Charybdis

Charybdis
Stats Health 1,000 Armor N/A Weakpoints None Armored Points None Speed Walking N/A Swimming 4 slow - 7 fast Behavior Aggressive? Always Can Enter Submarine? No Sight 1 Hearing 1 Drops only 1 of the items marked with an asterisk * may drop at a time Item(s) Chance None N/A

Versioning - Potentially Outdated Last updated for version: 0.10.5.1 Current game version: 0.10.6.2

The Charybdis is a Europan creature that can only spawn in high difficulty missions.

Description

The Charybdis resembles a massive eyeless octopus, with many, bizzarrely shaped fins and tentacles and a forward-facing jaw with sharp red teeth. It also has longer tentacles to serve as rudimentary tails. The Charybdis features grey and pale-red coloration, with darker vertical strips running along the back. There are a group of large veins heading down from the head to the base of the neck. The body and tentacles possess a very rough, leathery texture, sparcely dotted by shiny scales, especially on the face and on the larger tentacles.

According to the Legacy version of Barotrauma, the Charybdis can naturally be found in the Abyss.

In-game

The Charybdis is unusually quick for its size, and is extremely bulky to boot (with higher health than the Moloch, albeit lacking armor). Since its health and damage are so high it's highly advised to not engage a Charybdis, and to try to evade it if possible. Fighting a Charybdis on open sea is a death sentence for many daring crews as their bite can kill humans in a single hit by Bleeding, but they are notorious for being extremely efficient at tearing the Submarine's hull. The Charybdis can also use some of its tentacles to slap divers trying to dodge its dangerous maw.

Despite the creature's apparent blindness, mechanically it does possess the ability of sight, albeit slightly weaker than some creatures. If you suspect a Charybdis lies ahead, it may be wise to turn all sonars to passive in an attempt to sneak by, or to lure it away with a Decoy.

There's no reason (besides survival) to fight a Charybdis, as they will never appear as mission objectives, and unlike the smaller critters, the Charybdis drops no loot.

Damage Values

When targeting characters:

Item	Target Type	Afflictions	Structure Damage	Kinematic Force	Attack Duration	Cooldown
Jaw	Character	Bleeding 100 Bite Wounds 30 Stun 0.2 sec	50	20	0.25 sec	1 second
Tail 1	Character	Bite Wounds 10 Stun 0.5 sec	10	20	0.1 sec	5 seconds
Tail 2	Character	Bite Wounds 15 Stun 1 sec	10	20	0.15 sec	5 seconds

Item	Jaw	Tail 1	Tail 2
Target Type	Character	Character	Character	Bite Wounds 10 Stun 0.5 sec	Bite Wounds 15 Stun 1 sec
Structure Damage	50	10	10
Kinematic Force	20	20	20
Attack Duration	0.25 sec	0.1 sec	0.15 sec
Cooldown	1 second	5 seconds	5 seconds

When targeting a submarine hull:

Item	Target Type	Structure Damage	Kinematic Force	Attack Duration	Cooldown
Head	Structure	50	30	0.1 sec	15 seconds
Torso	Structure	10	20	0.2 sec	10 seconds
Tail 1 (5 units)	Structure	10	20	0.1 sec	5 seconds (per unit)
Tail 2 (4 units)	Structure	20	10	0.1 sec	5 seconds (per unit)

Item	Head	Torso	Tail 1 (5 units)	Tail 2 (4 units)
Target Type	Structure	Structure	Structure	Structure
Structure Damage	50	10	10	20
Kinematic Force	30	20	20	10
Attack Duration	0.1 sec	0.2 sec	0.1 sec	0.1 sec
Cooldown	15 seconds	10 seconds	5 seconds (per unit)	5 seconds (per unit)

Trivia

• The creature possessing a sense of sight despite having no eyes is most likely justified as it being able to sense vibrations in the waves.
• In Greek mythology, Charybdis is the name of a sea monster able to summon deadly whirlpools by swallowing large amounts of water.
• The design of the Charybdis underwent a radical change during the transition into the Steam release. It previously resembled an upside-down Whale.
• The legacy variant of the Charybdis can be spawned by the use of Commands or through the Character Editor, see Charybdis (Legacy)

Gallery

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  A mockup of the Charybdis redesign, from Regalis Twitter

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  A Charybdis attacking a Submarine

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  A Charybdis attacking a human

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  A rough size comparison of the Charybdis (Steam Release) to a human.

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  A rough size comparison of the Charybdis (Legacy) to a human.

Audio

• Attack 1

• Attack 2

• Attack 3

• Damage 1