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A Flup is a hostile Mob found in the Shipwrecked DLC. It lives in the Tidal Marsh Biome. Flup can be seen as the Shipwrecked counterpart of the Tentacles. A Flup will hide in the mud and wait for a creature or the player to come along before jumping out and striking. If one looks closely, they can see the eye of a Flup sticking out from the ground, or bubbles indicating their presence. Flups will attack by lashing their tongue out.

Flups can easily catch unsuspecting new players off guard and likely kill them if they are not prepared for a random attack.

Spear Fighting Strategy[]

Below is the number of hits it takes with each weapon to kill a Flup when playing with characters with a default damage modifier. The Weather Pain is not included due to the random nature of its projectile.

Number of Hits
Item Flup Flup Don't Starve Together icon
Old Bell Reign of Giants icon 1 - 0 0
Obsidian Coconade Shipwrecked icon 1 - 0 0
Coconade Shipwrecked icon Hamlet icon 1 - 0 0
Spear Gun Obsidian Shipwrecked icon 1 - 1 Charged - 0 - 0 Charged 0 - 0 Charged
Gunpowder
Harpoon Shipwrecked icon
Blunderbuss Hamlet icon
1 0 0 0
Bee Mine ≥1 ≥0 ≥0 ≥0
Spear Gun Battle Shipwrecked icon 1 as Wigfrid Portrait - 0 as Wigfrid Portrait 0 as Wigfrid Portrait
Alarming Clock Don't Starve Together icon (Wanda Portrait) 1 (elderly)
2 (middle-aged)
2 (young)
4 (unfueled)
0 (elderly)
0 (middle-aged)
0 (young)
0 (unfueled)}}
0 0
Spear Gun Spear Spear Gun Poison Shipwrecked icon 1 - 0 0
Obsidian Spear Shipwrecked icon 1 - 2 - 0 - 0 0 - 0
Blow Dart 1 0 0 0
Electric Dart Don't Starve Together icon 2 (1 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage)
Brightshade Sword Don't Starve Together icon 2 0 0 0
Dark Sword
2 0 0 0
Cutlass Supreme Shipwrecked iconHamlet icon 2 - 0 0
Tooth Trap 2 0 0 0
Pew-matic Horn Hamlet icon 3, 3 or 2 - 0, 0 or 0 0, 0 or 0
Elding Spear Don't Starve Together icon 2 (2 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage)
Thulecite Club 2 0 0 0
Ham Bat 2 - 4 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0
Obsidian Axe Shipwrecked icon 2 - 4 - Charged - 0 - 0 - Charged 0 - 0 - Charged
Tentacle Spike
Cork Bat Hamlet icon
2 0 0 0
Slurtle Slime 2 0 0 0
Halberd Hamlet icon 3 - 0 0
Morning Star Reign of Giants iconDon't Starve Together icon 3 (2 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage)
Bat Bat
Battle Spear Reign of Giants iconDon't Starve Together icon
3 0 0 0
Bramble Trap Hamlet icon 3 0 0 0
Spear
Poison Spear Peg LegShipwrecked icon
3 0 0 0
Trident Shipwrecked icon 3 (1 on Toy Boat) - 0 (0 Toy Boat) 0 (0 Toy Boat)
PickSlashAxe 4 0 0 0
Machete Shipwrecked icon Hamlet icon 4 - 0 0
Strident Trident Don't Starve Together icon 3 (1 on Boat) 0 (0 on Boat) 0 (1 on Boat) 0 (1 on Boat)
Boomerang Axe Pickaxe Brush
Gold Pan Hamlet icon
4 0 0 0
Stalking Stick Hamlet icon 5 - 0 0
Eyeshot Shipwrecked icon 5 - 0 0
Saddlehorn Hammer Pitchfork Shovel Walking Cane Willow's Lighter Torch
Telebrella Don't Starve icon
Shears Executive HammerHamlet icon
Cactus Spike Shipwrecked icon
6 0 0 0
Lucy the Axe 8 0 0 0
Bug Net Fishing Rod
Magnifying Glass Hamlet icon
24 0 0 0

It takes 1 blast to freeze a Flup with an Ice Staff and 1 Sleep Dart to put to sleep.

Placeholder Trivia[]

  • Flups may be based on real-life mudskippers, amphibious fish that live in tropical regions and can also live on land. Their appearance also resembles anglerfish, fish that have a protrusion on their head. Their third eye appears to be quite similar to a Periscope, which is commonly used on submarines to search for threats while submerged.
  • The concept of the Flup is actually older than Maxwell's current design, as seen in a concept art drawing.
  • The old Flup model was found in the Don't Starve Newhome files.
  • Flups have invisible spawners in Tidal Marshes they're supposed to spawn from every 2 to 4 days, but these spawners didn't work before the Don't Starve Mega Update. They used to check if the spawner is on Tidal Marsh Turf, then check if the spawner is in the ocean, so the check always fails since it isn't possible.

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