Spawner Monsters

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Spawner type monsters are stationary creatures (or living buildings) that spawn minions and attempt to spread in some way across worldscapes.

Spawners spawn a monster every 2 months; a maximum of 5 units can be spawned for each spawner.

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.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:TilePumpkinHigh10x0.png 1500 5 Yes
Cybercore ASSIMILATE! None 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

Weakness Unlucky Gluttonous Fragile Health Clumsy

60 5-10 10% 30 40 There is also a humanoid tumor monster. Tumors only spawn the normal one
Bioblob A blob of shifting biological matter with eyes that stare into your soul File:IconStrongMinded10x.pngStrong Minded
Ugly
File:IconWeightless10x.pngWeightless

Gluttonous Fragile Health

60 5-10 10% 30 30 -
Lil Pumpkin Always up to somethin Attractive
Bloodlust
Fat
File:IconThorns10x.pngThorns

Boosted Vitality Content Fertile Tiny Short Sighted Sunblessed Soft Skin

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
Ambitious

Clumsy Ugly Slow Greedy Fragile Health Tiny

60 8-10 5% 30 50 Armed with a shotgun

Spawner 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 seeking only to advance themselves
  • "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
  • Spawners and their minions do not need food
  • Are attracted to the golden brain
  • You can not edit advanced brain or phenotype (subspecies)

Creep Biome 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

Spawner Specific Info

Tumor

Tumors have been in the game for a very long time. Units walking on tumor tiles have a chance to get the tumor infection trait (slowly kills units) which will cause them to turn into a tumor monster on death. Plague doctors will try to burn tumor tiles and treat infections.

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

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

Cybercore

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

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
Creatures
Civilizations
Race HumanFile:IconElves scaled 10x.pngElfFile:IconDwarf scaled 10x.pngDwarfOrc
Monsters
Boss Crabzilla
Spawner BiomassCybercoreFile:IconSuperPumpkin scaled 10x.pngSuper PumpkinFile:IconTumor scaled 10x.pngTumor
Minion BioblobFile:Assimilatoricon.pngAssimilatorLil' PumpkinTumor Monster
Humanoid File:IconBandit scaled 10x.pngBanditCold OnesDemonFile:IconDruid scaled 10x.pngDruidEvil MageNecromancerPlague DoctorFile:IconSkeleton10x.pngSkeletonSnowmanFile:IconWhiteMage scaled 10x.pngWhite MageZombies
Special DragonRobot SantaUFOFile:IconGreygoo scaled 10x.pngGrey Goo
Non-Spawnable Acid BlobAlienCandy ManCandy BearFile:Crystalgolem10x.pngCrystal GolemFile:Crystasword10x.pngCrystal SwordFire ElementalsFile:Fireskull10x.pngFire SkullFile:Ghost10x.pngGhostsGregJumpy SkullFile:IconResLemons10x.pngLemonsMush
Living Ones Living HouseLiving Plant
Terraformers God FingerSand SpiderWormLangton AntsConwaysFile:IconPrinterLabyrinth10x.pngPrinters
Animals
Carnivores BearCatCrocodileFile:IconFox scaled 10x.pngFoxHyenaSnakeFile:IconWolf scaled 10x.pngWolf
Omnivores Rat KingRat
Herbivores BuffaloCowMonkeyRhinoChickenSheepRabbit
Peaceful DogFrogFile:IconFairy scaled 10x.pngFairy
Water TurtleCrabPenguinFile:IconPiranha scaled 10x.pngPiranha
Insects BeeBeetleButterflyFlyGrasshopper
Miscellanous
Other BoatTornadoTutorial Bear
Unused Bird • Debug • Frog Monster • Lion • Ninja Turtle • River Turtle • Rooster • Scorpion • Sheepnaut • Vulture