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Hello! I have not been here for a while! I guess I have not actually had as many ideas for posts as I thought after the snak spotlights, but maybe I will again! We will see

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I did not mention in the post, but at the time of writing I had never eaten a paleta! And now I have! I love them! They are really like popsicles but awesome. Popsicles are good and all, but paletas are so much more REAL. I think my favorite flavor is coconut.

PALETOSS GRANDE

While I think the tricolor look suits Paletoss quite well, I have to say, it makes it a little hard to take Paletoss Grande seriously! It is large and angry, yes, but adorned in such gentle, appealing colors. I guess you could see it as aposematic warning coloration, if you wanted, though that is not consistent across Bugsnax. They will just look like whatever!

This is a funny angle. It looks not angry, but pompous and regal. It is posing for a statue here. Since Big Bopsicle is a double popsicle, Paletoss Grande is a double paleta, but whereas double popsicles are just rare, I don’t think double paletas exist at all! Though, they do tend to be more wide and flat than a regular popsicle, so in a way Paletoss Grande sort of fits the shape better… sort of.

You may be thinking it seems dangerous for a frosty Snak to live in a place called Boiling Bay. And it is! Not only is the water warm, but it is warmed by the volcano, from which lava flows down the beach! It is quite easy for a rage-blinded Paletoss to be lured into either and be thawed.

Of course, an easily-manipulated frosty Snak can be useful against the spicy Snax in the area, as well! How nice of Paletoss Grande to be conveniently located. Just kidding, it did not position itself there on purpose. It is not nice. Even if it is ice.

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Since writing this post, I HAVE eaten golden kiwis! They are delicious! I actually like the texture of kiwis now! I like the taste of golden much more than green kiwis, but I wish I liked green ones more, since I still very much believe they are more visually fun.

GOLDEN KWEEBLE

It is Kweeble, the classic Kweeble everyone knows and loves, but this time, it is golden! That is really about it; like Green Crapple ,it is a nonthreatening little Bugsnak living in a dangerous area. But unlike most recolors, Golden Kweeble has a bit of a status, you see. It is not just another color, it is golden! Does that mean it’s better than regular Kweebles? It doesn’t. It is basically the same as them.

What is different about Golden Kweeble? One thing is that it contains 100 more calories than a standard Kweeble! That’s a whole 100 Calorie Pack snack bag worth of calories! It also is not found around any tunnels, and so its only escape route is into a bush, making it perhaps actually a bit easier and more straightforward to catch than regular Kweeble! It looks superficially more exclusive, but perhaps Golden Kweeble is surprisingly humble!

Did you know about golden kiwis before Golden Kweeble? I didn’t! I think it’s fine, I guess. I like yellow, but enough fruits are already yellow inside, you know? Green fruit flesh is pretty innovative to me. Kiwis are pretty aesthetically neat, though I don’t like the texture very much so I just do not eat them. I just think about them because of Kweebles.

The most notable thing about Golden Kweeble is, probably, its scan quote! Gramble says “Different color means it’s special! Catch it catch it catch it catch it!!“, which strikes me as a clear reference to shiny Pokemon! For a life hack, you can collect a bunch of Golden Kweebles, and then fool your friends into thinking you have a bunch of exclusive Kweebles, even though they are not actually rare. I would not recommend doing this. It is lying, and unfulfilling.

Actually, now that I think of it, Golden Kweeble also reminds me of another RPG thing, the sort of enemy that gives a lot of experience points but is hard to defeat and runs away quickly! It even has the cheeky eyes for it. All this said, though, please remember Golden Kweeble is just like any other Kweeble. Please do not put pressure on it.

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Hi everyone. It has been two years and six days since this post. I have only now realized that Dreamworks' Turbo came out in 2013, and not 2018. I hope I did not gravely mislead anyone with this information.

WHITE CHEEPOOF

There’s something different about this one compared to the regular Cheepoof! I wonder if there are any Dreamworks characters around who would like to describe it for me.

Ah! Thank you, White Shadow from Turbo (2018)! This is White Cheepoof. More like Yellow Cheepoof, am I right? A little bit, superficially, maybe, but you can probably tell White Cheepoof is a white cheddar cheese puff! Its wings, though, have no excuse, as they are Cool Ranch flavor. But that’s ok. I’ve always liked the little red and green seasoning specks on Cool Ranch chips. They are a nice addition of color and I am glad they are here.

Everything said about regular Cheepoof’s anatomy and theoretical metamorphosis applies here, though the key difference is that White Cheepoof appears at night, after the orange Cheepoofs disappear! They are like a tag team! When the sun goes up or down, they high five with their floppy chip wings and switch places!

Cheepoofs have a surprising amount of similarities with Rootles! Both have an orange and a white variant. Both appear in the same location as their variant, separated by day and night. Both have piles of Snak Evidence to signal that they can appear. Really, the main difference is that the orange Rootle appears at night, while the orange Cheepoof appears during the day. But now you know some Fun Facts!

Since it is Cool Ranch, Beffica calls White Cheepoof the cooler Cheepoof.

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(Big Bugsnax spoilers obviously)

Honestly I never liked the idea of Bronica becoming a Snakolyte or a Queen, it feels like it’s kind of underestimating her. I like to think she found the Triplicate Space, but escaped before she could be recruited. That's why Jamfoot says Clumby should NOT follow her- if Clumby followed her, she would not be part of the organization, so of course Jamfoot would not want that. Also, Jamfoot is very open about the Queens, so I don’t know why he would hide it if Bronica was one.

There is another big thing that makes me believe this, and that is the skeleton in the cave in the tutorial area! It has a unique scan description compared to other skeletons, so I think it must be special in some way. Its skull is face down in the dirt, and while scanning it does show the outline of the whole model, you’re never going to actually see any teeth on the skull itself, and Bronica did not have many teeth left when she died.

I also just think this would be a nice ending for Bronica, and a bit of one for Triffany, too! Even if she died, she did it on her own terms, not succumbing to anything that was trying to use her. She was able to try her best to warn others, putting up signs in and around the cave. And for Triffany, even if she didn’t know and lost hope, her gramma was watching over her all along.

Bugsnax fandom what do y'all think happened to Bronica Lottablog

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So, this is it! At the time of writing, this is the final Bugsnak to talk about. And it is a significant one, to the point that I actively consider it a spoiler. There’s no way to be sure if there will be more Bugsnax in the future, but the Bigsnax update feels to me like it truly completed the game, and this one has such a sense of finality to it and its circumstances that I feel this is truly the Final Bugsnak.

So, obviously, a big spoiler warning for this whole post! If you have not played Bugsnax and discovered every Bugsnak yet, this is your warning! If you have seen them all and do not mind both snak and story spoilers, then come... join me.

So. Ever since the launch of Bugsnax, there had been plenty of mysteries! At the end of the game, we do learn more about the Bugsnax and why they do what they do, but we never learn exactly their origin, or how they came to mimic snacks in particular. We still don’t know, and that’s all well and good! Not everything needs to be explained, and I like it better that we don’t know everything.

The BIGGEST mystery, though, was that of the Triplicate Space. If you went out of bounds specifically in one area of Boiling Bay, you would be teleported back, with an error message stating “The Triplicate Space is not yet available to you.” Now what in the DANG could this mean? No one knew! There was nothing similar in the game to suggest anything, and the developers would cheekily feign ignorance or dance around the subject when asked. It felt like there was an equal chance of it either being some kind of major foreshadowing, and that we would one day be able to access this mysterious space, or of it just being a big ol’ joke.

Then the Isle of Bigsnax update came along.

Well whaddaya know! Hidden in Broken Tooth is this mysterious key, and the use of “space” in its description makes its purpose obvious, and I’m telling you, the feeling I got when finding this was indescribable.

I don’t want to spoil much. This really is something you should try to experience as firsthand as possible. But the Triplicate Space is unlike anywhere else in the game, a place where you do NOT belong, where you learn things you are NOT supposed to know, and even some new mysteries, as well... and what waits for you at the end?

It’s this silly looking coffee mug with two handles! Why does a coffee mug have two handles? That’s just not realistic.

CAPPUCCEETLE

It’s because those aren’t just handles, they’re legs! This little snak was just taking a nap, and when it notices you, it flees. Well you better go catch it!

Doing that is no easy task. Not at all. First of all, you cannot catch it in the Triplicate Space. This is a snak that goes where it pleases, and that means it will run freely across the entire island! It’s the fastest snak alive, and can even run on water like a Jesus. This isn’t a Jesus, though, it’s a Joe! It is nicknamed Joey Quickbeans, and no I am not going to tell you the context of that. Sorry.

Evasive snax are no problem, right? Just set up a Trip Shot and let it get stunned, right? WRONG! You silly goose riding in a caboose! Cappucceetle cannot be tripped. It will just cheekily zip past the wire, taunting you as it does. And if you scare it away, off it will run to a whole other area! That little scamp! What are you to do?

You will have to rely on help from other Bugsnax! The only way to stun Cappucceetle is to have another snak do it, and there are options in any area it might end up in. Taking advantage of its love of chocolate, you can lure Cappucceetle into the path of an aggressive snak to get it knocked out! If you really want to overdue it, you can even summon Megamaki to do the deed. Whatever you do, though, there is another trick- putting the Trip Shot aross the exit to the area will prevent Cappucceetle from escaping!

With that, I have gone over all 112 Bugsnax here on this blog, and now I have to say... a very wonderfully happy anniversary to Bugsnax! Even if it is not as constant in my brain as it once was, it remains my favorite game ever, and will always be so special to me. It really messes me up that it has been TWO YEARS since the game came out, and I’ve been thinking about it for even longer! Whether there is more Bugsnax on the horizon or new projects entirely, I am very thankful to Young Horses for bringing us this wonderful game, and look forward to what they’ll do next!

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CHEDDABOARDLE REX

Cheddaboardle Rex is a Big Deal! The biggest, baddest Bugsnak of all! A boss snak, AND a bigsnak, and so big, it doesn’t just have little baby minions- it uses entire full-sized Cheddorbs as weapons! To top it all off, it has a strong, glassy lid of crystallized Snakmatter to protect it from Shrink Spice, making it probably the most formidable Bugsnak there is. Do you have what it takes? What it takes to read a Tumblr post about it? I think you do!

Upon being summoned, Cheddaboardle does not mess around. It goes right after your Little Buddy, throwing the now big Buggy Ball so high into the stratosphere, that it will not come down until the end of the battle! This leads, however, to a rather fun and amusing battle, where instead of using your easily-guided Buggy Ball, you must weaponize the panicked influx of Cheddorbs! Bait Cheddaboardle into throwing them toward the funny wall-mounted cannons, and launch them at its shell!

Initially, I was rather confused about what bug Cheddaboardle was, assuming it to be an antlion larva, since it emerges from the ground, throws things, and has a head shape kind of resembling pincers that can be held close together, not to mention its overall shape. However, as mentioned in Cheddorb’s post, it is based on a dung beetle! No matter how huge, strong, and intimidating Cheddorb is, it’s still metaphorically hurling its poop. Maybe that makes it MORE intimidating. It’s not ashamed! Does it have ANY weakness? (yeah it does)

Cheddaboardle takes a while to defeat, and a few steps, but once the deed is done, it becomes adorably small and pathetic. This thing still has six knives for legs, and still feels pathetic! In a lovable way. I love it.

With all those knives, Cheddaboardle is hands down the SCARIEST Bugsnak to think about eating! I know they’re not really the same texture as real knives, but still! Yeesh and a half!

Cheddaboardle is also one of the most lore-important Bugsnax, and I am honestly not sure how to handle that part here. I have been sort of trying to avoid any actual spoilers on the blog! So I won’t say anything. This will make the next and final post rather difficult... we will see how I handle it! See you soon for the second anniversary of Bugsnax!

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DEVILED EGGLER

Do you often forget how many Ls are in “Deviled”? I sure do! But if you don’t mind, you can take this L for me, because I am pretty sure I have cemented that I only need one for this word. I learned from needing to think about Deviled Eggler so often! This has been one of the things I have learned about from Bugsnax!

Deviled Eggler is weird in that it is Eggler in name, but not REALLY in nature? Or maybe it chronologically came before the more basic Eggler? It must be freed from an egg in order to release it into the world, and as such it is an Eggler by definition, probably. And this time it is a big egg! It can be inconvenient to find and transport them, but you can enlist the help of Tikkada for that, which I forgot to do when moving these. Once you get them close enough, though, you can crack the egg to reveal the Creature!

While regular Eggler is a fried egg, Deviled Eggler is, of course, a deviled egg! I’m glad it is, because plain hard-boiled eggs are so bland to me, while deviled ones are so delicious. If it really wanted to, Deviled Eggler could theoretically cover its yolk with its wings and legs to look just like a regular hard-boiled egg with a shell abdomen, though!

Speaking of those wings and legs, I think they are so cool, because this is one of those examples of wacky, nebulous Bugsnak anatomy! While flying, two pairs of these appendages are wings, while the other two hang down. Deviled Eggler is based on a wasp, and those hanging legs remind me of paper wasps especially! In addition, I’m just now realizing that the pointy ends of the cracked shell probably represent the stinger!

When on the ground, though? SIX legs! Wings to legs so instantly! Now it can scuttle with the best of them, with complete control on nearly any terrain. Also, this picture gives a nice look at its fashionable yolk swirl and paprika powdering! It feels a little weird that this is a spicy snak, since I don’t think I have ever had a spicy deviled egg, but a Devilish snak just has to be spicy, I think.

Getting back to the link between Eggler and Deviled Eggler, you may remember that Eggler is a slug, making it truly bizarre for Deviled Eggler to be a wasp! And of course, there are sea slugs that “fly” through the water, so you would not be blamed for thinking Deviled Eggler could be such a slug. This situation is just silly. What is this? Some kind of SILLY piece of media?

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CELLYSTIX

You got a little taste of Cellystix on the Chocolant post, but now it is all about the funny sticks! Cellystix is a celery stickbug! You knew this already but I am telling you again! Did you also know that: it is Funny?

It is so funny! It does the dance! We all love the dance. Of course, real stickbugs do the dance to mimic swaying branches, but I like to think Cellystix just does it for fun!

As previously discussed, Cellystix carries Chocolants on its back! The journal says it does this unknowingly because it’s so big, but I think it is well aware. If any small Chocolants are nearby, Cellystix will become aggressive! It absolutely has some sort of protective attachment to its little buddies. It is described as a Gentle Giant, so maybe it would protect any vulnerable little creatures in its vicinity regardless of origin?

While Clawbsteroni is the go-to snak for bouncing, on account of its trampoline, Cellystix can sort of be used for bouncing, too! It is just so big. If you can jump on top of it, it will knock you up, possibly over a gap!

I am realizing I have not had celery with peanut butter in a very long time. Not to sound like a children’s TV commercial or anything but, it is a great and healthy snack! Not as great as peanut butter apple, but it is still great!

Cellystix is really just so Nice. It is so delightful, so gentle, so just! If it was real, it would let children ride on its back all the time! And it would kill anyone who tried to hurt them! Don’t you wish Cellystix was real?

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CHOCOLANT

Oh man. Chocolant might be one of the most delicious looking Bugsnax of all! Not that chocolate is my favorite food represented in the game, but specifically Chocolant’s model looks so so tantalizing. Look at it!

Those limbs and mandibles are oh so ooey gooey, so perfectly melty, I can just imagine slurping them, can’t you? I don’t like dark chocolate, but it is the milk chocolate that looks the best here, and the white chocolate second best. Chocolant is an ant, of course, and while there are existing ant snax in Shishkabug, Tropicabug, and Instabug, this is a DIFFERENT ant one. It is specifically based on a bulldog ant, which is why it has such big mandibles! These ants are known for aggression, but Chocolant is not actually aggressive. It’s just a bit cheeky!

For example, Chocolants may be found walking around in some Buggy Ball mazes, where they will cheekily pick up the ball if it comes into contact with them. This can be annoying, but can also be used to your advantage. So far, Chocolant is a morally gray character.

They can also be found just moseying around. “Dum de dum dum”, thinks Chocolant, as it strolls aimlessly. There is not much to say about these strolling ones. They are just going about their day.

The REAL fun with Chocolants is that they can be found riding on the back of Cellystix, creating an Ants On a Log snak! Usually, this is made with raisins in peanut butter on celery, but there is already a raisin snak in Grapeskeeto, and this can be made using chocolate chips anyway, in case you don’t want to be TOO healthy. Chocolants love their big adoptive guardian, and if a big Cellystix is nearby, they will attempt to jump back onto its back! They are sweeties under their rough exterior!

Chocolants love not just peanut butter, but also chocolate... does this make them CANNIBALS?! No. It does not. Bugsnax are made of Snakmatter! They can slurp as much as they want!

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PIELOBITE

Pielobite is extremely awesome way past cool!!! Aside from pasta, PIE was one of the foods most notably missing from Bugsnax. My personal idea was for a trapdoor spider, that would hide in sediment and use the metal tin to cover its burrow! Once, while scrying through pre-release Bigsnax material, I noticed something in the background...

The horns of this ancient Grumpus statue were unmistakably pie slices! At the time I was not able to tell anything more, so I didn’t know what pie it would be, only that it did not seem to be a flat-topped one like pumpkin or sweet potato.

Now, of course, we know Pielobite is a pecan pie! It may not be one of my favorite pies (mine is blueberry) but it is still a great pie, and has good reasoning behind it. There is already so much fruit in the game, so pecan is a good choice not only for some more food variety, but because it’s one of the pies where the flavor is obvious just from looking at it, without having to slice it!

When Pielobite is first encountered, it is in what I will call its Defense Forme. It has this plastic-looking lid, made of crystallized snakmatter, that protects it from Shrink Spice, making it basically invincible! But any Bugsnax player will recognize the symbol on its grocery store-style stickers as the grappler icon. These four stickers can be grappled off, with Pielobite scurrying away each time, to remove the lid!

Once the lid is gone, Pielobite assumes what I will call its Vulnerable Forme, though I think this is definitely the cooler of the two forms. Look how one slice in the back juts out, breaking part of the tin with it. That no doubt represents a telson, the “tail” that trilobites and some other arthropods have! I also want to say it’s great that its legs are ripped off from the tin, and also that this is the only Bugsnak based on an extinct creature, as far as I know. Really an epic snak!

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TIKKADA MASALA

Don’t you just love when a Bugsnak has a first and last name? I sure do. I think Tikkada is the best at it, because it could easily just be called Tikkada, but it has a full name anyway! I wish I had videos of the voice clips to link for the newer snax, because Tikkada has a really good cicada voice, perfectly buzzy and choppy. I would not think a human voice could sound like a cicada! But here we are!

Tikkada was one of the first Bigsnax showcased in the trailer, providing a sense of just how Big these Snax are! I think it is interesting it is depicted as a constant flier, with big, contrasting with the usual perception of cicadas as perched on a surface. As a result I didn’t actually recognize it as a cicada at first!

Once it DOES land, however, it assumes that classic cicada pose. What a little darling. It can look so majestic one moment and then small and frightened the next!

Its bug basis became clear once it said “Tikkada!” in the trailer, but. The subtitles call it Scootz! I love this so so so much. The real reason is that initially, an altered Scoopy voice was used as a placeholder, so I guess its name was detected as Scootz. I think this individual Tikkada’s name should be Scootz.

Unfortunately, Tikkada is not a relatable creature. Not because I am not a bug made of curry, but because it hates eggs! I think this is to make it easier to transport Giant Eggler Shells around the island, as Tikkada will carry them to its nest so you don’t have to push them around. But as you can see, it hates any and all eggs! Even Eggabell, who it never meets!

This egg-snatching makes me kind of think of Tikkada as a parasitoid, maybe hoping to inject its own egg into the Eggler shells so the baby can feed on them, but this is not how cicadas or Bugsnax work, so I think it really just hates eggs. It wants to keep them in its nest so it can look at them and remember how much it HATES them. It gives its life purpose.

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CLAWBSTERONI

Clawbsteroni has one of the best names in the game, I think! It is so silly but at the same time, it has all the necessary bits. Claw, lobster, macaroni. All it’s missing is the cheese, but that would overcomplicate the name, so it’s ok.

Clawbsteroni’s design cleverly implements not just the classic curved tube macaroni, but also the slightly last classic shell shaped pasta! Overall, it really perfectly attains a lobster shape, while being made of nothing BUT two different shapes of pasta.

You may ask Clawbsteroni, “my, what big claws you have! What are you going to do with those? I do hope you will not snip me with them.” Clawbsteroni would reply, “Clawbsteroni”, because it cannot talk. But don’t worry, it will not snip you! It does not even have enough claw parts to snip.

Clawbsteroni WILL use its claws to manipulate object! It carries around trampolines, referred to as BELOVED trampolines, and that is so sweet. It is a gentle giant who just wants to hold a trampoline, because it likes it! Obviously, since this is a videos game, this means that you can Bounce on the trampoline, and that Clawbsteronis can be lured to different areas to allow you to bounce to previously unreachable heights. Bouncing in Bugsnax was really long overdue, I think. Yes, we had LAUNCHING, but BOUNCING is different! Less technical, more whimsical!

The trampoline is quite interesting from a Lore perspective, too. Obviously, it was not made by Bugsnax, but the ancient Grumpuses who once inhabited Broken Tooth. It doesn’t have anything to stand on by itself, so it seems it may have been made specifically FOR Clawbsteroni! Could this be a beast of burden? A DOMESTICATED Bugsnak?

Another very clever thing about Clawbsteroni is that its food basis is NOT just macaroni and cheese. It’s based on lobster macaroni and cheese, which is confirmed by it being referred to as “LobsterMac” in the files! This makes it the only Bugsnak whose bug basis is actually present in its food basis!

And finally, I love the horns it gives through snakification. Turn your Grumpuses into funny bats! Happy Halloween!

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SPAGHIDER

Every Bugsnak is wonderful, every Bugsnak is a delightful design. But Spaghider is absolutely impeccable. Even if it may not quite be my favorite design, I think Spaghider has the BEST design of any snak. It is just bellissimo!

While other spider snax are very simplified with silly anatomy, Spaghider is one of the most anatomically accurate snax there is, and every aspect of the food is used flawlessly! Cephalothorax consisting of spaghetti twirled around a fork, eight noodle legs, a meatball abdomen, and the tines of the fork representing both pedipalps and chelicerae. It is so so so good!!! And focusing more on the food side, I love the detail on both the noodles and the meatball, especially the little flecks left by the sauce. Also, pasta was SORELY missing from the base snak roster, so a spaghetti snak was basically a necessary choice! A spaghetti and meatballs snail was considered for the base game, and dare I say, I think I’m glad we got Spaghider instead, since it is so perfect, and we already have a perfect snail in Cinnasnail, anyway. Somebody call a Chef, because I need one to do a Kiss to commemorate this right about now!

Spaghider spends its time in trees, but if something Cheesy is nearby, it will snag it in a thread... of spaghetti! It makes sense, it’s a long thread that can be analogous to a thread of silk, but it is just funny that it is using what its legs are made of as silk, I think. The beautiful fool will even snatch up Shrink Spice and Snak Traps as long as they’re covered in cheese, and this is how to capture it!

A very funny glitch exists, or at least existed because they might have fixed it, where Spaghider’s stretchy noodle could fall off, and just be there on the ground as an extremely compressed spaghetti cylinder. I love this!!! Would you eat something like this? I would. I would love to! Just hold it and bite into it like an apple! You could dip it in sauce as you do! Please reply or tag Hell Yeah! if you would!

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MILLIMOCHI

Millimochi is very Sillimochi, because this thing is, at least going by the name, based on a millipede! If it wasn’t for the name, I would not have the slightest clue, because like Cheddorb, this is Orb, but more a Lump than truly Orb.

Orb it may be, Millimochi be three! It is a social snak, and travels in groups of three, slithering in a line. This is... still not very much at all like a millipede, except for the fact that it is now longer than just one lump, but it’s ok. It’s ok!!! Maybe we can say that the wooden mochi fork it has is an exaggeration of a millipede’s mandibles, or even the pointy little snout of some millipedes...?

A very unique thing about Millimochi is that it comes in a variety of colors and flavors! There is the standard green, as well as pink, and yellow, which is not pictured. The colors change based on its mood! It seems to be green when calm, pink when excited, and yellow... I don’t know about yellow, I have not actually even seen it in game, but it IS in there, I promise! They seem to be green tea, strawberry, and mango flavors, respectively.

Millimochi may be considered aggressive, but, like Bungers, it really just wants to play! Look how happy it is! What a sweetie, both in personality and flavor! Unfortunately I do not have voice clip videos for the Bigsnax, but you will just have to trust me that Millimochi has a really good voice. The three of them all speak in unison and it is so fun to hear them go millimillimochi, millimillimochi! Imagine that in a funny voice! Thank you!

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CHEDDORB

Look!!! It’s Cheddorb!!! Already we are at my FAVORITE Bigsnak of all! Let us not waste any time here!

As far as Snax go, this was a rare example of one where I had no idea what I was looking it. Obviously, I could tell that the name was Cheddar plus Orb, so it was some sort of cheese ball, but the only cheese ball I knew were the crunchy snack kind. How I love that kind. But this is not that kind!

Cheddorb is based on a port wine cheese ball, a more fancy kind of cheese ball, made of mixed cream and cheddar cheese and coated with a crust of nuts! That bald spot in front that kind of looks like Cheddorb’s mouth is where some was sliced off to spread on a cracker! I have not yet made one myself because I keep forgetting to, but some day. I will know.

So the snack basis is obvious, if you know what you’re looking for. But what about the bug basis? It gets even wackier! This is an orb. Not a bug that can roll up, like Peelbug, or an orb with legs, like Wee Mewon. Just a bona fide orb that rolls! Surely there is not a bug that is an orb...?

There kind of is!!! This is the Giant Ostracod, a marine crustacean that is not actually giant by our standards, but at least it is by ostracod standards. And what do you know, it’s a sphere with big ol’ eyes, making it an absolutely perfect fit for Cheddorb!

Now, Cheddorb is indeed classified as being based on a giant ostracod, but this was not always the case! Initially, the idea was that it was a giant ISOPOD, but one permanently rolled up, a champion of conglobation! However, the ostracod was even more fitting, and I think it is incredible to have Giant Ostracod Representation.

So what does Cheddorb do? It rolls and rolls and rolls! It rolls around the island, knocking down walls, and knocking away any creatures in its path. Once shrunk, however, it loses its confidence! It behaves much like a Peelbug, hiding in a log that it must be pushed out of to catch.

Cheddorb also has a Stinky Secret... that may make no sense but it will soon. You see, Cheddorb is technically a “minion” snak, like Wee Mewon, Minimaki, Bombino, and Baby Cakelegs before it, and is the only one that is first encountered outside of a boss battle! Specifically, it is used by Cheddaboardle Rex, which uses them as projectiles. Cheddaboardle is based on a dung beetle. So... I’m sorry, Cheddorb. But you are situationally representative of a Poop Ball. I don’t love you any less for it, though! I think it’s funny!