The Koryser is a Tier 3 land photocarnivore. The species is available in the Photovore Explorer Gacha. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 
75♂/750♀ Shooms.
Description
| “ | Koryser are unruly beasts with cactus-like flesh and spines along the entirety of its body. They are commonly seen disguising themselves as cacti as they rest beneath the sunlight. | „ |
| ~ In-game Description |
Behavior
- Koryser females are good mothers, until their baby gets their body covered in spikes.
- Koryser are usually lonely, but it isn’t rare to find a couple, a mother and her offspring (even adult), or siblings living and hunting together.
- Koryser aren’t made to sleep a lot, so they’re often active during night. However, they’re photocarnivores, which is why during the night they become extremely aggressive toward any potential prey and eat as much as they can, to keep energy until the dawn.
Appearance
Koryser is a quadrupedal creature that resembles a cactus. It is covered in thorns throughout its body to deter predators. It has no eyes, but rather two large horns in the place of its eyes. The Koryser has large fangs as well as bulky forearms with large paws and claws. Its tail is short and covered in spines.
Males
Males have large horns, large spikes on their back, as well as a longer spikey tail.
Females
Females have short horns, large flowers on their back, and a short stubby tail.
Abilities
Main Article: Creature Abilities
This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Koryser. (editor list)
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] ability list:- Area Water Restore is a ranged active ability that has a cooldown of 600 sec (10 min). Refreshes part of drinkable water sources quality in range.
- 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.
- 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.
- Grab is an active ability, the recode's equivalent of Legacy's creature "grab a lighter creature", allowing a creature to pick up a lower-tiered creature. Unlike legacy's, it has several pecularities, among them that grabbing is no longer based on weight, but tier. Another peculiarity is that grabbed creatures cannot escape until 5 seconds later. After that, the grabbed creature can struggle by using any button and will release such creature from the grab. The user can ungrab at any moment by pressing the same button used to grab. A creature darting from outside water will grab any creature it finds automatically. Interestingly enough, using this ability may also make a piece of grabbed food drop.
- Injury Attack is an ability that offensively deals injury status when biting. A negative value means that it heals an amount of such status upon biting.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wing Shredder is a passive ability that allows a creature to offensively deal Shredded Wings status to a creature they bite, with an amount specific of the user creature.
Carry-able Creatures
The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Koryser 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 Koryser can grab and carry (pick-up), taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Koryser (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 3 with 3000 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, as follows:[ Expand Collapse ] Can 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 Koryser taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Koryser (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 3 with 3000 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 Koryser can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Koryser (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 3 with 3000 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 Koryser 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 Koryser discounting special abilities. The Koryser (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 3 with 3000 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 @Prince_Manticore on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- Inspired by random cacti, the Carnotaurus, and the Smilodon.
- Modeled and animated by Erythia.
- Redesign concept by MacRenee.
- According to MacRenee, "the orange bulbs on male Kory are based off the fruits that come from cactus, just like how the tail is on the OG."
- Redesign model by MidnightAJC8308.
- First creature to have the Thorns ability in Legacy.
- Also known as 'cactus dog', 'cactus gorilla', or simply 'cactus'.
Gallery
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets and color palettes for the Koryser.
Male Koryser redesign concept art
Female Koryser redesign concept art
Former Koryser concept art
Koryser's primary color palette
This tab is intended to present anything showcased during the process of development for the Koryser, such as the creation of models, animations, and poses.
Koryser development 1
Koryser development 2
Koryser development 3
Posed Koryser, menu pose
Posed Koryser, resting
Posed Koryser, sitting
Koryser rigged
Redesign Koryser model
Redesign Koryser's size compared to Therolachus and its old model
Size comparison, side view
Size comparison, top view
This tab is intended to present anything to further observe the Koryser's design, inspirations, and changes in growth stages for reference.
Juvenile Koryser
Teen Koryser
Adult female Koryser
Dimorphism between male and female Koryser
Old juvenile Koryser
Old teen Koryser
This tab is intended to present how different Mutations appear on the Koryser.
Albino male Koryser
Albino female Koryser
Blood Moon male Koryser
Clover male Koryser
Clover female Koryser
Clownfish male Koryser
Clownfish female Koryser
Diamond male Koryser
Diamond female Koryser
Fool's Gold male Koryser
Fool's Gold female Koryser
Ghosty Koryser
Gigantism (right) and normal (left) Koryser
Glimmer male Koryser
Glimmer famale Koryser
Glimmer female Koryser, night
Glow Tail male Koryser
Glow Tail female Koryser
Custom Headless Koryser
Leucistic male Koryser
Leucistic female Koryser
Melanistic male Koryser
Melanistic female Koryser
Overgrown male Koryser
Overgrown female Koryser
Pearl male Koryser
Pearl female Koryser
Piebald male Koryser
Piebald female Koryser
Sapphire male Koryser
Sapphire male Koryser in-game
Sapphire female Koryser
Shimmer male Koryser
Shimmer female Koryser
Custom Shimmer male Koryser, highlighted
Custom Shimmer female Koryser, highlighted
Old Albino male Koryser
Old Albino female Koryser
Old Bewitched male Koryser
Old Bewitched female Koryser
Old Blood Moon male Koryser
Old Blood Moon female Koryser
Old Blossom male Koryser
Old Fool's Gold male Koryser
Old Fool's Gold female Koryser
Old Glimmer male Koryser
Old Glimmer female Koryser
Old Glimmer Koryser
Old Glow Tail Koryser
Old Glow Tail Koryser in-game
Old Leucistic male Koryser
Old Leucistic female Koryser
Old Melanistic male Koryser
Old Melanistic female Koryser
Old Pearl male Koryser
Old Pearl female Koryser
Old Shadow Koryser
Old Shimmer Koryser
Old Smore male Koryser
Old Smore female Koryser
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Previous primary color palette
Koryser's hitbox
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