Newly Hatched Zoea

The  is a void item in Risk of Rain 2, added in the Survivors of the Void update. It is the corruption of all boss items (excluding ) and is dropped by the.

Every 60 seconds (-50% per stack), the holder gets a friendly void ally, which is either a, , or (rarely). The holder may only have up to 1 (+1 per stack) void ally summoned this way at a time.

Tips

 * turrets do inherit the Newly Hatched Zoea, allowing for 2 additional void allies per item stack.
 * On top of that, respawning the turrets will allow for even more void allies. This is because the reference to the deployable count of the replaced turret disappears, even though the void allies it spawned are not affected.
 * If has  and any boss item, turrets will gain Newly Hatched Zoea upon dying and being resurrected even though the Engineer will not. This is the only indirect way of spawning void allies without the player holding the item.
 * Void implosions from void allies are still lethal to the player and their other void allies. Be mindful that one ally's death may lead to avalanching instant-kill explosions.
 * Notably, these void implosions cannot kill either of the final bosses, and the.
 * There is a global ally limit of 20 at a time. This includes void allies, drones, squid turrets, or any other ally that appears on the left side of the screen. This means the ally spawn scaling of Newly Hatched Zoea hard caps at 20 stacks without any other allies. The cooldown however will be 3s, and will continue to decrease with further stacks.

Version History

 * PC Patch v1.2.2.0
 * (Undocumented) Fixed incorrect ally-cap stacking behavior
 * Survivors of the Void
 * (Undocumented) Added New Item:

Trivia

 * In biology, the term "zoea" refers to a larval stage in development experienced by many ten-legged crustaceans, especially crabs.
 * This is in keeping with the crab-like appearance of the boss tied to the item, the, which seems to imply that the item itself is some form of the boss's offspring.
 * Furthermore, the item's ability to summon a or, as opposed to just the  which dropped it in the first place, might suggest that all three monsters are directly related to one another in some way.