Aphid

* Max
* Pete
* Willow
* Hoops

* Flower Bed
* Grasslands
* Hedge
* Oak Hill
* Upper Grasslands

* Pet Memorial Aphid (When Tamed)
* Aphid Honeydew (Passive Drop)

**Rare Drop**

* Raw Aphid Meat (0-6)
* Aphid Honeydew (0-4)

**Exclusive Drop from Stealing**

* Speed Droplet

## Respawn Info

* **Hedge:** 18 Hours
* **Upper Yard:** 2 Days

## Stats

The **Aphid** is a passive insect found primarily around the Grasslands area. This insect is identified by its bright green appearance and high-pitched squeaks. It's one of the smallest creatures in-game and is considerably smaller than the player.

## Behavior

Aphids roam aimlessly on the ground, occasionally dropping Aphid Honeydew. Startled Aphids squeak, jump, then flee from perceived threats. If near a Grass or Dry Grass stalk, a startled Aphid will sometimes climb and hang from the top of the stalk. Aphids typically remains in an alerted state for only several seconds before returning to a docile state.

### Interaction With Player

The Aphid is passive toward the player. When it spots a player, it will climb up a grass stalk nearby. It can also be tamed by the player using Plant Slurry, in which it will not run away anymore. When using the ZIP.R, an aphid will be running on a wheel attached the Zipline, pulling the player upwards and slightly boost speed when zip lining downwards.

### Interaction With Other Creatures

Aphids are actively hunted by Ladybugs and will be chased great distances. Lawn Mites additionally will attack Aphids, though less frequently. Aphids will display their normal fleeing behavior when hunted or attacked. They are passive to other creatures, but will commonly flee from most creatures even if they are passive towards Aphids.

### Taming

Aphids can be pacified by the player by feeding them enough Plant Slurries, in which they will eat when on the ground. When they notice a slurry, they will approach it and slowly eat it before returning to wandering. They will stop eating and flee if the player or another insect gets to close, so they are sometimes tricky to tame. Once they have eaten enough slurries, they will start dancing and asking for a pet and once pet, will have been tamed and follow the player. When tamed, they apply the Aphid Friend Bonus that decreases stamina drain when running.

## Advanced Loot Table

This is a more advanced covering of the loot-table of Aphid. Each item has an independent chance and count, in which the chance is the chance it can drop and the count is the amount of items that have that chance. If a count larger than 1 is in one section, then each item has an independent chance from one another (EX: Instead of getting say 2 of a resource, you can get 1 with a 70% chance and another with an additional 70% chance). In terms of Stealing, it can take one item from every section of the loot table, so even if a item count is say 5, the player will only steal one from that section.

Creature Loot Tables also tend to have large amounts of 1% items, which is intended to make stealing more rare items harder, as the player is more likely to steal the large amounts of 1% items than a singular 50% item.

**Note**: For consistency sake, all duplicate categories have a multiplier next to them, but function as unique loot types when say using Stealing.

  Pet Memorial Aphid | 1
  Raw Aphid Meat **x6** | 1
  Speed Droplet | 1

## Strategy

Aphids are reasonably easy to kill, the best way is by attacking them before they even notice you are in the vicinity. If the Aphid starts running, it is recommended to attack when they pause to look back and jump up, as that will give you plenty of time to attack them. If the Aphids climb a grass stalk, they can be knocked down by punching the grass with any item, causing the Aphid to take some damage and be stunned.

## Notes

* Aphids will steal Plant Slurries from storages.

## Trivia

* Aphids appear to be based off of Soybean Aphids of the real world.