Fauna

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Critters are life forms with simple behavior patterns that are controlled by the game's artificial intelligence. This AI is remarkably limited in many respects, which most often manifests in sub-par path-finding and limited interactions. They come in a variety of forms, ranging from benign to horrific monsters that will destroy you instantly.

There exist many species of fauna (animals / fish) that can either be useful, useless or aggressive whilst alive. However, all fauna are useful when dead as they can be cooked by a Chef, sold by Logistics or recycled into biomass by Medical.

Note that when sold, the value of a corpse is sometimes more valuable than when cooked. e.g. a mouse corpse is ~200 whilst a cooked object is ~50.

This is an incomplete list of fauna you may encounter on the station or in space. Note that each creature has its own walk speed, damage, durability, air requirements and temperature tolerance. For example:

• a mouse takes less damage than a space carp
• a penguin can live in a fridge whilst a cow may die
• a duck will die if there's no air whilst a space carp thrives in the vacuum of space.

Animals must have a certain level of food and water to breed, depending on the animal

Animals that produce a good, like eggs or milk, require a certain level of food to produce said good

Pets

These are animals or critters with specific names and are considered Allies to the station. They are usually found on the station and wander around the place.

Icon	Name	Description	Source
	Ian	The smartest person on the station and the true captain. The HoP's pet dog. Try to keep him alive and bring him with you on the shuttle. Arguably the sole job of the Head of Personnel is to guard him.	HoP's Office
	Renault	The captain's trustworthy fox. She accidentally swallowed telecrystals because they looked shiny.	Captain's Office or Bridge
	Runtime	Professional mouse hunter. Escape artist. Runtime usually spawns in the CMO's office.	CMO's Office
	Exception	Maybe they'll give you one of their spare lives.	Angle, Northway
	Floppa	He out there. Other normal caracals can be found in random spawns.	Lighthouse, Salvage Wrecks
	Bandito	Just a silly little guy randomly found in the station. Other normal ferrets can be found in random spawns.	Station, Random Spawn
	McGriff	This dog can tell something smells around here, and that something is CRIME!	Warden's Office
	Paperwork	Took up a new job sorting books in the library after he got transferred. He seems to be just as slow at this.	The Library
	Walter	He likes chems and treats. Walter.	HoS's Office
	Morty	The station's resident Didelphis virginiana. A sensitive but resilient kind of guy. Morty can be found in random places of stations.	Station
	Poppy	It's an opossum, a small scavenging marsupial. It's wearing appropriate personal protective equipment.	Nowhere
	Morticia	Morticia can be found in random places of stations. Other normal raccoons can be found in random spawns.	Random Spawn
	Alexander	Chef's finest colleague. Sometimes survives the shift.	Kitchen
	Hamlet	A grumpy, cute and fluffy hamster. Hamlet spawns in the Captain's Office but more hamsters can be acquired from Logistics.	Captain's Office, Logistics
	Shiva	The first defender of the station. Will attack pests.	Nowhere
	Willow	The boxing kangaroo.	Nowhere
	Remilia	The chaplain's familiar. Likes fruits and blood.	Chaplain
	Siobhan	Her name is pronounced "Shivahn", but she is known as Shivs by her associates. A fluffy, adorable arctic fox.	Nowhere
	Pun Pun	An honorable member of the monkey society in charge of the bar and helping the bartenders in any way he can.	The Bar
	Laika	Security's resident she-dog. Badger the officers for headpats and nip at the heels of violent offenders.	Security

Helpful

Icon	Name	Description	Source
	Cleanbot	Goes to puddle and clean them.	Janitor's Closet, Crafting
	Medibot	A helpful little surgeon. They go to wounded people and give them medicine.	Medbay, Crafting

Neutral

Icon	Name	Description	Source
	Honkbot	A mischievous thing that honks and slips people. Usually the creation of the Clown when they find the proper tools.	Crafting
	Cats	Professional mouse hunters. Cats can be mass produced bought in moderation by Logistics to fight off mice and rats.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Chicken	A female, small, winged egg laying bird. Lays eggs more frequently than a Botanist can grow them. Butcher for raw chicken meat.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Cow	A female, lactating, dairy cow. Crew with a container in their hand (e.g. bucket) and click on the cow with the container in order to receive milk.	Logistics, Kitchen
	Duck	A female, small, winged egg laying bird. Lays eggs more frequently than a Botanist can grow them. Butcher for raw duck meat.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Ferret	Just a silly little guy!	Random Spawn
	Fox	They're a fox.	Random Spawn
	Goose	Its stomach and mind are an enigma beyond human comprehension. Seems to be angry at everything. Will probably steal your stuff.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Monkey	A small, quick primate that can be butchered for multiple pieces of Raw Meat. Sometimes they might also be crew members, don't butcher those.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Kobold	Cousins to the sentient race of lizard people, kobolds blend in with their natural habitat and are as nasty as monkeys; ready to pull out your hair and stab you to death.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Gorilla	A big, strong primate that smashes, roars and looks cool. Don't stand near one. Sometimes they might also be crew members.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Parrot	A colourful, fast bird	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Penguin	A small cold-loving bird. Butcher for raw penguin meat	Glacier, Logistics, Random Spawn
	Pig	A animal that can be butchered for multiple pieces of Raw Meat	Logistics
	Pitbull	Not a very useful pet to buy as Logistics, except if you don't like certain co-workers.	Logistics
	Possum	O possum! My Possum!	Random Spawn
	Mouse	A mischievous rodent that can go under doors. A Ghost controlling one can either be a friendly pet or the Chef's worst nightmare.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Mothroach	A mischievous thing that can go under doors.	Random Spawn
	Cockroach	This station is just crawling with bugs.	Random Spawn
	Sloth	One of the slowest creature ever.	Random Spawn
	Space Cat	A cat from space in a tiny little EVA suit. Adorable.	Random Spawn, Space
	Corgi	Ian but less cool.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Corgi Puppy	A little corgi! Aww...	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Frog	It is Wednesday my dudes. Hop hop hop. Lookin' moist.	Random Spawn
	Lizard	A harmless little dragon.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Slug	A tiny green slug.	Random Spawn
	Kangaroo	A large marsupial herbivore. It has powerful hind legs.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Security Dog	A Nanotrasen provided dog that usually helps out the security team by biting the baddies and barking at everything that moves.	Logistics
	Goat	Her spine consists of long sharp segments, no wonder she is so grumpy.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Crab	A folk legend goes around that his claw snaps spacemen out of existence over distasteful remarks. Be polite and tolerant for your own safety.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Bee	Nice to have, but you can't build a civilization on a foundation of honey alone.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Butterfly	Despite popular misconceptions, it's not actually made of butter.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Snake	Hissss! Bites aren't poisonous.	Logistics, Random Spawn
	Kangaroo Boxer	A large marsupial herbivore ready for a fight.	Usually somewhere in Maints

Hostile

Icon	Name	Description	Source
	Meat Creatures	Spawned by the Flesh Anomaly, they attack everything.	Flesh Anomaly
	Sharkminnow	A dangerous shark from the blackness of endless space, who loves to drink blood. Basically a bigger, tougher space carp.	Debris, Wrecks, Ruins
	Space Carp	A hostile fish found in space. Faster than you, and dangerous too. Try to avoid engaging in melee. Instead, attack with Proto-Kinetic Accelerators and then go in for the kill with your knife. Also comes in the Holo variety.	Debris, Wrecks, Ruins, Space Dragon
	Space Bear	A hostile bear found in space. Slower than you. Kill these by shooting it from a distance.	Wrecks
	Space Tick	A hostile parasitic tick found in space.	Wrecks
	Space Adder	A hostile space snake that is venomous. Don't get bit.	Wrecks, Ruins
	Space Kangaroo	A hostile kangaroo found in space.	Space
	Space Spider	A hostile spider found in space. Nowhere is safe from spiders.	Wrecks, Ruins
	Wisp	A glimmer wisp which spawn if the Glimmer gets too high. It is only interested in the Psionics crewmembers but will fight back if you attack it.	Glimmer Spawn
	Cerberus	This pupper is not wholesome. The not so friendly Chaplain's familiar.	Chaplain's Necronomicon
	Angry Slime	Everything around them irritates them and they will attack everyone and everything. Vulnerable to water similar to the smarter slime.	Random Spawn
	Ore Crab	A hostile ore crab. Will drop it's relevant ore on death.	Asteroids, Rock Anomaly
	Reagent Slime	A hostile weird slime that contains a random reagent. They will bleed that reagent and transfer it on bite.	Liquid Anomaly
	Luminous Person	A blinding figure of pure light, seemingly intangible.	Artefact, Expeditions
	Luminous Object	A small glowing object that causes burns on the skin with its glow.	Artefact, Expeditions
	Luminous Entity	A blinding translucent entity, the bright eye seems dangerous and scalding.	Artefact, Expeditions
	Space Cobra	Long fangs and a glowing hood, and the alluring look begs to come closer.	Wrecks, Ruins
	Glimmer Mite	A strange pest from a world beyond the noosphere. Generates glimmer while alive.	Glimmer
Placeholder	Xenos	Scary creatures evolved to murder you. Can deal a lot of damage, but not actually that tanky. Have acidic blood. Can be butchered for meat.	Wrecks, Ruins
	Goliath	Tanky red meatballs that stun you with the tentacle attack and then try to finish you in melee. Drop goliath plates when butchered that can be used to upgrade a salvager's hardsuit.	Wrecks, Redroid
	Hivelord	Hivelords spawn little guys and then throw them at you to attack. They drop hivelord remains that can be sold for a lot and have minor brute healing and adrenaline, but rapidly decrease in price and become inert in around two minutes so it's better to butcher them right before selling/using it for heals	Wrecks, Redroid
	Basilisk	Ranged crawling creature that can shoot you with projectiles that will slow you down and decrease your temperature. Mediocre damage in melee. Can be butchered for 1-3 diamond ore	Redroid