Bestiary/Giant Ice Worm

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Giant Ice Worm

Picture exported from the game art. The client draws this creature with substitute serpent art (body 89 shown as body 21, hue 1152), so it may look different in your client.
General
Type	Monster
Category	Animals
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−4,500
Fame	4,500
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Fast
Stats
Strength	216–245
Dexterity	76–100
Intelligence	66–85
Hit points	130–147
Stamina	76–100
Mana	66–85
Damage	7–17
Armor	40
Taming
Tameable	Yes
Min. skill	71.1
Control slots	1
Bondable	Yes
Rideable	No
Favorite food	Meat
Resources
Carving	Nothing

The Giant Ice Worm is a fast, poisonous worm that attacks on sight. You must beat it nearly to death before you can tame it, and taming it permanently halves its stats.

Overview

• In-game name: a giant ice worm
• Corpse: a giant ice worm corpse
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
• Movement: it is one of the faster creatures in the game.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	216–245
Dexterity	76–100
Intelligence	66–85
Hit points	130–147
Stamina	76–100 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	66–85 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	7–17
Armor rating	40
Fame / Karma	4,500 / −4,500

Skills

Skill	Range
Poisoning	75.1–95.0
Tactics	75.1–80.0
Wrestling	60.1–80.0
Magic Resistance	45.1–60.0

Abilities

Poison

Every time its melee attack hits, there's a 50% chance it also poisons the target with Greater poison. A tamed giant ice worm keeps this attack.

It is immune to poison up to Greater (Lesser, Regular, Greater).

Taming

Requirement	Value
Minimum Animal Taming	71.1 (below this you have no chance)
Control slots	1
Maximum owners	5 (each previous owner makes it harder to tame)
Bonding	Yes
Rideable	No
Favorite food	Meat

• Subdue it first. You can't tame a wild one until it's down to 10% of its hit points or less ("You must subdue this creature before you can tame it!"). When it gets that low you'll see "* The creature has been beaten into subjugation! *" If it heals above 10% during your attempt, the attempt fails. A worm that has had an owner before doesn't need subduing.
• Success chance. For a first-time tame, your chance of success at the end of an attempt is about 58% at 100.0 skill, and it improves as your skill rises. Every previous owner adds 6 points to the difficulty.
• Don't hurt it during the attempt. Once you've started taming, any damage makes it fail with "The animal is too angry to continue taming." Do the subduing first, then tame.
• Stay close. You must stay within 6 tiles of it and keep a clear path to it.
• Obedience. Once tamed, how often it obeys depends on your Animal Taming and Animal Lore (taming counts four times as much as lore). With both at 71.1 it obeys about 70% of the time, and at about 76.0 it reaches the 99% maximum. Below 71.1 the chance drops quickly, to as low as 22%.
• Re-taming. If you've owned this one before, taming it again always succeeds ("That wasn't even challenging.").
• After its first tame, its skills drop to 90% of their wild values (86% if it was paralyzed while you tamed it), and its Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and hit points are cut in half.

Bonding

Only the owner can bond with a giant ice worm, and they need at least 71.1 Animal Taming (base skill). Feed it to start bonding, then feed it again after 7 days to finish. When you see "Your pet has bonded with you!", it's done.

Loot

It carries no loot.

Carving

There's nothing to carve from its corpse.

Tips

• Beat it down to 10% health or less before you start taming, then stop attacking.
• It attacks on sight and its hits can give you Greater poison.
• At 100.0 skill each attempt has about a 58% chance.
• Remember that taming halves its stats, so a tamed worm is much weaker than a wild one.
• It drops nothing and can't be carved.