Newly Hatched Zoea

 is an item in Risk of Rain 2, added in the Survivors of the Void update, which is intended to be dropped by the. It currently does not.

This item summons a friendly, , or (rarely) to assist the player in combat every time it activates, with the maximum amount of allies and the time between summons being dictated by the amount of the item the player has.

Unlike most void items, this item corrupts multiple items at once, specifically all Boss Items. When picked this up, all stacks of any boss items will be converted into an equal number of Newly Hatched Zoea stacks. In addition, all future boss items picked up will be immediately converted into more Newly Hatched Zoeas.

Version History

 * 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.