Golden Hammerhead

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Golden Hammerhead
Stats
Health 400	Sight: 4
	Hearing: 2
Armor Claws, Head, Tail, Fins, & Arms (see values in Defense section)	Weakpoints None
Immunities Stun	Vulnerabilities N/A
Behavior
Walk speed 1	Swim speed 8 slow - 15 fast
Aggressive? Always	Can Enter Submarine? No
Drops only 1 of the items marked with an asterisk * may drop at a time
Items	Chance
Swim Bladder (x1)	100% (1/1)
Alien Blood (x1)	100% (1/1)

The Golden Hammerhead is a creature from Barotrauma which may occasionally spawn as a replacement for the Hammerhead.

Description

Golden Hammerheads are tougher variants of the Hammerhead. They possess a hardened blunt head strong enough to punch holes in hulls, and also feature the Hammerhead trademark; four scythe-like limbs, each of which can inflict very heavy Bleeding on any living creature, with 360º of reach. As its name implies, the Golden Hammerhead has gold-colored, somewhat shiny skin, and two motionless fins to act as stabilizers.

In-game

The Golden Hammerhead will attack the Submarine in hit-and-run attacks, punching holes in the hull with its head and retreating to strike again. Lone Divers will be chased and mauled to death.

Golden Hammerheads may spawn as a replacement for a Hammerhead, the chance of which depends on the game difficulty. Golden Hammerheads present a similar threat level to the common Hammerhead. In higher difficulties, Golden Hammerheads will spawn in couples, supported by three Hammerheads. This poses a significant threat to the submarine's hull integrity.

Combat strategies

Pulse Laser

Attacks

Attack	Target type	Afflictions on hit	Afflictions Inside	Area of Effect	Structure Damage	Item Damage	Duration	Cooldown	Kinetic Force
Nose Attack 1	Character	Bite Wounds (100)*  Stun (3)*			0		0.25s	10	10
Nose Attack 2	Structure		Stun 3s	4m	200 (Direct hit) 100 (AoE)	75	0.25s	10	10
Claws	Character	Bite Wounds (50)*  Bleeding (50)*  Stun (0.1)*			0	15	0.2s	3	60

Defense

 

Limb	Burn	Bleeding	Damage (all)
Head	x 0.25	x 0.1	x 0.1
Tail, Fins, & Arms	x 1	x 0.75	x 0.75
Claws	x 0.5	x 0	x 0.5

Variants

• Golden Hammerhead "bosses" have more vitality and cause more damage to hulls. They are one of two possible targets of "Killing a Hammerhead" Missions obtained in Outposts.
• Hammerhead
• Hammerhead Matriarch
• Hammerhead Spawn

Trivia

• The Golden Hammerhead's internal ID used to be "Hammerheadgoldboss"; in version 0.9.10.0, it was changed to "Hammerheadgold_m".
• The Golden Hammerhead is the third fastest creature in the game, surpassed only by the Charybdis and the Endworm.

Media

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  A Golden Hammerhead attacking a submarine.

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  A Golden Hammerhead attacking a crew member.

• Idle

• Attack

• Damage

• Death