Glyphid Exploder

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Updated for U36

BaseMission Variants

Radioactive

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The Glyphid Exploder is a curious and deadly beast, and R&D remain torn on the subject of whether their behavior is caused by an invasive pathogen or through natural evolution. Every inch of the Exploder's outer layers is covered in fragile bladders of highly volatile fluids. These fluids combust violently when mixed, meaning a close encounter can result in both 3rd degree burns from the resulting explosion, as well as severe laceration by chitin shrapnel. R&D heartily advises to take them out from a safe distance - it is well-known to attempt to rush intruders.

— Miner's Manual Description

The Glyphid Exploder is an explosive variant of the Glyphid Grunt with dark red skin and orange bulging tumors and veins which emit a slight glow. Exploders are much faster than most enemies and make little to no noise which they will often use to easily sneak up behind players and detonate before the player has time to react. The only recognizable noise they make is a distinct inflating and hissing sound they make before they explode. When an exploder gets close enough to a player or it takes enough damage, it will freeze in place and then detonate, leaving behind a crater coated in Slag or Hot Rock if in the Magma Core. Exploders have very little health, so they can be easily disposed of as they approach. Exploders always explode on death unless frozen, critically hit with a final blow to the head, or killed using the Colette Wave Cooker.

This creature has a Radioactive Exclusion Zone variant, which explodes into a cloud of radiation instead of making a normal explosion.

Combat

Health and Armor

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	TE 1	TE 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count	to	14	20	22	24	24	24	31.92		22	22		24	24	24

Attacks

The Glyphid Exploder will move towards players at a run. Once they get within a certain radius, they will stop and make a sizzling sound, and explode. This deals a significant amount of damage, and explodes a patch of terrain leaving behind slag on all biomes besides Magma Core, where the explosion leaves behind hot rock in the place of slag. Body parts are also occasionally left over after the explosion.

Self-combustion

AoE Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		25	35	60	100	140	210	280		60	75		115	140	150
		25	40	65	107.5	150	225	300		65	80		122.5	150	160
		25	45	70	115	160	240	320		70	85		130	160	170
		25	50	75	125	170	255	340		75	90		140	170	180
Details
Damage Type		Explosive					Radius: 3.5 m Maximum Damage Radius: 1.5 m Minimum Area Damage: 25 %

When a Glyphid Exploder sees a dwarf that is not full health it will rush at them, moving at ×1.5 Speed for 3s.

Variants

Radioactive Exclusion Zone Variant

This variant of the Glyphid Exploder is mostly the same as the regular variant, however the radioactive exploder leaves a small cloud of radioactivity after it blows up.

Attacks

Irradiated Self-combustion

AoE Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		12.5	17.5	30	50	70	105	140		30	37.5		57.5	70	75
		12.5	20	32.5	53.75	75	112.5	150		32.5	40		61.25	75	80
		12.5	22.5	35	57.5	80	120	160		35	42.5		65	80	85
		12.5	25	37.5	62.5	85	127.5	170		37.5	45		70	85	90
Details
Damage Type		Explosive					Radius: 3.5 m Maximum Damage Radius: 1.5 m Minimum Area Damage: 25 %
Cloud
Damage per Tick		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		3	4.2	7.2	12	16.8	25.2	33.6		7.2	9		13.8	16.8	18
		3	4.8	7.8	12.9	18	27	36		7.8	9.6		14.7	18	19.2
		3	5.4	8.4	13.8	19.2	28.8	38.4		8.4	10.2		15.6	19.2	20.4
		3	6	9	15	20.4	30.6	40.8		9	10.8		16.8	20.4	21.6
Details
Damage Type		Radiation					Cloud Radius: 2.75 m
Interval		0.5-1.0 s
Lifetime		7 s

Gallery

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  Radioactive Exclusion Zone appearance

Trivia

• In Update 32: Roughnecks At Work, Glyphid Exploders gained a 25% melee damage vulnerability so that they could be reliably defused with a single Pickaxe attack to the mouth across all Hazard Levels. Prior to the update, a single Pickaxe attack would not consistently kill them on Hazard 4 and 5.
• Glyphid Exploders were originally named 'Suiciders', but this was later changed. However, the Steam trading card for the Exploder is still titled after its original name.