This article and category refers to the post-recode mobility type. For its legacy counterpart, see Glider/Legacy.

Gliders are a relatively uncommon mobility type characterized by their shared ability to glide, but inability to fly. Their base type is "Sky", a trait which they share with fliers. There is no known type gacha for gliders specifically, and due to their rarity they incidentally only appear in the Photovore Explorer, Death, and Limited Gachas.

Standard gliders' aquatic mobility is comparable to that of terrestrials, thus creatures categorized as gliders generally all share the following traits:

• They are able to walk and run on land, regaining stamina any time they are grounded so long as they are not actively sprinting.
• While they can dive and swim underwater, their speed will severely reduce and they will not regenerate stamina. Instead, the bar will passively deplete for as long as they are suspended in water, and the creature will suffer drowning damage once the bar is emptied. Swimming with their heads underwater will also deplete their oxygen, and they will begin to asphyxiate once it is drained.
  • They cannot sprint in water under normal circumstances. Gliders with Ambush can continue sprinting if they travel into water mid-ambush, but this requires that the ability be activated on land. Initiating Ambush underwater is not possible.
• Gliders universally have access to the ability Glide and can expend a fixed amount of stamina to take off. This value varies from creature-to-creature (and is sometimes as low as 0), and using Glide again while aloft will cause the creature to beat its wings, gaining more height at the cost of additional stamina (called boosting). A creature with insufficient stamina cannot take off nor boost. For some strange reason, initial take-off does not consume stamina.
  • Gliders afflicted with Shredded Wings or Broken Legs also cannot take off.
  • If a glider is falling, it can begin gliding at the cost of no stamina. Unlike legacy gliders, they will not beat their wings to indicate that they have reentered a gliding state. Gliders may also take off from the surface of the water at no cost, but their stamina must still be at or above their takeoff value.
  • Attempting to toggle between flight/glide (F on PC) will cause a glider to drop, as will gliding into an object. Running out of stamina will not force a glider to drop.
• So long as they are not sprint-gliding, they will regenerate stamina while airborne. This rate varies, with creatures of higher tiers generally recovering slower than their smaller counterparts.
• Gliders are able to sit and lay down underwater, but this does not allow them to regenerate stamina, nor does it halt stamina depletion. Perhaps unintentionally, if a glider walks into water (as opposed to falling or diving in), it can emote underwater and gain the respective status effects. True of all creatures, they cannot preform any of these actions mid-air.
• They cannot place nests or territories underwater. Despite these limitations, territories placed by gliders may still freely overlap with underwater regions of the map, so long as the player who placed it was grounded.
• Regular gliders rarely, if ever, have a moisture bar.

While legacy gliders were internally recognized as terrestrials, this quirk is not present in the recoded version of the game. As a result, gliders cannot complete missions specific to land creatures.

There are 11 creatures of this type.

To help with listing some sub-mobility types, these support, not in-game, categories have been created for regular Gliders:

• Dry Skin Glider, with no moisture issues.
• Permeable Skin Glider, with a moisture bar.

Glider semi-Aquatics

Main articles: Glider Semi-Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic

Also see Air-breather Glider Semi-Aquatic, Eu Glider Semi-Aquatic, Permeable Skin Glider Semi-Aquatic and Dry Skin Glider Semi-Aquatic for creatures which fall into this category.

Glider semi-aquatics are an obsolete mobility type present in legacy versions of the game. Every legacy glider semi-aquatic has been effectively absorbed into the semi-aquatic category, but still retain their ability to glide. As a result, any semi-aquatic with Glide is commonly still referred to as a glider semi-aquatic, although colloquially.

These creatures will not appear when attempting to sort for gliders, nor will they be immediately distinguishable from standard semi-aquatics besides their aforementioned ability to glide. Despite this, any semi-aquatic with Glide will function identically to a standard glider sans their menu categorization, ability to swim and some nest and moisture quirks. This includes being able to complete glider-specific missions (e.g. in obtaining Phyremia or Megalodystrix's artifacts). When swimming, their space bar ability may convert to Dart.

Age-specific glide

Main article: Age-specific flight or glide

A small minority of gliders are unable to fly outside of a particular age range, often indicated by a lack of wings on their model. They will instead possess the Jump ability in place of Glide until they reach that age, and are consequently the only gliders capable of jumping at all. They behave as normal once they reach their glide age.