Beetle Brood

#Overview

Beetle Brood never spawns on its own. It is the minion of the Colorado Queen, the boss that arrives at 3:00 in the wave schedule, and it can also turn up earlier if a Boss Lair wakes the Queen in the first minutes. Her main attack marks eight spots in a ring and, once the attack's 1 s telegraph runs out, each marker hatches into a Beetle Brood. She keeps doing this for the whole fight.

Brood are plain chasers: they walk straight at Tibo and hurt only on contact. They are much tougher than the tier-1 pests around them at 3:00. With 16 base HP and 7 damage they have more than twice an Aphid's HP and damage, and only the Fry Fly among tier-2 chasers is faster than their speed of 46. Each one is worth 1 XP and has a 2% chance of dropping a coin.

#How it works

The in-game description says “Her brood hatches in a ring around Tibo.”, but the code places the ring 36 units around the Queen herself, not around Tibo.^[1]

Hatched brood get the same time and curse scaling as ordinary pests. Any brood still alive 40 s after hatching disappears and drops nothing.^[2]

#Tips

• Because the brood hatch next to the Queen, staying at range keeps each new batch at a distance. Area weapons aimed at the Queen can catch the brood as they appear.
• The supply only stops when the Queen dies, so it usually pays to focus her down rather than chase brood that will despawn anyway.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Summoned by Colorado Queen

Biome tiers: each biome lists five enemy tiers; higher tiers appear as the run goes on (see Enemy scaling).

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[3] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "beetle-brood",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "chase"
  },
  "hp": 16,
  "speed": 46,
  "damage": 7,
  "radius": 4,
  "xp": 1,
  "goldChance": 0.02,
  "mass": 0
}