Witchbrew

Template:GootraxTab Template:Gootraxian Witchbrew is a bat Gootraxian with a dark purple body and a magenta gradient fading onto its legs. They have prominent chest fur alongside cheek fluff and fluff-tipped ears. The insides of their ears and wings are a vivid neon green. Their eyes are of a similar hue, with a yellow iris and thin, purple pupils. There are multicolored triangles, squares, and crosses below their eyes and on their legs. Small, green fangs protrude from their mouth with large, green claws at their hands. They have bright purple paw pads and a small, fluffy tail.

Abilities

Decreased Health (Passive)

It has a decreased max health of 95 HP.

Smaller Size (Passive)

While this mostly appears to only be a visual difference, Witchbrew are slightly smaller in size compared to other Gootraxians, its body (excluding its head) being 0.85x smaller.

Double Jump (Passive)

While midair, Witchbrew is able to press the jump button to perform a midair jump, creating multicolored particles below their feet for the duration of the jump. It has a cooldown of 5 seconds.

• Witchbrew using their double jump ability.
  Witchbrew using their double jump ability.

Acquirement

Witchbrew can be obtained by either drinking or exploding a Witches' Brew Can that rarely drops from the Vending Machines or by being infected by another Witchbrew Gootraxian. A Witchbrew has a 1 in 30 chance of dropping when a vending machine is destroyed. This chance is increased in larger servers.

After drinking a Witches' Brew Can, the dialogue "Tastes.. weird.." appears.

Bestiary Entry

A Gootraxian with bat-like attributes, Witchbrews have been observed to be wreaking havoc across the LAMINAX facilities. Their playful and mischievous behavior prompts them to socialize with other gootraxians, despite their widely shunned presence. The Witchbrew was created entirely on accident! A developing gootraxian had contaminated an ordinary can of Witchbrew soda, mutating the sugary drink with unusual and undocumented properties; one of which being transforming the victim into the Witchbrew gootraxian. For future reference, do not drink any peculiar looking soda from vending machines.

Trivia

• The Witchbrew is the long-awaited replacement of Trystan.
• It, Toxic Rabbit, Ghost Fox, Hazzy, and Trystan (before it was removed) are the only Gootraxians so far to have more than 2 ways of being acquired, with having 3.
• It is the only other Gootraxian to 'fly' besides the Slime Dragon.
• Contrary to popular belief, Witchbrew does not have increased movement speed.
• They are also one of four Gootraxians to have a different size value, the others being Slime Pup (being 0.8), Slime Dragon (being 0.85) and Kaiju (being 1.1).
• It will receive further tweaks and abilities in a future update.
• Witchbrew is the only Gootraxian to ever have the Decreased Health passive without having any positive benefits to balance it out.
• After drinking a Witches' Brew the full effect takes anywhere inbetween 15 and 30 seconds.
  • On average, it takes 22 seconds.
• It, along with Sprinklekit, Saturn and Nightcrawler, are the only gootraxians that didn't get a redesign when V3.1R was released
• Before Witchbrew was added, the dialogue after drinking a Witches' Brew Can was "Strange taste!" instead.
• According to the developers in Discord, Witchbrew will get a redesign in the future.
• According to developer Ronin, Witchbrew Soda was originally planned to be a "high risk, high reward" type of item, capable of giving its user buffs with the downside of having a chance of infecting them.<ref>https://discord.com/channels/786788486887768135/992093726023360602/1234675172381036635

Developer Ronin stating the planned mechanic for Witchbrew Cola.</ref>

• • It is unknown as to why this was scrapped, although it is likely due to time constraints for the 2022 Halloween Update during Witchbrew's development.

Bugs

• At launch, its wings had collision with other players and the map around it, other winged Gootraxians did not have the same effect despite having wings as well.