Spearmaster

''An abnormality who feeds using needles pulled from its body. A traveler from a far away land; A feeling in your depths sets you out once again, messenger...''

The Spearmaster is one of five playable Slugcats in the Downpour DLC. They begin the game in Outskirts, and have a variety of unique mechanics, including the ability to grow organic spears from their tail, which can be used to impale and drain life from other creatures. This is required to gain food pips.

Food
5 food pips are required to hibernate, while up to 5 may be stored for the next cycle.

Opening
The Spearmaster starts the game with a gate to closing behind them in a dimly lit subterranean part of, with a red  watching and directing them forward.

World Changes

 * Predators are more common and difficult.
 * is at it's most dangerous, with blue rot, a Mother Long Legs, and some rooms filled with lethal acid instead of water, which is instantly lethal to Spearmaster. Some entirely new rooms can be accessed.
 * 's structures are in better condition, instead named . The Precipice is also more intact and no longer a dead end, now connecting to as well as the rest of the region.
 * has not collapsed yet and is still whole.
 * The Unfortunate Development part of Five Pebbles contains much less rot, and the zero-gravity doesn't turn off.
 * The Exterior is free of all Rot in the area

Movement
The Spearmaster moves generally similar to the, with a slightly faster walk speed.

Crafting
The Spearmaster can create spears of no cost by pressing and holding pick up if they have an empty hand, and is able to hold 2 of them at the same time.

Hunger
Having no mouth, the Spearmaster instead siphons nutrients from living enemies using self-made spears, filling up to 1 hunger pip per hit. Spears must be self-made to leech and lose this ability if they are dropped or thrown, signified by a gradual color transition from white to black.

The amount of hunger pips filled by each creature per hit varies as listed below: [*] Giant Jellyfish instantly die upon being speared. [†] Mushrooms and Karma Flowers still grant their regular effects upon being speared. [‡] Popcorn Plants are rendered unusable upon being speared. [§] Rain Deer and Stowaways are immune to Spearmaster's Spears, as they fall out.

Trivia

 * Spearmaster has a habit (or hobby) of drawing on the ground what they have come across during their journey, using their own-created spears.
 * The sketches Spearmaster draws include: themselves holding two spears, a Scavenger, a Lizard, a Pole Plant, an Eggbug, an Iterator (Likely Seven Red Suns), and a small depiction of an outside landscape.


 * Seven Red Suns (SRS), one of the Iterators, is the one who sent Spearmaster on their quest. SRS makes an appearance on the campaign page after one of Spearmaster’s endings.
 * LttM comments that Spearmaster’s body adaptation seems impossible via natural means, though it’s only a speculation, this could imply that their unique biology features were a result of SRS’s deliberate modification.