Exploding Termite

Information
Common name	Exploding termite
Scientific name	Neocapritermes taracua
Environment	Rainforest
Castes	Queen King Worker Soldier
Traits	Autothysis Damage-over-time Confusion Stun
Playable colony	Yes

Exploding termites (Neocapritermes taracua) are playable as complete colonies in extra missions and custom games if you have the Exploding DLC.

Abilities

Exploding termites attack mostly by biting.

Workers can explode to confuse and damage enemies over time. Enemies are only knocked back when they are reduced to 0 HP by explosions. Level 3 workers don't get speed debuff or waste poisoning while moving on non-highway tiles.

Soldiers can stun enemies and launch themselves away when they are fighting on the surface.

Exploding

Workers can only explode 2 minutes after they are spawned. Mature workers become light brown and their role icons change from worker to explosive.

Explosion damage and effect damage increases from 30% to 100% over 2 minutes after workers have become mature. Fully boosted workers become dark brown and have blue glow.

You can disable attacking to make workers only explode when they are attacked. You can disable exploding to make workers attack normally.

Food processing

Exploding termites can only feed on lignocellulose.

Lignocellulose storage tiles can hold 10/ 40/ 100 lignocellulose. The first lignocellulose storage tile is free while later storage tiles cost 5 food to build. Queen tiles can't hold any resources.

You receive 66.67% of the building cost as lignocellulose from deleting tiles.

Appearances

You can play as an exploding termite colony in:

• No Ant's Land

You can play with exploding termite workers in:

• Main story

You can play with exploding termite soldiers in:

• Main story

Notable stats

Exploding termite queen
Common stats	Health: 1300 Food amount: 800 [8] Score: 700 Healing speed: 1
Damage modifications	Physical resistance: 40% Venom resistance: 60% Maximum taken damage: 25 Evasion: 5%
Immunities	Immune to stun/ confusion/ fleeing Immune to pickup (strong)/ knockback (strong) Immune to execution

Exploding termite king
Common stats	Health: 140 Movement speed: 320 Food amount: 50 [2] Score: 18 Healing speed: 0.1 Vision radius: 1300
Damage modifications	None
Immunities	None
Attack	Damage (physical): 7 Attack speed: 2.1

Exploding termite worker
Common stats	Cost: 30 [4] Health: 30/ 40/ 50 Movement speed: 300/ 340/ 380 Food amount: 20/ 22/ 24 Score: 5/ 7/ 9 Harvest amount: 15/ 15/ 35 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	None
Immunities	None
Attack	Damage (physical): 0.4/ 0.5/ 0.6 Attack speed: 1.5/ 1.5/ 1.5
Explode (maximum value)	Trigger: User isn't mounting. Chance: 70%/ 70%/ 70% Damage (venom): 15/ 20/ 25 Radius: 150/ 150/ 150	Damage-over-time Tick damage (venom): 5/ 7.5/ 10 Interval: 1/ 1/ 1 Duration: 6/ 6/ 6
		Confusion Duration: 3/ 3/ 3

Exploding termite soldier
Common stats	Cost: 75 [7] Health: 95/ 110/ 125 Movement speed: 300/ 300/ 300 Food amount: 24/ 26/ 28 Score: 14/ 16/ 18 Harvest amount: 15/ 15/ 15 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Threat: 0.3/ 0.3/ 0.3 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	Piercing: 20%/ 20%/ 20%
Immunities	None
Attack	Damage (physical): 6/ 7.5/ 9 Attack speed: 1.1/ 1.1/ 1.1
Snap (underground)	Trigger: User is underground and isn't mounting. Chance: 10%/ 10%/ 10% Damage (physical): 60/ 80/ 100 Cooldown: 60/ 60/ 60
Snap (surface)	Trigger: User is on the surface and isn't mounting. Chance: 10%/ 10%/ 10% Damage (physical): 30/ 50/ 70 Cooldown: 60/ 60/ 60	Stun Duration: 3/ 4/ 5

Trivia

• Exploding termite workers store laccase BP76 in special pouches on their backs in the form of blue crystals. The enzyme will be mixed with hydroquinone substrates in their salivary glands to create toxic liquid during autothysis.

• Exploding termite soldiers have the fastest bite speed in the world most likely due to their asymmetrical jaws.

• Level 3 exploding termite workers only have 100% chance to fend off phorid flies after they have become mature.

• Exploding termite workers can process fungus the same way as termite minor workers in custom fungus-growing termite colonies.