Festive Spider

Merry Christmas with a secret mission!

## **Objectives**

* Preserve at least 1 present.

* Kill 7 Uber creatures.

## **Settings**

In this mission, a beach wolf spider must protect its Christmas presents from the greedy ants. You don't have access to the surface.

The nearby chimney spawns a cookie, which grant 20 food, every 60 seconds. New cookies don't appear if the previous one is not eaten or if the current attacking wave hasn't been defeated in time.

There are 30 presents, which grant 15 food each, beneath the Christmas tree. You must keep at least 1 to beat the mission. If the stealers are killed, the presents quickly teleport back to the starting area.

You can only play this mission by clicking on the present in the main menu, which appears from December 2nd to January 30th.

## **Tower building**

In this mission, the playable spider gains the ability to build towers using its own health. Choose a tile in the building tabs then click on any parts of the excavated area. The spider will do the work, similar to worker units. You can't build towers near spawners. You must have at least 25 HP higher than the cost to build or upgrade.

If you want to upgrade a tower, choose the upgrade tool in the building tabs then click on the tower you want. Upgrade cost increases by 50% of the original cost per upgrade. Towers will be healed and repopulated completely when they are upgraded.

Towers can attack but can't freely move around the map. They retain the abilities of their normal counterparts. They stand idly when they are affected by disrupting effects. You can't disable attacking or enable gathering.

Ant towers can only be upgraded up to level 3. Their stats are specifically modified.

* **Wood ant shooter** (200HP): You have access to both mortar and rapid-fire shooters.

* **Leafcutter ant major** (400 HP): You have access to both stun and taunt majors.

Arachnid towers can be upgraded multiple times as long as you have enough health. Dead arachnids are edible.

* **Funnel-web spider** (100HP): Funnel-web spiders don't have stat change. Web size and number of hosts increases by 1 per upgrade. Lairs must be built 7 tiles away from each other. They are destroyed when all hosts are dead.

* **Large whip spider** (800 HP): Large whip spiders start at rank 4 and gain 2 ranks per upgrade. They must be built 1 tile away from each other.

## **Notable enemies**

All enemies are on the same side. Enemies are powerscaled and have higher slow resistance in later waves.

Enemies come from the 3 spawners (L, M and R). They gather near their spawners for a short time before moving toward the starting area.

Gathering waves will gather anything edible on the way and leave through the middle spawner. If they can't find anything, they stay and wait for the presents to teleport back. They can't attack.

Attacking waves will pursue you after reaching the starting area. Incoming attacking waves will be on hold as long as the Uber creatures are still alive.

* *Wave 1 (gathering)*: 5 level 1 black ant soldiers [R]

* *Wave 2 (gathering)*: 8 level 1 wood ant soldiers [L]

* *Wave 3 (gathering)*: 4 level 1 leafcutter ant majors [M]

* *Wave 4 (gathering)*: 20 level 2 black ant soldiers [R]

* *Wave 5 (gathering)*: 8 level 1 army ant majors [L]

* *Wave 6 (gathering)*: 5 level 2 leafcutter ant majors [M]

* *Wave 7 (attacking)*: 8 larval devil's coach horse beetles [M]

* *Wave 8 (gathering)*: 13 level 2 black ant soldiers [L] And 13 level 2 black ant soldiers [R]

* *Wave 9 (attacking)*: 1 adult devil's coach horse beetle [R]

* *Wave 10 (attacking)*: 13 larval green rove beetles [M]

* *Wave 11 (gathering)*: 20 level 2 wood ant soldiers [L]

* *Wave 12 (attacking)*: 3 small hermit crabs [M]

* *Wave 13 (attacking)*: 1 adult devil's coach horse beetle [L], blue rove beetle [M] and 1 adult green rove beetle [R]

* *Wave 14 (attacking)*: 15 level 1 leafcutter ant majors [M]

* *Wave 15 (attacking)*: 5 medium leaf-mimic praying mantises [L]

* *Wave 16 (gathering)*: 60 level 1 gene-thief ant workers [R]

* *Wave 17 (attacking)*: 5 adult devil's coach horse beetles [M]

* *Wave 18 (attacking)*: 30 level 3 trap-jaw ant soldiers [R]

* *Wave 19 (attacking)*: 4 medium beach tiger beetles [M]

* *Wave 20 (gathering)*: 40 level 3 slave-maker ant soldiers [L]

* *Wave 21 (attacking)*: 1 rank 1 large beach tiger beetle [L]

* *Wave 22 (attacking)*: 1 Uber hermit crab [M]

* *Wave 23 (gathering)*: 8 level 1 leafcutter ant mediae [L]

* *Wave 24 (attacking)*: 4 rank 5 medium harvestmen [R]

* *Wave 25 (gathering)*: 40 level 3 gene-thief ant workers [M]

* *Wave 26 (attacking)*: 1 rank 3 large leaf-mimic praying mantis [L]

* *Wave 27 (gathering)*: 20 level 3 leafcutter ant majors [R]

* *Wave 28 (attacking)*: 1 rank 3 Uber devil's coach horse beetle [M]

* *Wave 29 (attacking)*: 20 level 3 trap-jaw ant soldiers [L] and 20 level 3 trap-jaw ant soldiers [R]

* *Wave 30 (attacking)*: 60 level 2 army ant mediae and 30 level 2 army ant majors [M]

* *Wave 31 (gathering)*: 7 level 3 black ant soldiers [L] and 20 level 3 black ant soldiers [R]

* *Wave 32 (attacking)*: 10 rank 3 jumping spiders [M]

* *Wave 33 (attacking)*: 15 rank 2 mole crickets [R]

* *Wave 34 (attacking)*: 5 rank 3 medium beach tiger beetles [L]

* *Wave 35 (attacking)*: 2 rank 3 large spiny devil bush crickets [M]

* *Wave 36 (attacking)*: 6 rank 6 small beach tiger beetles [L]

* *Wave 37 (attacking)*: 3 rank 6 large beach tiger beetles [R]

* *Wave 38 (attacking)*: 1 rank 4 Uber beach tiger beetle [M]

* *Wave 39 (attacking)*: 1 rank 8 large whip spider [R]

* *Wave 40 (attacking)*: 15 rank 7 large beach wolf spiders [M]

* *Wave 41 (gathering)*: 15 level 2 leafcutter ant minors [L]

* *Wave 42 (attacking)*: 5 rank 6 large harvestmen [M]

* *Wave 43 (attacking)*: 1 rank 3 Uber leaf-mimic praying mantis [L], 1 rank 4 Uber whip spider [M] and 1 rank 4 Uber jumping spider [R]

* *Wave 44 (attacking)*: 1 rank 5 Uber beach wolf spider [M]

## **Trivia**

* The map is designed to resemble a Christmas tree.

* During the ending cutscene, many tiny beach wolf spiders come out from the chimney to receive their presents.

## **Community screenshots**

Present (by Antbzk64)Final cutscene (by Medin)Towers (by Alphazoid)Cookie (by Medin)

## **References**

1. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkx6vgqBmM
2. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N8xgx3rPaI