Exploding Termite

Information
Common name	Exploding termite
Scientific name	Neocapritermes taracua
Environment	DLC
Castes	Queen King Worker Soldier
Traits	Autothysis
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 only become explosive 120 seconds after they are spawned and can later explode to confuse and damage enemies over time. Explosion damage increases along with living time. Level 3 workers don't get speed debuff while moving on non-highway tiles.

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

Exploding

You can disable exploding to prevent your workers from exploding and let them attack normally.

You can enable both exploding and attacking to make workers explode immediately against any enemies.

You can enable exploding and disable attacking to make workers explode only against attacking enemies.

Food processing

Exploding termites can only feed on lignocellulose.

Lignocellulose storage tiles can hold 10/ 40/ 100 lignocellulose. 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

Notable stats

Exploding termite queen
Common stats	Health: 1300 Food amount: 800 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 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	Trigger: User isn't mounting. Chance: 70%/ 70%/ 70% Damage (venom): 12/ 16/ 22 Radius (splash): 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: 1.5/ 1.5/ 1.5
Snap (underground)	Trigger: User is underground and isn't mounting. Damage (physical): 60/ 80/ 100 Cooldown: 60/ 60/ 60
Snap (surface)	Trigger: User is on the surface and isn't mounting. 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.