Rhinoceros Beetle

The Rhinoceros Beetle is a one of the various beetles featured in The Erebus. It is hostile and can only be found in the Ulterior Outback. It has 60 health points (30 hearts) and can knock the player up into the air and backwards if the player comes close to it, as well as give the player the Slowness effect.

When killed, it shall drop 1-3 Exoskeleton Plates.

Taming
It can be tamed, using a Beetle Taming Amulet, but is hard to do so simply because it knocks the player back when too close. Because of this it is recommended that the player is at an advantage point that is high enough that the beetle cannot knock the player back, but no too far that the player cannot reach the beetle.

When successfully tamed, the beetle receives an extra 20 health points, giving it a maximum of 80 health points (40 hearts). It can be healed by being fed Bamboo Shoots.

If the player succeeds at taming the beetle, they can add a Beetle Riding Kit onto the beetle by right-clicking whilst holding it, the riding kit is simply a Saddle that allows the player to mount and control the beetle. To mount the beetle, simply right-click the mob, to dismount, simply hold 'Shift'.

When ridden, the beetle can race up 1 high block steeps and climb like a Spider up steeps higher than 1 block.

The player can hold 'R' whilst riding the beetle to charge up the Ram Bar, shown as the green bar above the experience bar. Holding this while ramming into mob shall knock that mob back causing fall damage, it also inflicts the Slowness effect on them. Note that the longer this is charged, the more powerful the ram is. This can also be done in rapid succession.

Also note that mobs can only be knocked back and inflicted with Slowness if they are fairly large, mobs such as Beetle Larvae shall not be affected, there are some exceptions to this rule. And that most mobs rammed shall attack back, and can potentially kill the player's beetle.

Breeding
Rhinoceros Beetles can be bred using Turnips, they will also follow a player holding turnips. The Beetle Larva produced have horns on their heads, and if grown, will also become a Rhinoceros Beetle. It will be fully tame but it will only have 60 health points (30 hearts).