Mother Spider

Mother Spiders are a type of spider exclusive to the Downpour DLC. They are large, fast, and have a green coloration on the ends of their quills. When killed, they release several s from their body.

Appearance
Mother Spiders are a medium to small size and resemble arachnids, being similar to s and s. They possess a swollen abdomen due to carrying their brood, and appear to have a head that juts out to one side. Their legs are long and slender, easily surpassing their body in height.

Combat
Mother Spiders, despite their low speed and strength, can dodge incoming ranged attacks by leaping above or ducking, this may cause you to fail to land a direct hit. However, there is a cooldown between dodges, therefore, throwing an object such as and letting the spider dodge, before striking it with a  can be a viable strategy to defeat it.

When killed, the Mother Spider's abdomen will generate dark green particles and release s. The Coalescipedes may target another creature rather than the, allowing you to retreat while the Coalescipedes are killing said creature.

often kill Mother Spiders along with their Coalescipedes, although the timed fuse of Explosive Spears can give the Coalescipedes time to move away and survive.

Taming
Mother Spiders can be fed to to tame them, although this is highly dangerous due to the  swarm that results after their death, and feeding them to lizards live is heavily impractical, as you can only pick them up if they are stunned.

Abilities & Behavior
Mother Spiders avoid interactions and confrontation with creatures. They ignore s, s, and s. Mother Spiders are reclusive and skittish, choosing to run from anything they deem a threat. When a creature persistently follows Mother Spiders, they resort to lunging at them to stun them. Mother Spiders can lunge at, catch and kill the player character.

Dodge
Mother Spiders have enough reflex to avoid any range incoming attacks able to leap or duck away from it.

Trivia
• The Spiders behavior and unique ability bears close resemblance to a large number of real-life spiders, such as wolf spiders, who carry large amounts of spiderlings near or on their abdomens, typically in an egg sac underneath their abdomens and cephalothorax before hatching.