Spore Flower

Spore Flower
Lifeform
Hitpoints	N/A (can be only blown up)
Damage	5 HP/sec (gas)
Behavior	Hostile, stationary

The Spore Flower is a hostile creature found in the world. It appears as a large, brightly colored flower on the ground, with its bright blue stamen pointing directly up towards the sky. A closer look will reveal a set of six legs or roots tucked underneath the red petals of the plant. The central stamen is actually a head, with two small yellow eyes being visible. They nearly always appear in groups (of up to 15) and are incapable of movement besides standing up.

The Spore Flower was first shown to the public in the Satisfactory E3 trailer.

Behavior

The Spore Flower will remain "dormant" (in its normal appearance in the world as detailed above) until the pioneer approaches it, at which point it will slowly raise itself on its legs/roots. When finished, it will begin to unfurl its stamen, after which the plant will begin to shake the three fronds within - producing Poison Gas.

This behavior can be halted by moving away from the plant, at which point it will perform the cycle in reverse - re-furling its stamen and lowering itself back onto the ground. Once the Spore Flower has begun to produce the poisonous gas, however, it will no longer respond to player presence, it will produce its gas for a few seconds and then go dormant again.

The Spore Flower reacts to other creatures in the same manner it does to the pioneer. Hogs and Spitters can be hurt by Poison Gas.

Spore Flowers may be blown up with a Nobelisk. Prior to Update 1.0, Spore Flowers would simply vanish when blown up. Since Update 1.0, Spore Flowers play a short death animation after being blown up - the flower's blue leaves spread out and droop, fully revealing the stamen, and it lowers itself down quickly before disappearing. Once a Spore Flower is blown up, it will never respawn.

Combat

The Spore Flower does not take damage from conventional weaponry (i.e. the Xeno-Zapper or Iron Rebar) and is immune to the Chainsaw, but can be removed by detonating a Nobelisk (or Explosive Rebar) within range. Its hitbox is fairly sizeable, as a Nobelisk exploded at some distance from it is still able to remove it. Any gas produced by the Spore Flower will be removed instantly following its death.

Locations

The Spore Flower is most often found around the various collectibles and exploration rewards that can be found around the map such as Somersloop, Mercer Spheres, Power Slugs, and Crash Sites.

There are 736 Spore Flowers in the world.

Trivia

• Small, glowing insect-like creatures can be seen swarming around Spore Flowers. These creatures cannot be killed and stay even after the flower is destroyed. These creatures may hold a symbiotic relationship with the Spore Flowers.
• Sometimes, the death animation does not cause the leaves to spread out.

Gallery

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  A Spore Flower standing up.

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  A group of Spore Flowers in a passive state.

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  A Spore Flower releasing poison gas when approached by a pioneer.

History

• Patch 1.0: Spore Flowers now have a death animation
• Patch 0.6.0.5
  • Fixed Spore Flower VFX lingering after being destroyed
  • Fixed Spore Flower dealing damage before its animations played
• Patch 0.6.0.2: Fixed Spore Flowers not being destructible
• Patch 2018-10-11: Introduced