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Fungi are crucial participants in the queer Qud ecosystem, and play a central role in the game's main quest.

Fungi are also a significant hazard to the unprepared player, because of the infections they infamously spread.

To an experienced adventurer, a fungal infection can be an irreplaceable friend that aids in exploration, improves one's combat prowess, or provides a convenient supply of healing tonics and cooking ingredients. Hosting a fungal infection will endear you to fungi across Qud, significantly improving your reputation with the Fungi faction. However, a fungal infection can also be extremely frustrating or inconvenient depending on the body part on which it is contracted.

Common Varieties of Fungal Infection

Fungal infections are spread by the spores of the brooding azurepuff, brooding goldpuff, brooding jadepuff, and brooding rosepuff.

There are four common fungal infections that an adventuring mutant or True Kin should be familiar with. Each infection is spread by a particular color of brooding puff, but the association between puff and infection is randomly determined for each playthrough, so there is no easy way to know which type of infection one will get from a particular brooding puff.

• fickle gill
• glowcrust
• mumble mouth
• waxflab

Benefits and Hazards

There are many benefits to hosting a well-placed fungal infection on your body. However, there also some notable drawbacks.

Benefits

• waxflab acts as a 2d3 unarmed weapon with unlimited strength bonus when it is contracted on a weapon hand.
  • This is the most powerful unarmed damage available to mutants (equivalent to the damage of a carbide hand bones implant).
• mumble mouth provides an endless source of secrets, including rare and sought-after secrets such as the locations of legendary merchants. Hosting multiple mumble mouth infections at once can result in a vast amount of free knowledge for the player, and open up interesting opportunities to explore lairs and ruins.
• glowcrust provides a continuous supply of luminous hoarshrooms. These can be used as tonics, similar to a salve injector, sold for profit due to their high trade value, or preserved into useful ingredients for cooking.
• Significantly improves your reputation with the Fungi faction.
• Grants bonus armor (AV), and in some cases, additional elemental resistances.

Hazards

• Prevents you from equipping items to the infected body part.
  • Often problematic if your main weapon hand gets infected. It's also typically undesirable to get a fungal infection on a body part where useful equipment would otherwise be worn, such as the feet, back, or body.
• Seriously harms your reputation with the Consortium of Phyta faction.
  • Several notable NPCs that you will encounter during the main quest are part of this faction and may become hostile to you if your reputation is too low.
• All fungal infections have a low AV bonus compared to the AV (or DV) bonuses granted by high-tier equipment.
• waxflab has a notable penalty to DV and quickness that is often undesirable.
• fickle gill has no real benefits compared to other fungal infections. It also spreads between the player and their companions or Temporal Fugue clones, which can lead to many infected body parts over time.

Gaining Fungal Infections

• <> reputation consideration (have to hit fungus if reputation is high)
• <> figuring out which color is what

Curing Fungal Infections

• Corpus Cholys
• Spraybottles (and other key items, like leech/worm corpses, gel, etc)
  • How to use the spraybottle "apply" UI
  • curing one of several of the same (spray random liquid on them to identify them, then clean the ones you want to remove, and spray them with the cure solution)
• explain the various messages and what they mean (i.e. corpse timer expired, etc)

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