Crumb Ant

#Overview

The Crumb Ant is the tier-1 pest of the fried-food biomes. It shares the tier-1 slot with the Oil Drip in Chip Canyons and Fry-Oil Desert, with the Parking Lot Gull in the Fry Palace Drive-Thru, and with the Bowling Pin in Gutterball Lanes. On Normal, tier-1 pests make up 8 in 9 spawns until 4:00 and stop spawning at 9:00 (10:00 on Easy). As a tier-1 pest it is never an elite.

It runs straight at Tibo and hurts only on contact, for 3 base damage. It is built for speed, not toughness: 6 base HP, tied with the Aphid for the lowest of any pest, and speed 46, second only to the Parking Lot Gull among tier-1 pests. A kill gives 1 XP and a 3% chance of a coin.

#Tips

• Ants reach Tibo well before their slower biome partners (Oil Drips and Bowling Pins move at 30). Expect them to arrive first in any early wave.
• With so little HP (about 4 at the start of a Normal run), weapons that fire often or pierce tend to clear ants better than slow, heavy hitters.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Chip Canyons, enemy tier 1
• Fry-Oil Desert, enemy tier 1
• Fry Palace Drive-Thru, enemy tier 1
• Gutterball Lanes, enemy tier 1
• Roast Caldera, enemy tier 1

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.^[1] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "crumb-ant",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "chase"
  },
  "hp": 6,
  "speed": 46,
  "damage": 3,
  "radius": 4,
  "xp": 1,
  "goldChance": 0.03,
  "mass": 0
}