Lake

* Lake
* Poison Lake

* Land
* Arctic

## Release info

The **Lake** is a large region of water in Mope.io that is found in the Arctic and Land biomes. Four are allocated to the Land biome (three regular lakes and the poison lake), and three regular lakes in the Arctic biome. It was temporarily released in-game on October 21, 2016 and removed the same day, and officially released on October 23.

## Technical

* Lakes are located in the Land biome and Arctic biome. The only difference is, Land lakes are larger than Arctic ones.
	+ When non-Arctic animals enter the water of an Arctic lake, a white circle will develop around them, and decrease their movement speed ever so slightly.
* Within lakes, there are islands, which are home to Ducks. Ducks will lay eggs which in turn would become a Duckling.
	+ A variety of food sources such as lilypads, mushrooms and red mushrooms spawn in lakes. Furthermore, hills and rocks are almost always found in lakes.
* As any area of water does, when an animal is in a lake (excluding on a hill or island),their water bar will automatically fill up. This comes with the catch of slowing most animals down, like mud does.
	+ Ocean Animals and a few non-Ocean exceptions are able to move at a fast speed in lakes.

## Release info

The **Poison Lake**, also referred to as the **Death Lake** is a variation of the lake, except it becomes poisonous overtime and is surrounded by hills. It was released on March 3, 2020.

## Technical

* The Poison Lake appears in the Land biome; only one is on the whole map. The specific spot that it spawns in varies for each server, however.
* It is surrounded by hills and rocks, with there being only a single gap to allow animals that are not hill- or rock-climbers to enter.
* As the name implies, the Poison Lake's waters become more poisonous over time. Like the oasis, the water will rise and fall; at its maximum, the water will extend to the edge of the hills, and at its minimum the Poison Lake will be so small that no creature can dive in it.
* Poison strength varies at different stages. Sometimes, the poison will be non-lethal and inflict a small amount of damage to the player's Health Bar; other times it will dramatically reduce and even kill players that stay poisoned for a few seconds.
	+ Typically the water of the Poison Lake turns dark green when the poison level increases, and turns the usual dark shade of blue when it is non-poisonous.
* Animals with the passive ability of immunity to poison will be able to exist in the Poison Lake unharmed. This includes the Cobra, Rattlesnake, Boa Constrictor, Giant Spider, Blackwidow Spider, and Giant Scorpion.
* Aside from the hills and poison, the Poison Lake functions like any other lake. Thus, the lilypad, mushroom (both varieties), and mushroom bush all spawn in the Poison Lake.

### Poison biome

There was originally planned for there to be a mini biome based on poison, first mentioned around May 2017. It would have four animals that would spawn in it: the Hedgehog (formerly poisonous), Cobra, Boa Constrictor and Giant Spider. It was also hinted to be even more dangerous than the Volcano. However, it is strongly indicated that this scrapped biome was re-made into the Poison lake, due to its many similarities with the brief description given of the biome.

## Gallery

### Assets

The asset of the normal lake without all other features.The old asset of the normal lake without all other features.
### In-game

A lake.A Mouse and a Deer in a lake with two islands.A Reindeer in an Arctic Lake. Notice it's smaller, and the water is a lighter blueA Crocodile in a lake with multiple Geese.Giant Spiders in the poison lake.The Poison lake with increased poison.A Giant Scorpion with Giant Spiders in the poison lake.Two Lava Toucans beside poison lake.A rattlesnake in poison lake.A Blue Whale stuck in the Poison lake.The poison lake, with less hills due to it being in the Rainforest.A poor Blue Whale shivering in the Arctic Lake.The Polar Bear in a lake.
## Criticism

When the Poison lake was buffed on March 12, 2020, the community found fault with it for inflicting an irrational quantity of damage when the lake's poison levels were at maximum capacity. High Tier Animals such as the Monsters or even a Black Dragon could be killed within seconds by touching the lake's water a single time; since the effect would take a few seconds to wear off, the animal would die before it did. As a result, it was nerfed on April 7, 2020.

## Trivia

* There was formerly a small chance that a lake will spawn half in the ocean, half on the land. These are the only times where plankton bushes, bushes, seaweed, kelp, lake islands, berry bushes and waterspots can all be found in the same place.
	+ This phenomenon can still occur within rivers.
* The poison lake originally didn't do a lot of damage all at once until the buff of March 12, 2020.
* On the update on September 23, 2017, the 3 poison animals were added, but the 'Poison Biome' itself was not added until March 3, 2020.
* If a Poison Lake is created with half of one side within the Forest biome, there will be no hills on that side since hills and rocks do not spawn in the Rainforest.