The Skulderouge is a Tier 4 land photocarnivore. The species is not currently available, but was available in the Spring Meadows Gacha as a chance for 1 Spring Meadows Token and on the Spring Meadows Shop for 
7,500 Shooms after obtaining 20 Spring Meadows Tokens during the Spring Meadows Event 2025. It was previously available during the Spring Meadows Event 2024 by completing its mission. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 300♂/3000♀ Shooms.
Description
| “ | Masked with beautiful colors and heart-like petals, Skulderouge's behavior is completely short of elegance. It's flowery appearance is often an underestimation of this creature's behavior, as it is often chaotic and wreckless, wreaking havoc amongst Sonaria. Similar to a rose's stem, thorned serrations align it's body to protect itself and deal defense bleed. | „ |
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Appearance
The Skulderouge is a lindworm-like creature with only two arms. It is adorned with many fringes which bear a resemblance to rose petals. Skulderouge are presented in a multitude of colors, from a dull green to brilliant shades of pink and red. On its head and back, long rose vine-like tendrils sprout from its body, covered in sharp thorn-like spines, with rose-like structures bearing several leaves at the tip. Skulderouge's long tail also resembles these tendrils, covered in spines and ending with a rose, the only difference is a sharp tail-tip right in the center of the rose. On one side of its face, a brilliant bouquet of roses grow from an eye, giving it a unique asymmetrical face. It has a toothless mouth, with its "teeth" being large serrations on the mouth. In its gaping maw is an extremely long serrated tongue which sometimes shoots out to sense its environment.
Males
Males have no additional features.
Females
Females have extra leaves on their rose vine-like tendrils and tail.
Abilities
Main Article: Creature Abilities
This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Skulderouge. (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 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.
- Burn Block/Block Burn is a passive ability that grants the creature resistance to getting burn 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 burn per hit and the receiver has 60% block burn, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 burn.
- If a creature's block burn is 100%, then they are immune to Burn inflicted by melee direct attacks once fully grown. This ability is gained gradually as the creature ages, that is, a creature with 100% burn defense will have some fraction of burn defense while growing, being such fraction bigger as it grows.
- 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.
- Block Poison/Poison Block is a passive ability that grants resistance to poison status once they reach max age (100). Like many other block defenses, it works by blocking a percentage of the ailment received. If a creature's Poison Block is 100%, then they are immune to those stats (and will be healed instantly if they are somehow applied) once they reach age 100.
- Climber is a passive ability that allows a creature to walk on walls along with ceilings and some uncollidable terrain if climbing on the right angle. To detach from a wall or ceiling, press Space on PC. On Mobile, press the dedicated Detach button, or, if the creature has Jump, press the jump button.
- 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.
- Defensive Poison/Melee Toxin is a passive ability that makes a creature toxic by melee - that is, being bitten by another creature will cause the attacker to receive Poison Status, as much as the bitten creature has labeled on their stats and affected by modifiers such as some plushies or resistances. Stacks with itself.
- 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.
- Poison Attack/Melee Venom is a passive ability that makes a creature venomous by melee - that is, biting another creature will cause the victim to receive Poison Status, as much as the attacker has labeled on their stats and affected by modifiers such as some plushies or resistances. Stacks with itself. A negative value means that it heals an amount of such status upon biting.
- Serrated Teeth is a passive ability which offensively inflicts Deep Wounds status when biting.
- 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.
- Virus 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 20, a Regen Rate of 3, a Range of 200 studs, and it can inflict the Bleed Status ailment (Probability = 60%, STACKS set to 0.5). - 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 Skulderouge 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 Skulderouge can grab and carry, taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Skulderouge (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 4 and can carry any creature from any lower tier size.* There is no creature which the Skulderouge 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 Skulderouge taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Skulderouge (a(n) photocarnivore) 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:
Can-Latch ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Skulderouge can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Skulderouge (a(n) photocarnivore) is a tier 4 and can latch onto any higher tier size.* There is no creature which the Skulderouge 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 Skulderouge discounting special abilities. The Skulderouge (a(n) photocarnivore) has 4500 weight and can be grabbed by any creature with sufficiently lower weight. However, carnivores and photocarnivores cannot be grabbed by herbivores and photovores, as follows:[Expand] Grab-able by:
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Trivia
- Concept by undeary in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- The Skulderouge was inspired by the Skullcrawler from the MonsterVerse.
- Skulderouge is the first creature released in Recode to be inspired by a kaiju, but is the 5th released creature to draw inspiration from kaijus, the others being the Sarchias, Ahri'Tahmuk, Korathos, and Raiquazok.
- The Skulderouge is also the second ever creature to be inspired by Skullcrawlers, the first being the Sarchias.
- Modeled by ThunderBoo666.
Gallery
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets and color palettes for the Skulderouge.
Skulderouge concept art
Skulderouge's primary color palette
This tab is intended to present anything showcased during the process of development for the Skulderouge, such as the creation of models, animations, and poses.
This tab is intended to present anything to further observe the Skulderouge's design, inspirations, and changes in growth stages for reference.
Juvenile Skulderouge
Teen Skulderouge
Adult Skulderouge
Dimorphism between male and female Skulderouge
Skulderouge aggro seen from the front
Skulderouge aggro seen from the side
Skulderouge cower seen from the front
Skulderouge cower seen from the side
This tab is intended to present how different Mutations appear on the Skulderouge.
Albino Skulderouge
Bewitched Skulderouge
Bewitched + Glimmer Skulderouge
Blood Moon Skulderouge
Blood Moon + Glimmer Skulderouge
Blossom Skulderouge
Clover male Skulderouge
Clover female Skulderouge
Custom Clover Skulderouge
Clownfish Skulderouge
Creator Star male Skulderouge
Creator Star female Skulderouge
Diamond Skulderouge
Dwarfism (left) and custom Shimmer (right) Skulderouge
Elemental male Skulderouge
Elemental female Skulderouge
Emerald male Skulderouge
Emerald female Skulderouge
Emerald + Glimmer Skulderouge
Fool's Gold Skulderouge
Garnet Skulderouge
Ghosty Skulderouge
Custom Ghosty Skulderouge
Custom Gigantism (left) and Emerald (right) Skulderouge
Glimmer Skulderouge
Custom Glimmer Skulderouge, highlighted
Glow Tail male Skulderouge
Glow Tail female Skulderouge
Glow Tail + Glimmer Skulderouge
Harvest male Skulderouge
Harvest female Skulderouge
Headless Skulderouge
Leucistic Skulderouge
Melanistic Skulderouge
Overgrown Skulderouge
Pearl male Skulderouge
Pearl female Skulderouge
Piebald Skulderouge
Sapphire male Skulderouge
Sapphire female Skulderouge
Shadow Skulderouge
Shimmer Skulderouge
Custom Shimmer Skulderouge, highlighted
Custom Shimmer + Glimmer Skulderouge, highlighted
Smore Skulderouge
Zombified Skulderouge
This tab is intended to present images related to the Skulderouge that don't fit into the other tabs.
Skulderouge in the game's icon during its release, by Twin Atlas team
Badge of Spring Meadows/The Hunt 2024 event based off Skulderouge
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