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This tech add a new effect to the ent demolishers.

Ent demolishers attacks cause mold to buildings and wooden units (it act like poison dealing damage over time).

I would assume this would be a nonstacksble and less effiecient over-time killer than fire.

It could do 2 damage overtime considering it's going to have a splash range and that moss is really not that effective of a tree killer or building destroyer as fire is.

The splash range might work. This way elves might use together fire archers and demolishers.

Close to the rotting effect I proposed in fungi. Maybe make it spread to nearby buildings/wood units every turn, to distinguish it from merely another poison variant. It also seems like it could be an area spell for wizards or a single target spell for druids.

Sounds good. Btw idea of "posion for buldings" was proposed for scaledfolks,by Mighty guy I think.

That was something acid-related right?

Yes.

Only problem I can really see is that ent demolishers operate on the idea of hurling big rocks. Fast growing moss isn't really part of that. I really do like the idea, but something tells me ents aren't the ideal candidate to use it.

It start throwing mossy rocks with a lot of mold on it XD

Where in the world did it find those kind of rocks and how is it not being covered by merely touching them?

Don't be fussy

Just make a new unit:Vine planter,his ability would be to grow molds on adjacent buildings

To distinguish this from fire, and make it a far better building killer:

Each turn, mold does 4 damage and adds another instance of mold, so turn 2 the building takes 8 damage and gains 2 instances. Turn 3 it takes 16 damage, and so on until healed.

For advanced cases, maybe even make a worker only remove​ 3 instances at a time, requiring more attention if allowed to persist.

As far as I remember fire is already exceptional against buildings. Making a stronger effect would make a castle collapse instantly. Also mold should be slower than fire but able to propagate.

Hmm. Try 2 damage per instance, per turn. Each turn, every instance propogates to a random adjacent building or stacks on the same building. Slower at first than fire, but ultimately more dangerous, as it can spread through a whole base if packed too tightly, and requires more scrambling to remove.

Remember that 2 damage per instance aren't really 2 cause bonus against buildings will multiply it.

And that explains a lot of damage to my opponents I couldn't account for. Yeah, maybe we should have it as 1 damage, propogates every turn randomly between the same/adjacent targets. Multiplying 1 damage per instance, before bonus, slows it down hopefully to a level that a player can repair it, rather than losing a castle in 3 turns.

Sorry I got lost xD

Got lost?

By the way, I'm lichen this topic very moss

(I know. I'm very punny. You may now begin groaning over my bad jokes.)

I mean the multiply damage for instance part xD

Ahh. I think that is a recent change. I remember fire used to do only 4 damage didn't it?

Fire deal damage related to the bonus of the unit. (If you have a unit with 300% bonus against buildings its fire damage will also make 300% damage).

Okay. So we have to consider it would deal 16x damage to mega buildings.

I'm thinking 1 damage base, lasts 5 turns. Every turn, each instance makes another instance, with an equal chance of being added to the current building or one adjacent building.

It keeps starting damage pretty low, but grows exponentially if allowed to continue unchecked. Tightly packed bases may be devastated by one shot, but that just means players will learn to keep some space between buildings, or else delete infected ones to stop the spread.

Sounds like a resident evil zombuilding Apocalypse

Ah yes, here it is.

In some respects, it's slightly more dangerous then fire.

For this effect we decided that each stack of creeping mpld will reduce mend rate of building and your workers will be able to remove only limited amount of stacks with each mend (3 for now). Thus this effect will become especially dangerous on mega buildings (ent demolisher will get aoe 1 with 1% damage specifically for even better spreading of this effect, alas no additional effects will be given by effect itself and it won't be able to spread further).