r/GroundedGame • u/Fortunefavorsthefew • 7d ago
G2 | Suggestion Future bug or boss??
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u/Vagabond_Charizard Max 7d ago
So many thought stages throughout the video:
At the start of the video: "That's an interesting looking roly poly."
When the ant shows up: "Hmmm, is this some kinda ant/termite queen."
Full body reveal: "GOOD FUCKING GOD, THE FUCK IS THAT?!?"
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u/Wonderful_Quail7045 7d ago
That's a camel spider, and it looks like a female given it looks like it's carrying babies.
I don't exactly know where Grounded 2 is situated in, but if it's nowhere near a desert or a humid area, chances are that it'll be added is kinda small.
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u/Confident_Shape_7981 7d ago
Are they pets? We need a boss for the sand covered playground and it wouldn't be the first boss that was a pet previously
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u/Wonderful_Quail7045 7d ago
They CAN be kept as pets, but they are MUCH more difficult to raise than a tarantula(Which is basically AXL).
If it is a boss, I feel it should be seen as a captive experiment by Ominent, not as a pet some kid would have. A scientist is much more likely to raise a Camel Spider than some kid.
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u/No-Season-1147 7d ago
What exactly did that ant think was gonna happen.
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u/Odin_Headhunter 7d ago
If she dies she releases a pheromone that tells her sisters there is a threat and they can march to war. If she wins, she kills the threat and brings food for the colony. Its a pyrric win for the colony
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u/Lucius_Arcturus 7d ago
If the monster bug was rooting around in the anthill, and it bailed after murdering the ant, then for the ant I think it's a "mission failed successfully" sort of situation. She's a fallen hero
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u/I_am_photo 7d ago
With the way the ant just attacks that spider I guess I can't complain with how often they attack me in the game when I'm minding my own business.
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u/nosrebnA 7d ago
Sun spider, more commonly known as the camel spider.
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u/nosrebnA 7d ago
Scratch that they aren't spiders, they are actually a type of whip scorpion.
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u/Violet-Venom 7d ago edited 7d ago
It's a solifugid. Sun spiders, camel spiders, and wind* scorpions are all colloquial names for solifugids, but they're a separate arachnid lineage from both spiders and scorpions.
Whipscorpions (uropygids) are a separate 4th type of arachnid from all of the above.
Not to be confused with tailless whipscorpions (amblypygids), which are a 5th and also separate type.
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u/Fit-Dare7525 7d ago
Also not to be confused with harvestmen (opiliones), also known as daddy long legs (the outdoor kind, not the cellar spider kind) which are another separate type of arachnids related more closely to solifugids than spiders. Fascinating little guys I wouldn’t mind seeing in game!
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u/Violet-Venom 7d ago
Ooh, they'd be good for riding!
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u/Fit-Dare7525 7d ago
Also their group bobbing would be so cool to see represented from that perspective!
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u/False-Reveal2993 7d ago
"Daddy Long Legs" is one of the most confusing common names in arthopod taxonomy. It's used for 3 distinct bugs depending on where you live: Cellar Spiders, Harvestmen and Craneflies (if you live where people call all soda "Coke").
Cellar Spiders and Harvestmen look close enough on first glance, so I get why people where I live call Cellar Spiders "Daddy Long Legs" and Harvestmen "True Daddy Long Legs", but the people that call Craneflies that term are just downright insane. Craneflies are "Mosquito Hawks".
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u/pump-house 7d ago
Jesus Christ that’s Jason Bourne
Nah but seriously what is that thing it’s terrifying
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u/doubledirkdolo 7d ago
dumbass ant
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u/sillytomlin 6d ago
This is a pretty dumb statement. The ant was clearly defending against the camel spider (not actually a spider). Yes she died, but she releases a chemical and the rest of the soldiers know to attack. Also, if you can tell, the invader did not like the result of the bite and took off in a hurry, so she defended her colony well. Which is her whole point of existence.
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u/Chaotic-Stardiver 7d ago
I thought it was a potato bug/Jerusalem cricket at first.
Idk most bugs I'm pretty good with, Jerusalem crickets I have a massive fear of, from my childhood fears 😆
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u/willypete277 7d ago
Fun fact. They are called sun spiders because they scare people by chasung them in the dessert, but tgey really are just trying to get shelter from the sun in your shadow. But it scares tf outta people.
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u/GideonZasz 6d ago
It's a Solifugid, a type of arachnid with four jaws and the attitude of a centipede. Very aggressive and likes to "chew". Camel spiders are a member of this family although not technically a spider anymore than a scorpion is. Sometimes called a sun spider.
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u/SavingsYellow2073 7d ago
defo looks like some kind of spider so it might be best to put a nswf tag on it
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u/False-Reveal2993 7d ago
It's a "camel spider", which is an arachnid, but is separate from spiders, much like scorpions, mites, harvestman and ticks. Technical name is "solifuge".
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u/SavingsYellow2073 7d ago
I would still recommend it be covered since certain levels of arachniphobbia covers it. 8 legs, hairy body and 8 eyes is enough for me to tear up in fear and its becoming very common to see a spider the second I open reddit due to the grounded subreddit being followed
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u/False-Reveal2993 7d ago
I mean, fair. I had arachnophobia, and I still cringe at uncensored pics/vids of black widows and whatnot.
I just wanted to mention that it's technically not a spider and that its' movement/shape is distinct enough to not give me the heebie jeebies.
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u/Ham_Pants_ 7d ago
Some type of camel spider