Octopus

Octopus
Details
Speed	100%
Health	6.0 (total: 600)
Damage	5.0 (total: 100)
Boosts	2
Armor	0%
Armor penetration	40%
Biome statistics
Oxygen time	20 seconds
Temperature time	Unaffected!
Pressure time	Unaffected!
Salinity time	30 seconds

The Octopus is a tier 8 animal.

Mechanics

• Tier 7 animals evolve into octopuses (player-determined).
  • 36,000 XP is required for any of those animals to evolve into an octopus.
• Octopuses evolve into Humboldt Squids and Mantis Shrimp.
  • 42,000 XP is required for an octopus to evolve into a humboldt squid or a mantis shrimp.
• Octopuses drop meat upon death.
• As an octopus, friendly fire is turned off for other octopus meaning you cannot damage them nor be damaged by them.

Abilities

Passive Abilities

• You automatically disguise as the last animal you killed.
• You can walk on islands, glaciers, and beaver dams.

Active Abilities

• Clicking causes you to leave behind a cloud of ink when you boost.
  • If any animals other than octopus enter the ink cloud, they will be temporarily blinded.
• Clicking while walking causes you to ground attack.
• Charging boost while walking causes you to jump.
• Charge your boost when disguising as an animal to remove the disguise without costing a boost.

Negative Abilities

• Attacking, being attacked, or boosting causes you to lose your disguise.
• Even though you can walk on islands,you can still lose oxygen.

Suitable Biomes

• The suitable biomes for the octopus are the ocean, arctic, and the deeeep.
  • If an octopus enters the ocean surface, it will lose temperature.
  • If an octopus enters the arctic surface, it will lose oxygen.
  • If an octopus enters the swamp, it will lose salinity.
  • If an octopus enters the swamp surface, it will lose oxygen and it will not regenerate salinity.

Diet

This is a complete list of food that octopuses can eat.

Name	Can be eaten by	Image	XP	Description
Barb	All except for the stonefish who spawned it		0	Spawns behind a stonefish using their active ability. Deals damage upon eating it (7% of max life). Poisons anyone who eats it with a base DPS of 10% that lasts 5 seconds (except poison-immune animals). Despawns after 4 seconds.
Bird Poop	All except for lamprey and seagull		10	Affected by gravity. Automatically spawns below any seagull every 10 seconds.
Plankton	All		250	Spawns in the ocean.
Ice	All		250	Spawns in the arctic and deeeep.
Apple	Tier 1 to tier 8 except lamprey and pelican		50	Spawns in trees.
Berry	Tier 1 to tier 8 except lamprey and pelican		50	Spawns in bushes.
Volcano Food	All except lamprey		125	Affected by gravity, floats upwards. Spawns out of volcanoes, which can be hidden in and are located in the arctic and the deeeep. When eaten as an animal that is not suited to the arctic, it will replenish some of your temperature.
Flappy Duck	Ray to tier 10		675	Spawns in a horizontal line just below the height limit.
Meat	All		1000	Spawns where an animal dies (tier 2 to tier 10 animals only). The amount of meat that spawns depends on what animal it was.

Hiding Places

This is a complete list of terrain that octopuses can hide in.

Name	Summary	Image
Shipwreck	One shipwreck always appears on one of the dirt islands that border the ocean and deeeep. Tier 1 to tier 9 animals can hide here. Produces bubbles that can be eaten.
Abandoned House	Does not generate randomly, one abandoned house always appears in a specific location to the left of the deeeep floor. Tier 1 to tier 9 animals can hide here.

History

This section highlights all the changes made to the octopus in documented updates so far. A full changelog can be found here.

Update	Changes
March 13th, 2017 (Beta)	Added four new animals: octopus, narwhal, giant squid, cachalot (the octopus and cachalot were designed by John Fallot (Pathos316 - Portfolio)).
March 14th, 2017	Fixed octopus ink bug.
March 17th, 2017	(FROM BETA) Added four new animals: octopus, narwhal, giant squid, cachalot (the octopus and cachalot were designed by John Fallot (Pathos316 - Portfolio)).
May 13th, 2017	Octopus now disguises as a team member of the last victim's team on Pearl Defense.