Hornet

The **Hornet** is an animal in EvoWorld.io and the eighteenth animal stage a player can achieve. You can spawn in as this animal with a level 17 account or higher. It was added on April 15, 2018.

## Food Chain Status

*The EXP values listed below assume the player has no Bonus Codes or other boosters. If the player does have one, multiply the value shown by the EXP bonus (as a decimal, not a percent) to find how much XP will be gained.* *Note: Asterisk '\*' means the Hornet can either eat or be eaten by this animal and '%' means that the entity will only get a fraction of the Hornet's EXP.*
* **Can eat:**
	+ Maroon Bird\* (450 EXP)
	+ Bat (400 EXP)
	+ Hen (300 EXP)
	+ Red Bird (300 EXP)
	+ Parrot (250 EXP)
	+ Stork (250 EXP)
	+ Blue Bird (250 EXP)
	+ Pigeon (200 EXP)
	+ Wasp (100 EXP)
	+ Woodpecker (100 EXP)
	+ Cherry (50 EXP)
	+ Currant (10 EXP)
	+ Strawberry (20 EXP)
	+ Hive\* (800 EXP)

* **Can be eaten by:**
	+ Maroon Bird\* (500 EXP)
	+ Ghostly Reaper% (varies)
	+ Pumpkin Ghost% (varies)
	+ Grim Reaper% (varies)
	+ Crab
	+ Evil Rat
	+ Crocodile
	+ Mummy
	+ Black Widow
	+ Tyrannosaurus
	+ Yeti
	+ Cosmic Eye
	+ Cosmic Big Insect
	+ Small Demon
	+ Shark
	+ Zombie
	+ Mammoth
	+ Piranha
	+ Giant Rat

## Skill

Sting

**TYPE:** Passive

**DESCRIPTION:** You have a 25% chance to sting a prey. When the prey is poisoned it loses 2% of max health every second. The only way to be unpoisoned is to drink water.

## Strategies & Tips

### As a Hornet

* The Hornet used to have zero predators in the past. Now, the reapers and the Maroon Bird can eat it, but that's not likely to happen, since they're pretty rare (and in case of reapers, they have better XP sources), so it is great to roam around the land to eat as much food and prey as you can.
* Berries and Currants might be tedious to farm and collect due to their low amount of experience yielded. As a result, it might be more advisable to play more aggressively and chase down player-controlled animals as only the reapers and the Maroon Bird are harmful to you. However, currants in clusters are very fulfilling for XP, so if you see a bush full of them, by all means eat it.
* You can go into the castle and try to corner a Bat, since they can sometimes be found there, and they give good XP. But be aware that the Bat have a night vision, so they can escape you in the underground when you can't even see it.
	+ Chasing a Bat, or any general prey underground, is also an option. If you can manage to poison bite them, they will have to search for a water source somewhere, in which time you can continuously bite them to their eventual death.
* As a Blackbird, if you are farming food and simultaneously are under assault from a non-Reaper predator, you can take the last bite to escape since almost no player-controlled animals can eat the Hornet.
* Avoid water areas when hunting for prey because animals can use it to detox themselves if you poison them. Try staying underground or in the Swamp. If you do poison an animal, follow it and block it from water for as long as possible. It will head straight for the water where you can land on top of it and kill it.
* When engaged in a fight with a Maroon Bird, get on top of it so it can’t use its Swoop ability on you. If you poison it you will likely be the winner of the battle.
* Due to the lack of predators and the small hitbox, the Hornet is the best animal for a troller.
* When escaping from predators, there are some things to note:
	+ 1- Engage a fight with the Maroon Bird if you can. Even if it Swoops on you, it can be poisoned, and you can eat something else simultaneously.
		- 1.5- Get on its top. It will try to fly above you, so it can be damaged while you can't (personally tested). It will be poisoned and even die.
	+ 2- Reapers are the only other playable animal that can eat you, and they will most likely chase another animal. If one chases you, go to an underground cave that has a water source. Find/do glitches and eat things as much as you want!

### As the prey of a Hornet

* Following the advice above, run if you see a Hornet! As it knows (if it's an experienced player) only the Reapers and the Maroon Bird are predators in-game, the only risk it can face is having its Water depleted in a distant place. The damage it inflicts, however, appears to be somewhat low, which can allow for prey to have higher chances of survival if near water.
* Stay close to a body of water if you see one. This will allow you to detox yourself if it stings you.
* As a Bat, you can take advantage of your night vision in the Underground to escape from the Hornet.
* As a Wasp, the Hornet can't poison you, since you are a poison-based animal too. Use this to your advantage.

### As the Maroon Bird

* Get on the top of the Hornet. Use your Swoop ability to deal high damage to it and stay close to a body of water. Beware of other predators however. Don't do this if you don't want to.
* If a Hornet manages to poison-bite you, it is imperative that you detox by going to a water source as soon as possible. Otherwise, the Hornet and poison damage combined may kill you. While there is not a 100% chance that a Hornet could poison you, it is best to only fight one near a water source.
* You will have an especially higher chance of being able to kill a Hornet if another Maroon Bird is also attempting to kill a Hornet, by outnumbering them. Similarly, if you are alone against two Hornets, do not engage as they have double the chance of poisoning and kill you.
* If you try to fly to the space with the Hornet on your top, you will take damage and the Hornet will suffer 0 damage (until you both reach the Server Barrier).

### As the predator of a Hornet

* If you see one, go for it. This is a very rare chance to kill it, and it'll feel rewarding to kill an animal that once had no predators.
* If you're a reaper, don't go into a lengthy chase though, you have much better XP sources. If you see an animal at the Vulture stage or above, stop the chase and go for it instead.

### As the predator of a Vulture

* It might be worthy following a Hornet until it evolves. Vultures give a lot of XP.
	+ However, as a Mad Bat, you cannot eat neither the Hornet nor the Vulture.

## Gallery

The HornetThe list of what the Hornet can eatA Hornet about to eat a StorkA Hornet about to eat a WoodpeckerA Hornet near a PigA Hornet sitting on 2 FlowersA Hornet that is underwaterA Hornet chilling with another HornetA damaged HornetA Hornet sitting on top of a group of 4 BreadA Hornet about to eat CurrantsA Hornet eating a Maroon BirdA Hornet about to eat 6 strawberriesA Hornet trolling/killing a Snowy OwlThree Hornets, with one of them glitched in the BlocksA Hornet and a Dragonfly trolling a Snowy OwlA Hornet that glitched another Hornet in the BlocksA Hornet that glitched another Hornet in the BlocksA Hornet next to an in-game GemA severely damaged HornetA Hornet that glitched another Hornet out of the Server Barrier

## Trivia

* It is one of the three animals that can poison another player, the others being the Swamp Monster and the Wasp (the first).
* It is a type of insect after a long chain of bird Characters. The last before the Hornet was the Dragonfly, and the last insect is the Cosmic Insect.
* It is the second mortal animal with the fewest playable predators (4, being the Maroon Bird and the Reapers), alongside the Stone Eater (itself), the Demonic Bat, the Demonic Imp, the Dragon and the Cosmic Angry Eye (all 4 can be eaten by Cosmic Bats). The mortal animals with the fewest playable predators (3, the reapers) are the Demonic Egg Eater, the Phoenix, the Cosmic Bat, the reapers and the Pumpkin.
* It's also one of the best animals to troll Snowy Owls, due to it having few predators alongside the others that can do the same are the Fly, Butterfly, Mosquito, Dragonfly and Stone Eater.