Swarm

Swarm
Main Information
Introduction Date	July 31st, 2021
Bots	1-10 (Increases with timer, excluding secondary bots)
Player Piggies	0
Special	1 bot is added to the game as every minute goes by, making the game progressively harder. This gamemode is required for you to use to complete step two of the Hidden Ending. Each bot has a different skin (usually).
Extra Information
Thumbnail Characters	Memory and 2 other characters which are silhouettes of Clowny and Tigry
Background Color	Purple

Swarm is a gamemode in Piggy. It is similar to the bot mode with Piggy spawning at 9:30, but as every minute passes on the timer (8:30, 7:30, 6:30, 5:30, 4:30, 3:30, 2:30, 1:30, and 0:30.), a new Piggy spawns, so there can be up to 10 bots in a server at once.

Bot Speeds

These are all the walkspeeds of the bots:

• Bot 1: 14 (Normal) [15 for bots in Sewers and beyond if they are on alert mode and follow a player]
• Bot 2: 8
• Bot 3: 9
• Bot 4: 10
• Bot 5: 11
• Bot 6: 12
• Bot 7: 13
• Bot 8: 14
• Bot 9: 15
• Bot 10: 16 (Same as player)

Bots

The following bots can spawn in during this mode:

Book 1

• Piggy
• Mother
• Father
• Sheepy
• Teacher
• Beary
• Zompiggy
• Clowny
• Elly
• Robby
• Torcher
• Memory
• Badgy

Book 2

• Dessa
• Raze

Trivia

• This is the second gamemode that was supposed to be limited, but instead was a permanent addition to the game.
• Every main bot in Book 1 can spawn in during this mode, while only two Book 2 main bots can spawn in, those being Dessa and Raze. (13 > 2) This is due to the fact that both Rash and Tigry are uninfected whereas the main bot from Sewers and any chapter onward has the new pathfinding methods.
• Its icon in Build Mode has an unknown character on it, located at the bottom right.
• If Camp is chosen with Swarm mode, a keypad can be found in the blue door watchtower (this has to be achieved by completing Docks first without getting Pony scratched by the piggy). This is for the Hidden Ending.
  • Due to this, Swarm is now a permanent addition to the game, as it would be impossible to obtain the Hidden Ending without it.
• This mode swapped with Tag, similar to what Infection formerly did with Traitor.
• Swarm is said to be one of the hardest gamemodes when it was added, overthrowing Infection and Player + Bot due to how many bots there are.
• The first bot has their speed set to the normal amount (14 or 15, depending on AI type) but the second bot will have the speed of Grandmother (8) and each bot that will spawn after that will have their speed increased by 1.
• The first bot uses the usual bot skin from the selected map, but any bot after that has a randomized skin based on canon main bot apperances, their AI type, and whether they are infected or not.
  • Despite Robby being uninfected, they are still able to be a Swarm bot.
  • After a skin is selected for a bot to use, it can't be used again by another bot for the rest of the round.
    • However the randomized skins doesn't remove the skin used by the main bot, meaning that you can have two of the same bot in Swarm if played on a map that has the main bot as a Swarm option (For example, if the map is City, there can be two Elly instead of one).
• In this tweet, MiniToon would delay an upcoming event, but to make up for it, he announced the release of Swarm.
• There used to be a bug in Build Mode where if the main bot fell out of the map, all currently spawned Swarm bots would despawn while the main bot respawned.
• If a swarm bot falls out of the map, they do not respawn. The swarm bots also keep increasing in speed as one spawns every minute, instead of resetting back to the slowest speed to keep the swarm bots spawning should any fall out of the map.
  • If Piggy falls out of the map as a Swarm bot, the main bot will continuously spawn in, making clones.
• This is the first gamemode that never got to be in Sketchy or Piggy but it's 100 players. The second being Tag.
  • Both of these Gamemodes also have yet to be added to the Chinese Variant of the game.
• If this is played on Refinery, and the bot amount reaches to 10, then that will make Refinery the map with the most amount of hostile enemies, being a total of 16 bots (6 T.S.P. members and 10 bots).
  • This number can be infidently exceeded in Build mode using the Spawn NPC Block with a Looper.
• This gamemode gives you 45 Piggy Tokens when completed (without the x2 Piggy Tokens gamepass) and 55 Piggy Tokens when completed on Hard Mode.
  • With 2x tokens and Hard Mode enabled, you get a total of 100 Piggy Tokens per round.
    • The 2x tokens gamepass does not double the extra coins earned from hard mode.
• This gamemode was added to Build Mode on August 1st, 2021, where the bot count also maxes out at 10, because Build Mode maps don't have a timer and could go on forever.
  • However, a timer is now an option in Build Mode, with a max time for 30 minutes.
    • However, even if the round time is more or less than 10 minutes, a Swarm bot will still spawn every minute instead of being synced across the entire timer.
    • The timer and the Swarm bot spawn time are slightly inaccurate, as the final Swarm bot spawns in at around 00:14 if the round time was 10 minutes when it began.
• This mode and bot are also the only modes which can be picked when there is only one person in the server- as all the other modes require at least two players.
• From Sewers and any chapter onward, the main bot has the new pathfinding methods, therefore they do not spawn in other maps during swarm mode.
  • Additionally any Swarm bots spawned in maps with patrol AI won't use the patrol AI and will use the follow AI.
• Stunning any of the bots from the Swarm gamemode (apart from the original bot or other secondary bots, like Doggy, Foxy, etc.) will make them faster. This is a bug, and is shared with Grandmother in the City. If this is done to the 9th and 10th Swarm bots, then they will be slower instead of faster due to them beings faster than the normal Bot. This bug also occurs when using a flare on them, or if Pony attacks one in Docks.
  • Oddly, stunning them with the Gun, Crossbow, or Traitor Gun doesn't cause them to change speed in Build Mode.
  • This can be fixed by having the glitched bot open a door or kill a decoy or survivor.
• Any Swarm bot in Build Mode (Except for the usual first one) is bugged and doesn't have their theme work until they kill a survivor or decoy. This bug is shared with the Kolie, Blatt, and Old Billy skins.
• When you stun Dessa or Raze in Book 1 or Book 2, the message will say Dessa/Raze is gone for 20 seconds, however when you stun them in Build Mode the message will say regular Piggy is gone for 20 seconds.

The discussions tag for Swarm can be found here.