Fungal Reality Shift

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**This page or section includes possible gameplay spoilers or secrets. Tread carefully.**

Consuming large quantities of Fungus, Frog Meat, or Glue does more than give you a Status Effect. Sufficient quantities of imbibed hallucinogens can cause the reality within the game world to shift in strange ways.

Extra Fungus can be carried with you in a Powder Pouch; pouring the Pouch from a greater height will cause more of it to grow.

## Behaviour

Starting at a minimum of **180s** of the Tripping status effect, **Fungal Shifts** can be experienced, accompanied by an audio cue and one of six prominently displayed game messages. The resulting effect causes the targeted material(s) to forever be transformed into a new target material, determined at the event of the fungal shift, and persists for the remaining duration of the run.

After experiencing a shift, the visual effects will rapidly fade, but further shifts cannot occur for the next 5 minutes, and there is a maximum total of 20 shifts that can occur within a single run. Shifting affected material again *is* possible, if RNG gods allow.

Shifts apply to materials based on their original identity; that is, shifting a water to lava and then shifting lava to acid will result either in all original water or lava being replaced by acid (but not both). A flask of shifted material improves the likelihood of shifting that material again. If the source material of a shift was previously a result material, the messages above will refer to its shifted name rather than its original name.

There is currently no in-game way to reverse or remove the effect of a fungal shift, other than attempting to override the effect with more fungal shifts. Because this change is both permanent and potentially quite hazardous, (for example, all the water in your world may forever become acid, or lava, or polymorphine...) fungal shifts should be approached with caution.

Fungal Shifts will carry over into New Game Plus.

### Holding a flask

If the player is holding a flask in their hand when the shift occurs, there is a 75% chance that one of the materials in the shift will be the main material in the flask, if any. If the flask material is selected to be used, one of two things will happen:

1. If the flask is selected as the *from* material, the shift will consist of (flask material) => (*to* material). Or,
2. If the flask is selected as the *to* material, the shift will consist of (from material(s)) => (flask material).

Even if the material is not present in either of the tables below, it can still be chosen as either the *from* or the *to* material if you are holding a flask of it.

If the material in the flask was a transformed one, the original material will be used instead of the one it transformed into.

## Shiftable Materials

Any of the following materials can be selected, although some materials are more commonly selected than others. Note also that if a row with multiple materials is chosen, **all** of the materials in that row will be affected.

As mentioned above, holding a flask can alter which materials are selected for both initial and resulting materials.

## Determining the Shifted Materials

It's sometimes possible to infer which materials were shifted at the moment the shift happens. One of the shifted materials will always be mentioned in the game message that appears (see above). It's not deterministic whether the "from" or "to" material happens to be mentioned in the message, but there are some pieces of information that can help:

* The material mentioned in the message given when the fungal shift occurs
* The small amounts of material that are scattered near the player when the shift occurs will **always** be the resulting material from the shift

With this information you can determine always at least one of the materials by inspecting any newly created dregs of material around you after the shift happens — look for materials with **(Transformed)** in their tooltip. If this material is the one mentioned in the shift message, the original material may be hard to determine. However, if this is *not* the material mentioned in the shift message, the shift message should indicate the original material that was shifted.

Additionally, if you're holding a flask for the shift, and the flask is shifted to the new material, you know without a doubt what the fungal shift was.

### Inspecting Save Data

It is also possible to see the list of shifted materials by inspecting your save data. After closing the game, open your `/save00/world_state.xml` file in a text editor. Within this file will be a section of `<changed_materials>` string pairs, listing each shift as a sequence of [from] -> [to] pairs. For example:

```
 <changed\_materials>

 <string>
 silver
 </string>

 <string>
 magic_liquid_random_polymorph
 </string>

 <string>
 acid
 </string>

 <string>
 vomit
 </string>

 </changed\_materials>

```

In this example, there are two separate fungal shifts: Silver -> Chaotic Polymorphine, and Acid -> Vomit.

Specially, if a converted material becomes the target material in the new "Fungal Reality Shift", the souce material in new shift will becomes to that converted material.

Acid -> Steam, Water -> Acid

The result will be Water -> Steam

## Eliminating Materials & Stain Effects

Materials such as Polymorphine may be removed from the game by performing a fungal shift while holding a flask, as described above. Each attempt has a 37.5% chance of success, replacing the held material with another which will appear in the flask and at the player's feet. Otherwise, there is a 37.5% chance of failure, changing some other material into the held one, and a 25% chance of some random shift.

A failed shift — for example, converting all the world's water into Chaotic Polymorphine — can be extremely dangerous, but need not be run-ending. Attempting more fungal shifts with the same flask, we only need a single success to eliminate the liquid's *stain and consume effects*. Materials shifted twice in this way will behave as the targeted material while imbuing the stain effect of the final material. For example, imagine we attempt two fungal shifts while holding polymorphine:

1. Blood -> Polymorphine.
2. Polymorphine -> Toxic Sludge.

After these shifts, the flask contains water (transformed). Blood will be replaced by polymorphine (transformed) with a pink color, but will cause a toxic stain rather than a polymorph effect and will poison the player rather than polymorphing them when consumed. This hybrid material will not react with Lava or Water like toxic sludge, however. Note that the polymorphine effect may still rarely occur if the player is stained by blood before the fungal shift is applied (ie, the instant some blood is created at the player's location).

## Changing the Permanent Shield's color

It is possible to change the color of your Permanent Shield perk, via shifting Magical Liquid. This video explains the details and results for each material.

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 If sand or packed snow are chosen as source materials, only certain variants will be affected; for example, the Desert and Snowy Wasteland will be largely unaffected while almost all of the sand in the Pyramid and packed snow in Hiisi Base will be transformed.
2. ↑ Although looking at the script it seems that it should always be the "from" material, when actually testing it appears that the mentioned material can be either "from" or "to".
3. ↑ This file is located in your `C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME_HERE\AppData\LocalLow\Nolla_Games_Noita\` folder.