Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27821735-20171111143010/@comment-26553378-20171111165129

As Frankus pointed out, all snakes are dangerous, a viper or adder is still poisonous, as are all snakes that you describes. However something akin to a garter snake would work well as a small harmless snake. The idea of different types of poisons also comes to mind with this suggestion. most notably the idea of a killing poison other than wither. Although more ideas are visual effects such as nausea, or an overlay that appears similar to the heat overlay, becoming more opaque the more venom is in you (cloud your vision, mimics a bad poison induced headache/blood rushing in your eyes), screenshake, or even auditory hallucinations mimicking other enemies to freak the player out. Basically anything to make the player not tread on snake.

Also, the idea of a large instant damage would be good for combat, but most snakes don't rely on massive fangs, but rather quick acting poisons, so perhaps that damage could be administered over 2-3 seconds rather than instantly.