Bustling Fungus

Stat
 Health per Second
 Radius

The **Bustling Fungus** is a returning item in Risk of Rain 2.

After the holder remains stationary for 1 second, the item creates a radius of 3m *(+1.5m per stack)* which heals any ally within for 4.5% *(2.25% per stack)* health every second, as long as the holder remains still.

## Notes

* Correction: The radius starts at 3.5m instead of 3m.
* The fungus heals 4 times per second, for approximately 1.13% (+0.56%) health every tick.
* The fungus's healing scales with the max health of the *recipient*, not the holder. It also can affect minions, such as drones, , , and even ghosts from the . As a result, it can keep multiple turrets or ghosts alive despite their constant health drain and keep nearby minions healthy.

* Having 177 Bustling Fungus will reach more than 100% healing (100.125%) per tick, which is effectively a soft cap without items using overhealing such as . The  will greatly reduce the number needed to hit this cap (87 with only one Rack).

* The effective healing radius is visible as a bright green circle around the holder, and green mushrooms of various sizes growing and disappearing. Any entity receiving healing inside the radius is also outlined in green.

## Tips

* The Bustling Fungus is extremely powerful to stack as  (with his ), due to his turrets' ability to inherit his item inventory and their immobility. Each turret will automatically create a healing radius, sustaining not just itself but Engineer as well.
	+ This strategy is particularly effective when combined with Engineer's .
* is extremely powerful with this item, especially with the aforementioned Engineer strategy.
* can make excellent use of the Fungus while in , since the player's movement speed is already drastically reduced.
	+ The bonus healing also further augments MUL-T's survivability, on top of the large armor bonus from Power Mode.
* can rapidly fire  while remaining stationary using the Fungus, quickly regaining the health lost from using the skill.
* The Fungus's healing can easily offset the burning damage from the , especially if the damage is reduced with .
* The healing radius is placed at the holder's feet, or any ground straight below within 500m.

## Lore

```
//--AUTO-TRANSCRIPTION FROM UES [Redacted] --//

“You have a problem.”

“What? How? These are good for me, they…”

“Yeah, they help promote cell repair, carbon neutral, blah blah blah… I’ve heard that spiel a thousand times already. Whether they’re good for you or not, you can’t just have a diet consisting only of them. It’s basic dietary science!”

“So what?”

“So what? Eating only mushrooms isn’t healthy, just like eating only meat or vegetables isn’t healthy!”

“Oh, so you’re attacking vegetarians, now?”

“Wh- No! I just mean--”

“Well, when you’re a bit more tolerant of my lifestyle, I’d be glad to continue this conversation with you. Until then, I’d suggest you open your heart and appetite to a more… fungal… palette.”
```

## Trivia

* The Risk of Rain 2 community often refers to Bustling Fungus as "Bungus", a portmanteau of the two words.
	+ The term gained such traction that the official Risk of Rain 2 Discord Server uses it for the Bustling Fungus emote.

## Version History

Anniversary Update
* Major Content
	+ Added New Lore Entry: Bustling Fungus
* Gameplay Changes
	+ Start Delay: 2s ⇒ 1s
	+ Now heals at a higher tick rate - overall healing is the same, but the healing is smoother over time
	+ 🌧 Now has small visual mushrooms that grow over the area
* Quality of Life
	+ Update visuals to match other assets