How it fights
A swarm is not one fight. It is the same small fight over and over until you are sick of it. Singly they are nothing worth the name. Together they are a subtraction that never quite stops, and whatever you spend on one of them is wasted on all the rest. What finishes people here is rarely damage. It is attrition, and the temptation to clear just one more room before resting.
Field notes
The great insects come in numbers and the numbers are the thing. They swarm in the warm months and lie low in the cold, and a nest found in winter is a nest that will be a country in summer. They follow scent trails and the trails can be seen if you look for the line of bare ground. They do not retreat and they do not learn. Smoke sends them down and fire sends them up.
Where it is met
Met in Waste of Scoured Country, Patient Maze, Graveyard of Ash Interior, Tower of Scoured Country, Old Boneyard of Ash Interior, Turning Coils, Quiet Ossuary of Burnt Coast and Stone-Ring Camp, by travellers of levels 1 to 5.
Known by these names
Known by these names: dust beetle and beekeeper.
The roll
Under this kind stand one of the least sort and one of the common sort.
Where to look
Kin on this ground
Met in the same places.
The record
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Generated from the game, 17 August 2026.