Poison Headcrab

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The Poison Headcrab is a creature from Borgy's Mobs.

## Behavior (Wild)

Poison Headcrabs will wander aimlessly, looking for hosts to take over. The hosts can be any of the following:

* Players
* Villagers
* Wandering Traders
* Evokers
* Vindicators
* Pillagers
* Witches
* Piglins
* Brute Piglins

Before taking over a preferred mob they will poison them. Afterwards they will use the host to find food to consume in order to grow. The poison headcrab then performs heavy bodily modifications to the host, removing lots of skin, filling up the host's body with poison, and removing the skin covering the hands to turn them into claws.

Other poison headcrabs nearby will ride on the back of a poison headcrab, provided that the back isn't full. Up to 2 poison headcrabs can ride a poison headcrab zombie. If they spot a target, they will jump off and attack said target.

Hosts remain conscious, but they cannot do anything to resist the Poison Headcrab's influence. As such, they will usually cry in pain when they take damage. It is impossible to turn them back to normal as their bodies were extremely mutilated by the Poison Headcrab so that it can store poison in the body and optimize the amount of food it can consume , which can lead to death.

When the host is killed, any poison headcrabs that happen to be riding it will fall off. The one that took over the head however will not survive. The corpse will also leave behind a poisonous puddle that poisons all mobs that try to go near it.

Poison Headcrabs and Poison Headcrab Zombies will try to avoid Sigbins as much as possible.

Poison Headcrabs and Poison Headcrab Zombies are immune to poison.

## Other Properties

### Spawns In

Almost anywhere (Underground only)

Poison Headcrab zombies are the result of Players, Villagers, Wandering Traders, Evokers, Vindicators, Pillagers, Witches, Piglins, or Brute Piglins getting poisoned and attacked by a Poison Headcrab. They may also spawn in dark areas underground.

They are extremely slow, but they have lots of health and can do considerable damage.

## Combat

### General

Sigbins are the best counter to Poison Heacrabs and Poison Headcrab Zombies as they will try to avoid them as much as possible.

Make sure to bring some milk as well to remove the poison.

### Poison Headcrab

Poison Headcrabs can be an extreme threat underground as not only they can poison you, but they will even try to take over your body. Thankfully, if you hit them they will start panicking and will run away. When they're panicking keep hitting them until they die.

Wearing a helmet is the best form of protection from them, but do note that due to technical limitations only vanilla helmets or helmets from Borgy's Mobs work.

### Poison Headcrab Zombie

Poison Headcrab zombies are slower yet have more health than regular headcrab zombies, and the Poison Headcrabs on their back will try to jump off to poison you or turn you into a zombie. Make sure to be as far away as possible and wear a helmet to mitigate any additional damage you could possibly take, especially from the poison puddle they'll leave upon death.

## Utility

Poison Headcrabs don't have that much use aside from their meat, which you must cook to eat, or to give to Houndeyes or Sigbins to heal them up. You can also use their raw meat to create the Headcrab Launcher, a ranged weapon you can use to launch Headcrabs and turn most mobs into headcrab zombies or troll your friends.

## Notes/Trivia

* The Poison Headcrabs in the addon are based off the ones in the Half-Life series