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The lair is the second major step in the evolution of zerg breeds, providing increased toughness and extended access to the stored genetic knowledge of the Overmind than the hatchery.^[1]

Game StructureEdit

StarCraftEdit

Lair

Structure
Race	Zerg
Role	Enhanced foundation building
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	100
Control	Provides 1
Build time	100
Evolves from	Hatchery
Requires	Spawning pool
Hotkey	L
Protection
Hit points	1800
Armor	1
Function
Evolves to	Hive
Produces	Larvae
Allows	Queen's nest Spire Lurker Aspect (Brood War Only)
Research	Burrow Antennae Pneumatized Carapace Ventral Sacs

The lair is responsible for producing larvae, maintains the creep, digesting minerals\gas, and mutating the Burrow upgrade.

A lair can be mutated into a hive.

Researched AbilitiesEdit

Burrow

Acquisition
Minerals	100
Gas	100
Evolution time	80
Evolved at	Hatchery/Lair/Hive
Hotkey	B

Usage
Hotkey	U

Notes

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

Ventral Sacs

Acquisition
Minerals	200
Gas	200
Evolution time	160
Evolved at	Lair/Hive

Usage
Hotkey	V

Notes

Allows overlords to transport units.

Researched UpgradesEdit

Antennae

Evolved at

Lair OR
Hive

Hotkey

A

Properties

Minerals	150
Gas	150
Evolution time	133

Notes

Increases overlord sight range to 11.

Pneumatized Carapace

Evolved at

Lair
Hive

Hotkey

P

Properties

Minerals	150
Gas	150
Evolution time	133

Notes

Increases overlord speed.

Building AbilitiesEdit

Mutate into Hive

Acquisition
Requires	Queen's nest

Usage
Minerals	200
Gas	150
Units	Lair
Activation/ Build Time	120
Hotkey	H

Notes

Transforms a lair into a hive.

StarCraft IIEdit

Lair

Structure
Race	Zerg
Role	Enhanced foundation building
Properties
Broodlings produced	9
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	100
Control	Provides 2
Build time	80
Evolves from	Hatchery
Requires	Spawning pool
Hotkey	L
Protection
Hit points	2000
Armor	1
Type	Armored, Biological, Structure
Function
Evolves to	Hive
Produces	Larva Queen (with spawning pool)
Allows	Hydralisk den Infestation pit Spire Nydus network

The lair reappears in StarCraft II. The lair can set two rally points, one ("Y") for most units and one ("G") for drones.

Each individual egg can be separately rallied; this overrides rally points set for the lair.^[2]

Researched AbilitiesEdit

Burrow

Acquisition
Minerals	100
Gas	100
Evolution time	100
Evolved at	Hatchery/Lair/Hive
Requires	Lair Hatchery (HotS only)
Hotkey	B

Usage
Activation/ Build Time	2 seconds to burrow, 1 second to unburrow
Hotkey	R

Notes

Many zerg ground units may burrow, become invisible and may be revealed primarily by detectors, and may not move or attack. Exceptions are the roach, who may move while burrowed, the infestor, who may move and cast Infested Terran,^[3] and the baneling which can detonate while burrowed.

Some units can unburrow via autocast, causing them to emerge and attack when an enemy moves into range.

The ability is not smartcast.

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Ventral Sacs

Acquisition
Evolution time	130
Evolved at	Lair/Hive
Hotkey	E

Usage
Minerals	200
Gas	200

Notes

The overlord can transport units.

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Researched UpgradesEdit

Pneumatized Carapace

Evolved at

Hatchery (with at least 1 other lair or hive)/Lair/Hive

Hotkey

P

Properties

Minerals	100
Gas	100
Evolution time	60

Notes

Increase speed of the overlord by 1.29 to 1.88 and the overseer by 0.875 to 2.75.

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Building AbilitiesEdit

Mutate into Hive

Acquisition
Requires	Infestation pit

Usage
Minerals	200
Gas	150
Units	Lair
Activation/ Build Time	100
Hotkey	H

Notes

Transforms a lair into a hive.

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Queen AbilitiesEdit

Spawn Larva

Usage
Energy	25
Activation/ Build Time	40 seconds
Hotkey	V

Notes

Queens can target a hatchery/lair/hive with Queen Ichor,^[4] causing it to swell and grow green sacs which burst, producing four larvae. These join any already-present larvae. The larva-producing structure will not naturally produce any more larvae until the total falls below three. The larva count for any given hatchery/lair/hive does not exceed nineteen, no matter how many times spawn larva is cast.

The ability is not smartcast.

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DevelopmentEdit

The following section contains information from a previous version of StarCraft II which is no longer valid.

Razor Swarm

Acquisition
Evolved at	Lair^[5]^[6]

Notes

The queen breathes out a giant cloud of dusts and insects which can be controlled. They deal damage to enemy units,^[4] including air units, and extra damage to biological units, without injuring friendly units.^[7] The swarm eventually exhausts itself.^[4]

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ReferencesEdit

↑ Underwood, Peter, Bill Roper, Chris Metzen and Jeffrey Vaughn. StarCraft (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
↑ "for zerg is it the same that the hatchery sets the rally, or can you rally for each individual egg?"

You can do both. You can set a rally for your hatchery, but can then override it with manual orders per egg as well. Also don't forget, you can set a worker rally point for your hatchery, as well as a unit rally point. Karune, Rancid_death75. Another rally question for Kaurne! Battle.net StarCraft II General Discussion Forum. Accessed 2009-02-18.
↑ Blizzard Entertainment Staff. 2010-07-24. Infestor. Blizzard Entertainment. Accessed 2010-07-24.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Karune. 2009-02-18. StarCraft II Q&A - Batch 49. Battle.net StarCraft II General Discussion Forum. Accessed 2009-02-18.
↑ The Lair/Hive currently have 3 upgrades:
1) Additional Overseer Speed
2) Additional Overlord Speed and allows them to transport
3) Razor Plague (AoE cast ability for the Queen, which is also able to be controlled for a duration by the Zerg player) Karune. 2009-03-16. ??'s about Overlord's current role (post 36). Battle.net StarCraft II General Discussion Forum. Accessed 2009-03-16.
↑ AJ, LordofAscension, Joneagle X. 2008-10-11. Live Coverage. Starcraft.org Accessed 2008-10-17.
↑ Karune. 2009-02-18. StarCraft II Q&A - Batch 49 (page 2). Battle.net StarCraft II General Discussion Forum. Accessed 2009-02-18.