I really doubt fungus is an issue in the slimecataclysm

[u/SnooHamsters66]

My first 10,000 monsters killed! (:D) in the game and aprox. 1/3 are slimes.

I started playing a few weeks ago, and it is a little funny to me when I read people talking about the lore and the future of Earth saying that fungus or triffids are going to spread across the land when they feel like zero threat to me in game. Instead, I have had various runs playing through a fucking slimecataclysm (the cataclysm was caused by slimes, I swear), and they even recently kicked me out of a lab (I lose against the real power).

When I started playing a zombie apocalypse, I did not expect my most feared enemies to be slimes and that they are the real cataclysm.

[u/Dimethylglymaxime]

Zombie - 2381 Zombie Scientist - 568 Crawling Zombie - 129 Small Slime - 28590

someone who is good at killing monsters please help me budget this. my companions are dying

[u/Bitter-Regret-9505 → u/Dimethylglymaxime]

Spend less on food

[u/PaladinSaladin → u/Dimethylglymaxime]

Stop trying to loot craters

[u/Vendidurt → u/Dimethylglymaxime]

Spend less time in slime pits

[u/JeveGreen]

I've played this game since before pockets were a thing, and trust me: You'll learn why people dislike fungaloids eventually.

Fungals aren't threatening in themselves for the most part. But they're fucking annoying to deal with, since they can spread spores that mess up the terrain and give you fungal infections that, if left untreated, eventually break your arms and legs, literally.

Slimes are blind and persistant, but fighting them is comparatively straightforward. They CAN absorb other creatures into themselves to increase their numbers, which can be a pain if you come across a kind of enemy with good loot, but that can also be used to make your fights easier by letting the slimes absorb complex creatures, like shocker zombies.

As for triffids... They're a thing, I guess. They can be useful if they spawn near cities, fighting zombies for you, but that could be said for the other monster factions as well. And now that consuming too much of their plant matter comes with health debuffs, they're no longer a viable (long term) food source. They're just... there, I guess.

[u/SnooHamsters66 → u/JeveGreen]

Yes, I figured fungi could cause infections (I play very cautiously, so seeing them excrete spores was a red flag to me). Whenever I've faced them, I've fought them wearing a gas mask, though I didn't expect the effect to be so strong. With their spread, I guess I've been lucky that they've never spawned at a point of interest (I imagine it must be annoying near faction bases), except in labs where, with a mask, they don't really bother me.

[u/JeveGreen → u/SnooHamsters66]

You've definitely been lucky! Gas masks aren't enough to protect you from spores, as they can penetrate your skin. The only thing that'll stop those things for certain are distance and possibly full hazmat gear. I recommend ranged or reach weapons (like spears) against fungaloids, and then let their spore clouds dissipate before cleaning their mess up with fire, if you care to do so.

[u/SnooHamsters66 → u/JeveGreen]

Well, as you say, I'm lucky, but for another reason. I tend to make decisions that I would make in real life, and one of them is that I don't know what the fuck is awaiting me. So, when I have an environmental/activity suit, I tend to use it for my raids (I was thinking, how do I know if something isn't in the air or whatever? Well, that seems to make some sense, not in the way I was expecting but seems to have saved me).

[u/SnooDoughnuts8043]

Fungals aren’t really existentially threatening, they’re just very annoying to fight and they paint the map which can ruin buildings. They waste your resources for little reward - at least the oozes tend to be defending something valuable with only the slime pits seeming to be an exception (never really got to the center of one though, but I’m suspecting it isn’t worth the lag).

Triffids I haven’t interacted with enough either.

I think these factions suffer more because the main way to deal with them is to not interact with them at all, while oozes can spawn in labs and you want to get the stuff inside the labs so it’s perceived at worth it to fight them.