Glyphid Praetorian

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* Common
* Frost
* Radioactive

## Combat

### Attack(s)

Bite
Slash
Stab
Acid Spray
Death Cloud
Death Cloud Explosion

### Armor

Heavy

* Front
* Side

## Temperature

### Freeze T°C

100°
-150°

### Unfreeze T°C

40°
-100°

### Warming Rate

10°/s
10°/s

## Combat

### Attack(s)

Bite
Slash
Frost Spray
Death Cloud

### Armor

Heavy

* Front
* Side

## Temperature

### Freeze T°C

100°
-250°

### Unfreeze T°C

40°
-100°

### Warming Rate

25°/s
10°/s

## Combat

### Attack(s)

Bite
Slash
Radiator
Death Cloud

### Resistance(s)

Radiation: 100%
Peirce: 30%

### Armor

Heavy

* Front
* Side

## Temperature

### Freeze T°C

100°
-150°

### Unfreeze T°C

40°
-100°

### Warming Rate

10°/s
10°/s

 — Miner's Manual Description

The **Glyphid Praetorian** is a hostile creature found on Hoxxes IV. It is found in every region of the planet, though some biomes (the Radioactive Exclusion Zone and the Glacial Strata) have unique variants. They are similar in body shape to Glyphid Grunts, being an arachnid creature with two overly developed front legs and no apparent eyes.

Being noticeably larger than the majority of the Glyphid species, the Praetorian is an imposing creature with the majority of its body covered in thick chitinous plating. It has a much larger mouth than most Glyphids with bigger teeth and two massive fangs. The creature's abdomen is noticeably developed and sticks out at the rear, with no plating to protect it.

As their name suggests, Praetorians hold a notable presence in enemy ranks. Despite their power they are fairly common, and often seen accompanied into battle by Glyphid Grunts (plus their varieties) and Glyphid Swarmers. There is also a rare type of swarm that heavily spawns Praetorians, with a few Glyphid Oppressors. These special swarms are always prefaced by an alert from Mission Control.

## Combat

### Health and Armor

Praetorians occupy a tanky role, using their big health pools and Heavy Armor to soak up lots of damage while fighting the Dwarves.

Unlike the Light Armor found on Grunts, Heavy Armor will fully block all damage to the Praetorian until its own health is depleted. The Heavy Armor on the Praetorian's body is broken up into segments, and will expose the vulnerable flesh underneath which will receive the full damage of a weapon.

Unlike the rest of their body, their mouths have no plating and can be fired at to deal damage; going for the abdomen can give you more damage only if your weapon has a weakpoint damage bonus.

Health Scaling

### Attacks

Their primary attack is an Acid Spray. The Praetorian backs up for a second before spewing out a spray of acidic chemicals which can quickly cut through a Dwarf's health pool. This spray has a deceptively long range - Praetorians will often seek to close the gap in distance before using it, so that they can catch even retreating players in the spray.
The Gunner's Shield Generator will not block the spray attack of Praetorians.

They can also fight by using their forelegs to strike or biting with their huge mouths - similar to Grunts, though they deal much more damage with their melee attacks.

Finally, on death they will release a cloud of toxic gas at the location of their body, a couple seconds after they die. This Gas Cloud lingers on surfaces for a few seconds, obscuring vision and dealing constant damage to anything which lingers in the cloud. The gas is highly flammable, and weapons which inflict heat damage (such as the Driller's CRSPR Flamethrower) can ignite it to produce a large fiery explosion, which damages Dwarves and enemies alike. A Frozen or disintegrated Praetorian will not release its Death Cloud.

Despite their strong offensive and defensive capabilities, Praetorians are slow, often lagging behind their smaller and nimbler cohorts. While using their Acid Spray attack they are completely stationary and cannot turn around.

## Variants

The regional variants of this enemy don’t have the Acid Spit attack and don’t leave a Gas Cloud behind on death; instead they acquired some unique attack and features representatives to the biome they live in.

The regional variants also react differently to temperature.

#### Attacks

Frost Praetorians spew an icy mixture which deals no damage, but will rapidly chill a Dwarf's body (which can result in them being frozen solid). When killed, they generate a Cold Cloud that can rapidly freeze any Dwarf.

Frost Spray
 1
 Damage Type
 Interval
 Duration
 Status Effect

Death Cloud
 1
 Damage Type

 Interval
 Lifetime
 Status Effect

#### Attacks

Radioactive Praetorians create an aura of radiation around their body in a fairly large radius. Upon death, they will leave behind the same radiation aura for a few seconds.

## Combat

### Attack(s)

Bite
Slash

## Temperature

 — Miner's Manual Description

Ebonite Glyphid Praetorians are Glyphid Praetorians that were infected with the organic silicate parasite known as Ebonite. The resulting exo and endoparasitic takeover has turned these Praetorians into literal living rock. Whilst they no longer have the Praetorian's deadly vomit and toxic clouds, these Ebonite mutants are now nearly invulnerable to all attacks save for the sharpened tip of a pickaxe.

#### Attacks

Ebonite variants as aforementioned, lack the powerful vomit and afterdeath gas leak of its more normal variants. Instead, they are entirely melee focus and their near-impenetrable armor makes them immune to all but melee attacks. As such, dealing with these mutants can be quite dangerous especially when swarmed as the player must forgo traditional ranged armor-busting weapons for something more up close and personal. Given their high health, power attacks are the most efficient at removing a chunk of their health, but care must be taken to not be swarmed by the lesser Ebonite Grunts.

Pickaxes are the only tool and weapon in which most of the playable dwarves could inflict and deal damage to the Ebonites. Of the playable classes, the Driller is the best suited against Ebonite mutants as his Reinforced Power Drills could act as the melee equivalent of a minigun; a sustained damage dealer that quickly chips away the health of an Ebonite. Moreover, his Impact Axe does melee damage, making it the only 'range' weapon capable of harming these mutants.

## Combat

### Attack(s)

Bite
Slash
Acid Spray

## Temperature

### Freeze T°C

100°
-150°

### Unfreeze T°C

40°
-100°

### Warming Rate

10°/s
10°/s

 — Mission Control

Kursite Glyphid Praetorian are rare Glyphid Praetorians infected with the parasitic crystalline Kursite biomineral that often appear when a Kursite Analyser is activated. It is unknown if these specimens were infected only when the Analyser is activated or has long been infected but stayed dormant until the machine's activation.

What is known is that these infected Praetorians are easily distinguishable from its non-infected kin by the presence of large glowing Kursite deposits emerging from its back and legs as well as its blue vulnerable abdomen.

#### Attacks

Other than visual appearances, Kursite Glyphid Praetorians behave almost exactly the same as a regular Praetorian, with the only exception being that it lacks a death cloud leakage and explosion after its subsequent death; instead, dropping a giant chunk of Kursite to be used and extracted.

Caution still needs to be taken however, as during the event, multiple Kursite Glyphid Praetorians alongside grunts and guards will spawn, so care must be taken to not be overwhelmed. Moreover, these Kursite-infected individuals still retain the Praetorian's deadly venomous spray. Of the Kursite varieties, the Praetorians are the most powerful but rarest of the lot and due to this, the Analyser requires less Kursite from these Praetorians than usual.

### Gallery

* Kursite Infection appearance

## Creature Details

### Biome

Replaced in Glacial Strata and Radioactive Exclusion Zone

## Combat

### Attack(s)

Bite
Slash
Acid Spray
Death Cloud
Death Cloud Explosion

### Immunity

Courage: 0.9
Stun Duration: ×0.16
Stun Immunity Window: 2 s
Stun Pause Logic: False
Frozen Pause Logic: False

## Temperature

### Freeze T°C

100°
-150°

### Unfreeze T°C

40°
-120°

### Warming Rate

10°/s
100°/s

The Elite Glyphid Praetorian is the elite version of the regular Glyphid Praetorian. Like all Elite enemies, the Elite Glyphid Praetorian looks almost identical to its regular counterparts; being only distinguished by its aura of distinct vertical red lines with the words 'elite' above their healthbar when scanned and looked at.

#### Attacks

In addition to all the benefits that all Elite enemies receive, Elite Praetorians have two additional enhancements:

* Their Armor is greatly increased. All of their Heavy Armor plates have their Armor Health increased from 100 to 500.
* Their melee attacks have a bonus knockback. Their Bite attack adds 1 m/sec horizontal impulse and 1.25 m/sec vertical impulse, and their Stab attack adds 4 m/sec horizontal impulse and 5 m/sec vertical impulse.

Health Scaling

## Gallery

* Radioactive Exclusion Zone appearance
* Radioactive Exclusion Zone appearance when in the dark
* Glacial Strata appearance

* Acid Spray

## Dangers after freezing glyphids

Praetorians are one of the four tanky glyphid enemies that speed up their animations after being frozen. Glyphid Oppressors, Glyphid Dreadnoughts, Dreadnought Hiveguard, (not the hive guard itself, but the glyphid sentinels) and Dreadnought Lacerators).

## Trivia

* Before update 24 hotfix 7, Praetorian abdomen used to be designed to take 150% damage, but wasn't registered as a weakpoint for the purpose of weapon modifications (such as Hollow Point Bullets).
* The Glyphid Praetorian's Steam Card, unlike the game, spells its name as "Glyphid Pretorian", likely as a misspelling.
* According to the announcement before a special Praetorian swarm, a group of Praetorians is called a pack.
* Ghost Ship Games’ enemy introduction video titled “Deep Rock Galactic - Meet The Glypid Praetorian” refers to its exposed abdomen as an “ovipositor” implying that Praetorians lay eggs, and therefore are female.