Draw fleshbeasts

Draw fleshbeasts

Create a psychic pulse which will draw fleshbeasts to dig upwards and emerge near your enemies. They will attack anyone they find, including your enemies and allies. The fleshbeasts can be captured and studied, or butchered for twisted meat.

Base Stats

Type

Psychic ritual

Creation

Required Research

Summon fleshbeasts

Ritual Duration

5,000 ticks (1.39 mins)

Ritual Cooldown

300,000 ticks (83.33 mins)

Resources to make

50

Draw fleshbeasts is a psychic ritual that causes a horde of fleshbeasts to enter the map upon which it is cast.

Acquisition

The draw fleshbeasts psychic ritual can be performed once every 300,000 ticks (5 in-game days) at a psychic ritual spot at the cost of  50 Bioferrite, once the Summon fleshbeasts research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. The ritual takes 5,000 ticks (2 in-game hours) to complete.

The ritual cannot be initiated in orbit.

Summary

Higher qualities increase the number of fleshbeasts summoned.

Draw Fleshbeasts does not create Bulbfreaks, even at 100% ritual quality.

Combat power by Quality

Analysis

While all psychic rituals that spawn entities will create entities that are hostile to all pawns,^{[Wild animals?]} including human and mechanoid raiders, the draw fleshbeasts ritual is unique in that it will cause fleshbeasts to emerge directly next to a hostile pawn on the map if any are present, ensuring that they're immediately drawn into combat. This is in contrast to rituals such as draw shamblers, which causes shamblers to wait at the edges of the map until they sight a nearby human pawn, or an intentionally low quality draw animals, which causes hostile manhunters to arrive and skulk around buildings containing pawns until they find a way in or until a pawn steps outside while Wandering.

Unlike other rituals, this one is feasible to perform while caravanning: At a quest site with hostiles present, with up to 4 shard beacons, you can substantially soften up an enemy force before you engage them, at the cost of 12.5kg for the required bioferrite and an additional 10kg per beacon. Note that the bioferrite is consumed and will not affect the returning caravan's weight, but the beacon's weight will. It is possible that enemies will notice and engage the player before the ritual is complete, depending on if you're attacking a base, or merely dealing with a pirate outpost or similar. Pay particular attention if mortars are present.

Beyond this, the benefits of this ritual are also provided by the provoke pit gate. Both can provide quite a lot of twisted meat from butchering in a pinch. Example uses include the production of serums or for satiating ghouls which can only eat raw meat and corpses and can be difficult for primarily vegetarian colonies to provide for. At  50 Bioferrite for Draw Fleshbeasts and 75 for Provoke Pitgate, this is a particularly expensive way to feed your ghouls, though, given that they will otherwise contentedly eat the body of hostile raiders, something that most colonies will find easily stockpiles over time. In addition, despite the higher cost, Provoke Pit Gate also involves a Dreadmeld. Dreadmelds drop 30 bioferrite, offsetting the cost to a total of 45, less then Draw Fleshbeasts, as well as 3 Shards, which are very valuable items necessary for much Anomaly content.

Version history

• Anomaly DLC Release - Added.
• ? - Description changed from "[...] including enemies and allies [...]" changed to "[...] including your enemies and allies [...]".

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