The Loot Bug 

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yeah squimby yeah

I personally think they should change the lootbug perk to one that allows you to pet lootbugs and force them to harmlessly vomit up their payload, and then crawl into the flood, adding a still just as useless but probably much wider used perk to the game for those who dont want to kill the little guys.

Fun Fact: Lootbugs do not spawn on Escort missions. I asked the devs on Stream why this is and they didn't know. Must be a Lootbug bug.

It's such a great part of the game that plays with your psychology. There's absolutely no reason to not kill them, you have nothing to gain by not killing them, you should obviously kill them, it's in your best interests, they're digital cave creatures that aren't real. One problem: they're cute. So I very rarely kill them, out of a conscious and somewhat self-sacrificial choice.

had an absolute menace of a driller burn every lootbug he saw, we made him promise not to kill one that we found in a giant room by itself, he promised, then when i came back to the room later, it was gone. i questioned him and he said "it died of natural causes". i responded with :( and he followed that up with "fire is natural"

Thr noises they make make me feel so 🥺 The tiniest little peeps. Just little guys. Smol blorbos. The babies. And then they purr when you pet them🥺

I like to call a huge group of lootbugs a migration because they all move in the same direction and often gather together in one spot eventually.

I remember playing gunner once with the toxic splash overclock, shooting at bugs beside some lootbugs. I got the bugs, but then I noticed, to my horror, that the lootbugs were dying to toxins. I could only watch their healthbars go to zero and explode helplessly. Over 10 blackout stouts later, the guilt will not go away.I still feel like a war criminal.

I like the idea that loot bugs spawn in higher numbers on "on site refining" because their drawn to the rich and dense morkite.

The dwarven instinct to chuck a satchel charge at a large convention of lootbugs for the just answer of "Me want shiny" outweighs any and all compassion for friendly bugs.

*"and to think... we almost killed you!"* TLDR: you can shoot lootbugs with litho-foamer to extract nitra without killing them!!!

I run "it's a bug thing" because I love walking up to someone petting a lootbug, and then it just blows up in their face without me shooting it. Then I'll type in chat "You pet it too hard >:(" and try and gaslight greenbeards into thinking you shouldn't pet the lootbugs.

I would love a update where the space rig has some bug pets, like a extra fat loot bug that wears lil costumes for holidays and say he snuck on board and likes beer. Or a lil Steve too small to fight or cause real damage (Edit) each class should have there own bug Driller - fat loot bug Gunner - lil Steve Scout - small flying grabber bug Engi - jelly fish thing

I'm surprised you didn't mention that one of the dev's newborn at the time is the voice of lootbugs

I live by three rules in DRG: - Leave no dwarf behind - If you don't rock and stone you ain't coming home - Leave no gold behind Loot bugs have gold and I have to uphold those rules so I will kill any loot bugs on sight (preferably with a shotgun).

I die a little inside everytime I have to kill a lootbug.

I love how on their own Lootbugs don't actually look that cute, but in the context of DRG where almost every other living thing wants to take your face off, they instantly become the most adorable little creatures

I wanna make a lootbug farm in the rig, or find a mod that turns Molly into a giant lootbug on a trolley. I need this mod now

8:46 it’s a lil car wash! He’s paying you to clean his little body!!!

Yeeeeah squimby :) I’m very happy you talked about using the litho-foamer to get minerals from the loot bugs. I use that all the time and just call it “milking the bugs”. Great video as always, sniss!

Mario: love the lootbugs Luigi: if its got the loot, it gets the shoot!

Its funny how just a few lines of dialogue can color an entire game mechanic. The dwarves say they feel bad about killing them so the player does too.

I love these little guys. I do have quite the killcount on them, through accidents or when I needed the nitra, but I always feel kinda bad about it and would prefer just petting them indefinetly.

My headcanon for why there are so many lootbugs on refining missions was that the liquid morkite caused geothermal activity underground that affected the lootbugs, causing them to breed. Making them essentially breeding grounds. I also thought extracting the liquid morkite killed off these breeding grounds, putting the lootbug population at risk.

5:53 Huh... maybe that explains the ball off 30 something loot bugs I found once in an onsite refinery mission. They were like all stuck together and if you pet them, well it was quite a cacophony of cuteness. Eventually I felt bad for them since they couldn't move and well I didn't want to leave them in purgatory so I put them out of their misery... yeah my game lagged at the sheer explosion of gold and nitra that flew everywhere XD

What I really enjoy about this game is the resource collection. And lootbugs make for perfect pinatas. I used to spare them all, but then realized I prefer mineral collection than lootbugs being alive, so here I am, killing all on sight.

The thought that someday well actually see lootbugs eating the minerals is a vibe

Yeah Squimby yeah

my little headcannon as to why Lootbugs seem to spawn more on Point Extraction is that they just really love to drink it and gather around those areas. Also probably where they also gather to mate, or more likely to mate when drinking Liquid Morkite

Loot Bugs make surprisingly good steeds to ride into battle on! Still waiting for R&D to approve my designs for a loot-bug saddle… also yea squimby yea

Dwarves: "Shoot anything with more legs than two!" Also dwarves: "Why am I killing the wildlife?"

I have a mod that makes lootbugs make an anyeurism fart sound. Its hilarious from a distance.

I can never bring myself to hurt loot bugs, to a point where when we see a golden loot bug my friend tells me to look away before he kills it

I'm almost certain that Lootbugs would be the size of a dog in real life.

Came for the Deep Rock, stayed for the impending moral dilemma.

8:27 i like to imagine that you're just washing the little guys and they hawk up some minerals as payment :)

Just gave me an idea for a gold farm. Go to a refining mission, dig a hole, wait untill lootbugs go in, trap with platforms, spray with lithofoamer to create a cycle where the lootbugs vomits and eats minerals.

When I'm feeling magnanimous, when I'm emotionally expansive, I spare them bugs. Any other time, they pop like pinatas.

Imagine an "evil lootbugs" modifier for missions where they to damage to you itd be funny

Personally I wish the Lootbug plushie was bigger and also very soft like a squishmallow, I think that would be peak Lootbug performance. They are friend-shaped and I want to cuddle them like pillows.

Unironically I don't think I've consciously spared a single lootbug since I started playing last year

I think I would make my wife cry if I attacked the loot bugs. She says they're so ugly they're cute.

Yeahh squimbyyy!!! Also since you mentioned it my solution to the trolley problem would be to pull the lever as the train is on the intersection so that the train wheels break and no one dies.

It's A Bug Thing is great on Scout where you are already zipping around supplementing Nitra, and can freely grapple near Lootbugs on any surface. Total time and ammo saver. It's also worth considering for any class for On Site Refining missions. No amount of cute is going to make me overlook easy resources in a game with resource management.

They also spawn pretty densely on SalvOp missions. It’s especially amusing when there’s a loose mineral chunk they can’t get to (e.g. stuck underneath a dead contagion spike) and after a while they’ll all clump together on top of it and wiggle around like some sort of multi-legged creature. That’s when I am completely overwhelmed by the temptation to pop ‘em.

Seeing the floor covered with red and gold is just too satisfying to pass up. One or two lootbugs I might ignore, but a whole horde of them? Hans, get ze Flammenwerfer. Gold lootbugs though? Protect at all costs.

“It’s so cute, how you think that would work on me; Don’t you know I’m dead inside?~”

I'm sorry, but as a Driller main, when I see a group of them together, Fortunate Son starts playing in my head...

I'm definitely somewhere in the middle. I like to play with greenbeards on low-mid haz missions and show them the ways of light (petting lootbugs), but on EDD's, haz 5 or some haz 4, it's open season. That said, I still pet the lootbug in the second between killing it and waiting for the precious minerals to pop, as a final goodbye.

I try not to kill them, but when there's about 20 in one area, it gets kinda hard not to resist. I will use this trick to it's fullest though

I have 1 gunner load out that when I use I refuse to kill lootbugs, just pets and scritches! My justification is a head cannon that he has a pet lootbug on the rig that he feeds the leftover minerals he smuggles with morkite being a special treat for the lil cutie. Every other toon I just kill them for the minerals but as the dwarves would say”I just killed a lootbug, and I’m not so proud about it”

as someone that patiently waited for the game to be $10 and finally got on in the end of last year, context is extremely helpful looking back at a huge amount of dev time

When someone puts the gun in your hand and a lootbug in the scope, you must choose between what is easy, and what is right

I mostly don't attack Loot Bugs. The only exception is when I'm on an EDD - every rule goes out the window then. Part of it is probably how I use them in other games too. Every spaceship construction game I've played now has a Loot Bug design in it. It's only goal is to store and extract precious minerals. They have been been killed in "friendly fire" incidents by my friends more times than I can count.

As you mentioned in video: Onsite refining - Eliminate verything that gets on pipes. Besides that, only deep dives if/or low on nitra/ammo

I always thought Liquid Morkite Missions were Loot Bug mating grounds, that's why there were so many of them...

Okay, now we need a voiceline where mission control tells us to stop pressure washing the lootbugs.

That litho-foamer thing means Lootbugs hate showers too. Just like us. We have so much in common!

when i see a loot bug my brain translates that as some minerals walking

I like to think that lootbugs drink the liquid morkite, so the morkite wells are like watering holes for them. That's why there are so many of them on those missions.

I personally only loot bugs when its very satisfying or necessary, which of course includes onsite refining

To be honest cave vines and pog plants make the radioactive exclusion zone my favorite biome alongside the azure wealds

I've been using "It's a bug thing" mostly so I don't feel guilty for looting them. I'll definitely reconsider it next mission

It's HIM! Here comes the boooooooyyyyyyyy yeaaaaa squimby yeeeaahh, go lil man gooo

We call that dense amount of lootbugs in on-site refining the “Lootbug Migration” as they all move together as a huge pack

I love the use of the magnetic tree; such a good song by such a good composer, I also love your video, as always!

Another commenter mentioned the idea of individual classes having their own, like, pets. While I think the intent was for it to just be something cute on the Space Rig and not for missions, as well as specific to each class, I disagree with that and actually have quite a few ideas about it. Before getting to the ideas, the original pets that the other commenter or perhaps those who replied to them are as follows: Driller - Fat lootbug Gunner - Baby Steve(swarmer sized) Scout - Baby Mactera Grabber Engineer - Naedocyte Shocker Once again I disagree that these should be limited to their own class, and one can be brought for each miner in a squad. Now, without further ado, my ideas for each of the pets and how they might be able to help on missions… though I am open to suggestions and please feel free to add anything you think is relevant in the replies. Lootboy or Louis(my name for driller’s loot-bug, haven’t decided which is better) allows you to passively gain minerals. Though he is bloated, this is from extra consumption of minerals and given how much he needs, he moves faster than normal lootbugs and holds a lot more. You can pick him up or call him over at any time to retrieve the minerals then set him off again. Very good for just general mining obviously. Garfield(Gunner’s Steve, who I’ve decided would be a guard variant even if tiny, hence the name, though if anyone can think of a better one please feel free to tell me) would be amazing for combat. I imagine they would be able to be healed or revived like dwarves, ie they can’t die by normal means, or when low enough they retreat to you to heal. Either way they’re great for combat and drawing aggro. Faster than a normal Steve but also weaker in terms of damage. Maurice or Mack(scout’s grabber, with the name inspired by both Mactera and Mosquito, again can’t decide which is better for the name and please feel free to give suggestions for others) is amazing for really only traversal. I imagine they’d be able to be called over with a shout(X on keyboard) and would grab you when that happens, then would take you to a destination you give by using the laser pointer. The range would likely be limited or the movement would in some ways, given the damn thing is tiny and is picking up a whole dwarf, but I imagine it’d help a lot in many different ways Lastly we come to Shawn/Nate(engi’s jelly, the former name coming from Shocker/Shock, and the latter from Naedocyte, once again I’m open to name suggestions) who might work similar to Garfield but they inflict status affects. They likely would be able to help with ammo quite a lot as well, maybe able to convert nitra directly to ammo somehow? Unsure, but either way they’d also be good for slowing down enemies among other things. That’s all I’ve got for now, I honestly hope that this gets traction and ends up maybe even going to the devs, somehow? You never know, it could happen, lol. Anyways, that’s all my ideas for a more extensive pet system in the game.

I FUCKING LOVE LOOTBUGS!!!!!!!!

My friend figured out the LithoFoamer technique and we've been using it ever since. It's our headcanon that it's an ethical way to take a lootbug's minerals without hurting it too much! Even though you still deal damage to it.

I can't really have empathy for something the devs literally called a "LOOTbug"

I ignore lootbugs cuz they're cute, but I can also be reckless with gunfire and explosives. So civilian casualties aren't intentional

Yeah Squimby, yeah. :) As for "when" I kill loot bugs. Depends on team comp. If I'm running with some real Green-Beards I need all the nitra I can get to compensate for double dippers.

I didnt know they actually ATE dropped minerals and for somereason when i heard that it made me smile

Loot bugs will eat any small mineral and increase the amount of said mineral when they die. Loot bugs will eat: Nitra gold Dystrum Morkite Red Sugar and all crafting minerals that are not large chunks (such as Aquarc, Jadiz, and enor pearls), but will eat the smaller variations (such as those dropped by Minerals Hoarders and cargo crates).

A friend of mine started playing drg recently and started killing loot bugs with the excuse that we’d need more nitra, I expressly brought it up that if we ever needed a little nitra for one more resupply- only then should we do the dirty deed. However he insisted we needed more. It was at that time I approached him with a satchel charged and asked him to guess how much dmg one did when fully decked out. Then asked if he wanted to see how much it did first hand semi passive aggressively. Let’s just say he realized how much I liked loot bugs when I also asked him if I had blown up previous beards that tested my drillers pro-lootbug patience and stopped being a ass about it.

I die a little inside every time I have to take out a lootbug

Happy to see someone else has their own rules of if to kill loot bugs or not. Even though they are cool little creatures they can get annoying. Anyways wish you all the best!

i absolutly love it when loot bugs do a conga line

After my reform of being a senseless murderer, I’ve only purposely killed one loot bug. And it stung. Like a lot. I still think about it to this day.

The Lootbug is the ultimate litmus test for whether a dwarf is capable of self-governing. To avoid killing the Lootbug is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To refrain from ending the Lootbug's life is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies or accidents in which a dwarf is unable to avoid killing a Lootbug. Simultaneously, it is not against DRG policy to kill a Lootbug, and the death of the Lootbug itself results in it expelling any of the riches it has consumed, as well as an additional half, providing a selfish incentive for killing the Lootbug. Therefore the Lootbug presents itself as the apex example of whether a dwarf will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for killing a Lootbug, management will not demote you or take the Lootbug's consumed treasure out of your pay for killing it. You gain nothing for sparing the Lootbug. You must spare the Lootbug out of the goodness in your own heart. You must spare the Lootbug because it's the right thing to do. Because it's correct. A dwarf who is unable to do this is no better than a glyphid, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a policy and the force that stands behind it. The Lootbug is what determines whether a dwarf is a good or bad employee of DRG.

For me it's full on lootbug genocide, sometimes a cluster grenade and a family of lootbugs is just such a good pairing

It's funny to see how much people care about these guys and how hard you try not to kill them. I kill lootbugs all the time, and it never makes me sad because I know they're just creatures in a video game. Don't get me wrong, I think they're super cute and adorable, I just didn't know anyone had anything against killing them.

I used to kill lootbugs when I played DRG on my Xbox, but ever since I started playing DRG on my crusty laptop I never kill lootbugs intentionally. A big reason why is this video. So thank you for telling us not to kill lootbugs, I appreciate it. I also never overheat the minigun, depressurize the Cryo cannon, or really just dump ammo to the point where I actually have to reload. I really don't know how people just shoot non-stop without worrying about the ammo there wasting, so personally I find myself running out ammo much less not that I would kill lootbugs if I was low on nitra and ammo.

I'm kinda curious to know what happens if you kill a Crassus Detonator, mine all the gold but don't deposit it and you let a lootbug eat all the gold, do you get all that gold multiplied by 1.5 back? how long would it take?

The lore reason for dense lootbug populations in refinery missions for me anyways is that the increase in minerals in one area cause lootbugs to migrate there and feast

yeaah squimby i stand on the loot bug genocide side, i have very little empathy for bugs... and the have gold

Imagine a mutation where there are scarce amounts of gold and nitra veins that are also tiny because there was a lootbug migration and they ate all the minerals

Yeeahhh Squimby :) Everyone in the comments say Yeah, Squimby, Yeah :)

I never kill lootbugs, because the feeling of Gold and Nitrat lying everywhere suddenly stresses me

my brain automatically blocks out the sight of any lootbugs whenever i have enough nitra for a supply drop, otherwise i just kill em all

I always kill lootbugs, even if I probably don’t need them. However, I also always pet them while they are dying to thank them for the contribution.

Lootbugs are like cows. They're cute. But delicious and full of minerals; so while happy to see them, I don't mourn their deaths.

Ever since I started playing I have had this mind set “A dwarf gotta do what a dwarf gotta do” when it came to popping loot bugs

It's as they say in the mines... "You shouldn't eat precious minerals..." *Loads Gun with malicious intent* "It'll get you killed..."

Well, if they didn't eat valuable minerals, they would live longer.

When I started DRG I was killing every lootbug on sight regardless of the situation, I don't kill them as much anymore, partially to let them chill in their caves, partially to not chase after the minerals, but their noise still drives me absolutely crazy

There are three steps in your approach to Lootbugs 1) Oblivous "Oh, a bug with free nitra. Cool." 2) The Discovery "Why are the dwarves sad about killing them? We we the baddies?" 3) Guilt "Fuck... I can pet them, and they're not passive, but friendly..." 4) Acceptance "Forgive me, creature"

Ive had a fun thing ive learned, you can use the litho foamer to get minerals from lootbugs without killing or significantly harming them

Lootbug waterboarding - yeah we have to extract minerals in that way