Termite

Termite

A medium-sized mechanoid. Termites specialize in burrowing, digging, and breaking through defensive structures. Defenders need to decide whether to try to eliminate the termite before it can dig through their defenses, or take it where it emerges.

Base Stats

Type

Mechanoid

Armor

Armor - Sharp

56%

Armor - Blunt

22%

Armor - Heat

200%

Pawn Stats

Combat Power

110

Move Speed

2.1 c/s

Health Scale

216% HP

Body Size

1.6

Mass

96 kg

Pack Capacity

56 kg

Carrying Capacity

120 kg

Filth Rate

1

Life Expectancy

2500 years

Comfortable Temp Range

-100 °C – 250 °C (-148 °F – 482 °F)

Melee Combat

Attack

Head
17 dmg (Blunt)
25 % AP
2.6 second cooldown

Average DPS

4.05

Termites are mechanoids that specialize in destroying walls and other impassible structures.

Summary

As mechanoids, every termite is immune to fire, Flame and Heat damage, and temperature extremes, despite having Comfortable Temperatures defined. They have 100% Toxic Resistance and Toxic Environment Resistance, making them immune to toxic buildup, rot stink and other toxic effects. They do not need to eat, rest, and have no mood. They will be stunned by EMP attacks for a time proportional to the EMP damage inflicted and will "adapt" and rendered immune to further EMP strikes for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs).

Dead termites may be shredded at the machining table or crafting spot for  30 steel and  10 plasteel. However, these values are affected by mechanoid shredding efficiency, as well as missing parts on the termite.

Along with apocritons, termites are the only mechanoids that can't be gestated in the Biotech DLC.

As an enemy

Termites are primarily found in breach raids, and don't typically appear outside of them. They aim to destroy nearby walls, if no pawns are in range.

Combat

Termites wield the thump cannon. While it only deals moderate damage to living targets, it can easily destroy buildings and walls. A single shot deals 270 damage to walls in a 3-tile wide stretch, enough to destroy wooden walls in one shot, stone block walls in two, uranium in three, and plasteel in four. In melee, they have a fairly weak attack with no special quirks:

Melee Attacks	Damage Amount	Cooldown
Blunt	11.7	2.6 sec

The thump cannon can down unarmored pawns in five hits on average, and most often kill from brain damage.

Termites have a shooting accuracy of 96%, though this is entirely negated by the Forced Miss Radius of their only weapon, the thump cannon. They have a melee hit chance of 62%, equivalent to a pawn with a Melee skill of 4.

Armor

Armor

Analysis

Termites are exclusive to breacher raids. Defending against termites, in terms of base design, is like defending against any other breacher. Make cover in multiple separate locations, so that you can be prepared to fight anywhere. Contain termites before they can disassemble your defenses and cover, which will allow more deadly mechanoids to go through. Unlike with regular raids, faster mechs like lancers will remain behind the breachers, and wait for them to catch up. If the termites are killed, it does not necessarily mean that the other mechs will stop breaching, but it does mean less damage to your walls.

When compared to other mechs, the thump cannon is not especially deadly. However, it can injure multiple pawns clumped together. Spread out. You can use weapons with high range, such as assault rifles and bolt action rifles, to outrange the termite completely. Alternatively, you can use melee and/or EMP to prevent the termite from firing at all.

If available, combining the melee with the use of the Skip psycast is ideal. Bring the termites closer to you, rather than bring your melee pawns closer to the mechanoids. Use of Low-shield packs or the Skipshield psycast can also prevent their shots from hitting their, but both shields come with their own cost.

Health

Body Parts (Summary)

Body part	Health
Head	54
Skull	54
Brain	22
Nose	22
Neck	54
Jaw	43
Eye (left, right)	22
Ear (left, right)	22
Body	86
Kidney (left, right)	32
Lung (left, right)	32
Liver	43
Heart	32
Spine	54
Stomach	43
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	65
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	43

Version history

• 1.3.3066 - Added
• 1.3.3200 - Thump damage multiplier versus walls reduced from 4x to 2x, reducing termite effectivenes.

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Mechanoids

Mechanoids | Core

Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite

Combat

Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron

Command

Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )

Labor

Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler

Cluster | Buildings

Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell

Turrets

Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret

Creation | Pawn

Mechanitor

Buildings

Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish