Skinny Mutant

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Skinny Mutants
Male and Female Skinny Mutants
Description
Also known as	Starving Mutants
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

Skinny Mutants, also known as Skinny Cannibals are a type of mutant that was added in update v0.01 to The Forest.

Gameplay

Skinny mutants are the second main faction of mutants, the other being the Regular Mutants. They are more aggressive and more hostile than Regular Mutants, and will immediately attack the player unprovoked as they are hostile from the beginning of the game. Skinny Mutants are distinguishable from Regular Mutants as they are much skinnier, smaller, are covered in blood and dirt, do not wear clothes of any sort, and will move on both arms and legs. They are faster than Regular Mutants, but are weaker in both health and attack damage. The patch notes for v0.54 indicate they can only carry sticks, rather than actual weapons.

Skinny Mutants are separate from the regular mutants, perhaps due to being runts or from being exiled from a mutant tribe. Unlike other mutants, skinny mutants will be drawn to dead/ incapacitated mutants 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 mutants, but are often hostile towards them as well as the player. Skinny mutants can easily turn on their stronger counterparts if provoked, and the player can exploit this by making a skinny mutant hit another mutant by accident or vice versa. Eating a live mutant 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.

Skinny mutants 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 mutants: 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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  Skinny Male Mutant

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  Skinny Female Mutant

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  Skinny Male Cannibal in the survival guide

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  Skinny Female mutant in the survival guide

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  Feasting

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  Skinny mutant Fight

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  Skinny Male

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  Female 'Starving mutant' covered in blood

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  Two skinny mutants fighting

Update History

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