Hornet

### Move

Wanders around randomly, but chases a flower when one gets close. Stays at a distance from the flower.

### Attack

Shoots missiles at flowers, and contact with flowers. Einstein Hornets predict the movement of flowers, not just following alongside them.

### Spawn

Hard
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### Special

Shoots missiles

The **Hornet** is an unusual, original mob in florr.io. They have the ability to shoot missiles at the player.

## Appearance

An oval with black and yellow stripes and a dark yellow outline. It has two antennae at the front, which appear as slightly curved black lines.

## Stats and Behavior

**Speed:** Slow when passive, fast when aggressive

**Health:** 40 HP (10 HP for missiles)

**Body Damage:**  50 HP (10 HP for missiles)

Wanders around randomly until a flower gets in range of it, at which point it will start chasing the flower while shooting missiles at it. The hornet will stop chasing the flower after getting within a close range but still turn to fire missiles. If you leave this range, the hornet will start following you again until you kill it or leave its aggressive range. Hornets turn toward you to fire missiles. Normal hornets fire at your current location, but Einstein hornets will fire at location where they anticipate you will be and thus are much harder to deal with. Hornets experience slight recoil when firing missiles.

## Spawn Zones

 Medium
 Hard
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## Drops

 Antennae | 0.03%

The expected value of XP you get from a hornet's drops is 20. When the hornet itself's XP is added, killing a hornet gives 30 XP in average, making it good for leveling up in hard zone. In ??? zone, however, dark ladybugs give slightly more (33.8 XP), and are also less dangerous.

## Tips

* Hornets are one of the most annoying mobs in the game and a serious hazard to deal with in the hard and ? zones. Their ranged attack means they can hurt you while still being at a safe distance from your petals. Certain petals are better than others at dealing with hornets, but generally, more range is better for hornets. Ironically, the hornet's weapon, the missile, is also one of the best counters dealing high damage. They, along with peas, however, are hard to aim. Wings can also pressure them from a medium range, but the best way to deal with hornets is with eggs, which will target them from far away, requiring no aiming from the player.

* If you're using wings or close range petals, move the opposite direction your petals are rotating around the hornet, to ensure maximum damage (in most cases, move counterclockwise). With Einstein hornets, move back and forth to dodge their missiles. It's important to keep ranged petals/eggs in your inventory in case you run into a swarm, where close ranged combat becomes extremely dangerous also keep healing petals like leaf and rose so if you get hit(which is very likely unless you have eggs) you can heal and close combat won't be so dangerous. Try to have some tanky petals like rock or heaviest so you can tank the missiles.

* You can try to herd hornets into the left side of hard where players may not be expecting them. They do not go into the medium zone so you can't pressure players there. If you're being overwhelmed, you can use this mechanic to your advantage by going into the medium zone for a few seconds to get out of their range.
* Deathwheel builds can overwhelm hornets with sheer DPS, but only do this if you have a lot of health because the missiles will likely hit you.
* Builds with lots of Tank-like petals such as Heavy or Heaviest are a good idea to use by "boxing in" hornets, or rushing at them with your petals. Just beware of the lengthy respawn.
* You can also go behind a Centipede, making the Hornets stuck in the segments.
* Hitting a Hornet with an Iris petal will one-hit it but it takes a few seconds.
* Make sure to quickly deal with a hornet that is following the player, as the player has a knight chance of being overwhelmed if there are many hornets following.
* While dealing with normal hornets, circle around them and keep hitting them. Iris' are great for this task, as they can one-hit a hornet within a few seconds.
* If dealing with an Einstein hornet, zigzag towards it and hit with a high DPS build.

## Trivia

* Hornets are the only mob that posses a ranged attack and is thus regarded as one of the most dangerous mobs.

* Before the 17/2/20 update, hornets were much more common.
	+ Since the entity limit is kept constant, hornets would pile up in the ??? zone to the point where it became impossible to enter.
* On 24/2/20, the hornet AI was improved so they could predict the movement of players (Einstein hornets). This was done to prevent herding. Later that day, most hornets were changed back to normal, but a few hornets would spawn as Einstein hornets.
* Box-rushing Hornets is a good idea because their missile damage is low unless they group up with another player or other Hornets.
* Don't be intimidated by Hornets: Running away almost will never help.