Skinny Cannibal

Starving Cannibals
Male and Female Starving Cannibals (left side)
Description
Also known as	Regular Skinny Cannibals
Added in	v0.01
Location(s)	Surface only
Weapon(s) used	Sticks - Males Only
Attacks	Single, Double, Triple Strike Leap Attack
Attitude	Very Aggressive Toys with player
Weaknesses	Fast weapons
Spawns on Day	Day 1
Damage	Normal - 13 Hard/HS - 26
Health	Normal - Male: 43 / Female: 38 Hard/HS - Male: 64 / Female: 57
Difficulty Mode Statistics
Damage Diff	100% more on hard modes
Building Damage	100% more on hard modes
Health Diff	50% more on hard modes
Spawn Chance	50% LESS on hard modes
Attack Chance	150% more likely to on hard modes
Follow Up Attack Chance	150% more likely on hard modes
Fire Damage Resistance	50% LESS damage on hard modes
Heavy Attack Knock Down Chance	75% LESS likely to be knocked down

Starving Cannibals, also known as regular skinny cannibals, are the basic type of skinny cannibal that was added in update v0.01 to The Forest.

Gameplay

Starving cannibals are part of the second main faction of cannibals, the Skinny Cannibals, with the other being the regular cannibals. They are more aggressive and more hostile than regular cannibals, and will immediately attack the player unprovoked as they are hostile from the beginning of the game. Starving cannibals are distinguishable from regular cannibals as they are much skinnier, smaller, are covered in blood and dirt (first variant), do not wear clothes of any sort, and will move on both arms and legs. They are faster than regular cannibals, but are weaker in both health and attack damage. They carry sticks, rather than actual weapons. Often times they will have no weapons at all.

Whereas regular cannibals are a little quieter and growl at the player when attacking and scream when attacked, starving cannibals can be identified before they are spotted by their maniacal uncontrollable laughter.

Starving cannibals are separate from the regular cannibals, perhaps due to being runts or from being exiled from a cannibal tribe. Unlike other cannibals, starving cannibals will be drawn to dead/incapacitated cannibals and animal corpses (even in the midst of battle) and will begin to eat them, displaying their hunger. They can be seen cooperating with other cannibals, but are often hostile towards them as well as the player. Starving cannibals can easily turn on their stronger counterparts if provoked, and the player can exploit this by making a starving cannibal hit another cannibal by accident or vice versa. Eating a live cannibal will result in one of two outcomes: Either the victim scurries away and gets "revived", or the victim continues to get eaten. If a victim has survived a cannibalization attempt, they will be revived and have a different model, which shows their rib cage split open.

Starving cannibals patrol during the day and night, either on their own or in a group of up to 5. These patrols are very disorganized compared to regular cannibals: moving in patrols seems to be much more of a group-scramble with no visible leader than a planned route of patrol, and will not use any source of light.

Gallery

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  Male Starving Cannibal

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  Female Starving Cannibal

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  Male Starving Cannibal in the survival guide

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  Female Starving Cannibal in the survival guide

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  Feasting

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  Starving cannibal fight

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  Starving Male

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  Female 'Starving cannibal' covered in blood

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  Two starving cannibals fighting

Update history

Version	Changes
v0.57b	(multiplayer)Fixed skinny females appearing without color detail for clients in some cases
v0.56	(Multiplayer) Fixed skinny cannibal swing stick animation not playing for clients
v0.54	(Balance) Skinny cannibals now have a chance of carrying sticks as weapons
v0.53	(Balance) Slightly reduced amount of skinny mutants overall in normal and hard mode
v0.34	Skinny mutants will sometimes attempt to avoid player attacks by rolling out of the way
v0.29b	Fixed amount of skinny enemies in some games.
v0.29	(Balance) Reduced health of skinny and pale skinny mutants
v0.24	Fixed skinny mutants appearing to damage defensive walls
v0.23	(multiplayer) Fixed an issue where the body of skinny mutants would warp to regular mutants upon death Improved shading of regular and skinny mutants (better sss, less orange skin diffuse, better spec) Increased chance of skinny mutants eating bodies
v0.22	More chance of seeing skinny mutants climb trees
V0.16	(audio) New female skinny audio!
v0.13	(audio)First pass at Skinny enemy audio added
V0.11	Killing deer will now attract skinny mutants who may attempt to feed on the carcass Skinny enemies – increased speed, added in some missing animations. Increased health slightly. Will now travel in groups of up to 3 making them more of a threat. Fixed skinny cannibals sometimes having leader props on dead body
v0.09	Rest of skinny animation variations added
V0.08c	New skinny enemy animations added
v0.08b	Skinny enemy unique animations added!
V0.07	Male version of skinny mutant added
v0.06b	Fixed bug where skinny enemies would switch to default shading when injured Skinny woman made blood less shiny
v0.06	A.I. – New tribe type added – starving cannibal! Will eat fallen comrades