Updated 2026-08-29
Until now, night in VOIDLANDS was just a clock: it got dark, it got cold and you lit a campfire. From this update on, the night has owners. We're opening the Monsters category, separate from animals, for creatures that neither graze nor flee: they spawn with the dark and come after you.
The Spider is the first of them. Black, faceted in the same low-poly as the fauna, with eight red eyes glowing in the dark and bared fangs. It has its own walk, run, attack and death animations, and a dedicated sound that gives away when it's near, even before you see it.
Its behavior is genuinely aggressive. At nightfall it spawns near you and charges in quick lunges; the threat is on par with a wolf, but packed into a short window: if you aren't ready when it gets dark, it turns a calm walk into a scramble. At dawn it vanishes, as if the light dissolved it.
Surviving the night stopped being about waiting for the sun and became preparation: wall off your base, keep a good weapon in hand and a campfire burning nearby. Whoever faces the Spider and wins takes leather and the new Spider venom, an ingredient for poisoned arrows and traps, so the danger also becomes reward.
This is just the start of the Monsters category. The plan is for the night to get tenser and tenser, with distinct creatures and plenty of reasons to raise higher walls. Good hunting, and mind what moves in the dark.