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 ===The Wildlife===
-While the eastern half of the asteroid is free of harmful things (save the occasional murderous traitor, rogue cyborg, and gibtonite deposit), it's quite sparse in any ore more precious than plain iron. The western half has much richer bounty of minerals to harvest... but there's a bit of a problem in the form of a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns. Fortunately, you can fight them if you know how, and useful items can be harvested from their corpses when you triumph. Many sporting miners even come to the west asteroid just for the sake of monster hunting.
+Lavaland is filled with a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns, walking just fine over the ponds and puddles of lava. Fortunately, you can fight them whilst taking minimal damage, if you have the know-how
-====[[File:Hivelord.png|32px]] '''Hivelords'''====
+Useful items can be harvested from these creatures' corpses should you triumph; butcher them with a knife and the goods will spill out!
-Considered annoying at worst, and a free medkit at best. These strange creatures will unleash hivelord brood one after another at you whilst trying to keep distant. Fortunately, each of its spawn dies in a single hit, and deal tickle damage to you. It's best to go on the aggressive against these with pickaxe in hand, advancing constantly whilst picking away each of its brood. Once you've closed the gap or have it stuck in a corner, it's toast. It drops its core when killed, which when eaten will instantly restore your health to its maximum, and even cure diseases or any other ailment on your body. It also has the side effect of purging any beneficial chemicals from your system, so don't munch one just after injecting a stimulant. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes unless you use the hivelord preserver from the vending machine.
-Attack with your pickaxe. Hack your way through the broods until the host is mush.
+====[[File:legion.png|32px]] '''Legions'''====
+Considered annoying at worst, and a free medkit at best. These skulltossers will unleash legion skulls, one after another at you whilst trying to keep a distance. Fortunately, each of its spawn dies in a single hit (even a single punch), and deal tickle damage to you; the legion itself can't directly hit you. It's best to go on the aggressive against these with pickaxe in hand, advancing constantly whilst picking away each of its brood. Once you've closed the gap or have it stuck in a corner, it's toast.
-====[[File:Goliath.png|32px]] '''Goliaths'''====
+It drops a heart when killed. Hit yourself with the heart and it will instantly restore your health to its maximum, and even cure diseases or any other ailment on your body. It also has the side effect of purging any beneficial chemicals from your system, so don't munch one just after injecting a stimulant. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes unless you use the hivelord preserver from the vending machine. However, legion hearts, spoilt or not, can be inserted in one's chest through [[surgery]] to provide a constant regenerating effect.
-The bane of many careless miners. These monsters carry a hefty health pool, a mean wallop, and a deceptively dangerous ranged tentacle attack. They are inherently resistant to lasers, so using a KA is the best option regarding dealing with these. They move at a slow pace, stopping every couple seconds to burrow tentacles under you. These will trap you for a long duration if you stand on top of them for too long. Fighting them is simple: Shoot, step back, shoot, avoid tentacles. Repeat this process until it is dead and leaves a plate on the ground.
-Goliath plates can be used to reinforce your hardsuit and helmet a maximum of three times, allowing you to turn your suit into something closer to a spaceworthy piece of riot gear if you hunt some Goliaths.
+tl;dr strategy: '''Attack with your pickaxe. Hack your way through the legion and its heads until the host is mush.'''
-====[[File:Basilisk.png|32px]] '''Basilisks'''====
+====[[File:EdgyGoliath.png|32px]] '''Goliaths'''====
+The bane of many careless miners. These monsters carry a hefty health pool, a mean wallop, and a deceptively dangerous ranged tentacle attack. They are inherently resistant to lasers, so using a KA is the best option regarding dealing with these. They move at a slow pace, stopping every couple seconds to burrow tentacles under you. These will trap you for a long duration if you stand on top of them for too long.
+Fighting them is simple: '''Shoot, step back, shoot, avoid tentacles.''' Repeat this process until it stops moving.
+Butcher a goliath for its hide and its meat. Goliath plates can be used to reinforce your hardsuit and helmet a maximum of three times, allowing you to turn your suit into something closer to a spaceworthy piece of riot gear if you hunt some Goliaths. The meat can be cooked in lava.
+====[[File:watcher.png|32px]] '''Watchers'''====
 Fierce, territorial beasts capable of firing freezing beams, cold enough to inflict serious freeze burns while the basilisk closes in and attacks its immobilized target. Fortunately, they don't attack unless someone comes very close to them, so if you don't feel confident, you can just wait until you have a few more goliath plates, or maybe some gibonite.
-Despite the slow, Basilisks can be kited. However, it is often a better idea to just melee them with your pickaxe in the event that you have several goliath plates.
+Despite the slowdown, watchers can be kited. However, it is often a better idea to '''just melee them''' with your pickaxe in the event that you have several goliath plates. Have a brute patch handy if you choose to fight a watcher, as it will injure you in a melee.
+Butcher a watcher for 2 pieces of diamond ore.
 '''Tip:'''
-Basilisks are notably weak to explosions due to the nature of their bodies, taking over half their health in damage from even the weakest of explosions.
+Watchers are notably weak to explosions due to the nature of their bodies, taking over half their health in damage from even the weakest of explosions.
 ====[[File:Goldgrub.png|32px]] '''Goldgrubs'''====