Creatures · Creature
Regolith creeper
A plated crawler of the Moon's dust that hides when someone comes and bites a little. It sheds helium-3 now and then; breed it with lunar moss.
In the game
How to get it
On the Moon's dust and crater floors, one or two together.
What it is for
Helium-3 without mining: it sheds 4 voxels every 5 to 8 minutes. Startled when its next shed is near, it lets it go at once as it hides: a scare hurries the helium, it never adds to it.
Why it exists
The Moon's dust hides more than craters; a patient hunter is paid in fuel.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
How it behaves
- A player in Survival within 5 m and it dives into the dust, out of reach; it peeks out again 4 to 8 s later when nobody stands right by it.
- Step on its hiding place and it bursts out with a bite. Hit, it bites back.
- Dust maws hunt it.
How to farm it
Hold lunar moss: a creeper near you stops hiding for 15 s. Put a leash on it (a led creeper follows and does not hide) and lead it into a pen on the Moon, feed them lunar moss to breed them, and lay an OVM grid under the pen: each grown creeper drops 4 voxels of helium-3 every 5 to 8 minutes into your machines. Small, they fit many to a pen; the dustback gives more per head and felt besides.
On the progress path
LU2MoonMain path
One of the items of the step Lunar creatures.
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