The Xymorax is a Tier 4 gliding carnivore. The species is available in the Artifact Shop for an initial price of 
900,000 Shooms, which can be lowered with the use of artifacts. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 3200♂/32000♀ Shooms.
Description
| “ | Xymorax originate from beyond the far reaches of Sonaria. These alien creatures emerge from fallen meteors, breaking through their rocky exteriors like newborn hatchlings. Once free, they swiftly explore their surroundings, moving quickly to invade and conquer the new environments they encounter. | „ |
| ~ In-game Description |
Behavior
- Their nature is incredibly invasive, as they adapt rapidly to any ecosystem, decimating local fauna to sustain themselves. Using their long, sharp tongue-like proboscis, the Xymorax drink the blood of other creatures to survive, feeding on the vital fluids to fuel their relentless spread.
- This parasitic feeding behavior is central to their survival, allowing them to grow and reproduce while draining the life force of every creature they come across.
- Although these creatures are quite swift and agile within the confines of space, Xymorax seem to be quite troubled by the gravity of Sonaria's atmosphere, making them slower and less mobile than normal.
- Sonaria's vast collection of species adds additional difficulty to their survival. Any time a Xymorax feeds on smaller creatures than itself, it will strangle its prey using its tentacle like appendages. However, if the prey item is larger, they will simply attach themselves on the creature securing themselves with not only their tentacles but clawed feet as well.
Artist Headcanon
- Xymorax have a unique method of reproduction—one that hinges on their insatiable bloodlust, allowing the invader to reproduce something akin to asexual means through the blood they consume. Absorbing the genetic material of their victims, Xymorax use the genetic make-up to create new offspring. This form of reproduction allows them to rapidly multiply, ensuring that their numbers skyrocket as they continue to feed.
- The process is efficient and brutal, with the creature's victims providing not only sustenance but also the means to spawn the next generation of Xymorax.
- The most unsettling aspect of this reproduction is that the new spawn may show genetic differences depending on the blood that the parent drinks. The genetic material of their victims blends with that of the Xymorax, creating offspring that may inherit different traits such as longer tails, tentacles, spines, and etc.
- Xymorax produce small spherical eggs which are typically laid within meteors drifting across space. The eggs themselves are laid through regurgitation, where the expecting Xymorax drills a hole in a rocky surface placing a single egg inside using its mouth.
Appearance
Xymorax is a large, alien creature with a sleek body. It has a long, needle-like head that extends forward into a sharp point. Three sets of eyes can be seen on each side of this head. Having no visual neck, its round body is fused with its head, with thin appendages of various sizes running along its back, underbelly, back of its legs, and the end of its tentacles. These eight, long tentacle-like appendages can be seen extending from its body near its eyes with webbing growing between them. The creature is able to put two of each of the eight tentacles together, making it appear as if it had only four tentacle-like appendages. A second set of smaller tentacle "wings" grow from above its abdomen. Xymorax has long, oddly shaped legs with thin claws with three digits each. A small, thin tail extends from the end of its body.
Males
This section is a work-in-progress and will be filled over time.
Females
This section is a work-in-progress and will be filled over time.
Abilities
Main Article: Creature Abilities
This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Xymorax. (editor list)
- Agile Swimmer is passive ability, similar to legacy's Streamlined, which buffs the player when submerged underwater for more than a second, receiving the following buffs:
- 100% more stamina regeneration
- 50% more total stamina
- 75% more walk speed
- 75% more sprint speed
- 15% more oxygen, if the creature is a semi-aquatic; 180% more oxygen otherwise.
- Additionally, like with legacy Streamlined, a glider semi-aquatic (and an aqua-glider) can abuse the extra stamina to increase the number of glide flaps it can perform from the water boosted, since until they touch the ground or stop gliding, the boosted stamina amount will remain.
- Note that since most of these are multipliers, creature incapable of naturally recovering stamina underwater do not get any stamina regeneration boost (as any fraction of 0 is still 0).
- 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.
- Block Disease/Disease Block is a passive ability that blocks a percentage oncoming disease status. Like all status resistances, it scales with age; a creature only reaches its maximum resistance at age 100. If a creature has a Block Disease of 100%, it is immune at age 100, and a negative value indicates that a creature receives additional disease at that percentage.
- Block Necropoison is a resistance against the Necropoison Status that reduces the amount of status absorbed and damage dealt by it when accumulating this status.
- 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.
- Disease Attack is a passive ability, where a creature inflicts a specific amount of melee Disease 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.
- Diver is a passive ability that grants a creature the ability to temporarily keep flying underwater for a short period. The exact period is displayed in the information section, in seconds. As a side effect, and probably due to buggy behavior, it sometimes allows the user of this ability to regain stamina underwater, particularly during violent winds.
- Glide is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight and inherent to all gliders and glider semi-aquatics have this ability as primary. However, due to the fact glider semi-aquatics got absorbed into Semi-Aquatics, the correct recode terminology would be to say that all Gliders and a few Semi-Aquatics and Aquatics have this ability as primary. Flier (and all-terrain) creatures have this ability as well, but the Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight button is not their primary, but the toggle glide button. Creatures with glide ability cannot jump per se, they instead enter flight or glide mode, unless jump supersedes them via some jump age value. If there's not enough stamina, the creature can hardly glide. Depending on some creature factors like tier and glide stamina regeneration, as well as some environmental conditions, a creature can or cannot regain stamina while gliding.
- 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.
- Life Leech is an active ability that allows the user to heal themselves for a certain percentage (%) of damage done to other players while the ability is active.
- Shadow Barrage is an active ability that damages the last player you attack. Upon activation, that player will receive the "Shadow" attack. "Shadow" attacks take the damage applied by last bite landed on the opponent within 10 seconds of being triggered, and then applies it for X amount of times on the victim. It does not require the user to be near the opponent upon activation, it deals the creatures ailments with the shadow attacks, and it has a 10% damage dropoff per hit. It has a cooldown of 30 seconds.
Carry-able Creatures
The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Xymorax 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 Xymorax can grab and carry, taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Xymorax (a(n) carnivore) is a tier 4 and can carry any creature from any lower tier size.* There is no creature which the Xymorax 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 Xymorax taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Xymorax (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:
Can-Latch ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Xymorax can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Xymorax (a(n) carnivore) is a tier 4 and can latch onto any higher tier size.* There is no creature which the Xymorax 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 Xymorax discounting special abilities. The Xymorax (a(n) carnivore) has 2300 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 MacRenee in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- Modeled and rigged by ThunderBoo666.
- Animated by Mezzioli and Zyraphes.
Gallery
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets and color palettes for the Xymorax.
Xymorax concept art
Xymorax's primary color palette
This tab is intended to present anything showcased during the process of development for the Xymorax, such as the creation of models, animations, and poses.
Xymorax rigged model
Size comparison, top view, alt
Size comparison, front view
Size comparison, front view, alt
Size comparison, side view
Size comparison with Torcherouk, side view
Size comparison, top view
This tab is intended to present anything to further observe the Xymorax's design, inspirations, and changes in growth stages for reference.
This tab is intended to present how different Mutations appear on the Xymorax.
Albino Xymorax
Amethyst Xymorax
Bewitched Xymorax
Bewitched Xymorax in-game
Bloodmoon Xymorax
Blossom Xymorax
Clownfish Xymorax
Clownfish Xymorax in-game
Creator star Xymorax
Diamond Xymorax
Dwarfism male (left) Regular female (right) Xymorax
Elemental Xymorax
Fools Error Xymorax
Fools Error Xymorax in-game
Fool's Gold Xymorax
Fool's Gold Xymorax in-game
Gigantism male (left) Regular female (right) Xymorax
Glow Tail Xymorax, highlighted in white
Leucistic Xymorax
Melanistic Xymorax
Overgrown Xymorax
Piebald Xymorax
Rose Quartz Xymorax
Rose Quartz Xymorax in-game
Shadow Xymorax
Shadow Xymorax in-game
Shimmer Xymorax
Shimmer Xymorax in-game
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