So I found this really cool spider synthesis machine and was wondering what you found thus far for combos and read something about using all the ingredients to make one type of spider like O.O there's an uber spider?
I'm curious about what everyone else has found thus far.
I've only synthesized poison, one saphire on, and flaming ones. because the gems I always carried, i sold like stacks of 39-50 just before hitting this cave >.>

flawless gems yield more spiders. also hoard salt piles to make cloaked versions, and dwarven oil makes a spider that em. secretes. flamable oil, which also makes it worth noting flame cloak spiders are immune to fire.
damaged pod+gem=trap spider. a dead spider that explodes like a rune spell. deals roughly 100 damage from what i've experienced. need more testing with the damages of these spiders though.
normal pod+gem=jumping spider.
normal pod+salt pile+gem=cloaked spider.
that is the basics of them there are also these two additional ones others have discovered:
Soul gem+normal pod=mind control spider. takes control of target for 30 seconds. or a minute. i've heard varying things but havent tested myself.
Dwarven oil+normal pod=oil secreting spider.

i plan on making a character that using only these spiders for weapons. except against dragons i'll also use thralls. these spiders, honestly trump all my want for spell creation, spears, etc etc. especially since you can have a small army of them out at once. (most i've used at one time is 7).

I know right! I fell in love the minute I picked them up. I can't wait to throw the soul gem mind control variety at ulfric stormcloak XD just watch him fus ro da his whole court.

Oil secreting sounds fun. I must try this at once... when I get home XD

I think Beth nailed something with these spiders. I hope they expand on their idea.

Its a brilliant tool to be used as a pet or a weapon and the fact that you can craft them and make different versions of them is just brilliant. A little more work and this could be like the spell creation tool they got rid of.

Uber Spider?! I need to know if this is true!

Me as well. I'm going to be hitting my house later today grabbing everyhting from my houses safe's then going back and putting it all into the synthesizer XD

I've got a thread where I've been composing all the recipees and effects. Though if there's an uber spider I want it. Haven't heard of that one yet.

i had a sudden idea today, what if you can telekinesis the trap spiders? you can fus ro dah them around the place, but can you actually chuck them around? oh the fun that would be, killing dragons with dead spider bombs.

I just tried it. It doesn't work.

Gah. foiled. well i'll test out how far we can 'toss' it with a good fus ro dah. well. once i get dah.

Don't forget to try Cyclone. Heh heh... boy would that be fun.

Just found out that you can stick the dead mine-spiders onto people directly. Just a snippet.

Yes. Yesterday I tired a [censored]. Wasn't really my thing.

and they explode like that? you toss it and it sticks to them? goodbye halo skyrim has uber sticky grenades.

i once got a dragon to land on a nice sized field of dead spiders of varying elements what resulted was series of gooey flaming electric freezing explosions it was glorious killed the dragon as well but it was only a generic dragon i just imagine what went through his head "ha look at this fool throwing dead spiders everywhere! they sure are pretty spiders tho im gonna take closer look OH SNAP!!"

ohhh that is epic. the only thing i am disappointed about with these spiders is that you can't pick them back up.

yeah also i put one in a cooking pot once nice surprise whenever someone gets back to eat there delicious stew gods i think the oven is turning me into a super villain.

What's the best way to get more spider pods? I'm starting to run out.

wait for respawn i think. there is also a couple of them hidden in odd corners of various ruins/forts

Or check the spider nests. I haven't even used them yet. I'm going to just to mess with ulfric once I have an army massing hundreds... imagine Ulfric with a soul gem spideer on him Fus Ro dahing the entirey of Winterhold?

That's 10 days, right?

Just stumbled across the machine last night. Never even heard if it before. That is one of the coolest add-ons so far imo. Add a soul gem

on the mind control spider, wat type of soul gem and does it have to be filled?

Anyone have a reliable re-usable source for the pods? I'm thinking of basing a character who only uses rune spells and these spiders for offense. A treasure hunter of sorts.

Any type of soul gem, filled or empty.