The Zieti is a Tier 1 flying carnivore. The species is not currently available, but was available in the Fourth of July Event 2023 by launching 400 Fireworks and during the Fireworks Event 2024 by completing its mission. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 
15♂/150♀ Shooms.
Description
| “ | Zieti only appear at night to light up the sky with their blinding glow. They flicker like fireflies, imitate explosions, and disappear at dawn. Zieti are extremely hot to touch and can be found deep inside caves and ravines during the day. | „ |
| ~ In-game Description |
Appearance
The Zieti is a bipedal, avian-like creature that bears a strong resemblance to the Archaeopteryx and Anchiornis, as well as possessing a few chicken-like features in a spiky and very flashy way. Its black body is mainly long and slender, but eventually curves outward to obtain a spiked neck and underbelly, with the spiked parts being a shade of dull but deep purple, with a tint of dull pink around the tips of the spikes.
Its pink head is downward-curving and possesses large eyes that have circles of orange and yellow in them, as well as a streak of black patterning underneath the eye. The Zieti has a spiked crown-like structure on the top of its head, which begins near its nares and stretches to the back of its neck. This protrusion starts with its round-patterned base, which is colored orange, and then spikes out into sharp and pointy yellow edges, with some of the spike's tips having a skinny, white tear drop-like object floating over them.
The Zieti possesses short wings that resemble those of an Archaeopteryx or a chicken and are spiked at the edges. The majority of the wing membrane is colored in yellow, orange and pink, and has white drop-like patterning through them, similar to the protrusions floating at the edge of the wing or above the crown. The wing bow is colored in purple and ends in a wing claw at its alulae. The Zieti has short, slender legs that have long white claws at the ends of them. At the Zieti's shank, it possesses outward-protruding spikes that resemble the vulture hocks some breeds of chicken have. The Zieti's body ends with its tail, which has downward-pointing spikes that possess similarity to the sickle feathers of a male chicken.
Males
Males have an eyelash above their eyes.
Females
Females have no additional features.
Abilities
Main Article: Creature Abilities
This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Zieti. (editor list)
- 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.
- Burrower is an active ability that allows the creature to place up to 4 (or a specific creature limit) burrows anywhere on the map, and use other burrows from other creatures. Burrow entrances are two-way, so the exit can be accessed inside the burrow. If a creature places more entrances than the maximum allowed, the oldest burrow and exit will be replaced. A creature cannot place a burrow entrance inside its own burrow or inside someone else's burrow. Sometimes some creatures can place on certain areas one-way entries, which can lead to making a burrow prison. There is a 3 second cooldown between entering and exiting burrows, not including entering after its initial placement.
- Dazzling Flash is an activated ability that generates a quick, bright, white flash and causes nearby creatures to experience confusion tunnel vision and blurred vision. Has a 70-second cooldown.
- Burn touch/Defensive burn is an ability that defensively deals burn when bitten. Stacks with itself.
- Flight is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight and inherent to all Fliers and legacy mobility type All-Terrain creatures have this ability. However, due to the fact all-terrain got absorbed into Flier, this means that with purely recode terminology, only fliers have the ability. Creatures with flight ability as dominant cannot jump per se (only with jump superseding flight if jump has a certain jump age value), they instead enter flight or glide mode - however some creatures may also present the jump ability replacing the flight one as the dominant at some point in their live stage. Flying and takeoff both take stamina. If there's not enough stamina, the creature cannot fly. A creature with flight can switch between flight and glide and vice-versa without that switch costing stamina.
- 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.
- Self-Destruct is an active ability that can only be used at 25% health or less. When activated, all creatures in a 100 stud radius will be dealt 30% of their total health (before weight multipliers), 10 burn, and knockback. Base damage values will be modified based on the weights of the creatures involved. Using Self-Destruct does not immediately kill the user, instead leaving them at 2.5% of their total health, but can kill opponents. It has a cooldown of 300 seconds (5 minutes).
Carry-able Creatures
The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Zieti 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 Zieti can grab and carry, taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Zieti (a(n) carnivore) is a tier 1 and can carry any creature from any lower tier size.* There is no creature which the Zieti 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 Zieti taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Zieti (a(n) carnivore) is a tier 1 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 Zieti can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Zieti (a(n) carnivore) is a tier 1 and can latch onto any higher tier size.* There is no creature which the Zieti 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 Zieti discounting special abilities. The Zieti (a(n) carnivore) has 1050 weight and can be grabbed by any creature with sufficiently lower weight. However, carnivores and photocarnivores cannot be grabbed by herbivores and photovores.* There is no creature which can currently grab the Zieti |
Trivia
- Concept by heyitsXhosa in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- Inspired by fireworks and firework trails.
- This is the first creature to be confirmed as a Fourth of July event creature.
- Currently has the highest defensive burn rate in the legacy game.
- When using Dazzling Flash, parts of Zieti's crest, wings, and tail light up.
- Zieti currently borrows modified calls from Tundrik.
Gallery
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![Clip provided by Triefelgrim [Wolfragon], CoS Discord, 7/6/2023](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/creatures-of-agartha-official/images/6/6e/ZietiDev1/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/185?cb=20230708022101 "ZietiDev1 (19 KB)")
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