Rock Puncher
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</group> </infobox> The Rock Puncher is a large, aggressive species of Fauna.
Appearance
The Rock Puncher has a bulky, armoured 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 at his position,if it swims above them,probably hitting them. They can jump twice their size. They can be distracted by Rockgrubs, which are their main prey item. They will ocassionally wander and dig those Rockgrubs out of the ground,eating them and leaving rocks that you can break for Titanium,Silver Ore,and Copper Ore.
Despite its relatively small size in comparison to many predators, the Rock Punchers' 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 exceed 10,000 Gs and are delivered so fast they generate cavitation bubbles that further damage their prey. The Rock Puncher is essentially a scaled up mantis shrimp.
Sounds
Gallery
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Side view
Front view
Top view
Size comparison to the player
A Rock Puncher trundling along in the Thermal Spires
A Rock Puncher wandering in a trench
- RockPuncherMiningSite
A Rock Puncher in the Active Mining Site
- RockPuncherCrystalCaves
A Rock Puncher in the Crystal Caves
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|-| Videos=
- 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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A Rock Puncher compared to the player
Model from Sketchfab
A developer screenshot of the Sea Truck, 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". [1]
- The Rock Puncher was originally planned for Subnautica, but was later cut and repurposed for Below Zero.
References
- ↑ https://trello.com/c/ebmQyziR/407-rockpuncher-food-anims Dated August 16, 2014.
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