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Blastfungus

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This is a remake & rewrite of the original Infestation: Blastfungus mod by Studentloon.

Blastfungus are small mushrooms that replicate quickly: if you step on one, it explodes!

There are cvars for server owners to control the spawn rate and population limit of the fungi. They all begin with "fungus_", and so the "find" command in the console should help you see these.

This is version contains 9 types of Blastfungus.

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Types:
Normal Fungus - Basic blastfungus. Step on one, and it'll blow up.
Coloured Fungus - These change colour slightly every time they breed. Make races between different colours along tracks!
Rope Fungus - This breed makes stretchy, sticky ropes to its offspring when breeding. Contraption builders beware!
Floaty Fungus - Floaty Fungus breed and fly around in mid-air. They do well in open spaces, and can become a serious air hazard.
Bouncy Fungus - Bouncy Fungus, like Floaty Fungus, yearn to be free. They're very good at escaping confined spaces.
Vent Fungus - A highly unstable breed. Grows extraordinarily fast in tight spaces like ventilation shafts, but has a reduced growing rate in more open areas.
Infection Fungus - A terrifying fungus breed which cannot replicate normally - but if you step on one, it'll do terrible, horrible things; like filling your veins with spores and then bursting out, spreading more everywhere!
Balloon Fungus - This fungus breed requires props to feast upon; if it gets near some, it'll latch on with a sticky tendril, and produce gas inside itself. It then inflates like a balloon, trying to drag the prop into the sky! Once it reaches full maturity, it bursts, spreading more balloon fungus seeds around. Watch out in RP maps!
Lightning Fungus - This interesting breed was spliced with electric eel DNA. It can discharge lightning blasts at nearby things! Watch out!
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How To Use:
Use the Blastfungus tool in the "Biological" category of your spawn menu. Select which type you want, and then click to spawn a single blastfungus.
A successful colony usually requires 2-4 blastfungus to be placed close to eachother.

Blastfungus grow better indoors than outdoors.

Reload with the tool to destroy all fungi, or, optionally, only the currently selected breed.

UPDATE (x3!) 24/11/2020:
(*) Fixed the spawning bug! It lives!
(+) Added Balloon Fungus! It tries to attach itself to nearby props, and if it does, it will inflate and float upwards. If it stays in the air long enough, it will grow larger and then burst into more!
(+) Added Lightning Fungus! It will shoot bolts of electricity at nearby objects. Watch out!
(+) Lightning Fungus now pushes objects around a little.


UPDATE 12/04/2018:
(*) Performance tweaks; it should be possible to have more fungi running at once before running into problems!

UPDATE 24/02/2016:
(+) Fixed the exploding-on-spawn bug!
(+) Altered the colour of the fungus to only slightly transparent instead of ghostly-invisible!

UPDATE 15/05/2015:
(+) Fixed the Infection Fungus!

(+) Fungi are now appropriately sneaky and hard to see. Colour fungi support transparency now!

UPDATE 21/04/2013:

(+) Increased the survival rate of most fungi.

(+) There are now a group of console variables that server operators can use to control the behaviour of fungus - type "find fungus_" in the console to list them. They all have text explaining what they do, and they control stuff like breeding rate, time until death and so on.

(-) Unfortunately, the infection fungus is still very buggy. Don't use it unless you're willing to put up with bugs for now.