Cicada
Loud, wide-bodied, and surprisingly quick for its size.
Uncommon bugs unlock with XP you earn playing online, or with coins. The game shows how to get each one.
Passive: Chorus
Bulky and efficient: +15% knockback resistance and 5% cheaper boosts.
A passive is always on: you never fire it and it never runs out. It is what the Cicada does that no other bug does quite the same way.
Stats
Stats are multipliers on the standard bug, which is ×1.00 in everything (the game shows them as percentages: ×1.14 is 114%). Turn is Agility in the game. For Boost drain, lower is cheaper.
| Stat | Cicada | Compared with the standard bug |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | ×1.00 | the standard |
| Turn | ×0.94 | turns 6% slower |
| Bulk | ×1.24 | 24% thicker |
| Growth | ×1.06 | 6% more from food |
| Boost | ×1.05 | boosts 5% faster |
| Boost drain | ×0.95 | boosting costs 5% less |
| Spawn mass | 24 | bigger than the standard 18 |
Power-ups
Every bug has 5 power-up slots. The Cicada can carry 10 of the game's 18 power-ups: the 5 core ones every bug carries, and 5 more that its traits from the real animal allow. Its traits are flier, jumper, giant and singer.
Hyperdash
Instantly teleport 420u forward; for 0.4s only the wall can kill you.
From its jumper and flier traits.
Barbed Carapace
Body swells up to 30% and grows barbs: enemies that hit your body are repelled and stunned instead of dying.
From its giant trait.
Nectar Bloom
For 10s every mouthful is worth double and you regenerate 6 mass per second.
From its giant trait.
Spring Leap
A big spring-loaded leap: for 0.8s you move 2.2x as fast and sail over every other bug.
From its jumper trait.
Chorus Chirp
Instant loud song: every enemy within 260u is slowed 45% for 2.5s. Never squishes.
From its singer trait.
Core power-ups: Nitro Wings, Molt Husks, Phase Shift, Pheromone Call, Shockwave.
How bots play it
Bots fill every seat no player is using. A bot playing the Cicada plays it as a Grazer. Food first: senses food further off, reads a closing head from further away and bolts early; it almost never hunts.
Other grazer bugs: Caterpillar, Ladybird Beetle, Millipede, Mole Cricket.
Skins
The Cicada has 7 skins. A skin changes only how it looks, never how it plays. See them in the full skin gallery.
Jade Cicada
A jade-green cicada with pale mint wings and soft gold trim.
Periodical Cicada
After the periodical cicada: a black body with red-orange trim under peach-tinted wings.
Yellow Monday Cicada
The chartreuse-yellow morph of Australia's green grocer cicada, with a dark W mark.
Floury Baker Cicada
A flour-dusted cream cicada speckled with brown spots, after Australia's Aleeta curvicosta.
Blue Moon Cicada
The rare sky-turquoise morph of the green grocer cicada, seen 'once in a blue moon'.
Champagne Cicada
A gold cicada under champagne wings with a chain of three sparkling silver-white diamonds and a navy W mark.
Harvest Moon Cicada
Wings that glow orange like a big harvest moon, on a body the deep blue of an October night.
The real animal
The Cicada in buggs.io is based on Magicicada septendecim, and its traits come from what the real animal does. Read about it on Wikipedia.