Considering the slugcats live in colonies, have a family structure (first survivor cutscene) and the babies can have different colors from their parents (this eliminates the theory of asexual reproduction since it's not an identical clone), I think the most likely scenario is the first or second one. They might be hermaphrodites like...slugs (lol), so there would be no sexual difference between individuals. Maybe they also lay eggs like slugs, either in clusters or more likely just one or two.
i may be wrong but i believe the devs did confirm that Artificer is confirmed Female and Monk, Survivor and Gourmand are Male We know Artificer because: pups We know Monk and Survivor because in all promotional material they are spoken off as brothers in specific not sisters or siblings Gourmand i dont remember but i believe that was also canon Lastly i think Spearmaster (and maybe Hunter) are both canonically non-binary due to them probably never being intended to have a gender to reporduce as their purpose was both times just to deliver messages. NSH definetly didnt have time to design Hunter with a gender if they couldnt even be bothered to make Hunter not have super cancer. SRS maybe gave Speermaster a gender but egh not sure
When a mommy and a daddy slugcat love each other very much, they go on an expedition together and only return when they find a random pup chilling in a shelter that they take on as their own child
New mod idea: Because Seven Red Suns forgot to patch the reproduction abilities of spearmaster, there is a slight chance that creating a spear will spawn a pup instead. You can still chuck it at the enemies alike Gourmand's "Strong Delivery" mod, killing them with blunt force
POV: Spearmaster is getting chased by a bunch of red lizards and king vultures. They make a spear and throw it at the enemies, but then quickly realize that it was, indeed, not a spear and that they have thrown a child to it's demise.
@@deboraluz27 SRS probably notes down a reminder to get rid of this mutation when Spearmaster is back from his mission (And to teach him about morality and empathy)
This is all logical and biologically correct, but what are the exact requirements for the first type of reproduction? You have to give them a specific food item or have enough shelters so that the current Slugcats can create a new Slugcat? I haven't played Raincraft for a while so I'm not sure......
Given that the slugcats are quite intelligent creatures who do live in organised shelters, I'd say it's fair to assume you have to give both of them around 3~4 pips worth of food to hold above their max, and make sure there's enough shelters nearby.
Just giving them batflies usually works, but sometimes you need any meat, scavenger flesh or blue fruit for special rare variants like Hunter, Artificer and Saint!
I assume the same way a certain type of slug reproduce, they stab. Like literally form a spear like the spearmaster, and the one who gets stabbed is the mom.
The last one makes me think that Spearmaster was not supposed to have the ability to reproduce but nature found a way around it, causing a slugpup to come out of its tail instead of a spear and scare the heck out of them Like the little guy was expecting something long, sharp, and pointy, not squishy and rather loud
I've got two theories for how slugcats go about caring for their eggs/pups. My first theory is that they only lay a single egg at a time and carry it with them as they forage, like what Inv does. Unlike bird eggs, these ones don't require heat to incubate, and so may still hatch even if the parents lose them (either by getting eaten or from a panicked escape). The pups you find in game are a result of when this happens. The other one is that they lay huge clusters of tiny eggs, which aren't cared for at all. After hatching, an overwhelming percentage of them don't make it to being the pups you see in game, and after finding a pup that has managed to survive, an unrelated adult slugcat like the survivor takes on the role of mother to them.
Maybe someone mentioned this idea before, but i haven't seen it yet. What if slugcats reproduce more like normal slugs and snails, creating calcareous or chitinous "love darts"? They look an awful lot like Spearmaster's spears, and that may explain both HOW this slugcat forms spears and WHY it is seen as a... kinda freaky one. Imagine what it must look like to normal slugcats. Poor guy.
The utter disbelief in Spearmaster's face when they throw the pup out of their tail hits like feeling an itch and scratching it only to find a spider crawling up your leg
Slugcats leave behind residue. When enough residue is together it forms into a slup. The only time enough residue is together naturally is in the shelter after hibernation. This is why slups are only found in shelters.
"Today's season is the mating season for our small little slugcats and today we found two slugcats who have accepted eachother as their rightful mate. Watch as they make a slugpup in mere seconds." "Today we have found an egg, this egg seems to be ready to hatch into a very strange mysterious creature which is similar to a slugpup." "We have found a slugcat that is staring blankly into space, this only means one thing. It's ready to make a slugpup. Watch as it stretches a small head out of its body and pops it out of itself to make a child." "We have found the messenger who seems to be ready to produce a spear, but instead they create a small slugpup and place it on the ground. The pup starts screaming in fear and the messenger also screams in fear from the child."
@@Volcano22207 "It has been a full week since we last witnessed the Spear-creating Slug-Cat bring life into this world. They have yet to stop screaming."
In a case of divergent evolution I believe that slugcats and lantern mice share common ancestors as due to 5P referring to Rivulet as a "Wet mouse". Which makes me believe that lantern mice ancestors initially adapted to living under super-structures whilst the slugcat's adapted to living further out from them. Both seperating from a point where the "tube-worm" ancestors evolved enough to have mammalian attributes.
@@TrixterTheFemboy there is a really weird image in files of the survivor with another head out of him, just like in the video I dunno what this is but it's funny lol
The first makes sense, the second explains why the slugpups in invenot's campaign have singularity bomb explosions, the third explains nothing, and the fourth is wawawawaaaaawawawaaaaaaaaa
im happy to see that my gregnant emote has evolved into first susceptibletomitosis, then susceptibletocloning, and now this, i regret everything as i wish to be unmade, please, i am begging you
perhaps the slugpup just snuck in there like an idiot thinking it was some kind of goofy lookin shelter made for lots of slugpups at once, and then spearmaster tried to grab a spear and grabbed a child
The way Pebbles will refer to Slugcats as rodents, it makes me believe they reproduce like a normal mammal. I never liked the Idea that they were absolutely unquestionably more slug than anything, when its more likely that they're a mix between slug and mammal.
*Theories proposed in this video* 0:00 - Minecraft style 0:13 - Hatched from eggs 0:20 - Budding 0:28 - that one species of frog, you know the one that trypophobiacs hate
This parenting book is not helping, I still have no clue how to take care of the rat I found in subterranean, or how he came to be. But it’s nice to know that spearmaster is equally as terrified as I was when I found a random lil guy.
Spearmaster: *struggling, thinking it to be an extra thick spear* *chucks the "spear" away* Pup: *looks kinda dead* Spearmaster: ... wha- Pup: daaaaaaaa- Spearmaster: WHAT IS THAT!?
"YO THAT AIN'T NO SPEAR! How the heck THAT get in there????? Did the thing crawl in while i was sleepin or something? wait how would that fit- OKAY SCRATCH THAT LET'S JUST GET FOOD"
Здесь вы неправильно описали эмоции нашего гонца .... Скорее он говорит(Как он может) "ААААА! КАКОГО ЧЁРТА У МЕНЯ ПОЯВИЛСЯ РЕБЁНОК ВМЕСТО КОПЬЯ! Я НЕ ГОТОВ БЫТЬ ОТЦОМ/МАТЕРЬЮ!!!"
I honestly didn't think much about How Slugcats could reproduce. But if I'd had to guess it would be either the 1st option and 2nd option. Most likely the 1st option though.
0:27 Spearmaster: A lizard, my lunch is guaranteed 0:29 Spearmaster: "Trying to create a spear (trying to L)" 0:33 Spearmaster: What? How is this possible? 0:36 Slugpup: aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh Spearmaster: AAAAAAAAAHHHHH
I love how visibly concerned Spearmaster was upon seeing it had produced the child and not the spear
He even started scream despite having no mouth
ok
he has no mouth but he can vocalize it out of where his spears come from@@Unknown404-yc9sk
@@Unknown404-yc9skTail holes
So this is what inspired that image I saw on a certain website...
I love how Spearmaster just throws the child assuming it's a spear and then realizes 2 seconds later
I mean I think most of us would do the same in that situation
Funny how spearmaster feels bad for the pup after it being thrown
@@deboraluz27 Seems more like horror to me
@@oberonpanopticon yeah just like: " oh... _oh no..._ "
@@deboraluz27 More like exactly how it went in the video!
“…”
“AAAAAAAAA”
“*AAAAAAAAAAAAA*”
Ah yes, the four ways of slugcat reproduction:
- Minecraft
- E G G
- Slugtosis
- 3D-printer
MITSOSIS*
@@EternalCrystalOfSeasr/wooosh
No... keep with the slug...
@@EternalCrystalOfSeasno, SLUGTOSIS
@@EternalCrystalOfSeas*SLUGTOSIS!*
Considering the slugcats live in colonies, have a family structure (first survivor cutscene) and the babies can have different colors from their parents (this eliminates the theory of asexual reproduction since it's not an identical clone), I think the most likely scenario is the first or second one. They might be hermaphrodites like...slugs (lol), so there would be no sexual difference between individuals. Maybe they also lay eggs like slugs, either in clusters or more likely just one or two.
Na bro that's just adoption
i may be wrong but i believe the devs did confirm that Artificer is confirmed Female and Monk, Survivor and Gourmand are Male
We know Artificer because: pups
We know Monk and Survivor because in all promotional material they are spoken off as brothers in specific not sisters or siblings
Gourmand i dont remember but i believe that was also canon
Lastly i think Spearmaster (and maybe Hunter) are both canonically non-binary due to them probably never being intended to have a gender to reporduce as their purpose was both times just to deliver messages. NSH definetly didnt have time to design Hunter with a gender if they couldnt even be bothered to make Hunter not have super cancer. SRS maybe gave Speermaster a gender but egh not sure
@@fabiopauli420 you eyeballs between my teeht
For spreading misinformation
@@Northflowointeresting way of calling them out lol
When a mommy and a daddy slugcat love each other very much, they go on an expedition together and only return when they find a random pup chilling in a shelter that they take on as their own child
no better example. 100% correct there is no other way that slugcats have children 👍
this is how to explain reproduction to a slugpup without the actual reproduction part
there's something i love so much about the first two's wall-eyed glances at each other. not a single neuron in their minds is activated
Did someone say "neuron"? 😶🌫️
@@nekomataumbreon no?? what
who said that
guys if one of you doesnt fess up we’re gonna have problems
i say it sorry
The Pokémon method of reproduction where two slugcats just wake up one day to find a child in their shelter.
Now we do not need an explanation.
"Wh- where did you come from?????"
"wawa :)"
"Wawa :)"
exactly lol
New mod idea: Because Seven Red Suns forgot to patch the reproduction abilities of spearmaster, there is a slight chance that creating a spear will spawn a pup instead. You can still chuck it at the enemies alike Gourmand's "Strong Delivery" mod, killing them with blunt force
POV: Spearmaster is getting chased by a bunch of red lizards and king vultures. They make a spear and throw it at the enemies, but then quickly realize that it was, indeed, not a spear and that they have thrown a child to it's demise.
@@o5-redacted0 Plot twist: Spearmaster proceeds to tame a red lizard using the pups
Ah yes! Using emergency food- Uhh… I mean, slugpups to tame lizards.
Imagine this happened while a srs overseer watches this
@@deboraluz27 SRS probably notes down a reminder to get rid of this mutation when Spearmaster is back from his mission (And to teach him about morality and empathy)
This is all logical and biologically correct, but what are the exact requirements for the first type of reproduction? You have to give them a specific food item or have enough shelters so that the current Slugcats can create a new Slugcat? I haven't played Raincraft for a while so I'm not sure......
Given that the slugcats are quite intelligent creatures who do live in organised shelters, I'd say it's fair to assume you have to give both of them around 3~4 pips worth of food to hold above their max, and make sure there's enough shelters nearby.
Just giving them batflies usually works, but sometimes you need any meat, scavenger flesh or blue fruit for special rare variants like Hunter, Artificer and Saint!
THEY REACT WITH Their " reproduction organs as gold fish" one gets male one female and then the MAGIC BEGINS😅
One has to be Inv
I assume the same way a certain type of slug reproduce, they stab. Like literally form a spear like the spearmaster, and the one who gets stabbed is the mom.
spearmaster was confused as they had no clue where the mouth gene came from
It is also blue
@@owololcatI mean to be fair spearmaster is purple, which ia red and blue, so who says they can't produce red and blue slugpup?
Facinating... Slugcat biology is truly an enigma
The last one makes me think that Spearmaster was not supposed to have the ability to reproduce but nature found a way around it, causing a slugpup to come out of its tail instead of a spear and scare the heck out of them
Like the little guy was expecting something long, sharp, and pointy, not squishy and rather loud
So we have:
- Minecraft breeding
- *Eg*
- Slugtosis
- And…whatever you wanna call that last one
the waaaaasis
"Susceptible to cloning"
3D-printing
extra food supply
Shitting
I'm so glad to have contributed to the speartosis nightmare.
Hi Cake!
I am just sitting here knowing i have committed some crimes in this fandom :)
_Thanks, Cake_
Thanks...
Was expecting something cursed and yet the last one caught me off guard.😂😂
Idk I think 2nd one is pretty cursed
the ending killed me
i'm dead
i'm dying
i'm withering away
help
Bro really needs help
Dude same, the ending made me fall into the void sea at karma 10
oh no, they need help
i like how spearmaster just takes a bit of time to comprehend that they just made a slugpup instead of a tendril spear thing
I've got two theories for how slugcats go about caring for their eggs/pups. My first theory is that they only lay a single egg at a time and carry it with them as they forage, like what Inv does. Unlike bird eggs, these ones don't require heat to incubate, and so may still hatch even if the parents lose them (either by getting eaten or from a panicked escape). The pups you find in game are a result of when this happens.
The other one is that they lay huge clusters of tiny eggs, which aren't cared for at all. After hatching, an overwhelming percentage of them don't make it to being the pups you see in game, and after finding a pup that has managed to survive, an unrelated adult slugcat like the survivor takes on the role of mother to them.
The "synth as slugcat voice" joke still hasn't gotten old.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
Tactical child deployment. Spearmaster for the win.
is it child abortion if you put they to fight?
@@LeoB100 it’s a way to raise them.
Breeding Rate from best to mediocre:
- Mitosis
- Coming out of Spearmaster's hole
- Minecraft
- Egg
Ew why would you say #2 that way
@@RedBloxStudios i dont wanna think about it that way
ITS A HOLEEEEEEE
@@KaceyUnderfellWithScreaming AND IT'S A GOAAAAAAAL
Inv approves of this message
Maybe someone mentioned this idea before, but i haven't seen it yet. What if slugcats reproduce more like normal slugs and snails, creating calcareous or chitinous "love darts"? They look an awful lot like Spearmaster's spears, and that may explain both HOW this slugcat forms spears and WHY it is seen as a... kinda freaky one. Imagine what it must look like to normal slugcats. Poor guy.
...are you saying it's spears are basically it's phalluses?
@Pibola64 yes. yes i am. they're not EXACTLY phalluses but have a similar level of weirdness.
Nut spear
wait if that's true then a normal slugcat sees this dude throwing his fricking reproduction method around as a weapon OH DEAR GOD I GET IT NOW
The utter disbelief in Spearmaster's face when they throw the pup out of their tail hits like feeling an itch and scratching it only to find a spider crawling up your leg
Ah yes
Spearmaster and fear of child support
He even started to scream without mouth from fear
he vocalizes out of his tail, did you not see the rw dating sim
Slugcats leave behind residue. When enough residue is together it forms into a slup. The only time enough residue is together naturally is in the shelter after hibernation. This is why slups are only found in shelters.
* Slugcat-shaped husk shed from a slugcat's carapace.
This is the only lore accurate theory
Calling slugpups slups is a new one
@@T3sl4 Thank you for making this infinitely worse.
@@T3sl4aw heck yeah, a nut dealer reference.
"Today's season is the mating season for our small little slugcats and today we found two slugcats who have accepted eachother as their rightful mate. Watch as they make a slugpup in mere seconds."
"Today we have found an egg, this egg seems to be ready to hatch into a very strange mysterious creature which is similar to a slugpup."
"We have found a slugcat that is staring blankly into space, this only means one thing. It's ready to make a slugpup. Watch as it stretches a small head out of its body and pops it out of itself to make a child."
"We have found the messenger who seems to be ready to produce a spear, but instead they create a small slugpup and place it on the ground. The pup starts screaming in fear and the messenger also screams in fear from the child."
i love the last one
I read this in David Attenborough’s voice
@@Volcano22207 "It has been a full week since we last witnessed the Spear-creating Slug-Cat bring life into this world. They have yet to stop screaming."
nature documentary rainworld edition
In a case of divergent evolution I believe that slugcats and lantern mice share common ancestors as due to 5P referring to Rivulet as a "Wet mouse". Which makes me believe that lantern mice ancestors initially adapted to living under super-structures whilst the slugcat's adapted to living further out from them. Both seperating from a point where the "tube-worm" ancestors evolved enough to have mammalian attributes.
Another thing that supports this is lantern mice having X X eyes while dead, as well as them having > < when being grabbed by slugcat.
@@RivuletClonebefore downpour and when I first played I thought they were Slugcat babies
@@Spooky90097My little brother thought that. He calls them *GLOW BABIES.*
this man studies rainworld like it's his job
The funny is that slugtosis one can actually be found in the game files
what do you mean
excuse me it can what
@@TrixterTheFemboy there is a really weird image in files of the survivor with another head out of him, just like in the video
I dunno what this is but it's funny lol
@@soull2258could you give a link
this is an easter egg in the files
I love how Spearmaster was like “That’s not a spear…”
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
WAEAEAEAEAEAEAE
so that’s how
The first makes sense, the second explains why the slugpups in invenot's campaign have singularity bomb explosions, the third explains nothing, and the fourth is wawawawaaaaawawawaaaaaaaaa
First part is just like minecraft. And the rest is pure fever dream.
I don't think that sluppy from Spear was actually their child, they just snuck into its tail when it was asleep lmao
And scared the soul out of spearmaster
spearmaster looks so surprised that the slugpup has a mouth and he doesn't
I came in expecting minecraft villager breeding and that was surprisingly exactly what I got.
0:35 Slug pup finna get turning into a porcupine now❤
The mitosis one killed me way more than it should have 😆
im happy to see that my gregnant emote has evolved into first susceptibletomitosis, then susceptibletocloning, and now this, i regret everything as i wish to be unmade, please, i am begging you
Spearmasters way of reproduction is kinda creepy… if a slugpup came from the hole… that means something occurred in the hole for it to happen…
Should we call David Attenborough?
Due to this being in a white void we can assume who the “ father?” is
perhaps the slugpup just snuck in there like an idiot thinking it was some kind of goofy lookin shelter made for lots of slugpups at once, and then spearmaster tried to grab a spear and grabbed a child
I am viscerally disgusted. Phenomenal work
I've never played rainworld and so this is now canon in my head. i'm gonna buy the game and this will be all I'm thinking about
this is canon in MY head and i have like 100 something hours
The last one 😭♥️
Spearmaster after realizing he/she threw something that's not a spear
The way Pebbles will refer to Slugcats as rodents, it makes me believe they reproduce like a normal mammal. I never liked the Idea that they were absolutely unquestionably more slug than anything, when its more likely that they're a mix between slug and mammal.
you forgot the most important part where they do a passionate kiss
So true
So true
@@Northflowo (this feels like that Undertale joke where San's goes "so cool" a bunch of times and I want in on it)
So true
The first way is the most likely because the scugs are mammals
Hmm proof?
@@Northfloworodents are mammals, and slugcats are called rodents quite a few times in game :D
Saint's fur conforms that slugcats have fur which mean slugcats are mammals, meaning they reproduce sexualy and give live birth. 🤓@@Northflowo
Slugcat's have genetic variation, eggs world be a weakness in a Slugcats situation, and you can not get genetic variation from splitting cells.
Reproducing either Minecraft style or spore style
Not enough dancing for Spore style
Spearmaster is absolutely horrified that they just became a parent
that WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Spearmaster: "That is Not A SPEAR"
The fact that their spear didn't go far was bad enough, let alone that it probably alerted whatever it was supposed to hit with all that screamin
that lizard is probably like "wait, that purple guy makes snacks? COUNT ME IN"
I always thought that slugcat pups were brought to slugcat couples by vultures
wtf.... spearmaster mpreg
please don't do that or i'm going to *1st karma symbol*
I immediately clicked when I got the notification, seeing the title.
No regrets
Lmao Spearmaster got jumpscared
*Theories proposed in this video*
0:00 - Minecraft style
0:13 - Hatched from eggs
0:20 - Budding
0:28 - that one species of frog, you know the one that trypophobiacs hate
Finally, someone said budding instead of mitosis!!!!!
@@shinboonsangnoom8191 :>
I ate a table
You make me cry. That's (in my opinion) kind of cruel. But even so, I do respect YOUR opinion.
@@five_pebbles_they will eat another
@@five_pebbles_ I-I-I’m sorry.. but.. it’s just an.. *sighs* an addiction..
@@DarylStreete same
Huh, so thats why theres scuttling in my walls
Spearmaster was so surprised he grew a mouth just to scream
he vocalises out of his tail, did you not see the dating sim?
The smash cut to black cutting off Spearmaster screaming at their unexpectedly printed slugpup cracks me up.
The slug pup wawawa in the end was perfect
This parenting book is not helping, I still have no clue how to take care of the rat I found in subterranean, or how he came to be. But it’s nice to know that spearmaster is equally as terrified as I was when I found a random lil guy.
lil slupup: aaaaaaaaa :o
spearmaster: *AAAAAAAAAA* D:
I am very disturbed yet intrigued
lol Spearmaster at the end!
0:31 *Thats not a spear....*
*proceeds to write fan fiction about spearmaster slugpups*
Spearmaster isn’t ready to be a father
Spearmaster: *struggling, thinking it to be an extra thick spear*
*chucks the "spear" away*
Pup: *looks kinda dead*
Spearmaster: ... wha-
Pup: daaaaaaaa-
Spearmaster: WHAT IS THAT!?
"YO THAT AIN'T NO SPEAR! How the heck THAT get in there????? Did the thing crawl in while i was sleepin or something? wait how would that fit- OKAY SCRATCH THAT LET'S JUST GET FOOD"
Bruh spearmaster just yeet the child in its first seconds of life,_,
I need therapy..
This video sparked a lot of discussion in the comments.
Discussions of which never cease to make me uncomfortable...
I can just imagine spearmaster mistakenly throwing the child at an enemy
*chomp*
0:04 "Why are you looking at us?"
Мне так нравится реакция мастера копья...
"О БОЖЕ, ЭТО РЕБЕНОК!!"
Даже ребёнок в шоке
Здесь вы неправильно описали эмоции нашего гонца .... Скорее он говорит(Как он может)
"ААААА! КАКОГО ЧЁРТА У МЕНЯ ПОЯВИЛСЯ РЕБЁНОК ВМЕСТО КОПЬЯ! Я НЕ ГОТОВ БЫТЬ ОТЦОМ/МАТЕРЬЮ!!!"
When I was trying to search up Slugcat Preformance I saw “Slugcat pregnancy mod” I want to know who tf is searching these stuff up.
i have no clue what i just watched
10/10
They then abandon the child because slugcats seem to suck at parents
The minecraft reference I can't 😭
I honestly didn't think much about How Slugcats could reproduce. But if I'd had to guess it would be either the 1st option and 2nd option. Most likely the 1st option though.
I guess spearmaster is a master of something else now
The cycle continues
you see this right here. this is good. this is nice. lets keep it that way.
me: (expecting to look at a high quality and epic animation)
also me: Wtf am I looking at
3rd one is so relatable
0:27 Spearmaster: A lizard, my lunch is guaranteed
0:29 Spearmaster: "Trying to create a spear (trying to L)"
0:33 Spearmaster: What? How is this possible?
0:36 Slugpup: aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
Spearmaster: AAAAAAAAAHHHHH
I'm just as confused as spearmaster is on that last one.
They are undergoing mitosis
I have played Rain World. I can confirm, this is very lore accurate.
As Enot, I believe in eg reproduction
no they just appear into existence after the rain stops
slug cat mitosis
Minecraft logic
WOW YOU ARE STARTING TO POST REALLY FAST!
I’m glad that nothing bad is here. Just some demonstrations of how slugcat’s COULD possibly reproduce
Recently when i was playing Gourmand something glitched because when i started the cycle it spawned like 30 slugpups. I had slugpups for everyone
SM became so terrified they screamed out of their tail...
i see you are cultured and know of the more slugcats dating sim lore
tone - enot’s child
The last one wasn't a form of reproduction.
The pup just hid inside Spearmaster, hence why Spearmaster was so surprised
Very educational thank you
I choose to believe they just mitosis