Gloom Spider

In game

Light-eaters from the Gloamroot, the dark between fire and tide.

Life: 9 at depth 1
Damage: 2 Physical per hit
Attack: Melee
Speed: 6.7 tiles/s
Armour: 0
Resistances: None
Size: 0.56 tiles across
Packs: 6 to 10
First appears: Depth 2
Experience: 5 at depth 1

A Gloom Spider, long-legged and violet-black, its swollen abdomen glowing with swallowed light, trailing web

Art in progress

Lore Concept

Every web in the Gloamroot leans toward the nearest light.

The Gloom Spiders belong to neither side. The Hearthfolk say they grew in the dark between the fire and the tide, in the Gloamroot, where the roots of Harrowwood go down into the dark and the only light is pale candlecap fungus. Harrowwood above is full of them.

They feed on light. An ember is the richest meal in the dark, and they come for it in numbers. Fallen who have fought them say the cave goes dimmer when a swarm is close. Nobody has seen a Gloom Spider's face, and the Coalwrights doubt they have one.

Where it is met

Act 1, Harrowwood: in the kings' forest, and below it in the Gloamroot.
In the build: from depth 2. The build has no acts yet; every depth is the same endless cave.

Model

The Gloom Spider as the game draws it, at each level of detail, under a warm light like the party's ember. Every model, with its numbers: Models, or with each level's numbers in the asset explorer.

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Model	File	Vertices	Triangles	Budget	Drawn at	Size (tiles)
Near	`spider_near.glb` 107 KB	2,283 (132 ember)	4,196	4,000 vertices	under 30 tiles	1.15 × 0.53 × 1.11
Mid	`spider_mid.glb` 70 KB	1,472 (92 ember)	2,770	1,500 vertices	30 to 38 tiles	1.14 × 0.52 × 1.11
Far	`spider_far.glb` 20 KB	395 (82 ember)	640	400 vertices	beyond 38 tiles	1.13 × 0.52 × 1.11

Attack

Gets within 0.4 tiles of you and winds up for 0.3 seconds; if you are still in reach when the windup ends, the hit lands. Then it waits 1.2 seconds before the next attack. Stepping away during the windup avoids the hit. Hasted monsters wind up faster and chilled ones slower. Each hit rolls 80% to 120% of its damage.

By depth

Values for a normal Gloom Spider, with magic and rare life for comparison. Modifiers come on top.

Depth	Life	Magic life	Rare life	Damage	Experience
2	10	16	30	2.2	6
3	11	18	34	2.4	6
4	13	20	38	2.6	7
5	14	23	42	2.8	7
10	25	40	75	4.2	12
15	44	70	132	6.3	19
20	78	124	233	9.4	31
30	241	385	722	21.3	79

Rarity at depth 2

Before modifiers. Drops are per player within 30 tiles of the kill; see Drops.

Rarity	Life	Damage	Experience	Items dropped	Currency dropped
Normal	10	2.2	6	0.12	0.06
Magic	16	2.2	14	0.3	0.15
Rare	30	2.5	33	1.18	0.36
Guardian	45	2.5	66	2.39	0.9

How often it appears

The chance that a new pack is Gloom Spiders, by depth. Spawn weight 55.

Depth	Share of packs
1	–
2	17%
3+	15%

Other monsters: Hollow Ghoul, Bone Archer, Cavern Brute, Cinder Imp, Rime Wraith