Rock Puncher

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The Rock Puncher is a large, aggressive species of Fauna. The Rock Puncher was first designed for the original game which takes place in The Crater but was scrapped, eventually being revived for Below Zero.

Appearance

The Rock Puncher has a bulky, armored body. It has six articulated feet and two arms at the front. The head shows four, orange eyes at the front and and a pair of mandibles directly underneath. Its body ends in a small, short, shrimp-like tail.

Attached to the arms are two large club-like extremities, presumably used to deliver powerful strikes against hard objects.

The Rock Puncher's underside is gray with a green shade while its back is yellow with red patterns. Its arms and legs also share the similar patterns, with their tips being dark brown in color.

Behavior

Rock Punchers are slow moving, aggressive crustacean-like creatures. They move along the sea floor until approached by the player. At such a time, they will begin following the player, and will even occasionally jump at the player if they swim too close. They can be distracted by Rockgrubs, which are their main prey.

Rock Punchers can be observed tapping the seafloor with their forelimbs, testing the ground for any potential Rockgrubs. If the Rock Puncher finds any, it will repeatedly punch the ground to unearth a rock covered in Rockgrubs, and will proceed to pick it up and feed off of the rock. After feeding, the Rock Puncher will toss the rock aside, allowing the player to break the rock and gain resources such as Titanium, Copper, Silver, and Gold.

Despite its relatively small size in comparison to many predators, the Rock Puncher's phenomenal strength and tough exoskeleton protect it from all mid-sized predators, leaving it vulnerable only to predators in the Leviathan class.

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Design

The Rock Puncher is heavily inspired by crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda, the mantis shrimps. Some members of the group possess club-like forelimbs that are used to deliver extremely powerful blows to their prey. All types are noted for the incredible acceleration of their forelimb strikes, which can reach 23 metres per second, so fast they generate cavitation bubbles. The Rock Puncher is essentially a scaled up mantis shrimp.

Sounds

File	Type
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher attack 01.ogg	Attack
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher chase os 01.ogg	Chase 1
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher chase os 02.ogg	Chase 2
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher chase os 03.ogg	Chase 3
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher chase os 04.ogg	Chase 4
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher chase os 05.ogg	Chase 5
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher chase 01.ogg	Chase Loop
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher deathlong 01.ogg	Long death
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher deathshort 01.ogg	Short death
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher flinchbig 01.ogg	Big flinch
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher flinchsmall 01.ogg	Small flinch
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher jump 01.ogg	Jump
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast left legs 01.ogg	Left legs fast walk 1
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast left legs 02.ogg	Left legs fast walk 2
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast left legs 03.ogg	Left legs fast walk 3
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast left legs 04.ogg	Left legs fast walk 4
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast left legs 05.ogg	Left legs fast walk 5
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast left legs 06.ogg	Left legs fast walk 6
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast left legs 07.ogg	Left legs fast walk 7
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast right legs 01.ogg	Right legs fast walk 1
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast right legs 02.ogg	Right legs fast walk 2
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast right legs 03.ogg	Right legs fast walk 3
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast right legs 04.ogg	Right legs fast walk 4
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast right legs 05.ogg	Right legs fast walk 5
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk fast right legs 06.ogg	Right legs fast walk 6
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow left legs 01.ogg	Left legs slow walk 1
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow left legs 02.ogg	Left legs slow walk 2
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow left legs 03.ogg	Left legs slow walk 3
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow left legs 04.ogg	Left legs slow walk 4
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow left legs 05.ogg	Left legs slow walk 5
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow right legs 01.ogg	Right legs slow walk 1
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow right legs 02.ogg	Right legs slow walk 2
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow right legs 03.ogg	Right legs slow walk 3
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk slow right legs 04.ogg	Right legs slow walk 4
File:Sfx creature rockpuncher walk squishy loop 01.ogg	Squishy walk loop

Gallery

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  Side view

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  Front view

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  Top view

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  Size comparison to the player

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  A Rock Puncher trundling along in the Thermal Spires

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  A Rock Puncher wandering in a trench

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  A Rock Puncher in the Koppa Mining Site

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  Concept art

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• RP walks 01

  Walking animations for the Rock Puncher

• RP combo 02
• RP combo 03
• RP combo 04

  Early animations for the Rock Puncher

• Rock puncher

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  Model from Sketchfab

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  A Rock Puncher compared to the player

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  A developer screenshot of the Seatruck, with a Rock Puncher to the far left

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Trivia

• The Rock Puncher's design is most likely based on the mantis shrimp.
• Early animations for the Rock Puncher can be found here.
• Gamefiles refer to the Rockgrub as "Rock Puncher Larva" but an early Trello card refers to them as "RockPuncher Food".
• The Rock Puncher was originally planned for Subnautica, but was later cut and repurposed for Below Zero.

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