Description[]
Beetle Larvae are passive mobs that spawn in the green places of The Erebus and are one of the primary sources of food for early adventurers.
Behaviour[]
Beetle Larvae are constantly on the lookout for wooden blocks to eat. If they find one, they will start eating it. For each block they eat, they grow a little bit. After eating 8 blocks, they will turn into a Beetle. It can also be fed Sticks to cause the same to happen.
Jumping on a Beetle Larva squishes it, which makes it drop a Slimeball and gives you the Nausea effect. There is also a rare chance of acquiring a diamond.
Food[]
Beetle Larvae cooked in a furnace or killed with fire will give you Cooked Beetle Larvae.
Raw Beetle Larvae replenish 1 hunger point (half a hunger icon) and inflict the Nausea effect for 16 seconds.
Cooked Beetle Larvae replenish 3 hunger points (1.5 hunger icons). They are a low-tier food.
Variants[]
The standard Beetle Larvae will grow into a standard small Beetle. There is also a variant for each large beetle species:
- Titan Beetle Larvae have two antennae on their heads.
- Stag Beetle Larvae have mandibles.
- Rhino Beetle Larvae have horns.
- Bombardier Beetle Larvae can only be found in the wild, are a blue colour with a slight orange tinge and are hostile. They inflict half a heart of damage, then proceed to explode between 1 and 3 seconds later. The explosion damage is with distance from the larva; further distance will reduce damage. At a distance of ~5 blocks, the damage is 5 hearts. They can safely be jumped on before they strike.
Possible Names[]
-Dylan4ever (Beetle Larva named Dylan4ever, the original creator of the Erebus)
-Trampoline (Resist the urge, you monster!)
Trivia[]
- The Beetle Larvae used to be called a Maggot, and was one of the very first mobs added to the Erebus.
- It did not have any awesome behaviour and was pretty dull pre-0.1.
- The squashing idea was CalebManley's.
- The current model is made by TripleHeadedSheep, the old one was made by Exacat.
- As of 0.1.2, Beetle Larva can be obtained as the offspring of 2 Beetles .
- There are config options to make it also eat wooden tile entities (chests), and Apocalypse which makes it eat anything.
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