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Shivers are hostile creatures that appear in dark places, and can climb.

Surface shiver
Type	Land
Behavior	Hostile[[::Category:Hostile creatures| ]]
Health	14
Base attack	2.5 Tier: 0
Spawn	Y level: 0.85 to 2 Group size: 1
Drops
Flax fibers	20%
Temporal gear	2.66%
Rusty gear	1%

Runtime spawn conditions

• Shivers can appear in any region of the world, including certain special story event locations.
• Shivers spawn in grass, loose stones, or air. It appears that they cannot spawn in deep snow.
• Shivers should not spawn in areas of light higher than level 7.
• The chance for a shiver to spawn is 0.1 (compared to 0.00003 for bears).
• The average group size is 1, with a maximum of 1 (per chunk?) for surface, deep, tainted, stilt, and bellhead shivers, and a maximum of 2 (per chunk?) for corrupt and nightmare shivers.
• Surface shivers can spawn between 0.85 (85% of sea level) and 2 (world height limit); deep shivers between 0.22 and 0.89 (22%-89% of sea level); tainted shivers between 0.1 and 0.55; corrupt shivers between 0 and 0.35; nightmare shivers between 0.1 and 0.23; stilt shivers and bellhead shivers between 0.1 and 0.19.

Despawn conditions

Shivers might despawn if at least 32 blocks away from the player for 30 seconds, or at least 64 blocks away from the player for 6 seconds.

Variants

There are 8 types of shiver: surface, deep, tainted, corrupt, nightmare, stilt, bellhead, deepsplit. Surface shivers are tier 0, with 14 health points and a melee attack that deals 2.5 points of damage. Bellhead shivers are tier 4, with 66 health points and a melee attack that deals 24 points of damage.

Behavior

• Shivers can climb. Because they lack the attribute canClimbAnywhere, it's assumed that they cannot cling to ceilings and fences.
• reckless: true
• spawnCloserDuringLowStability: true
• stepHeight: 2.1251
• preferredLightLevel: 15
• In addition to standard animations (idle, wander, walk, run, swim, hurt, die), shivers exhibit some intriguing behaviors:
  • swipe
  • bite
  • despair
  • headbang
• The movespeed for most variants is 0.018 while wandering; for deepsplit shivers it's slower: 0.0138.
• The movespeed for most variants is 0.015 in water; for stilt shivers it's faster: 0.021.
• idleSoundRange: 32

Combat

• hitAndRunChance: 0.25
• If a shiver receives damage, it might turn and flee the player for 10 seconds. The chance for surface shivers to flee is 15%, while the chance for deep shivers to flee is 7%; the chance for tainted shivers is 3%; the chance for corrupt shivers is 1.5%; and the chance for tier 4 shivers is 1%.
• The minDayLight for surface shivers is 0.925, while for deep shivers it's 0.97; for all other variants, it's 2. Presumably this means that surface shivers flee even faint sunlight, while tier 2 shivers (and higher) can withstand sunlight up to level 2.
• If a shiver fleeing the sunlight receives damage, it might stop fleeing and engage in different behavior.
• The movespeed for most variants is 0.04 when fleeing the player; for deepsplit shivers it's 0.03.
• The movespeed for most variants is 0.05 when seeking the player; for deepsplit shivers it's 0.038.
• Their melee attack (bite) deals slashing damage:
• Bellhead shivers' attacks have knockbackStrength 4.

Harvesting

• "harvestable", duration: 2
• Stilt shivers, bellhead shivers, and deepsplit shivers have the highest chance of dropping a temporal gear: 1 ± 0.4. Rusty gears: 5 ± 2.5. Flax fibers: 2. Jonas part (any): 0.4.

Prey

Apparently the only thing shivers are interested in is the player(s).

History

• Shivers were introduced with version 1.20.

Notes

• Killing a shiver restores temporal stability to the player, with higher tiers restoring higher amounts: surface shiver: 0.01, deep shiver: 0.015, tainted shiver: 0.02, corrupt shiver: 0.025, nightmare shiver: 0.3, all other shivers: 0.35.
• Worldgen spawn conditions: Not applicable
• Shivers cannot be fed, tamed or bred.

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Shivers might once have been human. Tobias speaks of people who "turned" when disaster struck.