Bullet ant is a 4-star species card from the Steam Age. The bullet ant has the most painful insect sting on the Schmidt pain index.
Bonus by grade
| Grade | Copies needed | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | +3% critical hit chance |
| Uncommon | 2 | +5.4% critical hit chance |
| Rare | 5 | +9% critical hit chance |
| Epic | 10 | +13.5% critical hit chance |
| Legendary | 20 | +21% critical hit chance |
Duplicates raise the grade: Uncommon at 2, Rare at 5, Epic at 10, Legendary at 20.
Codex
- Common: Paraponera clavata lives in Central and South American rainforests.
- Uncommon: Workers are up to about 2.5 cm long.
- Rare: Entomologist Justin Schmidt rated its sting the top of his scale, 4+.
- Epic: The pain is said to last up to 24 hours.
- Legendary: Some Sateré-Mawé young men wear gloves filled with bullet ants in a coming-of-age ritual.
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Field guide
| Size | Workers about 18–30 mm; queens only slightly larger than workers |
| Colony | Several hundred workers; sometimes over 2,000 |
| Queens | One queen founds the colony, hunting until her first workers mature |
| Nest | Soil or rotting wood at the base of large trees; some nests in trees |
| Diet | Nectar, fruit juice, small insects and spiders |
| Defence | Extremely painful sting, but not known to be deadly to healthy people |
| Active | Not well known |
| Lifespan | Not well known |
| Where it lives | Humid lowland rainforest from Honduras to Brazil and Bolivia, mostly below 750 m |
Did you know?
- Foragers carry nectar drops back to the nest between their jaws.
- Most nests are at the base of a tree, and workers forage in its canopy.
- It is the only living species in its genus; fossil P. dieteri is from Dominican amber.
Sources: discoverwildlife.com, antwiki.org, bantam.earth, en.wikipedia.org, antwiki.org
Codex sets
- Ants of the machine ages: Bullet ant, Argentine ant, Pharaoh ant, Yellow crazy ant, Odorous house ant, Ghost ant, Mangrove ant, Spider ant, European fire ant, Red harvester ant, Longhorn crazy ant, Little fire ant, Exploding ant, Acacia ant, Azteca ant, Indian jumping ant
Queen affinity
- Black garden ant: ×1 chance
- Meat ant: ×0.5 chance
- Bull ant: ×0.5 chance