Swamp CreaturesReport
English：Swamp Creatures · Factions
An animal faction that never shows up on the in-game factions list. It owns the Swamp Raptors, the Megaraptor and some of the Blood Spiders — the same spider spawned somewhere else belongs to a different faction.
Swamp Creatures is one of Kenshi's animal factions. Like the Raptors, it never appears on the in-game factions list: you cannot look up its relations and you cannot negotiate with it.
It needs an article because several creature pages on this site list it in their Faction field, and what it actually covers does not match what the name suggests.
Who is in it and who is not
| Creature | Faction |
|---|---|
| Swamp Raptor | Swamp Creatures |
| Megaraptor | Swamp Creatures |
| Blood Spider | Depends on where it spawned |
| River Raptor | Raptors |
| Swamp Turtle | Wildlife |
Two easy mistakes here.
The Swamp Turtle is not a Swamp Creature. The name says swamp; the faction tag says Wildlife.
Neither is the River Raptor. Of the three raptors in the family, only the River Raptor belongs to the Raptors; the other two are here. Which produces the situation on Raptor Island: the location is controlled by the Raptors faction, and every animal walking around on it is a Swamp Creature.
The Blood Spider's double life
The Blood Spider is the awkward part of this faction. The same monster is tagged differently depending on where it spawns.
The squads in The Swamp, the South Wetlands and the Burning Forest are mostly Swamp Creatures. The ones in ancient sites such as the Lost Library belong to the Spiders faction instead. Appearance, stats and drops are identical.
It makes almost no difference in play, since both of them bite. Its real use is not to be confused when reading the data: a Blood Spider page listing both Spiders and Swamp Creatures in its faction field is not a typo.
Where it is
The wiki splits this faction's range into two parts.
Roaming Swamp Raptors spawn in The Crater and The Unwanted Zone. Swamp Raptor Nests spawn in the Burning Forest, the Leviathan Coast, Raptor Island, the South Wetlands, The Swamp and The Unwanted Zone.
Put the two together and you get exactly the seven zones listed on the Swamp Raptor page. In other words, outside the Crater and the Unwanted Zone every pack you meet in the field came out of a nest, so finding the nest finds the source.
The Swamp Raptor Nest is the only location this faction owns. Like a Deathyard or a crab nest it can be cleared, and it grows back somewhere else afterwards.
Relations
Swamp Creatures are marked as coexisting with five factions: Wildlife, Spiders, Herbivore, the Swampers and the Hounds.
Coexistence means these groups do not attack one another. The practical effect is that the swamp's wildlife will not solve anything for you. In some regions you can buy time by letting the local beasts fight each other; not here, they simply all come at you together.
Coexistence with the Swampers is the counter-intuitive one. Swamp Raptors are the number one pest in the Swampers' hashish fields and losing a whole crop to them is routine, yet the two sides are at peace in faction terms. The raptors do not attack Swampers, they just eat the farm.
What it means for you
The faction itself is not something you meet. What you meet is a pack of Swamp Raptors and a Blood Spider hidden in the reeds. The use of this article is to explain ownership: the map marks Raptor Island as Raptor territory while nothing on the island belongs to that faction, and this is why.