Varskela

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

Varskela
Classification
Classified As	Winter Special (?)
Basic Information
Diet	Carnivore
Type	Terrestrial
Tier	4 (Large)
Growth Time	40 min · Teen - 13 min · Adult - 26 min · Full Grown - 40 min · Full Elder - 80 min Veneration rate: Unknown
Blood Color	Red
Blood Texture	Normal
Stats [Click] for extended stats
Health	4000 (5% regen) ( fst-> 6.25% regen)
Health	4000 (5% regen) ( fst-> 6.25% regen)
Weight	3400
Weight	3400
Appetite	60 1 thirst (30 min) (fst-> 40 min) 1 hunger (30 min) (fst-> 40 min)
Appetite	60 1 thirst (30 min) (fst-> 40 min) 1 hunger (30 min) (fst-> 40 min)
Speed	42 walk 69 sprint
Speed	42 walk 69 sprint
Damage	325
Damage	325
Bite Cooldown	0.8
Bite Cooldown	0.8
Moisture	N/A
Moisture	N/A
Oxygen	25
Oxygen	25
Stamina	80 (2 regen) (fst-> 2.5 regen)
Stamina	80 (2 regen) (fst-> 2.5 regen)
Nightvision	2/3 (Okay)
Nightvision	2/3 (Okay)
Turn	4
Turn	4
Status Effects
Bleed	off. 3.5 def. 1.5
Frostbite	off. 3.5 def. 1.5
Status Resistances
Block Bleed	60%
Block Frostbite	55%
Frosty	Yes
Other Abilities
Ambush	x1.35
Charge	Gore
/C	Glacier Breath
Passive Abilities List	Bleed Attack (3.5), Block Bleed (0.60), Block Frostbite (0.55), Charge (Gore), Climber, Defensive Bleed (1.5), Defensive Frostbite (1.5), Frostbite Attack (3.5), Frosty
Miscellaneous
Concept by	icecreamNavacodo
Date added	12/25/2021 25 December 2021 00:00:00

The Varskela is a Tier 4 land carnivore. The species is not currently available, but was available in the Christmas Store for 5,000 Bells during the Winter Event 2021-2022, in the Christmas Store for 6,000 Gifts during the Winter Event 2022-2023, in the Christmas Shop for 5,000 Candy Canes during the Winter Event 2023-2024, and in the Christmas Shop for 6,750 Candy Canes during the Winter Event 2024-2025. It is an Event creature. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 200^♂/2000^♀ Shooms.

Description

“	The Varskela is a territorial and hyper-aggressive beast. It uses its large dense icicles protruding from its neck and back as armor, and the icicles on its limbs and tail to cut through its attackers. The Varksela maintains its sub-zero armor by living in glacial caves which drip water onto its coat to then freeze instantly.	„
	~ In-game Description

Behavior

🧠 Creature Behavior

This section is intended to describe Varskela's 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.

• The Varskela likes to find un-opened geodes and will let their children gnaw on it till it cracks and shows the crystals inside (just for fun).

Appearance

The Varskela is a large, six-limbed hexapodal creature. It walks on its thicker forearms, and it has a smaller set of arms situated under the large arm. It has large tusks, two sets of eyes, and round ears. Icy spikes can be found covering many areas of the Varskela's body, including its head, its neck and back, the elbows of its large forearms, and its rump. It has a mid-sized tail with fluff and ice spikes at its tip.

Males

Males have a pair of large, curved horns on their head.

Females

Females have three floating diamond-shaped head pieces.

Abilities

Main Article: Creature Abilities

This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Varskela. (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.
• 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.
• Charge (Gore) or Gore Charge is an specific type of Charge that inflicts Bleed Status and Deep Wounds on the victim.
• 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.
• Defensive Bleed is a passive ability, where a creature defensively inflicts a specific amount of melee bleed status on an attacker upon getting bitten.
• Frostbite touch/Defensive Frostbite is an ability that defensively deals frostbite when bitten.
• Frostbite Attack is an ability that offensively deals frostbite when biting. A negative value means that it heals an amount of such status upon biting.
• Frosty is a passive ability, equivalent to Legacy's Winter Tag, and causes the creature with the tag to receive an +25% stamina regeneration, +25% health regeneration, -25% thirst depletion, and -25% hunger depletion during Winter and Famine seasons.
• Glacier Breath is an active ability using the breath control (C on PC or on Mobile) that is a type of Elemental Breath that inflicts 2 DPS (1% PER HIT). It has a Capacity of 10 seconds of firetime before recoil damage, a Regen Rate of 2, a Range of 150 studs, a Critical chance of 35%, a Chain value of 10, and a ChainMaxStacks of 10. It has a maximum chain damage of +1,000%. It can also inflict the following ailments: SLOWED (Probability = 30%, no stacking), and Injury (Probability = 30%, STACKS set to 1).

Carry-able Creatures

The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Varskela 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 Varskela can grab and carry, taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Varskela (a(n) carnivore) is a tier 4 and can carry any creature from any lower tier size. * There is no creature which the Varskela 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 Varskela taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Varskela (a(n) carnivore) 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 • Parahexilian • 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 Varskela can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Varskela (a(n) carnivore) is a tier 4 and can latch onto any higher tier size. * There is no creature which the Varskela 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 Varskela discounting special abilities. The Varskela (a(n) carnivore) has 3400 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: • Alkaksu • Flipli • Fyluf • Gobli • Hemokai • Jeff • Koini • Minawii • Nimoona • Rukig

Trivia

• Concept by icecreamNavocado.
  • The Varskela was inspired by "Naut's prompt for a winter creature with back arms and a purple, blue quartz crystal." (Quoted by concept creator)
    • The crystal in question appears to be an unwatermarked version of a photograph by the photographer Geoff Tompkinson.
  • The Varskela was originally named "Crinstaly", but this was changed.
• Modeled by JaxonBirb.
• Varskela's price was accidentally set to 7,000 bells and later set to 5,000 bells within slightly less than an hour of the release of Part 2 of the Winter Event of 2021-2022. The change was released in a soft patch, meaning it would only appear in newly-populated servers post-patch at the time and not in older servers.
• On the day of Varskela's release, it had a skin coloring bug which caused the player to spawn in-game with most of the customized skin reverting back to the default color version. This bug was fixed in a soft patch on the same day.
• Varskela's primary palette is quite similar to Jotunhel's second color palette, albeit the hex codes are not identical and don't follow the same order.
• The creature used to lack the Winter Tag on Legacy, a feature most winter-inspired creatures had that granted them immunity to the Winter and Famine's icy winds. The developers confirmed this was intentional. However, due to high player demand, it eventually received it in the update the Yohsog and Tundrik were released.
• Varskela is nicknamed "Varsk" and often described as "Crystal thing with arms".

Gallery

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Varskela concept art

Varskela's primary color palette

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Juvenile Varskela

Juvenile Varskela, back view

Teen Varskela

Teen Varskela, back view

Adult Varskela

Adult Varskela, back view

A closer view of Varskela's gender dimorphism

Image that the concept creator took inspiration from

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Albino Varskela

Bewitched Varskela

Blood Moon Varskela

Clownfish Varskela

Coal Chunk Varskela

Diamond Varskela

Custom Dwarfism (right) and elder Harvest (left) Varskela

Custom Dwarfism Varskela, top view

Elemental Varskela

Fool's Gold Varskela

Frostburn Varskela

Old Frostburn Varskela

Ghosty Varskela

Glimmer Varskela

Custom Glimmer male Varskela

Glow Tail Varskela

Harvest male Varskela

Harvest female Varskela

Previous Harvest Varskela

Old Harvest Varskela

Old Harvest + Glimmer Varskela

Headless Varskela

Leucistic Varskela

Melanistic male Varskela

Melanistic female Varskela

Melanistic + Glimmer Varskela

Overgrown male Varskela

Overgrown female Varskela

Overgrown + Glimmer male Varskela

Overgrown + Glimmer female Varskela

Pearl Varskela

Piebald Varskela

Old Piebald Varskela

Shadow Varskela

Shimmer male Varskela

Shimmer female Varskela

Shimmer + Glimmer Varskela

Smore Varskela

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The icon used during the Varskela's release, drawn by Alphacalls

Varskela's original price during the Winter Event 2021-2022

Varskela's Glacier Breath ability

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