diff --git a/Resources/Prototypes/Entities/Markers/Spawners/Random/salvage.yml b/Resources/Prototypes/Entities/Markers/Spawners/Random/salvage.yml
index 9f7f3c40b1..3e415bf2d2 100644
--- a/Resources/Prototypes/Entities/Markers/Spawners/Random/salvage.yml
+++ b/Resources/Prototypes/Entities/Markers/Spawners/Random/salvage.yml
@@ -61,11 +61,28 @@
         - MobCarp
         - MobCarp
         - MobCarp
+        - MobTick
+        - MobTick
+        - MobTick
         - PlushieCarp
         - DehydratedSpaceCarp
       chance: 0.25
       offset: 0.2
 
+- type: entity #I made this in case someone decided to make a terrifying space tick swarm for salvage. that someone may be me -EG404
+  name: Space Tick Spawner
+  id: SpaceTickSpawner
+  parent: MarkerBase
+  suffix: 100
+  components:
+    - type: Sprite
+      layers:
+        - state: red
+        - texture: Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/icon.png
+    - type: ConditionalSpawner
+      prototypes:
+        - MobTick
+
 - type: entity
   id: SalvageMobSpawner75
   parent: SalvageMobSpawner
@@ -78,6 +95,9 @@
     - MobCarp
     - MobCarp
     - MobCarp
+    - MobTick
+    - MobTick
+    - MobTick
     - PlushieCarp
     - DehydratedSpaceCarp
     chance: 0.75
diff --git a/Resources/Prototypes/Entities/Mobs/NPCs/spacetick.yml b/Resources/Prototypes/Entities/Mobs/NPCs/spacetick.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7120d807d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Resources/Prototypes/Entities/Mobs/NPCs/spacetick.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+- type: entity
+  name: space tick
+  id: MobTick
+  parent: SimpleSpaceMobBase
+  description: It's a space tick, watch out for its nasty bite. Centcomm reports that 90 percent of cargo leg amputations are due to space tick bites.
+  components:
+  - type: UtilityAI
+    behaviorSets:
+    - Idle
+    - UnarmedAttackHostiles
+  - type: AiFactionTag
+    factions:
+    - SimpleHostile
+  - type: Sprite
+    drawdepth: Mobs
+    layers:
+    - map: ["enum.DamageStateVisualLayers.Base"]
+      state: alive
+      sprite: Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi
+      scale: 0.8, 0.8
+  - type: Physics
+  - type: MovementSpeedModifier
+    baseWalkSpeed : 4
+    baseSprintSpeed : 6
+  - type: Fixtures
+    fixtures:
+    - shape:
+        !type:PhysShapeCircle
+        radius: 0.20
+      mass: 5
+      mask:
+      - Impassable
+      - MobImpassable
+      - SmallImpassable
+      layer:
+      - Opaque
+  - type: MobState
+    thresholds:
+      0: !type:NormalMobState {}
+      15: !type:DeadMobState {}
+  - type: MovementIgnoreGravity
+  - type: Appearance
+    visuals:
+    - type: DamageStateVisualizer
+      normal: alive
+      dead: dead
+  - type: Butcherable
+    spawned: FoodMeatXeno
+    pieces: 1
+  - type: Bloodstream
+    bloodMaxVolume: 50
+  - type: UnarmedCombat
+    range: 0.5
+    arcwidth: 0
+    arc: bite
+    damage:
+      groups:
+        Brute: 2
+
+  - type: MeleeChemicalInjector
+  - type: SolutionContainerManager
+    solutions:
+      melee:
+        reagents:
+        - ReagentId: Toxin
+          Quantity: 5
+  - type: RefillableSolution
+    solution: melee
+  - type: InjectableSolution
+    solution: melee
+  - type: SolutionTransfer
+    maxTransferAmount: 5
diff --git a/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/alive.png b/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/alive.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..492d7113d6
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diff --git a/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/dead.png b/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/dead.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7cdf652319
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diff --git a/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/icon.png b/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/icon.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc172a4931
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diff --git a/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/meta.json b/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/meta.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e201620752
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Resources/Textures/Mobs/Aliens/Xenos/spacetick.rsi/meta.json
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "size": {
+    "x": 32,
+    "y": 32
+  },
+  "license": "CC-BY-SA-3.0",
+  "copyright": "Created by EmoGarbage, with influence from xeno burrower sprite",
+  "states": [
+    {
+      "name": "icon"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "alive",
+      "directions": 4
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "dead"
+    }
+  ]
+}