Critters

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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. This AI is remarkably limited in many respects, which most often manifests in subpar pathfinding and limited reaction to the physics systems that human controlled mobs have to deal with. This makes them unpredictable and frustrating as both allies and opponents.

Critters are divided into five categories:

Pets

	Name	Description
	Ian	Ian spawns in the Head of Personnel's Office. Usually eats evidence of his masters tax fraud chases his tail around.
	Runtime	Runtime is the pet cat of Medbay. She spawns in the Chief Medical Officer's Office. Runtime likes to chase mice and micros.
	Renault	A red fox residing in the Site Manager's quarters. Hobbies involve awooing and generally making a lot of noise.
	Kendrick	A docile rainbow slime with a funny face that likes to make a mess blob around the Research Director's office.
	Fluffy	A... thing. What is that? Whatever it is, it likes to snuffle around in the Quartermaster's Office.
	Rick	A cool robotic fox belonging to some shady and probably unkind people.
	Spice	A dog that likes to travel the galaxy! Also likes to frequent this station in particular, for some reason.
	Noodle	A silly not-so-danger noodle belonging to the Chief Engineer. Hiss hiss. Be sure to feed Noodle their mice on time.
	Mouse	Wanders around maintenance, and squeaks when stepped on. Main source of nutrition.

Robots

	Name	Description
	Floorbot	An excited blue bot that will rip up place floor tiles. Must be reloaded with floor tiles.
	Cleanbot	Competition for the Janitor. Causes the lubepocalypse Cleans up messes.
	Medibot	An obnoxious bot that talks too often and injects nasty chemicals sub-par medicine into patients. Often placed in high-traffic areas to tend to minor scrapes so that Medbay doesn't have to.
	Securitron	A robot that (brokenly) roams around and beats anyone not wearing their ID dispenses justice. Almost never seen on station as they don't really understand stairs.

Neutral

	Name	Description
	Lizard	Cute silly lizards. Not to be confused with Unathi.
	Cow	Known for their milk, just don't tip them over. Can be milked for milk with a bucket.
	Chicken	Hopefully the eggs are good this season. Lays eggs once in a while, which can result in a chickensplosion.
	Chick	Adorable! They make such a racket though.
	Oregrub	A brownish lithovore, oregrubs feed on various forms of minerals and can be found in dark places. They are tough and will run away if threatened, but if slain will yield a pile of miscellaneous ore chunks.
	Lavagrub	The oregrub's hardier, rarer kin, lavagrubs glow in the dark. If you can manage to kill them, they'll yield a larger amount of ore upon death with a chance of rarer minerals.

Hostile

	Name	Description
	Space Carp	Space Carp are an alien lifeform that travel through space in schools. Sometimes, space stations will be attacked by a traveling school, and anyone unlucky enough to be outside the protective walls will be attacked. Carp have a chance to stun their victims and attack every tick, doing about 10 brute damage with each bite. They will also attempt to break through windows to get to anyone they can see, which can be problematic if you fly a shuttle through the middle of a pack of them.
Giant Spider	Giant Spider	Giant spiders that grow from spiderlings, spread webs and attack anyone they encounter, causing brute damage from the hit and toxin damage from the venom they inflict. The most common type are brown with red eyes, but there are many other different and exciting types of giant spider, such as nurse spiders, jumping spiders, tazer spiders, burrowing spiders, and more.
Facehugger	Facehugger	Facehuggers knock out their victims outright and have a chance to infect them with a deadly xeno embryo. On the other hand, they can usually only attack once before they die and their infectious embryos can be resisted. Facehuggers don't care about masks or most headgear and will tear them off when they leap.
Savik	Savik	A modestly sized but highly territorial critter sometimes found in the caves of Virgo 4. May enter a berserk state when badly wounded.
Space Bear	Space Bear	Space bears can be spawned by cruel admins or mad scientists and will swarm the station, rapidly killing anyone they encounter. Their claws can even tear through light armour, making them extra deadly. They may also go berserk (bearserk?) for short periods, moving faster and dealing more damage with their attacks.
Cosmic Horror	Cosmic Horror	Horrifying, nightmare-inducing monsters from beyond the stars. Cosmic horrors are yellow, blob like creatures that will attack anyone they can find. The Wizard keeps one as a pet.
Killer Tomato	Killer Tomato	Spawned from the hydroponic trays of spiteful botanists, these mutant vegetables will hop menacingly after the first living thing they see. You should have eaten your veggies, because now they'll eat you invade your personal space!
Visrator	Manhack Viscerator	A small flying drone that attacks using vicious spinning blades, usually seen in the company of mercenaries who aren't concerned about casualties or looking good on the local news. Their small size and high speed renders them as annoying as they are dangerous, but they are extremely fragile.
Hivebot	Hivebot	A roughly humanoid/insectoid machine that moves on multiple legs, hivebots come in multiple variants; some are armed with ballistic weapons, others have lasers, and some have EMP dischargers. They are universally crude and often quite fragile, compensating for their relative fragility with strength of numbers and the fact they're one of the few hostile mobs with any form of ranged attack.

Vore Critters

Critters that will probably eat you on sight.

	Name	Description
	Catgirl	A lazy catgirl that walks around. Doesn't like being grabbed and will gladly pounce and nom if you make them mad. Nya!
	Wolfgirl	Not to be confused with catgirls, wolfgirls are less stupid, and can even respond to basic questions, but may still nom you if you anger them.
	Otie	A strange mix of science and bad ideas, this unusually long dog creature is said to roam around the facility walls and wilderness of the surface. Chances are, they see you as a tasty meal.
	Gaslamp	A jellyfish-esque critter endemic to Virgo-3B, these creatures are rather passive and a little too friendly. They might hold onto you for quite a while. Though they are normally docile, don't make them mad; those tentacles can pack quite a punch.
	Voracious Lizard	A hungry, green lizard that roams around and often competes with Oties for prey. Has a big belly.
	Phoron Dragon	A rather large and elegant beast that wanders tall and proud. Will probably tenderize you before noms.
	Great White Carp	A carp! That's great! And white! And hungry!!!
	Space Pike	An even larger carp that's decided to take it's anger out on you.
	Snake	A very large snake that will tuck you away in it's long belly.
	Panther	Kitten! Wait...
	Frog	A large hopping frog. Will gladly slurp you into it's tummy.
	Deathclaw	You'd best run. Fast.
	Corrupt Hound	A once good boy, now violent and hungry. Will now attack and eat you. Even if they don't eat you they're one of the deadlier threats out there, for both miners and explorers.
	Corrupt Corrupt Hound	A still somewhat good boy, he seems to be having some conflicting feelings about eating you, will still do so anyway.