Fungus

THIS IS JUST IDEAS ABOUT FUNGUS GROWING IN THE COLONIES:

• Colonies may build a fungus chamber.
  • An action taking 24 h and sacrificing quite a number of ants.

• The player can get hold of some fungus ... somewhere.
  • Event?
  • Random when helping/sabotaging colonies?
  • Random in the wild?

• Player may insert fungus into fungus changes in colony when in range
• Player must be at least level X to handle fungus. (Pretty high)

• A colony with fungus chamber and active fungus get food bonus. Between 1% and 100%.
  • The bonus slowly increase as the fungus grows. How fast? 1 percentage point per day?
  • If the fungus chamber

• Gardening the fungus
  • Some of the population fetching food handle feeding and handling the fungus. No special setting for that.
• When the fungus is at 100% there is a small risk that the fungus start to control the ants and taking control of the colony. (Search on "Zombie ants")
  • The colony become independent
  • Maybe some fungus will appear around the colony? (Ants hanging in the trees)

• When the colony gets really small (counting actual worker ants), the fungus dies

• There is always a small risk that the fungus chamber collapse. (no matter if there is some fungus in it or not)
  • If there is some fungus in there, it dies.

• Extracting fungus in some way
  • 1. When the fungus is higher than some limit we may order the ants to extract some fungus. Maybe 80%?
    • The fungus percentage drops by something, maybe 50 percentage points?
    • A piece of fungus appear outside the colony.
  • 2. When the colony is in range and fungus percentage is higher than some threshold value, the user may extract fungus as an action on the colony.
    • The fungus percentage drops to a low value: Maybe 10%?
    • The player gets a piece of fungus.

• Fungus dropped on the ground last for some time. Maybe a week.
• Fungus in inventory last... forever? Or just a week there too?

• Fungus has no species and may be use by any players

• A player may carry up to user level number of fungus pieces.

Maybe later:

• Expanding the fungus chamber... somehow. Increasing the max. (i.e. 100% gives a higher factor on the food)
  • Is another action taking 24h, 48h, 96h etc.
  • A setting in the action sliders?

Suggestion based on initial idea by someone i forgot (Probably on G+) and later comments in Discord by 4N3G4ZPK20, Phap, scooterman31, mijkolsmith