Spawner Monsters

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Spawner monsters are stationary creatures (or living buildings) that spawn minions and attempt to spread with "creep" tiles in different ways across worlds. Spawners spawn a monster every 2 months; a maximum of 5 units can be spawned for each spawner. The creep tiles spawner monsters spread are considered to be a "special biome".

Lists

Spawners

Icon	In-Game	Name	Description	Disaster Age	Tiles	Health	Spawn Limit	Premium
File:IconTumor scaled 10x.png		Tumor	Grows on land and devours everything on it's way. Burns very well	Moon	File:TileTumorLow10x0.pngFile:TileTumorHigh10x0.png	1500	5	Yes
	File:BiomassAN-.gif	Biomass	Too many eyes	Ash		1500	5	Yes
File:IconSuperPumpkin scaled 10x.png		Super Pumpkin	It's alive!	Sun and Wonders	File:TilePumpkinLow10x0.pngFile:TilePumpkinHigh10x0.png	1500	5	Yes
	File:CybercoreAN.gif	Cybercore	ASSIMILATE!	None	File:TileCyberLow10x0.pngFile:TileCyberHigh10x0.png	1500	5	Yes

Minions

Icon	In-Game	Name	Description	Traits					File:AttackspeedStat10x.png	Notes
File:IconTumorMonster10x.png	File:TumormonsterLAND.gif	Tumor Monster	An abomination of flesh and horror, twisted beyond recognition	Ugly File:IconWeightless10x.pngWeightless	60	5-10	10%	30	40	There is also a humanoid tumor monster. Tumors spawners only spawn the monster variant
		Bioblob	A blob of shifting biological matter with eyes that stare into your soul	File:IconStrongMinded10x.pngStrong Minded Ugly File:IconWeightless10x.pngWeightless File:IconFrail10x.pngFragile Health	60	5-10	10%	30	30	-
File:IconLilPumpkin10x.png		Lil Pumpkin	Always up to somethin	Attractive Bloodlust Fat File:IconThorns10x.pngThorns	60	5-10	10%	30	30	-
	File:AssimilatorLAND.gif	Assimilator	A self-replicating machine that assimilates mass to build an army	Bubble Defense File:IconFireProof10x.pngFire Proof	60	8-10	5%	30	50	Armed with a shotgun

Characteristics

• Loses the ability to spread if spawned on a sand tile
• Can spawn naturally depending on the age with the "Other Disasters" world law enabled (except Cybercores)
• Hostile to almost all other creatures
• Creep tiles give units a 20% (50% before beta) speed debuff
• All minions except assimilators can turn into mush. None of the minions can turn into any other undead monsters
• Are attracted to the golden brain
• You can not edit advanced brain or phenotype (subspecies)

Spread

In beta

Spawners will spread their own characteristic creep biomes around them. The mechanism of this spread is different from the spread of regular biomes, and is achieved by creep workers. These workers are not physical entities, but their movement paths can be observed in game as a faint white line.

Each type of spawner has a fixed number of workers working simultaneously. Workers will start form the spawner building and move outwards; as they move, they lay down the creep biomes, creating a spreading effect.

Workers have a fixed step limit for every trip they make; when they reach this step limit, the worker returns to the spawner building. Note that each step can traverse more than 1 tile. Workers in each type of spawner have a fixed step interval, which is the time the worker takes to move 1 step.

Workers of different spawners have different movement directions, leading to different patterns of spread:

• Random movement - the worker's next step can be any tile neighboring the current tile. Used by biomass.
• Directional movement, with random disturbances - the worker moves in a certain direction, but may experience minor random displacements in the axis perpendicular to its movement direction. Used by super pumpkins and tumors.
• Directional movement, without random disturbances - the worker moves in a certain direction. Used by cybercores.

Workers for cybercores and super pumpkins will randomly change their direction of movement after a certain number of steps. (steps before changing direction)

Building	Number of workers	Step Limit	Step Interval (Months)	Steps before changing direction
Biomass	4	10	0.14	N/A
Cybercore	6	20	0.4	7
Super Pumpkin	3	10	0.04	20
Tumor	2	5	0.02	N/A

Specifics

Tumor

Units walking on tumor tiles have a chance to get the tumor infection trait (slowly kills) which will cause them to turn into a tumor monster on death. Plague doctors will try to burn tumor tiles and treat infections.

• Mutation: Blood Vortex
• File:IconLanguage10x.pngSubspecies Name Prefixes: neoplasmis, cancrosus, tumoralis

Biomass

Units walking on biomass tiles have a chance to receive the madness trait. Tiles can't freeze and every step units make on it there is a 5% chance of them getting the slowness status

• Mutation: Abomination
• File:IconLanguage10x.pngSubspecies Name Prefixes: organicus, vivum

Super Pumpkin

Druids and Super Pumpkins are friends. The Super Pumpkin creep tiles are sometimes called "roots" or "vines". Tiles can't freeze and every step units make on it there is a 2% chance of them getting the slowness status

• File:IconLanguage10x.pngSubspecies Name Prefixes: maximus, pepo, cucurbitae

Cybercore

Assimilators are armed with shotguns, one of the most powerful weapons in worldbox. Assimilators are friendly with aliens. Cyber tiles can't freeze or burn. The tiles can be destroyed with the demolish tool.

• Mutation: The Orb
• File:IconLanguage10x.pngSubspecies Name Prefixes: machinus, cyberneticus, technus

• Shotgun Inventory Icon

  Shotgun Inventory Icon

• Tumor Unit

  Tumor Unit

• Tumor Heads

  Tumor Heads

Name Generation

Bioblob

1	Seeing	Seeking	Peeking	Staring	Watchful	-
2	Eye	Eyes	Sight	Syght
3	of	-
4	K	C
5	t	th	sh	ch	v	-
6	a	e	i	o	u	y
7	l	w	v	b	sh
8	a	e	i	o	u	y
9	Watch	Peek	Seek	Gaz	See
10	ing	yng	er	r

File:Assimilatoricon.pngAssimilator

Special1	-
1	TK-	XX-	YT-	Z-	RT-	PP-	KL-	QR-	ER-

File:Icon shotgun scaled 10x .pngShotgun

First	Red	Black	Bloody	Dark	Big	Stunning
Dash	"-"	"-"
Space	"-"	"-"
Name	Anne	Betty	Emma	Ava	Mia	Amelia	Lisa	Julia	Sophia	Charvi	Layla	Jocelyn	Hannah	Dasha
Numbers	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	-

Lil Pumpkin

1	M	N	X
2	a	aa	o	oo	y
3	x	d	z
4	i	o	a	u
5	m	n	x	z

Trivia

• 4 Super Pumpkins can be seen on the Ghost Earth/Dragon Map that appears when first launching worldbox (top right of the map)
• You can find multiple lil' pumpkins with the weightless and immortal traits and without their other four traits on the Ghost Earth/Dragon map that appears when first launching the game
• Biomasses, Cybercores, and Super Pumpkins were all added in version 0.12.02. Changelog description:
  • Infects ground with biomass and spawns bioblobs
  • ASSIMILATE! ASSIMILATE! ASSIMILATE!
  • It's never too late for halloween
• Cybercores are the only spawner monster that cannot spawn naturally from a disaster.
• Lil' Pumpkins are also known as "Super Pumpkin Monsters" and "Spooky Halloween bois"
• Tumor monsters and tumor infection trait were introduced in version 0.9.0. Tumor monsters were also described as "squishy" in the update's changelogs.
• Cybertiles can be destroyed using the demolish tool