Giant Ant Lion
- Habitat
- Sandy and dry ground; loose soil in caverns
- Biomes
- desert, +underground
- Spawn
- solo, any
- Temper
- Patient ambusher
- Threat
- Moderate
- Rarity
- Rare
- Move
- walk; burrow.
- Special
- Impale/grab with mandibles, grinding
- STR31
- DEX9
- CON27
- INT2
- Health325
- Damage86
- Armor32
The giant ant lion is a heavy, burrowing insect that digs a steep funnel-pit in loose sand and lies buried at the bottom, only its huge curved mandibles waiting. Creatures that stumble onto the slope slide helplessly down as the loose sand gives way beneath them, until the ant lion seizes them in scissoring jaws. Outside its pit it is a slow, armored grub-like hunter, but within its trap it is deadly and nearly unseen.
Behavior
- Digs a conical sand-pit and buries itself at the base
- The loose pit-walls collapse, sliding prey down to the waiting jaws
- Seizes trapped victims in massive mandibles, impaling and crushing them
- Ambushes rather than pursues; clumsy in the open
Abilities
- Pit Trap. Builds a collapsing sand funnel that draws prey to the bottom.
- Collapsing Slope. The pit's loose walls give way, sliding victims helplessly down to the jaws.
- Crushing Jaws. Massive scissoring mandibles that impale, crush, and saw at held prey.
Drops & Crafting
- Thick armored carapace
- Oversized mandibles (tool blades, hooks)
- Digestive fluids for tanning or etching