Green Shield Bug

* Max
* Pete
* Willow
* Hoops

* Shed Surroundings
* Upper Grasslands

* Super Stink Sack (2-3)
* Tough Gunk (0-10)

**Rare Drop**

* Green Shield Bug Parts (0-2)
* Stinkbug Gas Sack (0-1)
* Super Stink Sack (0-2)

## Inflicts

The **Green Shield Bug** is a more powerful variant of the Stinkbug found throughout the upper yard in mostly sparse or secluded areas. They can be a lethal threat due to their plentiful gas attacks and large health pool.

## Behavior

Due to the secluded nature of most of its spawn locations, the Green Shield Bug simply wanders about their areas and occasionally releases fumes. They have a very similar behavior and attack pattern when compared to regular Stinkbugs, but they prefer to use gas attacks more than bites and have a backwards leap move which they can use to maintain distance from the player while allowing their gas clouds to take full effect. As such, Gas Mask durability is a serious concern when confronting this insect. Two possible countermeasures without sacrificing your helmet are Gastro Goo or the Toxicology Badge.

### Interactions With Player

Green Shield Bugs are aggressive to the player and will attempt to kill them on sight.

### Interactions With Other Creatures

Green Shield Bugs are mostly passive to all Creatures that walk up to it. In the odd case it manages to gas a patrolling creature such as a Fire Worker Ant, the creature may start to attack the Green Shield Bug. They only naturally encounter other creatures near the Wheelbarrow, as its 3 other spawns are extremely secluded.

## Advanced Loot Table

This is a more advanced covering of the loot-table of Green Shield Bug. 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.

### Raid Variant

  Green Shield Bug Parts **x3** | 1
  Super Stink Sack | 1
  Tough Gunk | 5

## Spawn Locations

* 2 on top of the Brawny Boy Bin in the Upper Grasslands. (Doesn't Respawn)
* 1 near the Buster Cap Gun in the Shed Surroundings.
* 1 in front of the Wheelbarrow.
* 1 during the Moldorc Super MIX.R.

## Strategy

Green Shield Bugs are both deadly and hardy, boasting the second highest health of any non-boss creature currently in game. When confronting it, it is generally recommended to have upgraded tier 3 weapons and tier 3 armor, with the best weapon being the Mint Mace. Along with this, multiple Gas Mask or Gastro Goo are necessary due to the potency of the gasses it releases and potential DOT (damage over time) stacking due to overlapping clouds. The player should also focus on its tells and be prepared to block its occasional bite in order to avoid unnecessary damage.

## Trivia

* Green Shield Bugs, despite being a reskin of Stinkbugs, do actually have a surprising resemblance to their real life counterpart.
* Upon the PTS for the *Into The Wood* update, Green Shield Bugs were the only creature to have a high enough amount of health for the health bar to turn pink.