Black Lizard



The Black Lizard (also known as Mole Lizard) is one of the many species of lizard. They are one of the rarest lizards, only appearing in two regions, and are also the only species of lizard to have no vision.

Black lizards have a 35.7% or 5/14 bite lethality rate.

Appearance
Black lizards have black bodies with grey, whiskered heads that light up when they hear sounds. They do not exhibit any hue variation. Due to their environments, it can be hard to make out their attributes, but they very commonly have back spines.

Combat
Black lizards have average durability, taking only 2-4 spears to kill, as well as sluggish movement and reflexes, making them relatively easy to kill. Slide-spearing is a very effective choice against them due to the fact that they cannot see the player and therefore cannot react in time to bite. However, they are nearly always found in narrow tunnels and pipes (especially in Subterranean), meaning it can be hard to get a good shot at them. Additionally, whilst they do not form packs like yellow lizards, there are usually multiple in each room they are found in, and attempting to kill one will almost certainly attract the others.

Stealth
Given their complete reliance on hearing, black lizards are easy to avoid completely given you avoid making noise at your location - they are typically found in areas with many tunnels, which you can move through silently. That being said, it's often difficult to know where exactly they are; their environments usually mask their location, which can make it hard to predict their movements. Keep an eye out for any grey flashes in the dark: this means they have heard something and are on their way to investigate the noise. If they are in your way, the best way to move around them is to throw a rock to bait them into an area and move past them whilst they investigate; they are very noise-motivated.

Evasion
Black lizards are very easy to out-manoeuvre due to their average mobility - the main problem is avoiding being cornered by them, and balancing speed with quietness. If a black lizard is heading towards the player, throwing a rock or spear in a different direction can help distract it.

Advanced Hearing
In order to make up for their blindness, black lizards have an incredibly keen sense of hearing, being able to hear almost any noise made in the room they're in, and quickly honing in on the location of its source. Whenever it hears something, its head will light up and it will begin to make its way to the origin point of the noise. If the creature that was heard has left that position, the black lizard will begin to search nearby for it.

Taming
Black lizards take an average amount of food to tame, usually requiring 2-3 scavengers or 3-5 lantern mice.

Black lizards cannot follow the player into different regions, nor do they have an exceptional amount of power or durability. They can potentially act as a detection system of sorts, as they light up whenever they hear any sound, but due to the fact that they still light up when you make noise even when tamed limits the usefulness of this when on the move.

Trivia

 * Black lizards are one of two lizard species to not have any hue variation, the other being white lizards.
 * Black lizards have the second lowest aggressive rivalry stat between lizard types, behind yellow lizards. Because of this, black lizards appear to be more tolerant of living with their own kind than other lizard species, and very rarely fight each other.
 * In addition to this, there are frequently multiple of them in the same room - up to 16 can be found in a single room!
 * Due to their blindness, it is possible to get incredibly close to black lizards without drawing aggression, even if they are not tamed.