Lord of Ashes - Snails Will Prevail

The Snail is the ultimate summoner, so ultimate it knows every summon there is! But its little snail brain couldn't keep track of them all so its summons are totally random. Jog the snails memory by catching enemies to reduce the random summon pool down to only summons you have caught.

The snail has very high catch chance and can catch enemies once they go on black fire.

The snail is a slow starter but can build up decent speed with time.

The Snails summons are scaled much closer to 1 to 1, so they will die faster but deal a lot more damage.

Install: Same instructions as LoA:Ashmaker, except use these files and include the trans_snail.dll. That is it. Might take 30s to launch the first time but after that should be very fast.

Link to Ashmaker: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/8864

Link to Ashmaker install video:  https://youtu.be/swp3R5YaV0M

How it works: Start as wretch and you will get a new Spirit Caller Snail summon when you start. Simply summon it and you take control of the snail. Once in control of the snail various buttons will perform various actions for the snail.

Actions of Note: ONLY WORKS ON CONTROLLER. KEYBOARD SUPPORT WILL NOT BE ADDED.

R2: Poison shot - Great for dropping enemy HP

L2: Fire Ball - Used to catch enemies instead of pots

L1: Hide in shell to boost defense

Tringle: Ongoing summon Dance, first it will summon, afterwards it will apply the buff on intervals

Up: Short summon dance (same as above but just does one cycle of summon dance. will apply buff if summons are already out

O: Do a Really shit dodge that wont really help at all

Start (and f5): Exit and reenter snail (this will help anytime the snail gets stuck)

Tips and Notes

Play as a total randomiser by never catching anything, or shrink your summoning pool by catching enemies to gain more control over what the snail will randomly summon.

Summons will level up and gain more numbers as you level up the snail.

You can only resummon once all current summons are dead.

LoA Settings don't affect scaling in this mod, you will be strong.

I you get stuck or cant progress past something press start to regain player movement, progress, then press start again to return to snail.

Will not work with Seamless or in Multiplayer.

This was a joint project by Yui and Dawn. Thanks so much Yui for being a part of it.

The project is intended purely as a proof of concept and testing ground for a few mechanics and primarily as an opportunity for Yui to help Dawn learn more advanced modding concepts.

Please don't take the mod too seriously it is intended as a bit of fun and likely wont be updated further or balanced. The mod has been played through and is working sufficiently. Concepts from this however may be added to a future Ashmaker updat