Eldritch Wolf

Eldritch wolves are Elderic mobs frequently encountered by early players and are most likely the first hostile Eldritch mobs that the Player will see upon entering Vade Eldera.

Stats

 * Size: Same as a regular wolf
 * Drops: Eldritch Hide (0-2 [[File:Mc heart.png]] / 1-5 [[File:Eldritch_Heart2.png]]), Wolf Fang (0-2 [[File:Mc heart.png]] / [[File:Eldritch_Heart2.png]])
 * XP: N/a
 * Speed: 4 m/s

Tactics
Eldritch wolves frequently spawn in open areas, so it is fairly easy to see them ahead of time. It is best to kill them with the Fractured Warstaff if the Player has no other good weapons on hand at the time.

Eldritch wolves have similar behavior to regular wolves - hit one and the whole pack comes after the Player. However, rather than being neutral mobs, eldritch wolves are hostile and will attack the Player on sight.

If around an Ignusheep, all the eldritch wolves will come after it and attack it.

Eldritch wolves can be tamed, though it is a long and tedious process. First the Player must obtain a piece of cooked meat from an eldritch mob and find the desired eldritch wolf. When holding the meat, the wolf will momentarily become neutral and allow the Player to feed it. If fed, it will become neutral for about five minutes. After five minutes, the Player must feed it again and then it will become permanently neutral, otherwise it will switch back to being hostile. After this, if fed enough times, it will start to follow the Player and soon become fully tame, able to sit, guard, or attack mobs at general will. The more time spent in combat, the stronger and faster it gets.

Wolf armor can be equipped to fully tame eldritch wolves. This can be extremely useful when fighting larger, stronger mobs that deal a lot of damage, as the natural armor of eldritch wolves is rather poor to start with. However, the eldritch wolf's natural armor improves as it spends more time fighting mobs, a trait not shared with regular wolves. At the peak of strength, an eldritch wolf on its own is capable of taking down some of the weaker Ashfall mobs, while in groups they can be devastatingly effective. To reach such a point, however, requires many hours of combat experience for the wolves, ranging anywhere from ten to twenty hours total.

Habitat
Eldritch wolves spawn in groups of 2-6 in the grasslands of Vade Eldera, usually only during the daytime.