Weird Fungus
Weird Fungus is a collection of powder materials found in various biomes in Noita that induces 
Tripping when ingested.
Behaviour
Weird Fungus can be easily walked through, although it does not provide air and can cause suffocation if one remains inside it for too long.
Unlike most materials, it will slowly grow upwards, usually forming slender columns. If a moderate amount falls down due to the ground beneath it being destroyed, the movement seems to accelerate its growth, quickly generating massive spires of pink fungus. Pouring it from a Powder Pouch from great height can create massive towers of fungus.
If ingested, causes you to receive the Tripping status effect. This causes visual and aural distortions. If further amounts are ingested, the distortions increase, and at high levels of the Tripping status, strange eyes will open and close at random in the background, with an accompanying sound effect. When the tripping status progresses to Tripping balls (180s), a Fungal Reality Shift will occur.
Weird Fungus is highly flammable and will quickly burn away if exposed to Fire or Lava.
Green and Yellow Fungus
The green and yellow variants, labelled "Fungus", are rarer variants of Weird Fungus, and behave in identical fashions. Like Mystery Fungus, they will not be removed if Weird Fungus is removed by a Fungal Reality Shift. Unlike Mystery Fungus, they will break into the green and yellow versions of Slime (respectively) instead of Fungus Blood.
Green fungus can be found in some rare structures in the Mines, or by green Slime coming into contact with lava (this method, however, will almost immediately burn all of it away). Yellow Fungus does not spawn naturally anywhere, but can still be obtained via the aforementioned method.
Sources
- Weird Fungus grows out of Fungal Soil, which is commonly found in the Fungal Caverns and Overgrown Cavern. Even though these biomes don't have Weird Fungus on biome generation, it will quickly grow off screen as you approach.
- Weird Fungus has a chance to appear in a rare structure found in the Mines or Collapsed Mines.
- Weird Fungus appears within the giant mushroom structure in the Desert Chasm.
- There is a 10.7% chance that a Powder Pouch is
Weird Fungus. - There is a chance of Weird Fungus being the outcome of a Fungal Reality Shift.
- Green fungus can be found naturally lining rare cave structures in the Mines and Collapsed Mines.
- It can also easily be produced if one starts with Brine in their starting flask: by heading to the lava lake east of the Mines and covering the surface of it with Brine, the glowing matter produced will start leaking Green slime, which, when in contact with lava, will produce green fungus. This, of course, will immediately burn away, but by making some sort of platform under the glowing matter, collecting some of the green slime in a flask, then mixing it with lava, green fungus can easily be created.
- Very rare chance of obtaining any powder variant of Weird Fungus as a random material potion from a Treasure Chest or Great Treasure Chest.
Corpses
The corpse variant can be found as the corpses of the following enemies.
Notes
- It is possible for a Fungal Reality Shift to remove both Weird Fungus and Fungus Blood from the world, making it harder to trip.
- If you have a scarce amount of Weird Fungus, you can make more of it easily by pouring it at a great height from a pouch. This makes the fungus grow rapidly as it falls. Getting a new full pouch of fungus can be done instantly this way.
- This is most easily done in the Chasm to the east of the lava lake, and can result in most, or all, of the chasm being fungus.
- Fungus can eventually "settle", making it no longer affected by gravity, but can still be moved through.
Reactions
The interactions with Weird Fungus and Air grow fungus up with 8% probability and down with 30% probability.
| Reaction Rate | Reagents | Products |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | [grows_fungus] + Air | Weird Fungus + Air |
| 100 | Toxic Sludge + Worm Blood + Weird Fungus | Void Liquid + Void Liquid |
| 8 | Weird Fungus + Air | Weird Fungus + Weird Fungus |
| 30 | Weird Fungus + Air | Weird Fungus + Weird Fungus |
| 40 | Pus + [fungus] | Weird Fungus + Weird Fungus |
| 70 | [lava] + Slime (Green) | Fungus (Green) + Fungal Gas |
| 70 | [lava] + Slime (Yellow) | Fungus (Yellow) + Fungal Gas |
| 80 | Purifying Powder + Weird Fungus (Powders) | Purifying Powder + Water |
| 50 | [acid] + Weird Fungus (Powders) | [acid] + Flammable Gas |
| 8 | Lava + Weird Fungus (Powders) | Lava + Fire |
| 100 | Corrupted Rock + Weird Fungus (All Variants) | Corrupted Rock + Corrupted Rock |
| 100 | Draught of Midas + Weird Fungus (All Variants) | Draught of Midas + Gold |
| 90 | Gas of Midas + Weird Fungus (All Variants) | Gold + Gold |
| 100 | Void Liquid + Weird Fungus (All Variants) | Void Liquid + Void Liquid |
| 10 | Weird Fungus (All Variants) + Brass | Funky Cloud + Funky Cloud |
| 60 | Diminution + Weird Fungus (All Variants) | Diminution + Sand |
| 40 | Pus + Weird Fungus (All Variants) | Weird Fungus + Weird Fungus |
Trivia
- Weird Fungus is most likely a reference to real world psychedelic fungi such as Ergot or Fly Agaric, which are both used to create certain drugs such as LSD.
- Psychedelic mushrooms such as Fly agaric and some species of Ergot can take on a pink or reddish coloration, which possibly inspires the pink coloration of Weird Fungus.
- The Fungus Blood bled by fungal enemies and fungus can be used as a quick way to fungal shift by filling a flask with it and drinking the flask.
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History
- Apr 8 2024:
- Added yellow fungus.
- Green and yellow fungus can now be created by mixing lava with green and yellow slime respectively.
- Now reacts with brass to create funky cloud.
- Oct 11 2019:
- The [impure] tag was added to Weird Fungus and Green Fungus.
- The reaction to make Void Liquid was added.
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