Creature Lab

## General information

The Creature Lab allows players to upgrade statistics on the creatures they have. It is accessed through the Army tab.

The stats for **Health, Attack Rate,** and **Speed** can be upgraded for a creature species using body parts  and gems .

    Upgrades are a permanent boost for one stat per creature type at a time. Upgrades purchased for a regular creature also count for its golden variant, but not for its special variant. Upgrades are applied immediately and work for both Attack and Defense.

Creatures with upgraded stats will appear with a blue arrow above the health bar during battles. Double blue arrows start at 10 total stat upgrades for that creature, and three arrows indicate 20 or more upgrades.

The upgrades to each stat have 10 levels. The Creatures Chamber must be upgraded from level 4 to 12 to unlock levels 2 to 10 in the Creature Lab respectively.

**\*Note:** Creature Lab and Creature Chamber (beyond level 4) upgrades should not be started until the Resin Chamber has been fully upgraded.

## Statistics Increases

Creatures are separated into two categories for % stat increases: High-increasing, and low-increasing.

### High-increasing

The first upgrade adds 10%, but then it adds 5% per upgrade until level 10 which is a 10% upgrade. They can get a maximum of 60% increase for each stat.

The creatures with high-increasing upgrade sequences are: Tarantula, Praying Mantis, Tiger Beetle, Scorpion, Dragonfly, Asian Giant Hornet, Butterfly, Centipede, Christmas Spider, Ghost Mantis, Festive Tiger Beetle, Monarch Butterfly, Halloween Pennant, Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede, Emerald Cockroach Wasp, Skull Spider, Red Costate Tiger Moth, Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly, Manticora Tiger Beetle, Trilobite Beetle, Antlered Wasp.

### Healer Attack Rate

For attack rate only, healing creatures receive +5% per upgrade with a max of 50%.

The creatures with decreased attack rate upgrade sequences are: **Butterfly**, **Monarch Butterfly**, and **Red Costate Tiger Moth**.

### Low-increasing

They receive +2% per upgrade with a max of 20% increase for each stat.

The creatures with low-increasing upgrade sequences are: Bombardier Beetle, Rhinoceros Beetle, Crab, Paussinae Beetle, Christmas Beetle, Flower Chafer Beetle, Lugubrious Bombardier Beetle, Christmas Crab.

#### Health

Health upgrades are a direct percent upgrade over the base stat. A creature with a base of 20 hits of health and a 10% upgrade will now have 22 health.

#### Attack Rate

Attack rate upgrades affect both the time to attack and the attack speed. A creature with upgraded attack rate will have a shorter pause before attacking and attack more quickly against another creature.

* Attack rate (time to attack) is a direct percent decrease for the base time. A creature with a 4 second base attack rate and a 25% upgrade will now have a 3 second attack rate.
* Attack speed is increased but the exact amount is not consistent and not a direct percent increase.

#### Speed

Upgrades in speed only increase how quickly a creatures moves on the map. Speed upgrades do not affect any other aspect of the creature.

## Trivia

The Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede and Halloween Pennant started out in the low-increasing category of upgrades, but then were changed to high-increasing later on.

Healers had their attack rate upgrades nerfed during the Christmas Event 2022 when a bug showed their attack rate was not working correctly when upgraded to level 10.