Additions Ascended/Anomalocaris (2024)

The Anomalocaris is a predatory prehistoric shrimp in the Additions Ascended mod. Unlike the rest of the Additions Ascended creatures, the anomalocaris is a premium mod and must be purchased separately from the game. This glowing radiodont features a plethora of combat abilities and levelable trees to enhance them, and eventually unlock extra capability with enough investment into a specific attack. It can be spawned with the command, cheat sdf anomalo 1 150 1

Appearance

Color Scheme and Regions

Behavior

The Anomalocaris spends most of its time swimming about passively, only targeting players when they come extremely close. This can happen more often than expected, however, due to their habit of cloaking themselves to appear as an Ichthyosaurus from a distance. They can only be distinguished by viewing their name through a spyglass and use this trait to trick survivors into getting close enough for them to strike before uncloaking.

Abilities

Active

Passive

Leveling Tree: The Anomalocaris' abilities can be levelled similarly to the harvesting upgrades of the Therizinosaurus. Each tree allows a maximum of 50 levels, at which point a global benefit is gained depending on the maxed tree. A second benefit specific to the leveled ability is unlocked with 25 levels into the attack. Additionally, completely maxing out a tree applies a cosmetic change to the Anomalo depending on the tree completed.

Venom

• Each level: Decreases time between attacks, increases the frequency that venom ticks are dealt, and the duration venom lasts for.
• 25 levels: Unlocks Paralysis, allowing enemies to be slowed and have their attacks disabled.
• 50 levels: Causes the Anomalocaris to deal 50% extra damage to enemies currently afflicted.

Parasitic

• Each level: Decreases time between attacks, increases healing gained per attack.
• 25 levels: Grants the Anomalocaris a 10% damage resistance buff when using the attack.
• 50 levels: Causes all attacks to heal for 15% of damage dealt and applies a 25% damage and resistance debuff to leeched targets.

Ambush

• Each level: Lower stamina cost, lower cooldown between uses, higher range cloaking is visible.
• 25 levels: Allows sprinting with cloaking enabled.
• 50 levels: Causes stamina not to drain when sprinting, and grants ambush a 25 second stun as well as a 5% chance to instakill if the dino is wild and unaware.

Base Stats and Growth

Cloning

Combat

Drops

• Chitin
• Raw Meat

Taming

Anomalocaris are tamed non-violently, rather than through the usual methods. Their trust must be gained by hunting with them in specific ways. Firstly, an File:Mod Additions Ascended Anomalocaris Pheromone.pngAnomalocaris Pheromone must be obtained by killing a wild Anomalocaris. Consuming this pheromone will allow you to approach without being attacked. Wearing four or more pieces of Chitin armor will allow mounting the Anomalo, and this must be maintained through the entire process or the Anomalo will dismount the rider, with the same being true for the buff from the Pheromone which MUST be refreshed before it expires. It is possible to swap between SCUBA Flippers before mounting and to the SCUBA Tank for the rest of the duration of the tame, but the Chitin Boots must be swapped on before equipping the tank due to the dismount being instant. Due to the requirement to use minimal SCUBA gear, Fria Curry and either high Fortitude on the survivor or a large supply of Medical Brews should also be brought to survive the freezing temperatures the ocean can reach. From there, wild creatures must be hunted, with the kills using the preferred attacks according to the timer on the HUD. Taming progress and effectiveness will be lost if the incorrect attack is used, and the gain is minimal if using the normal attack. Other attacks can, however, be used to bring creatures closer to death so they can be finished using the correct attack. When taming the Anomalo, they grant the rider vision to see the health of nearby creatures much like the Direwolf to assist with this, and will also heal from attacking corpses.

Utility

Harvesting

Changelog

Notes/Trivia

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Additions Ascended/Anomalocaris, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

• Anomalocaris's attacks and abilities are based on evolution.
  • For example, when Venom attacks are at level 50, its appendages become sharper and gain more teeth

Spotlight

Gallery

References

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