Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27477735-20160507222830/@comment-28316232-20160508211020

AlteOgre wrote: The three stages appear a bit tedious to me, but it may be worth it if there is a chance that one of the two mating animals actually dies after their act of creepy love.

Without the 3 stages, but with a chance of losing one life, I'd say the chance the egg sac producing more than 1 viable hatchling would be a bit higher. Example: 50% chance one of the adult spiders dies after production of the egg sac and chance of producing 1:2:3:4:5 hatchlings would be 10%:20%:30%:30%:10%. This would make a nice trade-off imo, assuming it won't be that easy to encourage spiders to mate.

So, what would they require to get them doing it? A truckload of rotten flesh? Some special treat of rotten flesh drenched in especially prepared juices of some sort? Ogre snot? I guess Escargots en Sauce Thranduil won't get them going, but what will?

What about catching midges by the quazillions using a re-usable (with limited durability) sticky midge-net crafted from wool, string, sugar, slime and sticks? This would produce a sticky and buzzing 'Midge-ball' that can be fed to our octopedal nocturnal friends. Time to introduce Midges to Mirkwood Corrupted and Nan Ungol, I guess, and to some more stinky biomes and swampy biome variants. Perhaps butterflies in jars could also be fed to the spiders.