Villagers (Rust Bucket)

Villagers are friendly NPCs introduced in Rust Bucket.

Appearance
There are 4 kinds of villagers: young, adults, elder males and elder females. They all wear green clothes with a gold belt. The young villagers have a stuffy nose reddish brown hair and a green and gold top hat. Adult villagers have a reddish brown mustache and hair. Male elders have grey facial hair and are bald.

Game Information
Villagers are to be rescued by the player. They will be attacked by enemies and can be killed by them or by hazards. They can randomly walk in any direction and will try to move away from enemies. They can move one tile per turn, but they won't always move, making them the only element of the game to have a random moving patter. They can be rescued by Rust Bucket simply by walking on them, which will make them escape the level with a parachute, using the same animation as the player does when ending a level. Rescuing villagers in levels is always mandatory as they will carry keys and other objects which are needed to progress further into the level. In Endless mode however, rescuing a villager will give a coin to the player.

Trivia

 * When villagers were announced by Nitrome, they revealed that the parachute rescue method was a reference to the Fluton system from the Metal Gear game series.