List of memes

As the Mindustry community has continued to grow bigger and bigger, this has led to several memes based on the game being created.

## Memes

### Antumbruh

* A nickname for the T4 Air Unit Antumbra.

### Amongus

* A nickname for Beryllium and maybe even Carbide due to their appearance resembling among us.

### Big Spooder

* The Toxopid is sometimes called this due to its appearance and offensive capabilities.
	+ Sometimes the Spiroct and Arkyid are also referred to as "Spooders" for similar reasons.

### Bread

* A joke name given to Copper because it looks like a loaf of bread.

### Chernobyl

* Players sometimes reference the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they use Thorium Reactors due to their destructive nature if not sufficiently cooled with Cryofluid.
	+ Example: "Make sure the Cryofluid Mixer is also *overdriven*, otherwise we're going to end up recreating Chernobyl."

### Crab

* The Mech line of units are sometimes called "Crabs", similar to how the Crawler line units are called "Spooders."

### Cancer

* A joke name given to Neoplasm due to it's named after a literal type of cancer.

### Duo

* Duos are sometimes referred to as the "ultimate turret" and are jokingly seen as overpowered. This could be due to players considering the Duo as the mascot of the game.

### Emojis

* In the Mindustry Discord server, people will often react to schematics that players post with certain emojis.
	+ :put\_litter\_in\_its\_place: (🚮): Deemed to be poorly designed.
	+ :heavy\_division\_sign: (➗): Improper ratios (like 1 Cryofluid Mixer to 6 Thorium Reactors).
	+ :pig: (🐷) or :money\_with\_wings: (💸): Too expensive.
	+ :plunger: (🪠): Vulnerable to clogging.

### Flare Slavery

* Flares are often used with Logic Processors to transport items due to their cheap cost and fast speed.

### Flarogus

* An April Fool's version of the T1 Air Unit Flare, which resembles an among us.
* it is now a texture for the Flare when using the Flarogus mod by Balam314.

### Hortiloader

* A joke name was given to the Unloader in V7, which was improved in several PRs by hortiSquash.

### Item Bombing/Kamikaze

* This is the term for a strategy where Air Units (Zeniths being the most common choice, along with Quad and (prior to V7) Horizon) are loaded up with Blast Compound, Pyratite, or Spore Pods and are purposely killed while hovering over infrastructure which causes explosions and fires. Players often use this tactic to quickly capture enemy bases since it takes less time and resources compared to manufacturing Tier 4 and 5 units. Version 7.0 nerfed this tactic by making it possible for falling units to crash land prematurely by getting shot at and decreasing Horizon's item capacity to 0.
* Erekir has a variation of this called "Ozone bombing." This works by having the Core Unit pick up a Reinforced Liquid Container full of Ozone and dropping it close to enemy turrets.

### Laser Spooder

* Similar to the Toxopid, Corvus is sometimes referred to as this due to the nature of its attack and how it has more than 2 legs.

### Mix Tech

* A term for Serpulo and Erekir tech being used together. Due to complaints about balancing, Build 139 disabled the <Any> environment from being used in any gamemode outside of sandbox. In build 146, the <Any> environment was re-enabled outside sandbox mode allowing for mix tech maps to be created and played without restrictions once again.
* Schematics with mixed tech are often reacted with the :face\_vomiting: (🤮) emoji.

### oh no

* If a texture is missing from something, then an image that says "oh no" will be used as a placeholder.

### Pears

* A Joke name for Oxide due to its appearance.

### Pill

* A joke name given to Silicon because of its appearance looking like a tablet.

### Router

* Routers are sometimes seen as the "ultimate block" and ironically worshipped. This is partly due to how newer players will create "Router Highways" or chains which in actuality are inefficient for transporting resources due to potential backflow and clogs.

### Steak

* Copper can also be referenced as grilled steak due to its appearance.

### Scorch

* Back in V5, the DPS of a Scorch was dependent on a player's FPS. With high enough FPS the scorch could deal absurd amounts of damage to the point where an Eradicator would get destroyed in as little as a second. This caused players to jokingly refer to the Scorch as the best turret in the game.

### Siligone

* This is what players refer to when their Silicon reserves are depleted, due to it being one of the most used materials for construction as well as manufacturing all units.

### Snek

* Sorters and Gates have practically infinite throughput, so for balancing reasons you can only have a maximum of 2 consecutive blocks. Back in V5 however, it was possible to combine an Overflow Gate with 2 Inverted Sorters to create a transportation system that had infinite throughput and instantaneous transportation. This is referred to as a "snek" and was removed in V6.

### Spaghetti

* A term for disorganized bases with Conveyor Belts, Conduits, Bridges, or Ducts that go all over the place making it hard to tell what goes where.

### Tomato Sauce

* Another joke name for Neoplasm due to its appearance.

### Tonk

* A joke nickname for the Tank line of units.

### Zipper

* A term for Junctions and Routers/Gates which are arranged in an alternating pattern. This is often done to transport items to crafting stations such as Kilns and Silicon Smelters.