| Fungus | |
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 Fungal spores struggle to travel long distances without special effort. | |
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Plague Type: |
Standard |
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Special Ability: | |
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Cost: |
Complete Virus on normal or higher (All versions) |
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Release date: |
May 23, 2012, Version 1.0 |
In-game Description
Fungal spores struggle to travel long distances without special effort.
Description
Edit
- Like the previous two plague types, the Fungus plague type has all the same Transmissions, Symptoms, and Standard Abilities, as well as the same possible Genes.
- The disease spreads through the spores it releases which are generally poor in traveling.
- One Unique ability, Spore Burst, allows it to infect a random, uninfected country.
- Another ability, Spore Hardening, allows spores to ignore a good portion of climates which makes the Fungus very infectious late in the game.
- Spore Eruption, a unique ability, allows multiple uninfected countries to be infected at once.
In real lifeEdit
Fungus is found on dead plants as a mushroom and even on the bodies of animals. The Fungus in Plague Inc seems to be a Pathogenic Fungus. Kinds of common diseases are: Aspergillosis, Blastomycosis, Candidiasis, Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever), C. neoformans infection, etc.
Special AbilitiesEdit
- Spore Burst (2) Releases a small amount of spores that will infect a random, uninfected country.
- Spore Eruption (12): Releases a huge amount of spores that will infect multiple, uninfected countries.
- Spore Hardening: Spores become more climate resilient and will continuously infect uninfected countries.
AdvantagesEdit
- Fairly easy to win on Casual and Normal difficulties.
- Can infect healthy hard-to-reach countries using its special abilities which is extremely useful in the following scenarios:
- Considerable bonus to effectiveness in humid countries.
DisadvantageEdit
- Cannot inherently infect other countries without carriers or Spore Burst/Eruption/Hardening abilities.
- Slow spreading.
- Relying too much on Disease spreading traits may not allow evolution of high tier symptoms. Using the gene Patho-Stasis can reduce this which makes it easier to evolve all the Spore Bursts without draining DNA Points. However, using Patho-Stasis increases the chance that you won't be able to get that much-needed lethality after you've infected almost everyone.
- This plague type is one of the longest and most frustrating plague types to beat due to how slowly it spreads even with the use of Spore Burst/Eruption/Hardening abilities.
- Considerable penalty to effectiveness in arid countries.
- This pathogen is arguably the most luck-based plague in the game, as the Spore Bursts infect countries in a 100% random manner. If you are unlucky, you may not infect island countries before the cure progress reaches 100%.
StrategyEdit
Please see Fungus Strategy Guides.
Stages of Evolution Edit
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Final stage
Trivia Edit
- In real life, epidemics of pathogenic fungus are not necessarily like those involving bacteria or virus, since the innate immune system is usually enough to contain them. Fungi usually are a threat only to people with compromised immune defenses, like AIDS or cancer, even though some can infect and be dangerous to healthy people.
- Humans aren't the only living thing that can get a fungus. Ants and rabbits can also be infected too, even though it doesn't harm the rabbit at all. It does however, kill insects.
- Most funguses grows in toenails or fingernails, making it look yellow and can hurt when trimmed with scissors. It's very harmless to your health, but very ugly.
| Standard Plague Types |
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Bacteria • Virus • Fungus • Parasite • Prion • Nano-Virus • Bio-Weapon |
| Special Plagues | |||||
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| Neurax Worm | Necroa Virus | Simian Flu | Shadow Plague | ||
