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Dune worm
A giant worm under the red sand of Mars that bursts out during the dust storms. The ground rumbles before it shows: run when you hear it.
In the game
How to get it
Under the sand and the dust of Mars, alone; it hunts only during the dust storms.
What it is for
Killed: 2 to 4 aresite chips (the canyon ore it swallowed, four make an ingot), 2 to 4 sandworm teeth and 3 to 6 chitin. Most of all, a reason to keep an eye on the storms.
Why it exists
Mars's storms do not only blind you: something wakes up under the dunes.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
How it behaves
- In a storm it feels any player in Survival within 26 m and swims toward him under the soft ground, slower than he runs.
- Heard before seen: while it closes in, the ground rumbles every 2 or 3 s. Out of a storm it rests deep and rumbles only now and then.
- Within 4 m it bursts out (its first blow), fights for a few seconds and dives back where the ground is soft. Under the sand nothing can hit it.
- It never leaves the sand and the dust: rock is safe.
How to farm it
Not a farm but a hunt: one worm a storm. Wait on rock at the sand's edge and strike when it bursts out: its chips make Mars's ingot without a canyon climb.