Vespa

## Vespa Cocoon

**Vespa** is a hostile arthropod that only spawns when the metamorphosis of jungle Parasite is complete.

## Vespa Cocoon

**Vespa Cocoon** is a casing spun of silk with Vespa pupa inside. If player can't destroy a Vespa Cocoon within 8 seconds, then a fully-grown Vespa will emerge from the cocoon.

## Behavior

### Taming

Adult Vespa can't be tamed; however, but players can tame Jungle Parasite by using a Charming Catalyst on it. Tamed parasite will then forming a Vespa Cocoon, which then merging as a tamed Vespa.

Once tamed, right-click on a Vespa will set it into sit, follow or patrol mode. It is recommended to set Vespa on patrol mode only in enclosure as it would fly way pretty quickly.

### Riding

Player can ride a tamed Vespa by putting a Saddle on it. Vespa is a fast flying mounts, allowing for flying in every direction. Player riding on Vespa will become neutral to other Vespas.

In addition, player can press *G* to perform a melee attack, dealing 5 () damage to targets in front of it, as well as applying all melee on-hit effects.

### Flying

Vespa can fly through obstacles, but can only hover 16 blocks above the ground.

### Poisonus Sting

The melee attack of Vespa also inflicts target with Poison I for 6 seconds, as well as 20% of chance to apply  Infested for 6 seconds as well.

### Potential Host

Vespa will attack any zombies in sight. In addition, Vepsa will deal 200% of damage to zombies and received only 50% of damage from them.

## History

* 2.2.0:
	+ Is now tameable
	+ Is now mountable
	+ Can now set attacking targets through json file.
	+ Bonus damage applies to all attacking targets
	+ Damage reduction applies from all targets in list.
	+ Fix fly entities no longer taking flight after landing.
* 2.1.3:
	+ Tweak hitbox
	+ Tweak texture
	+ Tweak animation.
	+ Add new config: Should Vespa attack zombie.
	+ Damage to zombie is increased by 100%
	+ Damage from zombie is reduced by 50%
* 2.1.2:
	+ Tweak hitbox
	+ Tweak model
* 2.1.1:
	+ Add an config option to define the natural spawn rate of Vespa in jungle.
* 2.1.0:
	+ Fix an error where Vespa won't fight back when hit.
* 2.0.4:
	+ Tweak cocoon sounds
	+ Fix cocoon not drop anything when slain
	+ Fix flying mobs not flying above the ground
* 2.0.2:
	+ Fix Parasite/Vespa not attacking zombie
* 2.0.0:
	+ Will now spawn in the jungle naturally
	+ No longer drops Spider Eye
	+ Cocoon no longer sends out messages when spawned
	+ Tweak Cocoon sounds
* 1.2.4:
	+ Now have 20% chances to inflict Infested when attacking
* 1.2.2:
	+ Fixed flying mobs' wrong flying height
* 1.2.1:
	+ Flying mobs will now bounce up when spawning
	+ Flying mobs will have their rotation speed correspondence to their movement speed.
	+ Cocoon's life span is now controlled by NBT data
	+ Fixed an error where flying mobs cannot fly when flying height config is set to 0. (issue#32)
* 1.2.0:
	+ Duration of Poison: 2s → 6s
	+ Vespa Carapace dropped: 0-1 → 0-4
	+ Cocoon now have smoothier squirm animation.
* 1.1.0:
	+ Level of Poison V → I
	+ Won't be blocked by leaves.
	+ Add a config option to tweak the max health of Vespa
	+ Add a config option to tweak the attack damage of Vespa
	+ Won't attack zombies anymore.
* 1.0.13:
	+ Decrease attacking range.
	+ Will now attack zombies.
	+ Vespa Cocoon will now falling to the ground.
* 1.0.12:
	+ Fixed an error where Vespa would try to attack pigs.
* 1.0.11:
	+ Vespa can now only fly 16 blocks above the ground.
	+ Will now fly lower when raining
	+ Will now slowly sinking when caught in web
	+ Now forms a cocoon before emerging as Vespa
	+ Fixed a minor texture error of Vespa.
* 1.0.10:
	+ Introduced.

## Trivia

* The name *Vespa* comes from genus *Vespa* in the real world.
* The color scheme of Vespa is inspired by the Princess Huhuran in "World of Warcraft".