Monster Bait

==Overview==
Monster Bait are craftable items in Deepwoken. It costs Chum to craft, and prior knowledge of the recipe from Mortus, housed in a shack a ways away from the alternative shore of Lower Erisia.
Like the name suggests, it is used to spawn monsters. The three craftable baits can be used to spawn Megalodaunts, Threshers and Terrapods respectively. Megalodaunt and Thresher Bait costs 3 Chum, and Terrapod Bait costs 2 Chum.
==How to Use==
To use Monster Bait, it must not be within a certain radius of another enemy NPC/bait and has a 30 second cooldown before you can place it again. Then, you must wait around 1-5+ minutes for the monster to spawn in the place of the bait.
Monsters spawned through bait do not give chests.
==Trivia==
* On the 13th of March, 2022, Megalodaunt Bait was added into the game. However, due to improper testing, the item wouldn't be removed from the player's inventory upon use, and there was nothing to stop players placing large amounts of bait in the same place, causing comically large numbers of Megalodaunts to spawn at once and also causing most of the resulting Sharkos' animations to break, so servers were filled with many, especially in Etris. It caused the developers to shut down servers and disable the item, and the contents of Chests were doubled for 3 days to commemorate this event. This is now considered lore as "Sharko Day," as said by the developers, trying to cover up the mistake.
** There were even entire gangs of high levels server-hopping and beelining to Megalodaunt-infested hotspots to try to protect freshspawns and kill the Megalodaunts.
** Many refer to the event as 'The Sharko Rumbling,' a reference to the rumbling from Attack On Titan, which happened to be airing around that time. The latest version log in the wiki reflects this disastrous event as "The Dreaded Winter of 1291."
** One of the shutdown warning notes reads "Shutdown at XX:57, good night to sharkos across the world"
* Monsters spawned through bait seem to give less EXP than their naturally-spawning counterparts.
* Megalodaunt Bait is easily the most sought-after bait as they can rarely spawn their Crimson counterpart, which in and of itself can drop the incredibly sought-after First Light, although at a very low rate.
* Destroyman III mentions that taxes are worse than the Sharko Rumbling, implying that the Internal Revenue Sharkos are ruthless when it comes to tax collection.
== Bugs ==
* Sometimes upon use of bait, the item will be removed but the bait won't be placed.
** You can avoid this by always placing beneath your character in first person mode
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