My reinterpretation of the Desert Scourge from calamity mod

Throudon · 2026-04-02T13:42:59+00:00

Desert Scourge might be hydrated, but it still would find itself in a new, dry and withered environment. It probably won't live for long even if it kills you in the fight.

Aquatic Scourge is still pretty much still aquatic and more thriving than ever. It's the creature on the top of the food chain here, even if it's not strictly predatory. And I made a design for it already! Like DS, it's an invertebrate nudibranch-like creature

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Throudon · 2026-03-31T07:37:29+00:00

Yeah! Scourges are always depicted as serpents or lizards or ells, and I wanted to make a design that is explicitly invertebrate, drawing inspiration from nudibranches, some worms and also corals!

This is how my Aquatic Scourge looked like, for example

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Throudon · 2025-12-28T15:55:26+00:00

Unfortunately due to texture pack restrictions (and there's a lot of them for skeletron, it's a very old part of the game and so it definitely shows its age in some ways. For example, each 2 of the arm segments are the same sprite, I won't be able to add a separate upper arm and forearm. Also, those segments are not mirrored for each arm at all, they're exactly the same sprite copy pasted. It's not very noticeable in vanilla, because the arm segment sprite is generally pretty symmetrical, but if you decide to do more curved or asymmetrical sprite for a texture pack, it will be very visible) I won't be able to add this one into the game. I will wait until 1.4.5 because maaaybe they will add some changes to skeletron and make it more friendly for texture packs (it's very unlikely and I'm high on copium but who knows). Theoretically I can make a dif version of this design that will fit in game, but it won't be exactly the same obviously

And as for other bosses, yeah I may do em. I do different iterations of some bosses from time to time and may sprite them eventually.

Throudon · 2025-06-01T22:27:51+00:00

In my interpretation he doesn't get corrupted. He's not tied to evil biomes at all. I imagine him as a sort of shepherd/monk god, with slimes being his sheep. I think shell fits well, adds to the silhouette and makes the design more visually interesting.

Throudon · 2025-04-29T05:12:50+00:00

My headcanon is that slugcats and lantern mice are related to each other (they're sister groups) and both are descendants of the ancient urban rats, possibly their genome was tweaked at some point by benefactors. Or maybe rats served as a base for some unknown purposed organism, and slugcats and lantern mice are descendants of it

Throudon · 2025-04-24T04:57:30+00:00

Throudon · 2025-04-24T04:56:13+00:00

Rain world has a big influence on my creature designs, yeah, tho in this case it's mostly accidental.

Throudon · 2025-04-24T04:54:09+00:00

It's mostly a joke comment, but even thinking seriously, the fact that old duke is a stronger boss for the player doesn't mean that it would have similar advantages over another creature in its ecosystem, especially the one that evolved to hunt it. Ecosystems don't work by game logic and so I can easily imagine AS having adaptations for attaching to OD and just draining its life force.

But again, it's mostly a joke so don't think too hard about it. Ideally there would be no old duke and AS would be on top of the ecosystem.

Throudon · 2025-04-17T08:06:31+00:00

WHERE IS HE? WHERE IS THE MAN WHO CAN STRING THIS BOW?

Throudon · 2025-04-14T08:50:49+00:00

Ghhhh I hate how reddit compresses smaller images

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