What is this pill-shaped crawling thing?

[Malidictus]

In all the times I've played Aquaria, I could never figure out what one specific creature is. It's a little crawling thing that looks like half a capsule and doesn't seem to have any legs. It spends all of its time crawling around a loop of rock in the transition area between the Kelp Forest and the Open Waters, and doesn't attack in any way, other than hurting if you touch it. It takes damage, but I've shot and bit it a lot, and it won't die. Is there something special about it?

Pictures included. The thing looks something like this:



Does this creature have any purpose whatsoever, or should I consider it just part of the terrain?

[Align]

It can be killed but doing so takes crazy amounts of shooting/biting. IIRC it drops something unique or very rare, like a red bulb.

[Malidictus]

I see. Well, it's not worth killing, then, if it takes this much work. I'm not a completionist, so I can survive not killing a pill-shaped crawling thing

Thank you.

[Xiagan]

You get a special soup recipe from it if I remember right.

[Malidictus]

Something just occurred to me - wall-crawling enemies seem especially vulnerable to the thorn things that the Nature form can shoot at walls. They either bump into the thorns continuously and take damage all over again, or they walk through the thorns and take a lot of damage really fast. Would using thorns be a faster way to kill this thing?

[False.Genesis]

Already tried, but i gave up after some time.
Maybe check the script and see how much health this thing really has.

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scripts/entities/hardbeetle.lua:

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function init(me)
setupBasicEntity(me,
"hardbeetle", -- texture
499, -- health
[...]

function dieNormal(me)
if chance(100) then
spawnIngredient("DivineSoup", entity_getPosition(me))
end
end

No idea how much health a shot/briar hit/... takes, but it seems to me that 499 is a lot.

[Malidictus]

Defeating the pill-shaped thing with briar thorns proved to be remarkably easy. I didn't count the number of hits the thing took, but it took me no longer than five minutes to kill it. The trick is to position briar thorns at the concave sections of its rock, so that it takes hit from the same thorn for longer. Hitting the pill-shaped thing on the convex sections is pretty difficult, as the briars spread out and it only takes a couple of hits before moving on, as opposed to the 5-10 it takes from a concave section.

What it drops is either a Divine Soup or a Royal Soup, I couldn't tell which from the picture and had both in my inventory at the time, so it could be either. It's not a unique drop, however, as I'd gotten one before, though I can't tell you from where. It's rare, at any rate, and a recipe you get FAR later in the game normally.

Guess that's one mystery solved

[Sindhi]

It's divine soup. Easier to make it yourself than to kill the armor-plated bug. Aquaria wiki has all the recipes, as I recall.