The Hive Mother

Where it is

Waits in The Hive Mother arena. Once per world in The Clay Caves. The generator aims for 330 tiles from the Core.

Stats

Attacks

Mortar shot120 damageevery 4 to 5 s

Mortar shot: up to 15 tiles away.

It puts these on the ground:

Larva Hive Boss Mortar Projectile

Hatch eggevery 3 s

Three seconds into the fight, and then every ten to seventeen seconds, it brings one of its eggs back to full health, two eggs with three to five players and three with six or more, and it skips the call entirely if more than fifty things are already within twenty tiles.

Egg hatch

An egg grows through three visible sizes and then bursts on its own, releasing six or seven larvae, two big larvae or three acid larvae, plus one extra big larva every time, while an egg broken before it finishes growing releases nothing.

It puts these on the ground:

LarvaBig LarvaAcid Larva

Phases

Immune to

Summon

Hive Mother Summoning IdolSummons itHive Mother ScannerFinds it on the map

Drops

The loot goes into the Hive Mother Chest left where it dies.

Always drops

Larva Meatx15+50% per extra player

A per extra player amount is added for each player past the first, then rounded.

1 roll: one of these (11)

The first roll always gives one of these. The percentage is its chance to be the one.

Larva Helmx112.00%Scrapzookax18.00%Stone Mortarx18.00%Broken Handlex14.00%Fang Necklacex112.00%Hivebone Helmx112.00%Hivebone Breastplatex112.00%Hivebone Pantsx112.00%Rift Lensx18.00%Hourglass Ringx18.00%Corrosion Staffx14.00%

5 rolls from the whole table

Columns: amount, chance per roll, chance to get it at least once in 5 rolls.

Fiberx3 to 58.22%34.87%Ancient Gemstonex113.70%52.13%Iron Orex2 to 515.98%58.13%Gold Orex1 to 36.85%29.87%Grub Knotx11.83%8.80%Clot Ringx15.48%24.55%Grub Egg Necklacex15.48%24.55%Battle Axex11.83%8.80%Larva Helmx12.74%12.97%Scrapzookax11.83%8.80%Stone Mortarx11.83%8.80%Broken Handlex10.91%4.48%Hive Mother Figurinex14.11%18.93%Rare Candyx14.57%20.84%Fang Necklacex12.74%12.97%Hivebone Helmx12.74%12.97%Hivebone Breastplatex12.74%12.97%Hivebone Pantsx12.74%12.97%Rift Lensx11.83%8.80%Hourglass Ringx11.83%8.80%Carapace Helmx13.65%16.98%Carapace Breastplatex13.65%16.98%Scratched Stonex11.83%8.80%Corrosion Staffx10.91%4.48%

Rolls are for one player in a normal world. The game multiplies the 6 drops by 1 plus 50% for each extra player, and by 1.5 in Hard mode, then rounds.

The same table on its own page

The creature

Its own page carries the same numbers next to every other creature in the cave.

The Hive MotherHealth 24671