Shadow

Shadows are uncommon creatures found anywhere on the map as a creature exclusive to the mod Apex Alpha. They serve as the mod's challenge mobs, which make the player's journey to ascension more difficult, but still in moderate level.

# **Shadow**

## Background & Basic Info

### Behaviour

Shadows attack players on sight, swallowing them entirely once defeating the player. They are very common in the Shadow Lands, and act very well like corrupted humans. For example, sometimes they can be found carrying weapons or riding corrupted creatures. They can also be found doing random emotions. They are 75% rarer in other places beside the Shadow Lands.

The worst part about them is that they are usually more commonly found in packs, and that they can have big health pools in the higher tiers of their evolution chain. They also leave no footprints and are hard to find in easy places.

### Lore

According to the Apex Alpha Lore, Shadows are superhuman entities that existed a few thousand years before the beginning of the universe. There used to be many different species of Shadows, until the Big Bang wiped out 99/100% of all the species of shadows there are, but only one species survived. For nearly 14 billion years, the Shadows have been in hiding, until 2047 when a baby shadow was seen in the corner of a house in New Mexico. The family living in the house took care of the baby shadow until it was a Full Shadow, where they released it. The family said that it took only a few weeks for it to fully mature. From that action, Shadows started becoming more and more likely of being seen, for they saw what appeared to be, a species worthy of seeing them - humanoids.

### Physical Appearance

Shadows appear as a pitch black humanoid-figure with red eyes and no hair, instead a black aura that leaves a trace of dark gray smoke.

### Maturation Status

Shadows grow up in a very twisted way that you can't find "Yes" on the maturation based captions. It takes one whole in-game month for the maturation process to complete.

#### Maturation Advances

This is when a shadow moves forwards in it's maturation process.

#### Maturation Disadvances

This is when a shadow moves backwards in it's maturation process.

#### Maturation Steps & Tiers

1. Shadows start out as an egg, or forming from millions of atoms in deep space.
2. The head of the shadow forms and comes to life, starting out as a tiny cube.
3. The head gets rounder, and the legs form from atoms.
4. The shoulders start to form.
5. The arms start to form
6. The shadow starts to form a chest and organs, and muscular fibers.
7. The torso starts to form.
8. The creature starts to get bigger and taller.
9. Tier 1: Lesser Shadow
10. The lesser shadow starts to get a little thin.
11. The creature gets even taller and skinnier.
12. Tier 2: Shadow
13. The muscles inside the creature start to get bigger and beefier.
14. The pulse of the creatures heart increases, which speeds up the growth of the creature.
15. Tier 3: Greater Shadow
16. A whole new body starts forming inside the body of the creature.
17. The greater shadow starts to enlarge and becomes even beefier than ever before
18. The outer form of the creature explodes in a supernova impact (although supernova impacts did not happen to the family in the lore).
19. A wither-like figure starts getting bigger as it spins around rapidly.
20. Another supernova impact starts. Rising from the ashes, a 4-floor house tall creature born for destruction.
21. Tier 4: Full Shadow

### Loot Drops

Red Diamond, Shadow Soul (Rare Drop), Full Shadow's Amulet (When Full Shadow), a few rare equipment or loot.

## Encountering

### General

Shadows are hard to find and can be very tough to take on in higher tiers. Even in the lower tiers they can still pack a punch.

#### Strategy

In order to defeat a shadow, you need to follow these plans.

* Since shadows are really bad at climbing, find a high rock to shoot them from above.
* If you have a powerful weapon, you can easily demolish them with no doubt.
* Shadows can see and pass through walls, making it difficult to sneak attack on them, but if you have a lot of pets, you can corner it to a high cliff, then knock it off the cliff, and it will take the fall damage, then, you can use a flying creature to fly to the site and gather the loot.

#### Recommended Equipment

Any equipment will do, based on the tier of the creature.

#### Advantages

Shadows are very bad at climbing, and are repelled by man-made light. The lower tiers can be easily defeated even with low-game equipment.

#### Dangers

Shadows can be very hard to find in the dark, with the only visible part is their glowing visible eyes. They are very good at hiding. In the higher tiers, they can give powerful blows.

## Taming Info

### Taming Method

To tame a shadow, make sure you have magma cream (a type of cream crafted from paste, cream, and heated obsidian), and press the "use" button, which will make you hold it in front of the shadow, which sucks it in rapidly, turning the magma cream ball into a Shadow Soul Ball. You can use the Shadow Soul for 35% increased attributes of all tamed creatures per ball for 1 real world hour by pressing the "activate" button. To tame the shadow, press the "release" button, which will release the shadow, taming the shadow. You can also find baby shadows in the wild and press the button "claim" while interacting with it.

NOTE: You cannot use magma cream on full shadows, so if you want a full shadow, you need to wait for one of your shadows to grow.

## Base Stats

NOTE: This base stats shows status from level 1.

#### Baby Shadow (Tier 0)

* HP: 50-149

* ATK STR: 0-9
* ST: 300-749

#### Lesser Shadow (Tier 1)

* HP: 150-299
* ATK STR: 10-49
* ST: 750-1199

#### Shadow (Tier 2)

* HP: 300-599
* ATK STR: 50-89
* ST: 1200-2499

#### Greater Shadow (Tier 3)

* HP: 600-1199
* ATK STR: 90-149
* ST: 2500-4999

#### Full Shadow (Tier 4) (Normal/Member Bonus)

* HP: 1200
* ATK STR: 150
* ST: 5000

#### Full Shadow (Tier 4) (Leader Bonus)

* HP: 1500
* ATK STR: 300
* ST: 7500

## Trivia & Notes

* It is possible to have more than one Full Shadow on your shadow army.
	+ Interestingly though, the first Full Shadow you had on your shadow army will be given a "Leader Bonus"
* The best part about Shadows is that they do not count on the mod's tame limit bar (the new tame bar is 100 tames, since there are lots of unique creatures to tame).
* Baby Shadows can be carried by survivors.