Shove Vole
Shove Vole
Delecta Vole
Shove Voles are burrowing critters that eat the Regolith collected on terrestrial surfaces.
They cannot burrow through Refined Metals.Delecta Voles are burrowing critters whose bodies sprout shearable Tonic Root when Regolith is ingested at preferred temperatures.
They cannot burrow through Refined Metals.
Decor
Requires not hungry
Shears for 8 kg
Tonic Root
Groomed: 6 Cycles
Groomed: 6 Cycles
Lullabied: 4 Cycles
Lullabied: 4 Cycles
MoleMoleDelicacySTRINGS.CREATURES.SPECIES.MOLE.NAMESTRINGS.CREATURES.SPECIES.MOLE.VARIANT_DELICACY.NAMECreature, BagableCreature, Walker, CreatureBrain, Digger, OriginalCreatureCreature, BagableCreature, Walker, CreatureBrain, DiggerShove Voles are Critters that live on the surface of the asteroid. They can burrow through most tiles and climb on walls and ceilings. However, they cannot burrow through tiles made of refined metal or those made from materials with a hardness exceeding 150, such as Abyssalite, Insulite, Wolframite, Diamond, Neutronium, and Obsidian. They also cannot burrow through the Gravitas Door or Pneumatic Door of any material type.
Behaviour
They eat debris and excrete it as a solid tile but at a 50% loss of mass, renewing the asteroid's surface after meteors hit and destroy it. At least 240 kg of material must be consumed before they poop.
When meteor showers begin, they automatically burrow, only resurfacing once the bombardment phase is over. This behavior prevents Shove Voles from taking damage from dangerous meteors.
Shove Voles have a personal space requirement of 0, and thus will never feel Cramped or Crowded.
Shove Voles cannot be confined.
Shove Voles may drown in liquids, but will completely ignore liquids during pathfinding as long as the destination cell is one they won’t drown in.
Variants
Shove Vole
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Shove voles produce more Meat than Delecta Voles, but otherwise has no unique properties.
Delecta Vole
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Voles with a body temperature between 60 °C ↔ 100 °C140 °F ↔ 212 °F have increased odds to lay Delecta Vole eggs. Delecta voles have Quills, and the rate of Quill Growth is determined by a property called Picky Eater.
Picky Eater can have any of the following statuses:
- Just Right: +12.5% Quill Growth
- Caused by: No other status being triggered.
- Too Cold, Too Hot: +2.5% Quill Growth
- Caused by: Eating material that is outside of the temperature range of 70 °C ↔ 80 °C158 °F ↔ 176 °F.
- Hungry: +0% Quill Growth
- Caused by: Critter not being fed.
- All Done: +0% Quill Growth
- Caused by: Quill Growth reaching 100%
Despite the description, Delecta Voles do not need to eat Regolith to grow their quills, Dirt or Iron Ore also works fine.
When Quill Growth reaches 100%, the Vole can be sheared at the Shearing Station to produce 8 Tonic Root, which can be made into Curried Beans.
Domestication
Care should be taken when bringing them into a sub-surface stable as a source of meat.
Once unleashed into the asteroid, it is difficult to track them down, steel airlocks or Pneumatic Doors as the sole access are advised as well as metal or obsidian tiles wherever abyssalite is missing, plus Robo-Miners if you feed them. Note that airlocks have to be built from steel, as shove voles will pass through airlocks built from Copper Ore, Aluminum Ore or Iron Ore; pneumatic doors can safely be built out of any material.
Wrangling can occasionally be finnicky, as they may frequently travel to areas your duplicant cannot access and interrupt their task. Critter Traps can be useful here to avoid this behavior.
While they may be able to burrow, they can not fly or use ladders. If space is not an issue, building a platform with a 2-tile wide gap separating it from other walls can stop Voles from escaping. However, the eggs that drop down still need to be collected and placed back on platform.
Tips
- Shove voles are an almost fully sustainable food source that does not require feeding. One vole will provide 1075 kcal/cycle of meat or 1344 kcal/cycle of barbeque provided the eggs are incubated and voles are groomed.
- A vole takes 4 cycles to incubate, 5 cycles to mature, and 6 cycles to produce an egg. Total time to produce an egg : 4+5+6 = 15 cycles
- Or, without incubators, 20 cycles to incubate, 5 cycles to mature, and 6 cycles to produce an egg. Total time to produce an egg : 20+5+6 = 31 cycles
- A vole drops 16,000 kcal on death: 16000/15 = 1066.67 kcal/cycle of meat (1333.33 if turned into BBQ) and 16000/31 = 518.13 kcal/cycle (645.16 BBQ).
- A tamed vole will start with 43,200 kcal upon hatching. Note: Delecta Voles start with fewer calories and will starve before producing an egg, if tamed.
- If you can fully support your shove vole over long time, you can get 15 eggs every 100 cycles, leaving yourself with 2400kcal/cycle of uncooked meat and 3000kcal/cycle if cooked to Barbecue.
- One incubator will support 1.5 voles (if fed) or 3.75 voles (if not fed).
- Because they drop so much meat (and thus barbeque) they can be used as an alternative food source for radiant bugs if diamond is in short supply or unavailable.
- Viewing the navigation of a wild shove vole allows you to see the map (and determine the location of the pod if your seed has miscalculated pod location)
- Shove voles do not get the overcrowded debuff.
- Because shove voles do not get the overcrowded debuff, a small room stable can hold an arbitrarily large amount of shove voles. This number is limited to how quickly duplicants can groom and keep them happy. Care must be taken to avoid excessively large numbers as they will drop your frame rate.
- A Shove Vole spawns at 150 °C302 °F. If ranched in a room temperature environment, this will increase the chance of laying undesirable Delecta Vole eggs as their body temperature will eventually be within 60 °C ↔ 100 °C140 °F ↔ 212 °F for a substantial period of time. If the goal is to maximize Shove Voles, then they should be ranched in a thermally insulated environment and kept hot.
Database
Shove Vole
Domesticable Critter
The Shove Vole is a unique creature that possesses two fully developed sets of lungs, allowing it to hold its breath during the long periods it spends underground.
Drill-shaped keratin structures circling the Vole's body aids its ability to drill at high speeds through most natural materials.
Trivia
- Although difficult to notice, shove voles only have 2 feet, not 4, despite the fact that it looks like it should be a 4 footed critter.
