Termite
Soft-bodied, blind, and utterly unstoppable in numbers.
Uncommon bugs unlock with XP you earn playing online, or with coins. The game shows how to get each one.
Passive: Mound Builder
+15% food value from every source, a mound is built one mouthful at a time.
A passive is always on: you never fire it and it never runs out. It is what the Termite 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 | Termite | Compared with the standard bug |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | ×0.98 | 2% slower |
| Turn | ×1.08 | turns 8% faster |
| Bulk | ×1.06 | 6% thicker |
| Growth | ×1.15 | 15% more from food |
| Boost | ×1.00 | the standard |
| Boost drain | ×0.92 | boosting costs 8% less |
| Spawn mass | 20 | bigger than the standard 18 |
Power-ups
Every bug has 5 power-up slots. The Termite can carry 8 of the game's 18 power-ups: the 5 core ones every bug carries, and 3 more that its traits from the real animal allow. Its traits are colony, digger, grub and hive.
Burrow
Go underground for 5s: untargetable, invisible to bots, 40% slower, cannot eat.
From its digger and grub traits.
Colony Split
Spawns 2 allied bugs that hunt and forage for you for 20s, funnelling food back to your mass.
From its colony and hive traits.
Nectar Bloom
For 10s every mouthful is worth double and you regenerate 6 mass per second.
From its grub 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 Termite plays it as a Territorial. Patrols a home range around where it was born (a Colony Split ally: around its leader) and hunts only intruders in it.
Other territorial bugs: Ant, Fire Ant, Honeybee, Bullet Ant.
Skins
The Termite has 7 skins. A skin changes only how it looks, never how it plays. See them in the full skin gallery.
Soldier Termite
A honey-gold soldier with a rust-red head.
Ghost Termite
Pale as a ghost: a white body with silvery shading.
Swarmer Termite
The winged alate caste in its nuptial-flight colours: dark chocolate body and an amber head.
Red Clay Termite
Plastered in the red laterite earth of an African mound: terracotta body, bold dark segment bands.
Queen Termite
The colony's queen in royal amethyst, banded in seven rings of gold.
Confetti Termite
A navy termite with gold bands and gold confetti dots, and a silvery head.
Jack-o'-Lantern Termite
A little carved pumpkin on legs: bright orange with deep ribs and a green stem of a head.
The real animal
The Termite in buggs.io is based on Macrotermes bellicosus, and its traits come from what the real animal does. Read about it on Wikipedia.