Trivia

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Did You Know?

• Jellyfish's shock deals 0.1 damage to creatures.
• There is a 1/10,000,000 (one in ten million) chance that a Red Lizard's bite may fail.
• Red Centipedes always have 18 segments.
• The cooldown before a Spear can be picked up again lasts exactly 15 frames.
• Unheld Bubble Weed floats to the top of a region gate during the heating part of the gate sequence.
• Each Beehive insect deals a minuscule amount of damage to non-player creatures.

Regions Trivia

Outskirts

• Outskirts was originally called Suburban.
• Early alpha versions of the game had 4 regions: Outskirts, Drainage System, Industrial Complex, and Chimney Canopy.
• It is possible for Noodleflies to reach the tutorial area.
• There are numerous known methods to revisit the tutorial area after first leaving.

Industrial Complex

• Industrial Complex was originally called Heavy Industrial.
• With 4 gates, Industrial Complex has the highest number of unique region connections in the base game.

Garbage Wastes

• It is possible to sit inside the pipe connection at the top of the Red Lizard unlock room without drowning.

Shoreline

• It is possible to bring Scavengers into Shoreline by loading the region while in a Karma Gate room with them. They can then be found in Looks to the Moon.
• Leviathans can eat Vultures.

Shaded Citadel

• Shaded Citadel was originally called Shadow Urban.
• In room SH_B11, there are 20 Coalescipedes that cannot reach the player due to level geometry.

Five Pebbles

• When playing Monk, Unfortunate Development is more challenging due to increased amounts of proto DLLs.
• Unfortunate Development is an entirely optional subregion.
• It is possible to avoid Recursive Transform Array by taking a shortcut through the center of the map.
• Creatures inside Five Pebbles return to shelters once the timer runs out, which can be exploited to travel through the region without encountering hazards.

Subterranean

• It is possible to scale the western fissure in Subterranean with Spears, a Grappling Worm or Explosives.
• It is possible to return to Filtration System after reaching the Depths.

Creatures Trivia

Lizards

• Lizards were the first creatures designed for the game, and originally the only predator present.
• Lizards were called "crocs" very early on in development.
• Some alpha builds of the game have the player stealing Lizard Eggs.
• Lizards have an advanced rivalry system which causes them to get into territorial fights.
• When hit by a Spitter Spider's dart, anything incapacitated in a Lizard's mouth stays there even whilst the Lizard is paralysed.
• Lizards emit particles from their head when they hear noise nearby.
• Lizards become more and more aggressive toward investigating sounds the more noise any creature emits in rapid successions.
• Lizards have 71 shared code profile parameters, most of which are used in calculations with other values.

Green Lizard

• Green Lizards are relatively fast swimmers and are much quicker over water, but are rarely found near it.
• Green Lizards have the highest inter-species aggressiveness in the game.
• Green Lizards are immune to Red Lizard bites, unless the Red is tamed.
• Green Lizards cannot be eaten by Brother Long Legs.
• Vulture Masks only pacify Green Lizards instead of scaring them.
• Green Lizards cannot be killed by direct Centipede shocks. They can still be killed by shocks in water.
• Green Lizards are immune to Worm Grass.
• Green Lizards are strong enough to escape Pole Plants.
• Hitting a Green Lizard with Rubbish while they are preparing to charge can cause them to flip and charge in the other direction.
• Creatures that are directly in front of a Green Lizard's face cannot be bitten by them.
• When falling, Green Lizards try to cling on to poles in an attempt to save themselves.
• Certain Green Lizards may be observed attempting to climb poles when chasing prey, though they will be unable to.

Blue Lizard

• Blue Lizards have the lowest toughness and bite lethality of all lizard species.
• Blue Lizards can be hunted and eaten by Green and Cyan Lizards.
• Blue Lizards have the ability to walk on ceilings, unlike White Lizards.

Salamander

• Salamanders have the same movement speed in water as Pink, Black and White Lizards.
• Neither variety of Leeches attack Salamanders.
• Salamanders can snap and kill Batflies.

Black Lizard

• Some Black Lizards have vestigial eyes that are visible when their heads light up.

Yellow Lizard

• Yellow Lizards have no intra-species rivalry.
• If a Yellow Lizard thinks it is in a pack of 0 lizards, the game crashes.

Vulture

• Vultures and Green Lizards ignore each other unless the latter has been tamed.
• Vultures can rarely travel through pipes, though this is an unintended behavior.
• The mandibles on Vultures' faces are called "tusks" in the files.

Pole Plant

• Pole Plants and Monster Kelp cannot be tranquilized by Spitter Spiders' Dart Maggots.
• Pole Plants can be found facing sideways (in Sky Islands) and downwards (in one room in Farm Arrays).
• Certain Pole Plants can lineage into Monster Kelp after being killed enough times.
• The insects released by Beehives do not attack Pole Plants. Pole Plants also do not block thrown beehives.
• While dying, Pole Plants can sometimes grab on to nearby creatures and pull them in. This can softlock the player.

Monster Kelp

• Monster Kelp can grab and consume held objects such as Lanterns instead of the player.

Leeches

• Jetfish and Squidcadas hunt Leeches for food.

Centipedes

• Centipedes have a small chance to spawn missing a section of their shell.
• Centipedes cannot be stunned by rocks unless injured.
• Centipedes can kill the player by retreating into a den while being grabbed.
• Centipede shocks in water affect all creatures in that body of water.
• Centipedes shocks in water can kill creatures that would otherwise be stunned, such as Rain Deer or Green Lizards.
• Centiwings can have 12 or 13 segments.

Coalescipede

• A low ambient drone plays in some areas where Coalescipedes are often present.
• In room SH_B11 of Shaded Citadel, there are 20 Coalescipedes that cannot reach the player due to level geometry.

Big Spider

• Big Spiders and Spitter Spiders slowly regenerate health over time.
• Big Spider fangs are visible when bared even in complete darkness.
• Like other Slugcat-sized creatures, Big Spiders' corpses can boost the player's speed in tunnels when held.

Dropwig

• Multiple Dropwigs are able to perch on the same spot, but prefer not to.
• Lower dominance Dropwigs will give up spots to higher dominance Dropwigs.
• Like other Slugcat-sized creatures, Dropwigs' corpses can boost the player's speed in tunnels when held.
• Dropwigs are capable of grabbing Garbage Worms and may even move them from their spawn point.
• Dropwigs can rarely spawn with a Pearl.

Brother Long Legs

• Brother Long Legs are unable to eat creatures that exceed their own mass, such as Green Lizards or Vultures.

Leviathan

• Leviathans can eat all other creatures, including other Leviathans.
• Leviathans are functionally immortal but can be killed with an incredibly large stockpile of Explosives and enough time.
• A single albino Leviathan spawns in the western lake in Subterranean.
• Leviathans can be eaten by Monster Kelp.
• The metal plate asset on the front of Leviathans can also be seen on the upper bodies of Squidcadas.

Miros Bird

• Miros Birds run away from Brother Long Legs & Daddy Long Legs.
• Miros Birds are inspired by the paintings of Joan Miró.

Daddy Long Legs

• Daddy Long Legs are temporarily deafened by loud noises produced by Explosives or thunder.
• Daddy Long Legs are aggressive towards Brother Long Legs and attempt to consume them.

Worm Grass

• Green Lizards are uniquely coded to be immune to Worm Grass.
• Worm Grass hunts by sight and is insensitive to sound and movement.
• Some patches of Worm Grass in Farm Arrays can appear white due to a rendering error.
• Coalescipedes, Big Spiders and Spitter Spiders hover above Red Worm Grass instead of getting pulled into it. This is a bug.
• Hazers killed by Worm Grass often have broken physics.

Bugs

• A swarm of Water Glow-Worms spawns in one room where there is no water and so can never be seen.
• Ants are often obscured by the foreground due to a likely bug in their code.

Overseer

• Overseers can communicate and touch tendrils with each other.
• The yellow overseer will always return when killed.

Squidcada

• It is possible to bring multiple Squidcadas from one region to another, starting with a white one and then bringing multiple black ones, resulting in a "colony".

Noodlefly

• Noodleflies die being grabbed even if immediately released.
• It's possible for two Noodleflies to stab each other and die simultaneously.
• When an Infant Noodlefly cries out, the nearest adult attacks the closest creature to the offspring.
• Noodleflies cannot kill Overseers but can still aggro onto them.

Garbage Worm

• Garbage Worms don't flee when the rain arrives.

Snail

• Snails give a burst of range and speed to certain moves when held including backflips, longjumps, and walljumps. This is likely a quirk of the physics engine.
• Snail pops are much stronger in water.

Scavenger

• Scavengers were originally intended to glide, but this feature was scrapped due to pathfinding issues.
• Scavengers are hostile towards Overseers and throw spears at them.
• Scavengers have three slots for holding items (two hands and a "pocket slot" on their side) and can hold extra spears on their back.
• Garbage Wastes has the highest number of Scavenger spawns, at 26 on all difficulties.
• Like other Slugcat-sized creatures, Scavengers' corpses can boost the player's speed in tunnels when held.

Lantern Mouse

• Lantern Mice cannot move in bodies of water.
• Lantern Mice and Scavengers ignore each other.
• Lantern Mice have a 1/17 chance of facing the opposite way and a 1/8 chance of hanging their hands down when sleeping.
• There is a 1/100 chance that any individual Lantern Mouse has a completely random hue.

Jetfish

• Jetfish are immune to Leeches, and extend this immunity to Slugcat when riding one.
• In v1.5, Jetfish reputation can only be decreased.
• Jetfish do a small amount of damage when ramming, and can accidentally kill each other when harassing other creatures.
• All Jetfish in Subterranean and Pipeyard are albino.
• Bubble Fruit and Blue Fruit reflect thrown Spears.

Grappling Worm

• Grappling Worms used to be much heavier prior to update 1.5.

Rain Deer

• Decorated skulls of Rain Deer can be found at Scavenger Tolls.
• Damaging Rain Deer with Spears pushes them forward.

Batfly

• Squidcadas, Jetfish, Pole Plants, and Monster Kelp actively hunt Batflies

Eggbug

• Eggbugs can fling themselves off edges when trying to evade creatures and projectiles.

Vulture Grub

• There is a single live Vulture Grub in Chimney Canopy that never respawns.

Hazer

• Hazers do not spawn in water, only on land nearby.
• When regurgitated, live Hazers have a 40% chance to copy Slugcat's color.

Jellyfish

• Jellyfish's shock deals 0.1 damage to creatures.
• In water, Jellyfish may grab onto creatures below them with their tentacles, delivering a much weaker shock.
• Centipedes are immune to the Jellyfish's shock.
• Slugcat can grab and hold onto Jellyfish even while they're flashing white.
• Jellyfish are capable of stunning creatures even when partially eaten.

Red Lizard

• Red Lizards have the highest visual range, swimming speed, and water vision of any Lizards.
• Red Lizards attack other Red Lizards on sight. They are mostly neutral towards other Lizards.
• Red Lizards can easily kill Vultures.
• Red Lizards can still fire projectiles even when holding a corpse in their mouths
• Red Lizards are capable of biting every frame.
• There is a 1/10,000,000 (one in ten million) chance that a Red Lizard's bite may fail.

King Vulture

• King Vultures shoot at Vulture Grubs with their harpoons.

Spitter Spider

• Spitter Spiders cannot be killed by Flashbangs.
• Spitter Spiders do not attempt to tranquilize Red Lizards even when threatened.

Red Centipede

• Monk has an 40% chance on average to knock a Red Centipede's Shell segment off with a Spear.
• Red Centipedes take only 1/29th of base damage when shielded segments are hit.
• Red Centipedes are always stunned when hit by rubbish on de-shelled segments.
• Red Centipedes always have 18 segments.

Objects Trivia

Popcorn Plant

• Popcorn Plants are the only food item that Slugcat automatically eats within range.

Bubble Fruit

• Holding Bubble Fruit as it swells up causes it to fall out of Slugcat's hand.

Rubbish

• Rubbish is the only object that has multiple unique sprites in the base game.
• Red Lizards can't be flipped over or stunned by Rubbish.

Spear

• Spears can collide and deflect each other mid-air.
• The cooldown before a Spear can be picked up again lasts exactly 15 frames.
• Spears embedded into surfaces fall out after 3-6 cycles. They can be found again near the spot where they were embedded.

Explosive Spear

• The length of the red cloth on Explosive Spears is randomized.
• Creatures hit by an Explosive Spear spawn a thin stream of smoke from their wound, and creatures hit by Grenades leave a trail of smoke behind them as they are launched.

Bubble Weed

• Holding two stalks of Bubble Weed underwater drain both reserves with no added benefit.
• Unheld Bubble Weed floats to the top of a region gate during the heating part of the gate sequence.

Vulture Mask

• Maskless Vultures are attacked by other Vultures with masks.
• Vulture Masks rapidly darken and saturate in color after being removed from their Vulture.

Lantern

• Lanterns generate the same radius of light as Neuron Flies.

Beehive

• It is possible to be killed by Beehives through a glitch.
• Each Beehive insect deals a minuscule amount of damage to non-player creatures.

Miscellaneous Trivia

• The song "Grumblebum" samples a short voice recording of James and Joar talking at PAX.