Drone (StarCraft)

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Drone
Unit
Race	Zerg
Role	Resource Collector Colony Stem Structure Template
Armament	Spines
Properties
Size	Small
Sight	7
Production
Minerals	50
Control	1
Build time	20
Evolves from	Larva
Hotkey	D
Movement
Speed	5
Protection
Hit points	40
Armor	0
Combat
Ground attack	5
Cooldown	22
Attack range	1
Function
Evolves to	Zerg buildings

The drone is the zerg worker unit in StarCraft.

Overview

Drones mutate into the buildings they construct. The only way to stop a building from completing is to destroy it or to cancel it; in the latter event the drone is recovered and may be used for some other purpose. Once the building is complete the drone is unrecoverable.

Drones benefit from burrow. Unless the enemy brings detectors burrowing can minimize the damage caused by a raid on harvesting operations. Once the enemy is repelled harvesting may immediately resume without requiring the replacement of all workers.

Upgrades

Carapace

• +1 bonus to armor per level for broodlings, defilers, drones, hydralisks, infested terrans, larvae, ultralisks, and zerglings.

Acquisition
Purchased from Evolution chamber Hotkey C Level 1 Cost 150 150 267 Level 2 Cost 225 225 300 Required Lair Level 3 Cost 300 300 333 Required Hive

Abilities

Worker Abilities

The drone morphs into structures and harvests minerals and vespene gas.

Burrow

Many zerg ground units may burrow, rendering themselves invisible but incapable of moving or attacking.

Usage
Hotkey U

Acquisition
Purchased from Hatchery/Lair/Hive Hotkey B Cost 100 100 80

Development

During development, drones had an "infest command center" ability.

Notes

• A StarCraft II "Classic" skin modeled after the StarCraft drone is available for those who purchased the physical or virtual ticket for BlizzCon 2018, and will be available for purchase at a later date.

Images

Unit heat scan

References

Zerg Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War v • e

Ground units Larva Drone Zergling Hydralisk Lurker (BW) Defiler Ultralisk Air units Overlord Mutalisk Guardian Scourge Queen Devourer (BW) Infestation units Broodling Infested terran Transition units Egg Lurker egg Cocoon Basic buildings Hatchery Extractor Evolution chamber Spawning pool Hydralisk den Advanced buildings Lair Hive Spire Greater spire Queen's nest Nydus canal Defiler mound Ultralisk cavern Infested command center Defenses Creep Creep colony Spore colony Sunken colony Scrapped Fungal colony Mutation chamber Mutation pit Nydus pit Scoria