Quartz baboon

A is a creature belonging to the baboons faction. Quartz baboons can be found underground in tier 5 zones.

Quartz baboons attack by throwing from a short distance. After throwing a stone, quartz baboons will retreat for a short time before advancing and throwing another. A quartz baboon will spawn with 5 stones; if they run out of stones, or if their target comes within melee range, they will attack with their, a natural short blade weapon that deals damage.

Quartz baboons will reflect 5% of all damage they take back at their attacker. They will always reflect at least 1 damage.

Like all creatures of the baboons faction, quartz baboons will be inflicted with terrified for 2 rounds if they are hostile to a player equipped with a, and come within 5 tiles of the player.

Upon death, quartz baboons have a 6% chance to drop a. This corpse can be butchered, and has a 20% chance to produce a, a 20% chance to produce a , and a 20% chance to produce a pair of. 40% of the time, it will produce nothing.

Tips

 * Keep an eye on your hit points while attacking a quartz baboon, since you too will be taking a portion of the damage you deal.
 * If you're struggling, try having an expendable companion such as a burgeoned plant do the bulk of the damage.