Rhinoceros Beetle
A living battering ram with a horn and no reverse gear.
Uncommon bugs unlock with XP you earn playing online, or with coins. The game shows how to get each one.
Passive: Hard Shell
40% knockback resistance, 10% smaller slow effects.
A passive is always on: you never fire it and it never runs out. It is what the Rhinoceros Beetle 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 | Rhinoceros Beetle | Compared with the standard bug |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | ×0.90 | 10% slower |
| Turn | ×0.78 | turns 22% slower |
| Bulk | ×1.30 | 30% thicker |
| Growth | ×1.12 | 12% more from food |
| Boost | ×1.00 | the standard |
| Boost drain | ×1.10 | boosting costs 10% more |
| Spawn mass | 26 | bigger than the standard 18 |
Power-ups
Every bug has 5 power-up slots. The Rhinoceros Beetle can carry 9 of the game's 18 power-ups: the 5 core ones every bug carries, and 4 more that its traits from the real animal allow. Its traits are armored, giant, ground and spiky.
Burrow
Go underground for 5s: untargetable, invisible to bots, 40% slower, cannot eat.
From its ground trait.
Barbed Carapace
Body swells up to 30% and grows barbs: enemies that hit your body are repelled and stunned instead of dying.
From its armored, giant and spiky traits.
Nectar Bloom
For 10s every mouthful is worth double and you regenerate 6 mass per second.
From its giant trait.
Horn Charge
Lower your horns for 2.5s: 1.5x speed, wider turns and hard to shove. A body you ram is knocked aside and stunned instead of squishing you (barbs still bounce you).
From its spiky 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 Rhinoceros Beetle plays it as a Tank. Big-bug confidence: shrugs off heads that scare others, passes bodies closer and is slow to boost.
Other tank bugs: Bumblebee, Dung Beetle, Elephant Beetle, Titan Beetle.
Skins
The Rhinoceros Beetle has 7 skins. A skin changes only how it looks, never how it plays. See them in the full skin gallery.
Bronze Rhinoceros Beetle
Burnished bronze armour with pale gold highlights.
Jade Rhinoceros Beetle
Deep jade-green armour with mint highlights.
Hercules Rhinoceros Beetle
The giant of the rainforest canopy: antique-gold wing cases splashed with black spots, and a glossy black horn.
Ironclad Rhinoceros Beetle
A living battering ram in blued-steel plate, studded with polished silver rivets and tipped with a steel horn.
Sovereign Rhinoceros Beetle
Jet-black lacquered armour inlaid with two gold lozenges, crowned by a gilded horn.
Snowflake Rhinoceros Beetle
Frosted-glass blue elytra scattered with three white snowflake diamonds, and an ice-white horn.
Franken-Rhino
Monster green with shiny steel bolts and black boots. It's alive... and it's very friendly!
The real animal
The Rhinoceros Beetle in buggs.io is based on Trypoxylus dichotomus, and its traits come from what the real animal does. Read about it on Wikipedia.