Bio Raptor

The bio raptor is an alien found in the Asteroid Belt. It is hostile and will follow and attack you when you approach it. It is nocturnal and spawns during the nighttime (Hour 18 through Hour 6).

## Behaviour

The bio raptor spawns at Hour 18 and disappears at Hour 6. It randomly flies around in space, avoiding the asteroid soil and artificial floor when the player is not in space. Once you are in its attacking range, it starts following you and attacks. It deals 15 damage on a normal space suit and 11 damage on combat armour. It only attacks the player, and not buildings or pets. Bio raptors may also sometimes be stuck on land when you load the game, so that you can easily attack it without taking any damage. This is because bio raptors will not attack you when stuck on land.

Tamed bio raptors will not disappear at dawn, and will not attack you. However, newly tamed bioraptors will still follow you when you are flying, which resembles their hostile behaviour.

## Strategy

It is dangerous to get close to the bio raptor, so it is best to shoot it with a gun or burn it with a flamethrower while keeping suitable distance. A good way to do a lot of damage at once is by using a shotgun, which can deal 48 damage at once. It used to be able to one shot it but it was later nerfed. You can easily kill it at a distance in one hit using the rocket launcher late-game.

You can also kill it with melee, but it is nearly impossible to do so if there are enough bio raptors in a group unless you are very experienced, because all the bio raptors will attack you at once. If you do, make sure to stay at a distance where you can hit them but they can't hit you.

Because bio raptors are flying enemies and cannot cross ground, you can safely hunt them if you are standing on the ground and it is flying near you, because they cannot attack you as long as you are standing on the ground.

When fighting these, be careful not to feed to tame these when trying to heal.

The easiest way to kill large amounts of these is by leaving turrets like the flamethrower turret or tesla coils near space.

## Usage

Butchering a bio raptor corpse will give you alien meat. If you kill a bio raptor near ground, it will cover the ground with blood.

Bio raptor corpses often end up in large amounts near turrets, which can cause miasma problems.

Tamed bio raptors allow you to ride them by pressing E. They let you fly faster in space.

## Taming

You can now tame bio raptors with any types of food. They are difficult to tame, for they will still attack you or disappear at dawn while they are not fully tamed.

One way to tame them without taking damage is to kill them and put the corpse on a Cryo Tube, then feed them with food while they are still on the tube. After you release them, they will try to escape to space, and will not attack you. Another way to tame bio raptors is to find and feed those that are stuck on land when you load the game. Press "E" or click on it to ride and press "E" again to get off while riding.

Raiders will not directly attack tamed bio raptors, but the explosion from a grenade or poison grenade can kill it.

## Trivia

* According to simpleyuji (kuroro), the developer of this game, the reason why the bio raptor disappears at Hour 6 is that it is scared of sunlight and goes back to its quarter to avoid the sunlight.
	+ Bio raptors seem to prioritize hiding from sunlight over hostility to players, as they disappear at Hour 6 even when they are hunting down the player.
* No matter how close the bio raptor is to the player, it loses the interest in the player and flies away once the player reaches the ground. Therefore, the best way to escape from the bio raptor is to drift towards and stand on the nearest ground.
* If a bio raptor is on the ground due to bugs, release from Cryo Tubes or placing floors where it tries to get back to space, it will not attack the player while it is stranded on the ground.
* In mobile version, there is a bug where you cannot get off from the bio raptor after riding it.
* The bio raptor originally appeared in the movie "Pitch Black".