Critters

This is the guide to pets and other critters.

What you need to know about critters

Critters are controlled by the game's artificial intelligence, not to be confused with the AI. Some are friend, and some are foe - some are help, some are hindrance.

Critters are divided into six categories:

Pets

	Name	Description
	Ian	Ian spawns in the Premier's office. Usually chases his tail around.
	Runtime	Runtime is the pet cat of Medbay. She spawns in the Chief Biolab Overseer's Office. A big fan of chasing mice.

Robots

	Name	Description
	Floorbot	A blue maintenance bot that will replace damaged flooring. Must be reloaded with floor tiles.
	Cleanbot	A blue cleaning bot that Will indiscriminately clean anything considered filth on a tile.
	Medibot	A medical bot that talks too often and injects sub-par medicine into patients.
	Securitron	A security bot that roams around and dispenses justice. Usually gets the right guy.

Fauna

A mixture of domesticated and wild animals. Friendly, at least until provoked.

	Name	Description
	Cow	A domestic taurus known for being tipped over. Can be milked for milk with a bucket.
	Chick	A young chicken. Adorable, but makes quite the racket.
	Chicken	A fully grown chicken. Lays eggs occasionally, resulting in a chicksplosion.
	Crab	It's a crab! Prepare to rave.
	Fennec	A cave-dwelling fox that enjoys sand and heat.
	Fennix	A loosely-related cousin of the fennec. They're more colourful.
	Goat	A domestic animal with a bad temper. Can be milked for milk with a bucket.
	Goose	A bird that flocks around the water. Known for a very bad temper.
	Lizard	A cute silly lizard. Typically found where it's damp and dark.
	Mouse	A pest commonly found around maintenance. Squeaks when stepped on.
	Monkey	A cheeky banana-loving creature. Sometimes used as a test subject.
	Penguin	An aquatic flightless bird. Isn't this colony a bit too warm for them?
	Red Panda	A tropical mammal that enjoys dense, hilly regions.
	Tindalos	A flightless, much larger cousin of the common grasshopper.
	Yithian	A tunnelling creature resembling an oversized snail without a shell.

Beasts

The natives of the planet who aren't so happy to see you.

	Name	Description
	Bat Swarm	A horde of bloodsucking bats looking for their next meal.
	Bear	A variety of dangerous bears wander the wilderness, typically black or brown.
	Diyaab	A small pack animal. Although omnivorous, it will hunt meat on occasion.
	Frog	A large carnivorous frog. The fat thing will gladly devour anything.
	Hippo	A large water-dwelling creature known for being viciously territorial.
	Jelly Blob	A parasitic creature that gorges intensely on whatever falls into the dark recesses.
	Primal Lizard	A hungry, green lizard that roams around and often competes with larger creatures for prey.
	Primal Render	A terror on two legs that even hunters dread. You'd best run, fast.
	Panther	A formidable feline of great size and strength. One of the greatest predators.
	Mimic	This cowardly creature lurks in the guise of common objects. Who knows what it really looks like.
	Samak	A tough, armoured predator accustomed to hiding and ambushing in desolate terrain.
	Shantak	A piglike creature with a bright iridiscent mane. Elegant, but predatory.
	Space Carp	A carp swimming through the vastness of space, eating whatever it can, including people.
	Nightmare Stalker	A monstrosity that can not be seen until it is too late for many, it can rend and tear any unprepared colonist or even a slightly well prepared prospector. Just before it strikes, it mimics the voices of people, the cause behind it is unknown, but perhaps to draw in more... That or it's a sadistic fucking animal.

Drones

Some robots aren't so helpful to the average colonist. These haywire creations will test your mettle with their metal.

	Name	Description
	Autonomous Drone	A sentry robot in both melee and ranged varieties. This machine will dutifully challenge anything.
	RMB-A Unit	A small round drone for cleaning floors. However, it can come with some surprising and deadly attachments.
	Service Drone	A highly customizable robot suited for cleaning, services, and engineering - and perhaps killing.
	FBP Drone	A highly customizable robot designed in the form of a human, its specific designation is security and it has multiple variants between melee and laser based weaponry.
	Greyson Mech	A large mech designed for warfare, complete with missile batteries, mini guns, and big stomper feet, the one thing that makes it less of a threat is its faulty AI, although its attacks will be randomized. When enough damage has been done to it, its core will self destruct, damaging anything too close to it.
	Turret	An automated turret designed to guard key areas. Although stationary, you might struggle to get past one.
	Viscerator	A small, twin-bladed machine capable of inflicting very deadly lacerations.
	The Forgotten	A strangely built autonomous unit from a civilization that is no more, there are several types of them to encounter, from engineering units to security units. They are all that remains and malfunctioning now.

Abominations

The origins of these creatures are as unpredictable as their behaviour. Tread carefully.

	Name	Description
	Hivemind	A feared mesh of flesh and metal. It infests buildings and generates many horrible creations.
	Reject	This slimy, deficient being can barely do anything except tear into other poor creatures.

Xenomorphs

Black monstrosities that adapt incredibly well to their environment. If given the chance, they will certainly consume the planet and all other life.

	Name	Description
	Drone	The weakest and most basic of all Xenomorphs, it is weak when alone, but in numbers...
	Hunter	A slightly faster Xenomorph, although it isn't noticeably different from the drone.
	Sentinel	A stronger Xenomorph than the Drone. Easy to tell with the green spots on its skin.
	Spitter	Despite its name, it does not spit projectile vomit at you from range. It walks up to you and vomits on you. Don't let it do that.
	Shrike	A weak Xenomorph that releases a scream in a certain pitch that forces those without ear protection to drop to the ground and hold at their ears.
	Runner	An exceptionally fast xenomorph, weaker than the drone.
	Warrior	A larger Xenomorph, incredibly sturdy and lethal compared to the rest.
	Defender	An highly armored Xenomorph, its strikes are not as lethal as a warrior's but it may as well be a walking tank.
	Panther	A stronger more lethal version of the runner, but still weak.
	Boiler	Calling it a boiler ain't fun. Call it a 'Boomer' instead. Also due to the sacs containing explosive chemicals on its body, it explodes the moment its heart stops, making it deadly to kill in melee range.
	Bull	A Xenomorph with horns and weight to knock someone off of their ass.
	Crusher	A behemoth that can knock almost anyone down to the ground in the first charge, except for the heads of security and their superiors. It'll crush those bones to dust too if given the chance.
	Ravager	If you thought it couldn't get worse, the Ravager is the Xenomorphs' version of a render. Except it's worse.
	Defiler	A venomous Xenomorph with toxins dripping from its maw and claws. A single strike will make you feel weak and your mind foggy... More will only worsen it.
	Hivelord	A shock trooper amongst the xenomorphs, it is the most durable of them.
	Screecher	A far more stronger and dangerous version of the shrike.
	Praetorian	A monstrosity birthed by some black pit, it is the second most powerful Xenomorph to encounter.
	Queen	The most powerful of all Xenomorphs, with a roar that can deafen anyone and have them on the ground. A apex predator and source of the Xenomorphs. It is a avatar of death and destruction. Fight it alone and it will only walk over you like nothing.

Roaches

	Name	Description
	Kampfer	The most common pest among the colony.
	Jager	The Kampfer's bigger cousin, packs a bigger punch and can take a few more as well.
	Seuche	Creates gas fumes to surprise and mask it's attack.
60px	Gluhend	Pretty much a radiation roach. Glows in the dark.
	Gestrahlte	Placeholder I dunno, it's big, green, and fuckin' ugly, just kill it
	Nanite	Tecnho-roach. Can cause small swarms of nanites to spawn and is a good source of nanobots.
	Panzer	The even bigger cousin of the Kampfer, may even hurt you.
	Fuhrer	Literally Roach Hitler. It can scream for backup, so if it yells, RUN!
	Kaiser	The Kaiser roach is a gigantic behemoth compared to the Fuhrer roach, the strongest and most durable of the roaches there is. It has nearly all the capabilities as the rest of the roaches and if there's a Kaiser, there's likely a massive horde of roaches following behind it.
	Roachling	A baby roach, can grow up to be whatever it's heart desires unless you show it the underside of your boot.

Spiders

	Name	Description
	Warrior	The tougher, more painful spider, approach with caution.
	Hunter	Your run of the mill large spider. Avoid it's venomous bite.
	Nurse	The caretaker spider, weaker than the rest, but is responsible for making nests and turning corpses into more spiders. Don't leave your dying near one of these. A bite from them can knock out anyone within a matter of seconds.
	Cloaker	A subspecies of the Hunter spiders, Cloakers are just as fast and deadly, although deadlier with their skin enabling them to be nearly invisible, and entirely invisible within the darkness.
	Fortress	A more evolved variant of the Warrior spider, practically a tarantula, the Fortress spider is a monster that can go toe to toe with a fuhrer and come out on top. Its bites are more capable of breaking bone as well. Distinguishable by its more heavily armored body.
	Viper	An evolved Hunter spider in the form of a black widow, it is much faster and stronger than the Hunter spider, running is not a option with this type of spider.
	Midwife	A stronger caretaker spider, it is still responsible for the typical duties of a Nurse spider, however its bite is unique and it injects unstable mutagen into one's system. Identifiable by the purple marks on its black body.
	Recluse	An incredibly weak spider that acts much like the Nurse and Midwife, although its bite is the deadliest. With a single bite, it can knock anyone out instantly, using Zombie Powder.
	Spider Queen	A matriarch of the spiders, the spider queen is a large black spider that has the same duties as the Midwife and Nurse, although it reinforces the nest further by laying eggs. Stronger than the Fortress spider with a bite that injects combat stims, it is not something to easily go against.
	Emperor	Whether they are the patriarchs of the spiders or not is unknown but what is known is that nothing can outrun a Emperor. It is more intelligent than its kin as it can sometimes lay in wait to ambush from the ceiling, knocking its prey down with a shrilling screech. If you are perceptive, you'll see its malicious red eyes in the shadows. If one is to survive a encounter, get to medical immediately before its venom kills you.

Guide Table
Starter	Medical	Engineering	Science	Security	Random
Starter Guide General Help The Rules Keyboard Shortcuts Character Creation Job Selection and Assignment A Crash Course in Roleplaying Stats and Skills Insight and Development Perk System Psionics Nanogate	Guide to Medicine Guide to Chemistry Guide to Virology Guide to Surgery Guide to Cadavers	Guide to the Supermatter Engine Guide to Construction Guide to Machine Construction Guide to Tools and Mods Guide to Atmospherics Guide to Hacking Guide to Telecommunications Guide to the Solars Guide to Power SMES Manual	Guide to Research and Development Guide to Robotics Guide to Xenobiology Guide to Toxins Guide to Xenoarchaeology Guide to Genetics	Colony Laws Standard Operating Procedure Guide to Security	Guide to AI Player Species Reference Monsters Guide to EVA Hardsuit Operation Voidsuits Guide to Food Guide to Drinks Guide to Hydroponics Guide to Paperwork Random Events List of Supply Crates Guide to Absolutism Guide to the Hunting Lodge