Infected Mycelium

Infected Mycelium is a part of the Wolf SMP lore. It is at the main center of Mycelium Lore, and is part of Column Lore, Mycelium War Lore, Dragon Egg Lore, and Sculk Lore.

## Story

### Before Season 1

In Season 2, it is explained how exactly Mycelium was created before the beginning of the server. MyShelf and Eroth, after experimenting with the Dragon Egg, realize they could spread the mind control part of its powers far beyond the Egg's normal range. They infect a block of Mycelium with the mind control powers, which is known as the Mycelium Source Block. To ensure this Infected Mycelium does not die before its creators want it to, MyShelf makes the block have the ability to undo time once destroyed. However, before explaining how the block was created, MyShelf passes away due to an experiment with the Dragon Egg. Eroth continues MyShelf's research, by infecting another mycelium block and letting the mycelium spread into the world. Soon, most, if not all mycelium close enough to civilization to be found is infected.

### Season 1

Eroth tries to hide his control of mycelium by acting like he himself is controlled. He creates a kind of second identity for himself, to show to those that wish to accuse him. His mission is a success, as even Soione temporarily stops the war to "help Eroth destroy mycelium" (although it is actually not help, but a way to make people believe it even more). The first and most affected person by this deception is Edeq10.

Edeq10 first finds out of Mycelium's existence by a collection of 5 books hidden around in the world. They contain cryptic information, largely requiring the context of others to be properly understood. The content of these books has unfortunately been lost to history, as no one had written them down outside of Wolf SMP. As Eroth14 "wakes up from his control" (which, of course, is a scheme, as Eroth was never controlled), he reveals the location of the Mycelium Source Block, which is also when Edeq sees its time-undoing powers. At the time, Edeq thinks there may be more than one of these Source Blocks.

It's important to mention that at the time no one knew that Mycelium was actually either related to the Egg or an infection. They thought that Mycelium was some kind of middleman, and there existed a "Mycelium Man" with mind control powers.

Many experiments are conducted on Mycelium. It is revealed that it, in some way, affects eye color when "controlling" a victim. Since Eroth was not actually controlled, it is unknown what this eye color change actually means.

Soon, Edeq comes up with a plan to eradicate Mycelium. To do so, he will use the powers of The Column. First, however, he must increase its power. He sets off to obtain a Totem of Power, however it will not be easy. Columnstone and regular totems are not difficult, however the issue comes with Crystallized Power Essence. It takes a while for Eroth to find a machine which creates this essence, and shows it to Edeq. The machine is, unfortunately, broken, but Edeq finds a way to fix it and creates Crystallized Power Essence - with all the ingredients, the Totem of Power is made. The Column, now bearing all control over the world, being practically a god, removes all Mycelium it sees, cleansing from the infection any it didn't. Only one piece survived - the Mycelium Source Block.

Edeq thought the Mycelium Source Block had also died, and as such suspected only one place it could be left - Eroth. He agreed with Eroth to kill him, then revive him, hopefully "cleansed". Of course, with the information you know by reading this page, you know Eroth was simply playing along. Before he died, he acted like he got controlled by Mycelium, and tried to kill Edeq. Edeq, however, could not be killed at this time due to The Column. Eroth was killed and revived, and supposedly "cleansed".

Retracing MyShelf's steps, he realized the Dragon Egg could potentially destroy the Mycelium Source Block. He decided he must take it away from Edeq, and declared war. Unfortunately, Edeq destroyed the egg and left the server. This was the end of Mycelium Lore, for Season 1.

### Season 2

Before Season 1, Soione tried to stop Eroth for unknown reasons, and was banished to the end using the Dragon Egg. It seems Soione had managed to get a part of the Dragon Egg's power, the same that created Mycelium, and, after modifying it a bit, put it into another block - Sculk. Sculk begun quickly spreading and eventually, through the help of a Warden, infected Shale. To counteract this, Eroth immediately moves to recreate Mycelium. The problem is, he lacks the Source Block, left in the world of Season 1. To control it, he relies on control panels, which someone else could mess with. He obviously wants to recreate the Source Block here, to remove this vulnerability, but for that he would need to bring back MyShelf. As his death was special, involved in some way with the Dragon Egg, he attempts to study the egg, but also the souls of the dead. To do this, he creates the Soulpire, which also leads to zolene creating Naxtonia. Eroth once again takes the role of two personalities, one being controlled by Mycelium, the other controlling it and speaking through Eroth. He hides five books once again, which are, again, all found by Edeq. However, Eroth also begins cooperating with Soione in order to bring back MyShelf, acting like the controller of Eroth, to ensure Soione will not try to attack him (as he absolutely would attack Eroth).

To make this as believable as possible, he disbands the Soulpire when he stops doing things with Mycelium - making it seem like the real Eroth disbanded a country he has no interest in, created by the controller. Eroth, acting as the controller, approaches Soione asking him to destroy "evidence of his actions" - Naxtonia. In reality, of course, Eroth did not wish anything bad to happen to zolene, and knew Soione attacking Naxtonia would make the Antisoione Alliance forming more active, and get Naxtonia to join it. Eventually, however, the agreement had reached its end. Soione, with Eroth's help, had collected all the items to create a "Sculk Revive Totem", which he used to bring back MyShelf. The moment MyShelf had been revived, the two parties revealed their secrets. Eroth had now revealed that he was acting the entire time, and explaining the events before Season 1, and Soione revealed the Sculk Revive Totem also increased Sculk's power tenfold (if not more). Eroth set off a trap in the ground, but Soione did not die (he was standing in the wrong place for the trap to kill him), and flew away.

To Eroth's unfortunate surprise, MyShelf, after being revived by the Sculk Revive Totem, was controlled by Soione and turned on him. He had to be killed, and no information had been extracted. The whole plan was wasted (This is actually the lore explanation for MyShelf blowing up Eroth's entire base and having to be banned immediately). Eroth had to find another way to recreate the Source Block, and he once again tried to study the Dragon Egg. A while later - things were fine, Soione got banned, and Eroth was getting closer to getting his information. He only needed a recruit. He tried recruiting a new player, NemesisG1. This turned out to be a grave mistake. Literally.

Nemesis, unbeknownst to Eroth, was taking orders from Unicron. It realized that if Eroth took control of Nemesis using Mycelium, it would lose a loyal servant. He ordered Nemesis to destroy Mycelium, at all costs. A fight ensued, and Eroth lost one life. He begun preparing for a 2nd Mycelium War. Who knew the war would be called a very different name, and would cause so, so much worse things for Eroth...

At the time, Eroth had been a member of Naxtonia. It has been decided that the already-treated-as-naxtonian territory of Cat Island should be annexed. This was done without any major issues, at least at the time. Eroth also signed a military alliance with Panzerstadt to prepare for a 2nd Mycelium War. But now, an issue appeared. It turned out Nemesis lived on Cat Island, not knowing zolene treated it as theirs anyway. Nemesis wanted to create his own country there, and as such gave three options to zolene: a duel for ownership of Naxtonia, move the border back, or war. Zolene, with guidance of Eroth, wishing to protect Mycelium, chose war. In a way, Eroth succeeded. But at what cost?

Naxtonia and Panzerstadt begun mobilizing for the Cat Island war. Once it all started, it was an 8v4 in Naxtonia-Panzerstadt's favor. Issue was, Nemesis and his allies were incredibly skilled. What was called an unbeatable trio, Nemesis, Matz and Ricco, along with Def, destroyed Naxtonia and Panzerstadt's plans by simply rushing forward. There were 6 full deaths on Naxtonia and Panzerstadt's side. The people that did not die were left with one life. Not a single person died in Unicron as a result of the war.

Eroth was revived by Taigrys, and himself revived zolene. He had succeeded in protecting Mycelium, but at the cost of redirecting the line of fire to his homeland. The moment the "unbeatable trio" collapsed on itself, with Matz leaving Nemesis and Ricco being banned, he begun preparations for a war of independence. However, he had one more thing in mind. Nemesis would have hunted Eroth down to the ends of the earth, so Eroth, without any items after being revived, had to bargain. He was allowed to live, and stay in his own old base, in return for the prized Dragon Egg. Eroth's plans to remake the Source Block, which if succeeded, could control Nemesis and force him to give up Naxtonia, were now endangered. He went far to try and stop this, even trying to create a new Dragon Egg. He got two more trustworthy recruits, and they begun working for him, collecting materials he needed, but it was too late.

Soon, the war for independence would begin.

A 5v5 it was, at least that was the plan. With one member of Nemesis' team not showing up, it was actually a 4v5. Still, you know the events of the last war. The Antiunicron Alliance was crushed. Eroth, and everyone else in the alliance, died, and that was the end of our second season...

What will happen now, we are yet to see.

## Mechanics

The only mechanics Season 1 had were that when Edeq tried to kill Eroth and revive him, a kind of boss battle started, with Eroth having much more health, along with strength and fire resistance. Thing is, Eroth was very bad at PvP back then. Edeq still killed him effortlessly.

In Season 2, there was Mycelium Control. Every time someone severely interacted with Mycelium, or did some lore involving it, they got a percentage. No one got close enough for it to do anything, however.