Pliarys

This is the recode-only page for Pliarys. To read information about the legacy-only Pliarys, see Pliarys/Legacy, or select the Legacy Pliarys link from the NavNext.

Pliarys
Classification
Classified As	Featured Rare (?)
Basic Information
Diet	Herbivore
Type	Terrestrial
Tier	4 (Large)
Growth Time	45 min · Teen - 15 min · Adult - 30 min · Full Grown - 45 min · Full Elder - 90 min Veneration rate: Unknown
Blood Color	Red
Blood Texture	Normal
Stats
Health	6800 (6% regen)
Health	6800 (6% regen)
Weight	4750
Weight	4750
Appetite	75 1 thirst (37.5 min) 1 hunger (37.5 min)
Appetite	75 1 thirst (37.5 min) 1 hunger (37.5 min)
Speed	40 walk 64 sprint
Speed	40 walk 64 sprint
Damage	325
Damage	325
Bite Cooldown	0.8
Bite Cooldown	0.8
Moisture	N/A
Moisture	N/A
Oxygen	25
Oxygen	25
Stamina	125 (3 regen)
Stamina	125 (3 regen)
Nightvision	3/3 (Good)
Nightvision	3/3 (Good)
Turn	4
Turn	4
Status Resistances
Block Bleed	45%
Block Injury	15%
Other Abilities
Ambush	x1.35
Charge	Crush
Active Ability List	Mud Pile
/C	Crystal Breath
Passive Abilities List	Block Bleed (0.45), Block Injury (0.15), Broodwatcher, Charge (Crush), Keen Observer, Pack Healer, Will To Live
Miscellaneous
Concept by	HappyPoltergeist
Date added	03/24/2023 24 March 2023 00:00:00
Sounds	Note: The Pliarys currently borrows its sounds from Magnarothus Broadcast Friendly Aggro Voice

The Pliarys is a Tier 4 land herbivore. The species is available in the Rotation Store as an Uncommon creature for 3,500 Shooms. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 250^♂/2500^♀ Shooms.

Description

“	Pliarys are large, giraffe-like creatures that prefer to live in herds. They are of a peaceful nature, and will only attack if provoked. Pliarys often roam large, open plains as adults, and stay in more forested areas when young. They possess large crystalline structures on their backs that are chemically similar to quartz. These structures provide protection from predators, and act as stores for vital minerals. Pliarys are most active in the evening, with 4 well-developed eyes for seeing in low-light.	„
	~ In-game Description

Behavior

🧠 Creature Behavior

This section is intended to describe Pliarys' headcanon behavior for role-play and general gameplay behavior, or behavior that is realistically expected of this creature, as confirmed by the creature's creator. It does not conflict with official lore, nor is actual lore canon, but still supersedes any behavior headcanon not stemming from the creator. For more information, see here.

• Pliarys graze from trees, however they will occasionally drink nectar from large flowers or eat termites when the opportunity arises.

Appearance

The Pliarys heavily resembles a giraffe or horse, with large tufts of fur on its chest and tail. Turquoise crystals appear to grow from its back, the top of its tail, and its forelegs. It has a thin snout, with a long tongue similar to that of an anteater, two pairs of eyes, and horns protruding from its head. The Pliarys also has crystalline frill-like structures running from the top of its head to its tail-base, and crystalline veins covering its body.

Males

Males have a pair of longer horns protruding from their eyebrows.

Females

Females' eyebrow horns are smaller and more curved.

Abilities

Main Article: Creature Abilities

This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Pliarys. (editor 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 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.
• Injury Block/Block Injury is a passive ability that grants the creature resistance to getting Injury 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 Injury per hit and the receiver has 60% Injury Block, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 Injury.
• Broodwatcher is a passive ability that allows creatures to assist in the gestation of other player's eggs. It applies one stack of Gestation Buff to nearby creatures, which increases other creatures' egg gestation speed by 2.5%. The total buff any nesting species can receive is 5%, so only two Broodwatchers can be effective at any one time. Additionally, when sitting near a nest, the Broodwatcher gains 5 Defensive, which starts to decrease if they move.
• Charge (Crush) or Crush Charge is an specific type of Charge that inflicts Injury Status on the victim.
• Crystal Breath is an active ability using the breath control (C on PC or on Mobile) that is a type of Elemental Breath that inflicts 1 DPS (0.5% PER HIT). It has a Capacity of 10, a Regen Rate of 2, a Range of 150 studs, and a Critical chance of 35%. It can also inflict the following ailments: Bleed Status (Probability = 75%, STACKS set to 0.5), Injury, (Probability = 75%, STACKS set to 1), and Shredded Wings (Probability = 23%, STACKS set to 3).
• Keen Observer is a passive ability that allows the user to see the health of nearby creatures as a green HP bar over them. It also includes the ability to see equipped Plushies and all the Traits and status effects affecting them, albeit not their exact levels directly (nor the exact traits due to the indicators all being in green or red according to the buffs or debuffs). This has several advantages, from knowing who to protect, knowing if someone is suffering hypothermia/hunger/dehydration, spotting invisible and scent-hidden creatures, to knowing which target is the weakest/most debuffed and acting in consequence.
• Mud Pile is an active ability which allows a creature to place a mud pile that lasts 60 seconds. Creatures can wallow in the mud to gain healing Muddy Status and gain unscentable status for 90 seconds.
• Pack Healer is a pack-oriented passive ability. This passive ability allows you to boost the HP regen of your fellow packmates . It is because of this that creatures who have this ability are considered "Support creatures".
• Will To Live is a passive ability which allows a creature to perform typical run and sprint actions without stamina. However, if stamina is depleted and the creature attempts to move fast, it will deal 3% total health as damage every 3 seconds.

Carry-able Creatures

The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Pliarys 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.

See Can-Grab, Grabbed-By, Can-Latch, and Latched-By Lists

Can-Grab List This section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Pliarys can grab and carry, taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Pliarys (a(n) herbivore) is a tier 4 and can carry any creature from any lower tier size. * There is no creature which the Pliarys can currently carry Grabbed-By List This section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab and thus carry a non-elder fully-grown adult Pliarys taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Pliarys (a(n) herbivore) is a tier 4 and can be picked up by any creature with higher tier and the Grab ability, as follows: [Expand] Carry-able by: • Aqoxturumox • Arachyu • Auraron • Eigion Warden • Iztajuatl • Kendyll • Magnacetus • Opralegion • Syroudon • Turgeon • Vahiaex • Volnoirve Can-Latch List This section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Pliarys can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Pliarys (a(n) herbivore) is a tier 4 and can latch onto any higher tier size. * There is no creature which the Pliarys can currently grab but not carry Latched-By List This 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 Pliarys discounting special abilities. The Pliarys (a(n) herbivore) has 4750 weight and can be grabbed by any creature with sufficiently lower weight, as follows: [Expand] Grab-able by: • Alkaksu • Flipli • Fyluf • Gobli • Hemokai • Jeff • Koini • Minawii • Nimoona • Rukig

Trivia

• Original concept and redesign by HappyPoltergeist (@HappyPoltergeist#1752) on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
  • The Pliarys was inspired by crystals, giraffes, and the direhorse from the movie Avatar.
  • When asked about the naming of the Pliarys, HappyPoltergeist stated that he "...named it a really long time ago- I think I just came up with it on the fly after mashing some words together."
• Original model by CatboyNathann.
• Animated by BlckBrryJam.
• Pliarys was previously declared a scrapped creature before receiving a second redesign, after which it was returned to in-development status and later completed.
  • On top of this, the Pliarys is also the first previously scrapped creature to return to the game via a redesign, with multiple others afterwards.

Gallery

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Second Pliarys redesign concept art

First Pliarys redesign concept art

Original Pliarys concept art

Pliarys' primary color palette

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Old Pliarys model

Pliarys' rigged model

PliarysDev1

Clip provided by EastByEastz, CoS Discord, 3/24/2023

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Juvenile Pliarys

Teen Pliarys

Adult Pliarys

A closer view of Pliarys' gender dimorphism

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Albino Pliarys

Bewitched Pliarys

Blood Moon Pliarys

Clover Pliarys

Clownfish Pliarys

Creator Star Pliarys

Diamond Pliarys

Custom Dwarfism (right) and normal (left) Pliarys

Custom Dwarfism Pliarys, top view

Elemental Pliarys

Elemental + Glimmer Pliarys

Emerald Pliarys

Fool's Gold Pliarys

Old Frostburn Pliarys

Old custom Frostburn Pliarys; skin slightly customized

Ghosty Pliarys

Custom Gigantism (right) and normal (left) Pliarys

Custom Gigantism Pliarys, top view

Glimmer Pliarys, night

Custom Glow Tail Pliarys

Glow Tail + Glimmer Pliarys

Harvest Pliarys

Headless Pliarys

Leucistic Pliarys

Melanistic Pliarys

Overgrown Pliarys

Pearl Pliarys

Piebald Pliarys

Sapphire Pliarys

Old Shadow Pliarys; note that the teeth aren't neon white

Shimmer Pliarys

Custom Shimmer Pliarys, highlighted

Smore Pliarys

Zombified Pliarys

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Pliarys in the game's icon during its release, by daktronic

Notes

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