Void Infestor

The  is a monster added in the Survivors of the Void update.

Environments

 * Any

Skills & Behavior
Void Infestors do not naturally spawn in the world; instead, there are 2 special ways they can appear: 0-4 Void Infestors will spawn after interacting with a Void Cradle, and when defeating a Elite monster, a single Void Infestor will appear from its corpse.

Unlike other monsters, Void Infestors' health decays over time, and they will die within 30 seconds even if no damage is dealt.

After appearing, a Void Infestor will move quickly and erratically, making it difficult for any Survivors to hit it.

Primary: Infest
When the Infestor gets close to a character, it makes a flying leap towards them. If the Infestor makes contact with its target, and if the target is a non-player, non-mechanical entity, the Infestor latches onto it and the victim becomes Voidtouched. These Voidtouched characters become hostile and begin attacking the Survivors, even if they were previously allied when uninfested.

If the character the Infestor touches cannot be infested, the attack simply deals 100% damage with a proc coefficient of 1.0 and stuns the victim if possible.

After defeating a Voidtouched monster, the Void Infestor will leave the monster's corpse, and it can infest another target if it is not defeated. When an Infestor's host is killed, the Infestor reappears with the same amount of health that it had right before infesting the victim.

Version History

 * Survivors of the Void
 * (Undocumented) Added New Monster: Void Infestor

Trivia

 * The "596f757220707269736f6e" in this monster's logbook entry is hexadecimal for "Your prison".
 * In keeping with the deep-sea theme of the Void and the monsters related to it, the Void Infestor's visual design seems to draw inspiration from ocean life, especially crustaceans and other arthropods. Infestors in particular bear a striking resemblance to giant isopods (family Cirolanidae).
 * Another possible inspiration for the appearance and behavior of the Infestor is Orthione griffenis, a more derived and parasitic species of isopod that latches on to and feeds from the gill chambers of crayfish.
 * Technically, the Void Infestor that infests a body and the Void Infestor that leaves the body are not the same Infestor. When a Void Infestor infests an enemy, it immediately dies and gives the Voidtouched buff to the enemy. When the Voidtouched enemy dies, a new Infestor with the same health as the first is spawned at the enemy's location.