Cannibal

The **Cannibal** is an NPC and a playable character. They have blue overalls with one suspender and an asymmetrical face, with one eye lower than the other.

They are unlocked by killing 20 NPCs on a single level.

## NPC

Cannibals are the main threat in the Park and are hostile towards any characters who aren't part of the level, including the player, and are aligned with all other Cannibals (including the player if they are currently playing as one). They spawn in groups within houses, caves, and hedge mazes.

They often carry Axes as their main weapon and deal lots of damage. In other areas of the Park, they hide in Bushes, only jumping out if the player gets close. These Cannibals don't have a "home", and they will constantly follow you. Cannibals also appear in Downtown, hiding in Manholes and attacking as you walk by.

They will Cannibalize any corpse they encounter, and even devour fellow Cannibals. They will do this even when they have full health.

Cannibals also appear in War Zone disaster levels, fighting soldiers and attacking anyone in sight.

They don't have very good hearing as an NPC; they don't tend to investigate noises that other NPC types generally would investigate.

## Drops

* Money (common)
* Rock (rare)

## Tips and Strategies

### Playable

* **How to fight:** Cannibals are better at melee than ranged combat, but should keep a gun on hand just in case. They can use Bear Traps to help fight ranged enemies by luring them around corners into one. Make sure to use Cannibalize after each fight to heal.

* **How to finish a mission:** Cannibal's options are very limited due to their traits, often needing to fight to complete missions. Use Bear Traps carefully to avoid fights that are too dangerous.

* **How to unlock:**  Unlocking the Cannibal is easy and can be done in the first level in the Slums, by killing every NPC in sight. Characters like the Soldier or the Mech Pilot can do this more easily than the others. Don't stop until you have gotten 20 kills or killed every NPC in the floor.

* Cannibalize is your main way to heal so use it as much as possible. You can also heal by using First Aid Kits or any type of alcohol such as Beer and Whiskey.
	+ You can "cook" corpses to increase the heal gain from Cannibalize. Use a item that starts fires such as a Flamethrower or a Cigarette Lighter and Oil Container on a corpse to cook it.
	+ You can eat zombie corpses for half the health of a normal corpse. A cooked zombie corpse has the same value as an uncooked human corpse.
	+ Shapeshifter corpses are also edible, unlike other non-human creatures.
* NPCs should be killed for drops and XP whenever possible, as long as the player can kill them without expending too many resources.

* Soldiers are always Hostile towards you and appear in the Park, Military Outposts, and Malls in Downtown/Uptown. Unlike other sources of Rivalry such as Scientist Slayer, Specist and Crepe Crusher, this cannot be removed as it isn't a trait.

* Antisocial and Suspicious drastically limit what money can be spent on and should be swapped or removed as soon as possible. Cannibals can still buy items from Drug Dealers, Goodie Dispensers, Quest Givers, and Loadout-O-Matics.

### NPC

* Cannibals equipped with Axes are very dangerous in melee combat and should be killed from afar when possible.

* Getting the Cool with Cannibals trait will make all the cannibals neutral towards you. This also affects the War Zone cannibals and prevents them from ambushing the player from Manholes in Downtown.

* Cannibals hiding in Bushes in the Park will give away their position when you get close by shaking the bush they're hiding in. They can either be avoided or shot from a safe distance.

## Quotes

### General Chat

* *"This bum told me he hadn't had a bite in days, so I bit him. True story."*
* *"It sucks not being able to post pictures of my meals online."*
* *"Hiding in bushes to wait for victims can be a great time for meditation!"*

### At the Homebase

* *"They made me promise not to devour anyone while I'm here, how lame!"*

## Trivia

* The Cannibal became a playable character in Alpha 25.
* Before the Cannibal became a playable character, they had the traits Low-Cost Jobs, Strong Lunge, and E\_Dumb.
* An earlier version of the Cannibal featured eyes which drooped much further down.

## Bugs

* Cannibals in bushes will not jump out at clones and allies brought from the previous floor as of September 30th, 2021

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