Ambient creature
Ambient creatures (or critters) are a unique race and rank of harmless, passive NPCs like rats and rabbits. Ambient creatures have white names, never grant experience when killed, usually don't drop loot, and are extremely susceptible to damage. They can be found throughout Tyria and typically match their environments; crabs are found on beaches, rats are found in caves, snow owls are found in the Shiverpeak Mountains, etc.
Killing an ambient creature counts toward the Indiscriminate Slayer achievement. Players should note that some also count toward other races' slayer achievements.
Notable locations[edit]
Ambient creatures can be found throughout the open world, as well as in World versus World and in many instances, but there are certain areas where they're found in higher numbers.
- Iron Marches
- The Granite Front (rabbits)
- Fireheart Rise
- Onager Bivouac (crows)
- Queensdale
- Godslost Swamp
- Deathroot Shack (frogs, ravens, and sparkflies)
- Godslost Swamp
- Bloodtide Coast
- Brisban Wildlands
- Toxal Bog (mosquitoes)
Types[edit]
- See also: Category:Ambient creatures
- Armadillo
- Awakened Spy
- Barred Owl
- Beetle
- Bug Swarm
- Bull (ambient creature)
- Cat
- Charradis Fly Swarm
- Chicken (ambient creature)
- Choya Pup
- Coelacanth
- Coho Salmon
- Cow (ambient creature)
- Crab
- Crow
- Deer
- Desert Fox (ambient creature)
- Eagle
- Elonian Red Trout
- Exalted Explosive
- Fine Fur Rabbit
- Fish (ambient creature)
- Fox
- Frog
- Hawk (ambient creature)
- Hound
- Hungry Chicken
- Irradiated Rat
- Lightning Bug
- Maggot
- Micromite
- Mosquito (ambient creature)
- Osprey
- Owl (ambient creature)
- Pig (ambient creature)
- Prairie Dog
- Rabbit
- Raccoon
- Rat
- Raven (ambient creature)
- River Firefly
- Rooster
- Salmon
- Savannah Hare
- Skittish Prairie Dog
- Snake (ambient creature)
- Snow Owl
- Sockeye Salmon
- Sparkfly
- Spider (ambient creature)
- Spider Hatchling (ambient creature)
- Thundershrimp (ambient creature)
- Tropical Bird
- Trout
- Unsuspicious Rabbit
- Vulture
- Wild Moa
Related achievements[edit]
Slayer: Indiscriminate Slayer — Kill 1000 ambient creatures. (16
)
Legendary Weapons: Howler I: The Experimental Warhorn — You hear their cries on the wind in the mountain valleys and the far places of the world. They are the wolves, fierce as individuals, and united as a pack. Consider their combined power as you channel the wolf's hunting spirit in your initial steps to attack the legendary precursor, Howl. (3
)
Notes[edit]
- Ambient creatures are immune to control effects.
- Several lines of dialogue refer to squirrels, hinting at their existence in Tyria. They don't appear in the game, however.
