the egg by the amount of cracks covering it. Once an egg is open, its label will change to "scrambled" and its yolk will be exposed to eat. All creatures with the ability to eat can break and consume such eggs, therefore photovores with this ability cannot eat the eggs. Consuming a scrambled egg grants satiation. Taking an egg will make the respective nest progress for that egg reset to 0, and can only be recovered if a female creature recovers the egg and places it back on their nest (the original nest the egg was stolen from for the original nester, and a creature's own nest for any other female). Scrambled eggs cannot be recovered. When an egg is returned to the nest, its health is restored to full. If a creature has this ability, eggs are also highlighted with an egg icon when scenting.
- Iron Stomach is a passive ability which allows the user to eat rotten meat without getting negative ailments from it - preventing getting the Sickly Status.
- Jump is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight and inheritor of the Early Legacy Release jump ability (an ability which never made it past Legacy's Early Release), by pressing space allows a creature to project a parabolic trajectory jump on land, thanks to recode's realistic gravity, and based on the creature's inertia at the time of the jump. However, creatures can turn during jumping, and sometimes running at the same time of the trajectory allows for a limited trajectory correction. If a semi-aquatic (or all-terrain/flier with semi-aquatic characteristics) creature with Jump starts swimming and tries to jump, they will Dart instead. Not all creatures have this ability, even if their mobility type is compatible.
- Jump has an associated speed boost, stamina consumption (and below that threshold a creature will be unable to jump), and age limit for every creature. Beyond that age limit, a creature will be unable to jump - that field is commonly used for creatures which will develop Glide or Flight on a later growth stage. In fact, if on our infoboxes only appears a jump age stat, that means that the creature has actually jump 0 (no jump) and on the stage that jump supersedes Glide or Flight, it is equivalent as to being unable to jump nor flight nor glide.
- Strength In Numbers is a passive ability that confers a creature a 7% stamina regeneration boost and a 1.5% damage boost. This stacks according to how many creatures with the same ability and same species are nearby. If there are no other users of this ability nearby, it won't provide that boost.
- Thorn Trap is an active ability which allows a creature to drop a trap of thorny plant growth. When a creature triggers a trap, it disappears, and they receive six stacks of Bleed/Bleed Status (affected by bleed defense) and two stacks of FREEZE, temporarily immobilizing the target's actions. It has a 35-second cooldown. Multiple thorn traps can be placed and remain by the same creature. If more than 3 thorn traps are placed at one time, the oldest one will despawn.
Carry-able Creatures
The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Cantapodi is carried by, can carry (grab), can latch, and can be latched by in RECODE. To see the lists and their toggles to view each, click on the collapsible text to the right of the table below, to Expand or Collapse the list.
Can-Grab ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Cantapodi can grab and carry (pick-up), taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Cantapodi (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 1 with 999 lbs of weight and as long as it has the Grab Ability, it can pick up any creature of lower or equal tier with enough lighter weight difference.* There is no creature which the Cantapodi can currently carry
Grabbed-By ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab and thus carry a non-elder fully-grown adult Cantapodi taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Cantapodi (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 1 with 999 lbs of weight and can be picked up by any creature of higher or equal tier with enough heavier weight difference and the Grab ability, as follows:[ Expand Collapse ] Carry-able by:
Can-Latch ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Cantapodi can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Cantapodi (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 1 with 999 lbs of weight and as long as it has the Latch ability, it can latch into any creature of higher tier with enough heavier weight difference.* There is no creature which the Cantapodi can currently grab but not carry
Latched-By ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab but not carry (latch onto) the non-elder fully-grown Cantapodi discounting special abilities. The Cantapodi (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 1 with 999 lbs of weight and can be latched onto by any creature of lower tier and enough lighter weight difference. However, carnivores and photocarnivores cannot be grabbed by herbivores and photovores, as follows:[
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Trivia
- Designed by kazooduder on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- Modeled, rigged, and animated by Erythia.
- Redesign concept by Austroraptors.
- Redesign modeled by ScratchyPaws and rigged by Mezzioli.
- Redesign animated by kazooduder.
- The Cantapodi has green blood.
- Due to this, when killed in the Legacy version of the game, the Cantapodi drops a green carcass.
- This is an actual color in some Earth creatures: both from those that use chlorocruorin, a green oxygen carrier that replaces hemoglobin in some invertebrates' blood and in some vertebrates (like some green-blooded lizards) that have adapted to carry lethal amounts of biliverdin in their blood, which is a toxic byproduct of heme catabolism whose only good side is that it has antimutagenic properties. It is possibly green just because of the inspiration of this creature, meaning the blood could be a sap, which is more fitting for the Cantapodi.
Gallery
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets and color palettes for the Cantapodi.
Cantapodi redesign concept art
Former Cantapodi concept art
Cantapodi's primary color palette
This tab is intended to present anything showcased during the process of development for the Cantapodi, such as the creation of models, animations, and poses.
Cantapodi teaser
Cantapodi model progress
Completed Cantapodi model
Completed Cantapodi model, side view
Completed model imported into Roblox
Posed Cantapodi, sitting
Posed Cantapodi, resting
Redesign Cantapodi rigged model
Size comparison with its previous model, front view
Size comparison, top view
Size comparison, side view
CantapodiDev1
Clip provided by Erythia, CoS Discord, 1/16/2021
This tab is intended to present anything to further observe the Cantapodi's design, inspirations, and changes in growth stages for reference.
Gender dimorphism between male and female Cantapodi
Juvenile Cantapodi
Teen Cantapodi
Adult male Cantapodi
Adult female Cantapodi
Cantapodi sitting
Cantapodi laying
Old juvenile Cantapodi
Old teen Cantapodi
Old adult Cantapodi
An old juvenile Cantapodi in-game
An old teen Cantapodi in-game
An old custom adult Cantapodi in-game
Old teen Cantapodi's tail flower
Old adult Cantapodi's tail flower
Old male Cantapodi in Blender
Old female Cantapodi in Blender
Dimorphism between male and female Cantapodi, previous model
Cantapodi's Legacy carcass features green flesh and purple bones
Cantapodi's blood, which is green
This tab is intended to present how different Mutations appear on the Cantapodi.
Albino Cantapodi
Amethyst Cantapodi
Blood Moon Cantapodi
Clownfish Cantapodi
Creator Star Cantapodi
Creator Star Cantapodi in-game
Elemental Cantapodi
Fools Error Cantapodi
Fools Error Cantapodi in-game
Fool's Gold Cantapodi
Garnet Cantapodi
Ghosty Cantapodi
Ghosty Cantapodi in-game
Gigantism custom male (left) and regular male (right) Cantapodi
Gigantism custom male (right) and regular male (left) Cantapodi, from above
Glimmer Cantapodi
Glow Tail Cantapodi
Custom Glow Tail Cantapodi
Headless Cantapodi
Leucistic Cantapodi
Melanistic Cantapodi
Overgrown Cantapodi
Piebald Cantapodi
Sapphire Cantapodi
Shadow Cantapodi
Shadow Cantapodi in-game
Shimmer Cantapodi in-game
Shimmer Cantapodi, highlighted
Smore Cantapodi
Souls Fracture Cantapodi
Old Albino male Cantapodi
Old Albino female Cantapodi
Old Amethyst Cantapodi
Old Bewitched Cantapodi
Old Blood Moon Cantapodi
Old Clownfish Cantapodi
Old Creator Star male Cantapodi
Old Creator Star female Cantapodi
Old Elemental male Cantapodi
Old Elemental female Cantapodi
Old Fool's Gold Cantapodi
Old Frostburn Cantapodi
Old Garnet Cantapodi
Old Ghosty male Cantapodi
Old Ghosty female Cantapodi
Old custom Gigantism male (left) and normal female (right) Cantapodi
Old custom Gigantism Cantapodi, side view
Old custom Gigantism Cantapodi, top view
Old Glimmer male Cantapodi
Old Glimmer female Cantapodi
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Old Glimmer male Cantapodi
Old Glow Tail Cantapodi
Original Glow Tail on previous Cantapodi model; note the glowing thighs and toes
Original custom Glow Tail Cantapodi
Old Headless Cantapodi
Old Leucistic male Cantapodi
Old Leucistic female Cantapodi
Old Melanistic male Cantapodi
Old Melanistic female Cantapodi
Old Overgrown male Cantapodi
Old Overgrown female Cantapodi
Old Pearl Cantapodi
Old Piebald male Cantapodi
Old Piebald female Cantapodi
Old Sapphire Cantapodi
Old Shadow Cantapodi
Old Shadow Cantapodi in-game, during Sakura
Old Shimmer Cantapodi
Old custom Shimmer Cantapodi, highlighted
Old Smore Cantapodi
Old Zombified male Cantapodi
Old Zombified female Cantapodi
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Previous primary color palette
Cantapodi' hitbox
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