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.

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 customisable robot suited for cleaning, services, and engineering - and perhaps killing.
	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.

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.
	Xenomorph	An extremely hostile, adaptable alien creature, capable of changing it's form to suit it's environment.

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.
	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!
	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.

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	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 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	Colony Laws Standard Operating Procedure Guide to Security	Guide to AI Player Species Reference Critters (NPCs) Guide to EVA Hardsuit Operation Voidsuits Guide to Food and Drink Guide to Hydroponics Guide to Paperwork Random Events List of Supply Crates Guide to Absolutism