Termite

Information
Common name	Termite
Scientific name	Macrotermes bellicosus
Environment	Savannah
Castes	Queen King Minor worker Major worker Minor soldier Major soldier
Traits	Fungus farming Confusion Speed debuff Resistance debuff Speed buff
Playable colony	Yes

Termites (Macrotermes bellicosus) are playable as complete colonies in story levels, extra levels and custom games.

Abilities

Termites use basic attack by biting. Major soldiers can only use basic attack while mounting enemies.

Minor soldiers can confuse, slow enemies down and make them take more damage.

Majors can increase the attack speed of themselves and nearby termites from the same colony each time they hit their attacks. The effect stacks on top of itself and reverts to normal over time. The maximum value is currently unknown. Major soldiers can only use this ability while on the ground.

You can have a single termite king when you play as a termite colony. It is invulnerable until the queen is dead. It is uncontrollable and can only attack enemies.

Minir workers slow down while carrying lignocellulose. Major workers are counted toward soldiers and can't do nest jobs.

Food processing

Termites automatically bring lignocellulose back to lignocellulose storage. Each storage tile costs 5 food to build and can hold 10/ 40/ 100 lignocellulose. Dead creatures aren't edible and disappear after 3 minutes.

Minor workers eat and process lignocellulose in their bodies. Each minor worker can process 10 lignocellulose every 20/ 15/ 10 seconds. You will lose lignocellulose if the processing termites are dead.

Minor workers will expel the waste in fungus storage to cultivate fungus. Each fungus storage tile costs 5 food to build, can hold 10/ 40/ 100 food and cultivate 1 food every second.

Level 3 minor workers can process lignocellulose into 50% more food.

You can disable lignocellulose processing to make them stop eating lignocellulose. They still have to finish ongoing digestion. Lignocellulose processing is the least prioritized nest job.

You receive 66% of the building cost as lignocellulose from deleting a tile. Fungus can only exist on fungus storage tiles so lignocellulose is left on the ground instead.

Appearances

You can play as a termite colony in:

• Last Mound Standing

You can play with termite minor soldiers in:

• Main story

• Tug of War 3

You can play with termite major soldiers in:

• Main story

• Tug of War 3

You can also encounter non-player termites in:

• Triage

• Drive Them Back

Notable stats

Mature termite queen
Common stats	Health: 1400 Food amount: 800 [?] Score: 700 Healing speed: 1
Damage modifications	Physical resistance: 50% Venom resistance: 50% Maximum taken damage: 25
Immunities	Immune to stun/ confusion/ fleeing Immune to pickup/ execution/ knockback

Young termite queen
Common stats	Health: 250 Movement speed: 300 Food amount: 100 [?] Score: 18 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 400
Damage modifications	Piercing: 20%
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 15 Attack speed: 0.6

Termite king
Common stats	Health: 150 Movement speed: 300 Food amount: 50 [?] Score: 18 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 1300
Damage modifications	Piercing: 20%
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 5 Attack speed: 1.8

Termite minor worker
Common stats	Cost: 20/ 2 Health: 30/ 45/ 60 Movement speed: 300/ 320/ 340 Food amount: 20/ 22/ 24 Score: 5/ 8/ 12 Harvest amount: 4/ 5/ 6 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400 Encumbered
Damage modifications	None
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 1/ 2/ 3 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1

Termite major worker
Common stats	Cost: 30/ 3 Health: 40/ 55/ 70 Movement speed: 300/ 340/ 380 Food amount: 24/ 26/ 28 Score: 5/ 8/ 12 Harvest amount: 15/ 30/ 45 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	None
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 1/ 2/ 3 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1

Termite minor soldier
Common stats	Cost: 50/ 6 Health: 70/ 80/ 90 Movement speed: 300/ 300/ 300 Food amount: 24/ 26/ 28 Score: 12/ 16/ 20 Harvest amount: 6/ 8/ 10  Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	Piercing: 20%/ 20%/ 20%
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 3/ 4/ 5 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1
Cripple	Chance: 20%/ 20%/ 20% Damage (physical): 2/ 5/ 8 Cooldown: 13/ 11/ 9	Confusion Duration: 2.5/ 3/ 3.5
		Speed debuff Movement speed: - 90%/ - 90%/ - 90% Duration: 2.5/ 3/ 3.5
		Resistance debuff Physical resistance: - 40%/ - 50%/ - 60% Duration: 2.5/ 3/ 3.5

Termite major soldier
Common stats	Cost: 110/ 11 Health: 140/ 160/ 190 Movement speed: 300/ 300/ 300 Food amount: 26/ 28/ 30 Score: 22/ 27/ 29 Harvest amount: 8/ 10/ 12 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Threat: 0.3/ 0.3/ 0.3 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	None
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 5/ 6/ 7 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1
Flashbuff	Damage (physical): 4/ 5.2/ 6 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1	Damage buff Tick buff: + 7%/ + 10%/ +13% Debuff speed: ? Radius: 200/ 250/ 300

Trivia

• Every termite colony starts with a 19-tiled queen chamber, a 7-tiled fungus storage and a 7-tiled lignocelulose storage in custom games.

• Formossan termites (Coptotermes formossanus) won over European wasps (Vespula germanica) to be rewards for reaching the 3rd kickstarter stretch goal (£17500). The chosen termite species was eventually decided to be Macrotermes bellicosus.

• Adaptations are applied to major workers in new game plus even though they are counted toward soldiers.