Sack of spiders

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Type Miscellaneous item
Name sack of spiders
Icon Sack of spiders.png
A woven silk bag. Something appears to be moving inside...

Opening this bag will release a number of spiders friendly to your cause. You might need to dust off the cobwebs after, however.

A sack of spiders is an evokable item which, when used, generates a Spider's Nest-themed group of friendly monsters, and also generates multiple web traps in the area. Evocations skill affects both the strength and number of summoned allies, but not the success rate - that is set at 80% regardless of your character's stats and skills. Each sack generates with 5-15 charges, and cannot be recharged in any way.

Potential Results

Each successful use of a sack of spiders is guaranteed to produce at least 1-3 allies, plus an additional 1d(Evocations / 4) - 1.

A table of potential results versus example amounts of Evocations skill:

Monster Min. Skill Max. Skill Skill 0 Skill 3 Skill 6 Skill 9 Skill 12 Skill 15 Skill 18 Skill 21 Skill 24 Skill 27
s Giant mite.png Giant mite 0 10 16.67% 15.18% 7.66% 1.79% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
s Spider.png Spider 0 15 83.33% 84.82% 52.68% 21.54% 7.53% 1.48% 0% 0% 0% 0%
s Trapdoor spider.png Trapdoor spider 5 20 0% 0% 39.66% 57.92% 56.7% 33.41% 12.25% 0% 0% 0%
s Redback.png Redback 8 27 0% 0% 0% 18.75% 28.69% 36.07% 33.04% 18.21% 12.53% 11.76%
s Jumping spider.png Jumping spider 12 27 0% 0% 0% 0% 7.09% 22.28% 28.57% 22.49% 15.48% 14.53%
s Orb spider.png Orb spider 15 27 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 6.76% 19.83% 27.31% 18.8% 17.64%
s Tarantella.png Tarantella 18 27 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 6.31% 19.86% 23.93% 22.45%
s Wolf spider.png Wolf spider 20 27 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 12.14% 29.25% 27.44%
y Ghost moth.png Ghost moth 25 27 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 6.17%

Strategy

  • A sack of spiders is nearly useless without at least 8 or so levels of Evocations. If you haven't put in the training, don't expect any results from this beyond a couple of quickly destroyed meat shields.
  • Be careful where you move after using a sack of spiders. Stepping into one of your own generated web traps is a good way to earn yourself YASD.

History

In 0.15, the webs created when evoking a sack of spiders will target enemies, rather than being placed randomly.

Sacks of spiders were added in 0.13.