Gastgeber

Gastgebers belong in the Unknown tier. They are the evolutions of Scampers. They are normally relatively slow but move quickly when hostile. They are technically considered as Evolved.

Spawning

• When a Scamper's ten-minute mound age timer finishes, if it has 7 kills it will become a Gastgeber.

• Has a 30% chance of spawning from a linked Scamper when its ten-minute mound age timer finishes, regardless of how many kills it has.

• Spawned from Arena Tendrils as a special mob during a raid.

Unique Behavior

• After some time of being in the world, the Gastgeber will root itself in the ground and start infecting blocks within a 25-block radius, placing down spore foliage blocks. It will transform normal blocks into their infested form if they have one. It performs these bursts of infections every 30 seconds, creating a small puff of spores. Each time it does a burst of infection, mobs within 19 blocks horizontally and 16.55 blocks vertically will receive Mycelium Infection IV for 30 seconds and Weakness I for 20 seconds. After 600 seconds have passed, the Gastgeber will unroot and move to a new area to infect. The following are all the foliage blocks Gastgebers ages can place:

  • Big Mycelium Growths (normally and 50% chance for generic foliage blocks)

  • Big Wall Growths (only on walls)

  • Biomass Bulb

  • Decayed Branch (30% chance for leaf blocks touching a Decayed Log block)

  • Decayed Bush (50% chance for generic foliage blocks)

  • Fungal Roots (only on ceilings)

  • Fungal Stem Sapling

  • Mycelium Growths

  • Mycelium Veins

  • Popped Bloomed Mycelium (floors and ceilings)

  • Small Mycelium Growths

  • Underwater Fungal Stem Top (only underwater)

  • Unpopped Bloomed Mycelium (floors and ceilings)

  • Wall Growths (only on walls)

• Gastgebers are neutral and will only attack when hit.

• Gastgebers have very high knockback, having 10x the knockback of a basic infected, with a value of 3 for knockback.

• Is completely ignored by the despawning system.

Behavior

• Gastgebers are melee combatants, attacking mobs with Infected forms, golems, and most hostile mobs.

• Gastgebers inflict Mycelium Infection III for 5 seconds when dealing melee damage.

• Has a follow range of 20 blocks.

• Gastgebers have a 5% chance to drop a Scent upon death.

• When killed, have a chance to place a small short-lived Mycelium Infection area effect cloud.

• Gastgebers will attempt to group together in hordes with other Evolved.

• Infected will follow Gastgebers, who themselves will follow Hyper Evolved and Calamities.

• Can perform low leaps/dashes to chase prey quickly through water.

• Able to use kill points to give themselves buffs, such as strength or speed if the target is running away. They can also give themselves regeneration if they are low on health.

• Capable of breaking glass and leaves.

• Have a damage cap of 1/3 of their health on hard mode.

• Present a weakness to the cold, like all spore mobs.

Related Advancements

• Meet the Team

• The Twat

Drops

• Armor Fragment

• Claw Fragment

• Innards

• Mutated Fibre

• Mutated Heart

• Tendon

• Tumor

Lore

• Due to the Gastgeber not having any eyes, it cannot see. Thus, the Mounds on its body control its movement, hence their erratic movement when aggroed.