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• Max
• Pete
• Willow
• Hoops

	"Enjoy your hamburger, broodmom! I hope you choke on it!"
	-Max

	"Enjoy your hamburger, broodmom! I hope you choke on it!"
	-Max

	"I am seriously regretting my life decisions right now!"
	-Pete

	"I am seriously regretting my life decisions right now!"
	-Pete

	"I thought I loved all spiders. I'm reconsidering my position!"
	-Willow

	"I thought I loved all spiders. I'm reconsidering my position!"
	-Willow

	"That's one bad motherspider!"
	-Hoops

	"That's one bad motherspider!"
	-Hoops

Hedge Broodmother

Info
Deep in her lair, and summoned with a BLT, the terrifying queen of spiders known as the broodmother waits for battle. Drops broodmother chunks, broodmother fangs, broodmother venom, and web fiber on death.

Aggression	Tier
Angry

Environment
Hedge

Loot
Broodmother Chunk (3-5) Broodmother Fang (2) Broodmother Venom (1) Web Fiber (0-25) Rare Drop Broodmother Chunk (0-12) Broodmother Fang (0-2) Broodmother Trinket (0-1) Broodmother Venom (0-3) Web Fiber (0-2) NG+ Drops Broodmother Infused Ooze (1-6) (View Items Page) Science Waffle (0-1) Science Cone (0-1) (NG+2) Infused Club (0-1) (NG+4) Infused Dagger (0-4) (NG+4)

Unlocks Mutation
Mom Genes

Stats

Health	Defense	Damage Resist
2450	20	Phase 1: 25%Phase 2: 50%Phase 3: 70%

Stun Threshold	Stun Cooldown
275	120 Sec

Attack Damage
Bite: 90 3-Hit-Combo Bite: 80 5-Hit-Combo Bite: 75 Charged Pounce: 120 Jump Attack: 100 Dodge: 110 Scream: 30

Weakness & Resistances

Elemental Weakness	Elemental Resistance
Spicy(+25% Damage)	Fresh(-50% Damage)-or-Salty(-50% Damage)

Weakness	Resistance
Slashing(+25% Damage)	Busting(-25% Damage)-or-Chopping(-25% Damage)-or-Explosive(-50% Damage)-or-Stabbing(-50% Damage)

Resistant To
Gas Hazard(-25% Damage)

Immune To
Poison

Inflicts

Damage Type Inflicted
Stabbing(All Attacks)

Status Effects Inflicted

Status Effect Inflicted	Status Effect Inflicted
-Attack Damage(Scream)	-Exhaustion Recovery(Dodge)

Status Effect Inflicted	Status Effect Inflicted
-Perfect Block(Pounce)	Poison (Broodmother)(All Attacks In Phase 2)

The Hedge Broodmother is a boss Creature found deep in the Hedge, which is meant to be fought sometime after the Black Anthill Lab. Her lair may be found by going up a branch into a large burrow that is next to the Flingman Flying Disc. Once the fight is triggered, players cannot leave or enter her lair until all players inside are dead, or the Broodmother is defeated. She can be summoned by using the Broodmother BLT on the opened egg sacs within her lair, and can be re-summoned as often as desired after being defeated.

The Broodmother gains a permanent 25% increase in attack speed once the player reaches New Game+ 1 and a 10% movement speed in New Game+ 2. This is in addition to other all the other status effects Infused Creatures gain. Her Spiderling and Orb Weaver Jr summons can be infused in New Game+.

The Hedge Broodmother has an extremely powerful infected variant summoned in another lair in the Haze after sealing the weed killer, called the Infected Broodmother.

Contents

• 1 Boss Fight
  • 1.1 Phase 1
  • 1.2 Phase 2
  • 1.3 Phase 3
  • 1.4 Phase 4
• 2 Advanced Loot Table
• 3 Strategy
  • 3.1 Weapons
  • 3.2 Consumables
  • 3.3 Mutations
• 4 Trivia
• 5 Gallery

Boss Fight[]

Phase 1[]

The Hedge Broodmother's fight starts as soon as she descends from the ceiling and touches the ground; the Broodmother cannot be damaged while descending from the ceiling. In this phase, she can perform all of her attacks: a basic bite, a modified version of the Orb Weaver's 3-hit combo, and a modified version of the Wolf Spider's lunge.

Phase 2[]

At 75% health, the Broodmother will gain the ability to do 3 more attacks, a modified version of the Wolf Spider's 5-hit combo and a modified version of a Wolf Spider's forward lunge. She will scream after entering this phase, spawning 7 Spiderlings which will drop from the ceiling. The scream also debuffs the player, decreasing their damage done, though the scream can be perfect blocked to avoid this effect. All of the Broodmother's attacks can also inflict Poison in this phase. She will also gain a "dodge" move in this phase in which the Broodmother hisses and jumps backwards, dealing minor damage and inflicting -Exhaustion Recovery.

Phase 3[]

At 50% health, the Broodmother's resistance increases, nearly halving all damage taken. The main change, however, is that she now will spawn four Spiderlings and two Orb Weaver Jrs

Phase 4[]

At about 25% health, the minions are also changed, now no longer spawning Spiderlings and spawning 4 Orb Weaver Jrs.

When the boss dies, any summoned Spiderlings and Orb Weaver Jrs still alive will immediately disappear.

Advanced Loot Table[]

This is a more advanced covering of the loot-table of Hedge Broodmother. Each item has an independent chance and count, in which the chance is the chance it can drop and the count is the amount of items that have that chance. If a count larger than 2 is in one section, then each item has an independent chance from one another (EX: Instead of getting say 1-2 of a resource, you can get 1 with a 70% chance and another with an additional 70% chance). In terms of Stealing, it can take one item from every section of the loot table, so even if a item count is say 5, the player will only steal one from that section.

Creature Loot Tables also tend to have large amounts of 1% items, which is intended to make stealing more rare items harder, as the player is more likely to steal the large amounts of 1% items than a singular 50% item.

Note: For consistency sake, all duplicate categories have a multiplier next to them, but function as unique loot types when say using Stealing.

Item	Count	Chance	Additional Info
Broodmother Chunk	3			100%	-
Broodmother Chunk	1	20%	-
Broodmother Chunk	1	40%	-
Broodmother Chunk x12	1	1%	-
Broodmother Chunk x4	1	0%	Only Obtainable From Stealing
Broodmother Fang	2	100%	Not Stealable
Broodmother Fang x2	1	1%	Not Stealable
Broodmother Infused Ooze	1	100%	New Game+
Broodmother Infused Ooze	1	50%	New Game+2
Broodmother Infused Ooze	1	75%	New Game+3
Broodmother Infused Ooze	1	100%	New Game+4
Broodmother Infused Ooze	1	100%	New Game+5
Broodmother Infused Ooze	1	100%	New Game+6
Broodmother Trinket	1	1%	-
Broodmother Venom	1	100%	Not Stealable
Broodmother Venom x3	1	1%	Not Stealable
Infused Club	1	30%	New Game+4
Infused Dagger	1	25%	New Game+4
Infused Dagger	1	25%	New Game+4
Infused Dagger	1	25%	New Game+4
Infused Dagger	1	25%	New Game+4
Science Cone	1	20%	New Game+2
Science Waffle	1	20%	New Game+
Web Fiber	25	75%	-
Web Fiber x2	1	1%	-

Strategy[]

The Broodmother is a very difficult boss to defeat and will likely require many attempts to kill her, but there are some strategies that can make the fight easier.

Weapons[]

• Take advantage of AOE weapons such as Splatbursts, Gas Arrows or Blaster of the Moldy Matriarch (if you're in New Game+) to take out her minions.
  • Minions will die automatically alongside the Broodmother when she is defeated so these can be ignored if the player is able to kill the Broodmother quickly enough.

• Use the Spicy Coaltana, Spicy Staff, or stack Splatbursts to deal quick and hefty damage.
  • The best possible weapon to take out the Broodmother is a Spicy Coaltana because the Broodmother is weak to slashing damage and spicy damage. If this is paired with a Science Cone that contains the Samurai Perk or Spicy Damage Up, the Broodmother can be killed in as little as 30 seconds with an upgraded Coaltana

• Spears and bows are less efficient when used against the Broodmother, due to her resistance to stabbing damage.
  • These weapons, however, can be somewhat effective against her minions when taking their comparatively low health into account.
  • Bows can still be a somewhat viable source of damage by taking advantage of critical hits and/or elemental arrows.
  • This can be combined with ranged weapons to continue to dish out damage while minimizing risk of being attacked directly.

Consumables[]

• Use Attack and Stamina Smoothies such as the Liquid Rage or Boost Juice and combat-based meals like Spider Slider, Funguspacho, or Omelant.
• Use Fiber Bandages or Beefy Smoothies for quick healing.

Mutations[]

• Use the maxed-out Mithridatism mutation for 75% resistance to Poison, as well as weapon class mutations for extra combat effects.
• Other perks may include
• Chopper, Smasher, Javelineer, Assassin, Sharpshooter, Blademaster or Whittle Wizard, depending on what weapon the player is utilising
• Coup De Grass
• Trapper PEEP.R (if the player has unlocked a sufficient number of Gold Cards)
• Cardio Fan (as the Broodmother exhausts the player frequently)
• Spicy Safety
• Sour Sensation
• Mom Genes and/or Mantsterious Stranger (Giving the Broodmother or Spiderlings other targets to focus on is invaluable)
• Apex Predator (If using one of the weapons this perk affects)
• Corporate Kickback
• Bardic Inspiration

Trivia[]

• Prior to the Shroom & Doom update, the Broodmother was just an embiggened Wolf Spider with a different blob design in arachnophobia mode.
  • With the Shroom & Doom update, the Broodmother’s design was completely overhauled, now resembling a Spiny (Demon) Orb-Weaver.
• The "demonic" reference from the Broodmother's loot and derived equipment stems from her design being based off the Spiny Orb-Weaver, also known as the Demon Orb-Weaver.
• Also prior to the Shroom and Doom update, the Broodmother was located at the Flingman Flying Disc.
• Given that she's an orb-weaver, is said to be the "queen of spiders", and spawns both Spiderlings and Orb Weaver Jrs during her battle, it's likely that she is also the mother of the Orb Weavers.

Gallery[]

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