Mimicant

Mimicant
A Mimicant in its passive state.
HP	64
Damage	33
Speed	12.5
Tier	2
Biomes	The Stygian Study (burden) Pishon Dry Lake (burden)

The Mimicant is the stronger variant of the Mimic that can be encountered only in NG+. Disguised as a treasure chest, it remains motionless but attacks as soon as the player disturbs it.

Behaviour

Mimicants are identical to treasure chests in appearance apart from two things: they always face right, and they do not sparkle. Normal chests always have a sparkling light effect, and always spawn in predictable positions; usually in the corners of rooms, or exactly in the center of ledges. Players can use the map as well to see where real treasure chests are, as Mimicants do not appear on the map.

Initially, Mimicants lie motionless, looking like wooden treasure chests. Once disturbed, either by being attacked or if the player bumps into them, they'll start moving by hopping or dashing towards the player, and will only stop if the player wanders too far. Unlike the weaker Mimics, Mimicants also have a chance to wake up on their own if the player gets too close. They can fall off edges while hopping or dashing and will get hurt by spikes/water if they fall into them.
Be careful as their hopping motion allows them to climb smaller obstacles.
As they attack by bumping into the player, they always deal contact damage even when idle.

Attacks

Hopping

Once woken up, the Mimicant will start hopping towards the player, trying to bump into them.
Attacking the Mimic in this state will hit-stun them for a short amount of time. Fast attacking Weapons and Spells, like the Celestial Sceptre and Flame Barrier excel at this.

Dashing

After hopping towards the player for some time, the Mimicant will stop for a short moment before launching itself rapidly along the floor for a set amount of time.
While it's dashing, it will first move towards the player but will change direction every time it hits an obstacle.
Similar to the hopping attack, it's possible to stop them in their track by hit-stunning them repeatedly..

Death Explosion

When a Mimicant dies, after a short delay, it will explode launching 5 green, poisonous coins about itself that land on terrain and disappear after a short time.
The coins count as Mid-sized Projectiles and thus can be destroyed by many Spells and Talents like Ranger's  Ivy Canopy, the Frying Pan or the  Shield Block talent .

Location

Mimicants can only appear through the use of burdens:

• enabling the Burden of the Studys Scholars will evolve every Mimics into Mimicants.
• enabling the Burden of Pishon’s Uprising will make Mimicants start appearing in Pishon Dry Lake.
• each level of Burden of Evolution enabled adds a 10% for a Mimic to instead spawn as a Mimicant.
• using both the Burden of Evolution and one of the biome burdens make it possible for the highest Mimic variant, the Mimicrunch to appear.

Variants

Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Mimic	Mimicant	Mimicrunch

Screenshots

Mimicants (facing right) and regular chests

Trivia

Name in other languages (official translation)
Chinese	大箱怪
French	Mimicant
German	Mimikant
Italian	Mimicant
Korean	미미캔트
Portuguese	Mimicante
Russian	Мимикон
Spanish	Mímicant
Turkish	Memik
Name in the game files	{{{code}}}

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