  In this contribution we revisit simulations of two-color QCD with rooted
staggered quarks at finite density, where baryon-number spontaneously breaks
and a diquark condensate forms. We thereby pay special attention to simulating
outside the lattice-artifact bulk phase, in which $Z_2$ monopoles condense, and
investigate some of the consequences of this, e.g. on the chiral and the
diquark condensate which were known to be well described by chiral effective
field theory. Not surprisingly, on finer lattices outside the bulk phase the
quark condensate now requires additive renormalization before it can be
compared with effective field theory predictions. The subtraction must
necessarily depend on the chemical potential, however. The diquark condensate
is not affected by this problem and remains in good agreement with these
predictions. We also compare staggered with Wilson quarks to demonstrate that
the two fermion discretizations yield qualitatively different results well
below half-filling already. We close with prelimiary results for the Goldstone
spectrum to demonstrate that the continuum pattern is recovered also with
staggered quarks outside the bulk phase.
