Lamprey

Lamprey original sprite

Details
Speed	0%
Walking speed	N/A
Health	150
Damage	2
Armor	0%
Armor pen.	0%
Damage reflect.	0%
Boosts	2
Size scale	0.6x
Biome statistics
Oxygen time	5 seconds
Temperature time	Unaffected
Pressure time	Unaffected
Salinity time	Unaffected
Credits

The Lamprey is a tier 2 animal. It is designed by Ma Qiao Ting. It is based on its real life counterpart, the Sea Lamprey, Petromyzon marinus.

Mechanics[]

Worms and Piranhas evolve into lampreys.
- 4,000 XP is required for a worm to evolve into a lamprey.
Lampreys evolve into jellyfish, frogs, flying fish,olm,horseshoe crab
- 7,000 XP is required for a lamprey to evolve into the next animal.
Lampreys drop meat, upon death
Lampreys do not turn invisible when the tiger shark they're latching on turns invisible
As a lamprey, friendly fire is turned off for other lampreys and oarfish: meaning you cannot damage them nor be damaged by them nor attach to them.
- Your best food sources are plankton, ice, shrubs

Abilities[]

Can latch on to most animals Level 5 or higher; getting some extra xp from the food they eat for themselves.

Note that the extra xp is not stolen; instead it is a duplicate.
Touching the back or the sides of an animal will automatically make the lamprey latch to the animal, regardless if the lamprey dashed forward at the animal.

Diet[]

This is a complete list of food that lampreys can eat.

Name	Can be eaten by	XP	Description
Barb	All except for the stonefish who spawned it	0	Spawns behind a stonefish using their active ability. Deals damage upon eating it (7% of max life). Poisons anyone who eats it with a base DPS of 10% that lasts 5 seconds (except poison-immune animals). Despawns after 4 seconds.
Plankton	All	250	Spawns in the ocean.
Dam Food	Tier 1 to tier 7	35	Spawns underneath beaver dams.
Ice	All	250	Spawns in the arctic and deeeep.
Meat	All	1000	Spawns where an animal dies (tier 2 to tier 10 animals only). The amount of meat that spawns depends on what animal it was.
Anglerfish Bait	All Animals except for the Anglerfish who spawned it	0	Spawns infront of an Anglerfish when it is stationary (as its passive ability). No fixed look, resembles the last food the Anglerfish eats. It does nothing too, but the Anglerfish will deal twice as much damage (100x2, therefore 200) to the animal that ate it

Hiding Places[]

This is a complete list of terrain that lampreys can hide in.

Name	Summary	Image
Anemone	Generates on the ocean floor. Tier 1 to tier 3 animals can hide here.
Anemone	Generates in the ocean and reef. Tier 1 to tier 3 can hide here.
Anemone	Generates in the ocean and reef. Tier 1 to tier 3 can hide here.
Tube Sponges	Generates in the ocean, deep, and sometimes reef and arctic. Tier 1 to tier 3 can hide here.
Tube Worms	Generates in the deep. Tier 1 to tier 3 can hide here.
Broken Tree	Generates on the swamp floor. Tier 1 to tier 3 animals and Electric Eel, Snake and Anaconda can hide here.
Sea Sponge	Generates in the ocean and reef. Tier 1 to tier 3 can hide here.
Volcano	Generates on the arctic and deeeep floors. Produces volcano food, which can be eaten. Tier 1 to tier 3 animals can hide here.
Barrel Sponge	Generates in the reef. Tier 1 to tier 6 can hide here.
Shipwreck	One shipwreck always appears on one of the dirt islands that border the ocean and deeeep. Tier 1 to tier 7 animals(and Hammerhead) can hide here. Produces bubbles that can be eaten.
Shipwreck	One shipwreck always appears on one of the dirt islands that border the ocean and deeeep. Tier 1 to tier 9 animals can hide here. Produces bubbles that can be eaten. Distinguishable from the shipwreck above by comparing the shape of the windows.
Abandoned House	Does not generate randomly, one abandoned house always appears in a specific location to the left of the deeeep floor. Tier 1 to tier 9 animals can hide here.
Giant Shipwreck	Generates in any biome, but have been found in the deep, swamp, and twilight kelp forest. All animals can hide here. Hiding places are ship windows and the crack.

Skins[]

Skins are cosmetics used to change an animal's looks, or sometimes, an animal’s biome or size statistics slightly. The table below shows the list of approved skins that can be used for the Lamprey.

Realistic skins can be used in every time of the year. They are mostly based on real-life species, or adjectives such as 'Battle-Scarred' or 'Dark'.

Realistic Skins
Name	ID	Price	Creator	Creation Date	Stat Change	Description	Image
Zebra Marine Leech	21018	25	Tacoco	21st August, 2024	Size scale: -0.3x	A species of marine leech found in the family Piscicolidae. Only about 100 leech species are known to live in saltwater.
Patagonian Lamprey	12836	25	Myhailot	19th August, 2024	None	Geotria macrostomam, also known as Argentinian Pouched Lamprey is a species of pouched lamprey. This species has a widespread distribution in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile.
Ohio Lamprey	25172	25	monsieur_stuff	17th July, 2024	None	Ichthyomyzon bdellium is a North American species of parasitic lamprey that is considered endangered through much of its range, due to dams and pollution. This skin is a collab with Star and Tacoco.
Crimson Short Headed Lamprey	25149	10	Megalon	16th July, 2024	None	Based of a photo of short headed lamprey with very bright red patch around its head and neck.
European River Lamprey	2745	20	Myhailot	2nd July, 2024	None	Based on species Lampetra fluviatilis
Warasubo	21331	25	wHZIv6lTNqfbCLpv	2nd July, 2024	None	A sleek and fast predator, in the pink variant. They are also referred to as eel gobies!
Swan Leech	25003	20	Seuss	1st July, 2024	None	Trachelobdella lubrica is a species of marine parasitic leech in the family Piscicolidae. This species is sometimes quoted the Black Swan Leech, a reference to the S shape this critter takes form of when at rest
Candiru	24852	30	Tacoco	20th June, 2024	Size scale: -0.15x	Vandellia cirrhosa. Candirus are hematophagous and parasitize larger fishes, it enters the gill chambers of larger fish to suck blood. V. cirrhosa is reputed to be able to enter the urethra of humans urinating under water; presumably it mistakes the urea for water exhausted from gills, however this has never been clinically proven. Candirus are small fish reaching up to 17 cm (7 in) in standard length.
Skate Leech	24850	20	Myhailot	20th June, 2024	Size scale: -0.15x	Pontobdella muricata is a species of warty marine leech. It parasites on cartilaginous fishes, such as electric rays and stingrays; also scorpionfishes and flatfishes. Measures up to 20cm when fully stretched.
Pencil Catfish	21479	20	Myhailot	29th April, 2023	None	Trichomycterus rivulatus is the largest species of Trichomycterus, a family which contains the well-known Candiru parasite.
Mexican Lamprey	13079	15	monsieur_stuff	14th October, 2022	None	Tetrapleurodon spadiceus is a parasitic lamprey whose diet as an adult is almost entirely comprised of the blood of commercial fishes.
Primal Lamprey	12392	20	manb_922	22nd August, 2022	Size scale: +0.1x	A lamprey with patterns reminiscent of old times. More, primal times....
American Brook Lamprey	3481	15	wHZIv6lTNqfbCLpv	5th February, 2021	None	zquhonezçuoznràugvpnrzàvpnzkdvnbet68rvre
Short-Headed Lamprey	152	20	bluefis	2nd September, 2021	None	A rare species of lamprey from australia
Pouched Lamprey	226	10	Tacoco	1st April, 2021	None	A peculiar lamprey with a pouch below its mouth, the function of which is unknown

Seasonal skins can only be used in certain seasons, such as Christmas, Lunar New Year etc. They will disappear from the Store once the Season is over, but will be back next year, and remain in the player's inventory if they bought them.

Seasonal Skins
Name	ID	Price	Creator	Creation Date	Stat Change	Season	Description	Image
Loving Lamprey	10304	0	Ftyk	30th January, 2022	None	Valentine's Day	None
Candy Cane Lamprey	16324	0	Legendary_Orca	25th December, 2022	None	Christmas	hm mm yees long candy
Infected Space Lamprey	13100	0	Ftyk	14th October, 2022	None	Halloween	In the water, everyone can hear your scream. Collaboration with Leastears (u/Aggressive-Milk539) & requiemm (u/den4ic_old_foxy)
Bamboo	9777	0	Myhailot	4th January, 2022	None	Lunar New Year	Bamboo is a symbol of longevity and strenght.

Unrealistic skins are skins only usable on custom servers that allow using them. They are mostly spaced themed, or in some cases absurd in terms of the stat changes they provide.

Unrealistic Skins
Name	ID	Price	Creator	Creation Date	Stat Change	Description	Image
Bacteriophage	4080	50	9696559_396	2nd March, 2021	None	None
Plunger	920	10	Sabbytom	21st June, 2022	None	This red-rubbered fiend is ready to unclog the competition!
Cucumber	393	200	Volbo_Dugs	19th November, 2020	Oxygen time: +15s Pressure time: -20s	Its the Christian Cucumber

History[]

This section highlights all the changes made to the lamprey in documented updates so far. A full changelog can be found here.

Update	Changes
April 5th, 2017 (Beta)	Added 4 new animals, including: lamprey, polar bear, whale shark and its remora drones (designed by John Fallot (Pathos316 - Portfolio)), and pelican (designed by FlllllSH).
April 15th, 2017	Fixed a bug that caused lampreys to be unable to attach to whales. Lampreys can live in the arctic now.
May 16th, 2017	Pearl Defense: Lamprey can now attach to animals from starting from crab.