Drake
| Drake | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Small ice dragons that circle the high peaks and spit frost at whatever walks below. | |
| Biome | Mountain |
| Alignment | Aggressive |
| Faction | Mountain |
| Health | 100 |
| Damage |
Spit cold: 90 Frost |
| Weak To | Fire |
| Resistant To | - |
| Immune To | Frost, Spirit |
| Stagger | - |
| Tameable | No |
| Trophy | Drake trophy |
| Spawn ID | spawn Hatchling
|
Above the hundred metre line on the Mountain, the sky gets busy. Drakes are pale little flying dragons that circle over the snowfields and spit frost at anything on the ground, and they usually find you well before the wolves do. They are not durable, but they attack from somewhere you cannot reach, and their damage lands on top of a biome that is already freezing you to death.
Behaviour
A drake stays in the air almost all the time, gliding in wide circles over its patch of peak and scanning the snow below. It spots targets at range and closes to a comfortable band of roughly five to fifteen metres. Then it fires its Spit cold attack: three fast ice projectiles in a loose spread, each able to take 90 frost off you, on a six second cooldown. It has no real melee attack and no interest in landing, so the whole fight happens at range and on its terms. It will chase you a long way, up to a couple of hundred metres from its spawn point, before it loses interest and drifts home. Drakes do not flee, sleep or call for help, but they rarely come alone: a nest holds up to three, and once one opens fire the neighbours are usually already banking towards you. They will also happily walk you backwards off a cliff edge, which kills more players than the frost does.
Where to Find It
Drakes live on the Mountain, and only above roughly a hundred metres of altitude, which in practice means the snowy summits rather than the lower slopes. They are common up there at any hour and starred variants can spawn, so a two star drake putting out far more than ninety per projectile is a real hazard on a tall peak. Up to three guard each Drake Nest, the stone eyries holding the Dragon Eggs you need to summon Moder, so you cannot avoid fighting them. They also come to you: the raid announced as a cold wind blowing from the mountains sends drakes and Fenrings to your base, and that event can only trigger while Moder is still alive.
Drakes also spawn once at up to 3 fixed points in each Drake Nest, 100 m up the mountainside.
| Stars | Spawn Location | Max at Once | Spawn Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | Flies over the high peaks of the Mountains, from 100 m up. | 2 | Common |
| - | Comes with the "A cold wind blows from the mountains" raid, which stops once Moder is defeated. | 3 | Very common |
Strengths and Weaknesses
Fire is the answer by a wide margin. A drake takes half again as much damage from fire, so two or three Fire Arrows from a Huntsman Bow will drop one out of the sky, while frost of any kind simply bounces off it. Melee is mostly pointless because it never lands, so treat every drake as an archery problem and carry enough arrows for a whole peak, not just one bird. Its spit is a projectile, not a beam: a shield blocks it cleanly, open ground lets you strafe out of the spread, and rocks or a quickly dug snow bank will soak volleys while you line up a shot. Drink Frost Resistance Mead before you climb, both for the biome's cold and because it blunts the spit considerably. Iron armour and a decent bow make the peaks manageable. Silver makes them safe, mostly because it survives the wolves that arrive while you are busy looking up.
Drops
Every drake drops a Freeze Gland, the crafting ingredient for Frost Arrows, Frostner, the Staff of Frost and Eyescream.
| Name | Image | Base | 1 Star | 2 Star |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drake trophy | 
|
10% | - | - |
| Freeze gland | 
|
1 | - | - |
Notes
- A Drake chases you up to 200 m from where it spawned, and beyond that it gives up the chase more easily.
- Drakes are usually found near a Dragon Egg, guarding it.
- Drakes drop valuable loot: their glowing blue Freeze Glands go into frost weapons and foods, and their trophy goes into the Drake Helmet of the Wolf Armor set.
- They look like an amphiptere, a winged dragon with no legs, while Moder looks like a huge wyvern.
- Drakes are weak to fire, yet Obsidian Arrows still beat Fire Arrows against them because their damage is so much higher: 52 against 44.
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All Mountain Creatures
| Name | Image | Biome | Alignment | Health | Very Weak To | Weak To | Resistant To | Very Resistant To | Immune To | Drops | Level Variants | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bat | 
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Mountain | Aggressive | 10 | - | Fire, Spirit | Blunt, Slash, Pierce | - | Frost, Poison | Leather scraps | ⭐ ⭐⭐ |
spawn Bat
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| Cultist | 
|
Mountain | Aggressive | 200 | - | Poison | - | - | Fire | Red jute, Cultist trophy | ⭐ ⭐⭐ |
spawn Fenring_Cultist
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| Drake | 
|
Mountain | Aggressive | 100 | - | Fire | - | - | Frost, Spirit | Drake trophy, Freeze gland | - | spawn Hatchling
|
| Fenring | 
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Mountain | Aggressive | 300 | - | Fire | Poison | - | - | Wolf fang, Fenring trophy | - | spawn Fenring
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| Frost Blob | 
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Mountain | Aggressive | 50 | - | Blunt, Fire, Lightning | Slash, Pierce | Frost | Poison, Chop, Pickaxe | Crystal | - | spawn BlobFrost
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| Geirrhafa | 
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Mountain | Aggressive | 3700 | - | Fire | - | - | Frost | Hildir's silver chest, Geirrhafa trophy | - | spawn Fenring_Cultist_Hildir
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| Stone Golem | 
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Mountain | Aggressive | 800 | Pickaxe | - | Slash, Pierce | - | Fire, Frost, Poison, Spirit | Crystal, Stone, Stone Golem trophy | - | spawn StoneGolem
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| Ulv | 
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Mountain | Aggressive | 50 | - | Poison | - | Fire | - | Ulv trophy, Wolf fang | ⭐ ⭐⭐ |
spawn Ulv
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