The Wiki for Tale 5 is in read-only mode and is available for archival and reference purposes only. Please visit the current Tale 11 Wiki in the meantime.
If you have any issues with this Wiki, please post in #wiki-editing on Discord or contact Brad in-game.
Arthropodology
Usage
Once learned, allows the chance of finding insects of varying types whilst performing a number of different simple actions. These insects lead to fishing lures with the relevant skills.
Tuition
| Level | School | Requires | Allows |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Worship | 100 Dirt | Allows finding a clutch of 1 Insect |
| 5 | Worship | 200 Tadpoles | Allows finding a clutch of 1 or 2 Insects? |
| 8 | Worship | ??? | ??? |
Where to find them
Insects are randomly found during the following types of actions:
- Foraging Herbs, whether successful or misidentified
- Gathering Clay, Dirt, Slate, Thorns, Wood
- Harvesting Flax
- Digging a hole
- Picking Papyrus
- Diving for pearls
- Harvesting Onions, Leeks
- Collecting Water, but maximum one insect per location filled from
- Slaughtering Livestock
Insect Types
| Insect | Herbs | Clay | Dirt | Slate | Thorns | Wood | Flax | Digging | Papyrus | Diving | Onions | Water | Slaughtering | Leeks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Centipede |  Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Bat Mite | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Blister Beetle | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Bristleworm | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Clay Slug | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
||||||||||||
| Desert Millipede | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Footworm | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Fruit Maggot | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Glass Worm | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
||||||||||||
| Golden Asp | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Grass Slug | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Honey Fly | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Horned Hookworm | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Leafhopper | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
||||||||||||
| Mud Asp | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||
| Needleworm | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
||||||||||||
| Nippleworm | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
||||||||||||
| Orchid Hopper | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Oyster Mite | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Pickel Slug | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||
| Queen Maggot | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||
| Red Cricket | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Ringed Wasp | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Rose Mite | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Rose Swallowtail | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Ruby Hornborrer | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Salt Mite | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Sand Mite | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Slime Moth | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| Snowberry Butterfly | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Spittlebug | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Woodmoth | Yes |
Yes |
|||||||||||||
| Woolly Aphid | Yes |
||||||||||||||
| White Mealybug | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Insect Rarity
As a test 1000 flax beds were planted and harvested in batches of 25. After 1000 harvests there were:
Fruit Maggot: 6
Leafhopper: 5
Orchid Hopper: 18
Snowberry Butterfly: 2
Spittlebug: 47
Clearly spittlebugs are the most common for the time/location/activity and player.
Harvesting 195 Papyrus plants in varied terrain from 2:15am to 3:30am Akhet I-7 around the Nile/Chariot area:
Footworm: 5
Glass Worm: 11
Needleworm: 1
Nippleworm: 7
