Taking care of a little robot spider that excels at killing demons is everyone's dream, but in "Diablo 4" Season 3, it will finally become a reality.

Beginning January 23, "Season of the Construct" will give every Diablo 4 player a spider companion named "Seneschal" that can be equipped with powerful skills. Like the Vampiric Power of Season 2, you will be able to adapt the Seneschal to your build as you progress through the Season Quest. By combining unique magical stone items, you can fine-tune how your spells work, such as increasing the amount of lightning you release or putting up a barrier.

These new seasonal items are divided into 12 "ruling" stones of varying rarity and 27 "tuning" stones, which drop from enemies in "Arcane Tremors" throughout the open world and in seasonal dungeons called Vaults. Seneschals are equipped with two governing stones, which are their basic abilities, and each of these abilities can be enhanced by attaching tuning stones.

Don't worry: Seneschals never die and scale up according to the character's power, said Daniel Tanguay, senior manager of game design, in a group interview with PC Gamer last week. Tanguay said, "We didn't want to get into a situation where the Seneschal would upgrade to the point where it was useless."

Season 3 begins with the discovery of underground vaults in the dunes of Kehistan. We will discover an artifact, a loom, created by returning character Zoltun Krull, which has been corrupted by the demon Malphas. Since this is a Diablo game, a lot of equipment is needed to fight Malphas, the new boss of this season. The Vault will be the main source of loot this season, but you'll need to carefully slip past the spike traps and spinning columns of fire to get the rewards that lie behind it. If you're playing with a controller, you won't have to sweat dodging these hazards, but fortunately, Season 3 also adds WASD controls, so stick to your keyboard and mouse if you want to stick to them.

Each time you get caught in a trap, you lose one of Zolton's wards. By using the warding pearl at the start of the treasure chest, you can determine the success rate of the treasure chest based on how many stacks of Zoltun's warding you have. Some classes have skills like Barbarian Leap that allow them to get through traps unscathed, but according to Blizzard, Seneschals also have a shield skill that can help disadvantaged builds and classes survive.

Season 3 adds several other features:

Later in the season, The Gauntlet, a fixed-level 100 weekly dungeon, will be introduced. Enemies will drop "proof of power" instead of loot, and players will compete with other Diablo 4 players in a ranking based on how many "proofs of power" they can collect in the shortest amount of time through the dungeon. The world's top players will be immortalized in the Hall of the Ancients, a permanent leaderboard that closes every weekend. If it's anything like Season 2's "Abattoir of Zir," it will be fun to watch players come up with and conquer some of the strangest builds.

"When asked, 'Okay, let's make this the season template. '" replied Tarangay.

Given the great reception to Season 2 and all the changes that have been made to make "Diablo 4" a faster, more fertile action RPG, it is encouraging that Season 3 appears to be continuing in the same direction. With major changes planned for Season 4 that will save players the trouble of stopping every 10 minutes to scrutinize the status of items, and the first expansion coming out later this year, the future of "Diablo 4" looks bright for a game based on a demon army.

Diablo 4 Season 3, "Season of Constructs," begins January 23.