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Not every entity you’ll encounter inLethal Companyis large, hostile, and eager to kill you and ruin your current quota. Some, like the Tulip Snake, are small, and their danger is more accidental than anything else. If one grabs onto you? You can continue on as usual. If it’s more? Well, you may be in for a surprise.
Beyond being a simple annoyance or a cute, but temporary pet to bring along on your planetary excursions, Tulip Snakes also have a unique ability. If enough grab onto you, they’ll act as a free, natural jetpack. Using them as a method of transportation has its dangers, though.
Where To Find Tulip Snakes
Tulip Snakes aresmall creaturesthat resemble a frilled lizardcrossed with a venus fly trap, and they have achance of spawning on six of the twelve moons, with thebest spawn rate being on Adamance.
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You’ll generallyfind around one to two Tulip Snakes at firstin the morning, butup to a maximum of 12 can spawnthroughout the day,depending on what’s already spawned, ifyou’ve killed any other entities, and if the planet isEclipsed or not.
How To Fly With Tulip Snakes
If youwant to use Tulip Snakesfor theirability to give you temporary flight, you’llneed to find a pack of themfor it. Whenyou or another player gets within rangeof a Tulip Snake, they’llrun up and grab onto your head, thenstart flapping in an attempt to carry you off.
Each Tulip Snake latching onto you adds three lbsto your total weight, and the maximum amount of five will add 16 lbsof weight, and they’llcontribute to your ability to collapse bridges.
One or two of them won’t give you any lift, but havingat least three of themwill make themable to lift youandlet you fly around briefly,similar to a Jetpackbut withless control and flight duration.
This awkwardflight can still be controlled to an extentby using themovement keys to direct the general directionof the light:
Tulip Snakesmove at a set speedonce they get started, but youcan’t control how high you’ll goeven if you do steer them upwards. Themore of them attachedto you, thebetter control you’ll have, but they’ll alsofly you much higher.
You canget the Tulip Snakes to dropyou onto the ground byswinging a Shovelorother melee equipmentwhile they’re attached to you, and it willalso kill them.
Eachdirection change takes around a secondto register when you’re flying, butthere isn’t a limitto how often you can, only the flight length itself, aseach flight only lasts around ten secondsbefore the Tulip Snakes get tired.
Once theTulip Snakes let you go, they’ll proceed torun off in a random direction as a group, and you’ll generallytake a couple of secondsbefore they canbeattracted again and latch back onfor another flight.
Tulip Snakes will crowd andtake up space in your vision, and they canmake it difficult to see obstaclesaround you, especially if you’ve got more than two on you.
The short flight can be more thanenough to cross portions of the mapto speed up travel,avoid flooded areasof a map, or engage in shenanigans with other players. If you cangrab them quickly, Tulip Snake flightcan be used to avoid enemies, or you can justuse Tulip Snakes as bait for other creatureslikeEyeless Dogs, if they’re caught in its charge.
How To Fly Indoors
Unlike most entities, Tulip Snakescan also be brought into the facilityas long asthey’re attached to you, and once they drop off, they’llroam around the facilityand engage in their normal behavior. As long asthere are enough of them in the facility, you can alsofly around with theminside to cross short distances.
If you’re using Tulip Snakes to fly around in the facility, they canfly you up into the ceiling fan in the entranceand kill you.
Unfortunately, this also runs therisk of them managing to drop you to your deathmuch easier than if you’re outsidethanks to all the pitsand drops, or themaccidentally running you into danger.
