Beetle Larva (mob)

Beetle Larvae are a passive mob featured in The Erebus. It is found in the green places of the Erebus dimension, and has 8 health points, or 4 hearts, and is a passive mob, meaning that it shall never attack the player. It is also a good source of food for early adventurers.

Jumping on the beetle causes it to burst, if the player were to do this there would be a chance that the beetle will drop a Slimeball, but they would also receive the Nausea effect for 6 seconds every time they do this. There is also a rare chance that a Diamond shall drop when doing this.

Killing the beetle without squashing it shall drop 1 Beetle Larva (food item), which the player can consume to restore 1 health point or half a heart.

Beetle Larvae will consume any wood they find, breaking it slowly first. Each time they consume wood they grow a little larger, if this happens 8 times the Beetle Larva shall turn into a fully grown Beetle.



Trivia

 * The Beetle Larva was originally named "Maggot", and was one of the very first mobs added to The Erebus.
 * As of 0.1.2, Beetle Larva can be obtained as the offspring of 2 beetles.
 * There are config options to make it also eat wooden tile entities (chests), and Apocalypse which makes it eat anything.