Spore Zombie

Spore Zombie

Statistics

Type	Undead Enemy
Environment	Glowing Mushroom biome
AI Type	Fighter AI
Banner	Spore Zombie Banner

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

The Spore Zombie is a zombie variant that only appears on Mushroom Grass above the Surface at any point in the game. It acts the same as normal zombies, slowly walking towards the player to deal contact damage, while attempting to navigate around obstacles. However, it is differentiable by normal zombies due to its mushroom-covered appearance, spawning at any time of day, and generally more powerful stats. Unlike normal zombies, it is always able to open doors regardless of whether or not it is a Blood Moon.

Spore Zombies can appear in two different variations with slightly different stats. Unlike normal zombies, it does not have an armed variation in Expert Mode(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions).

Variants

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

2 values: Pre-Hardmode › Hardmode
3 values: Pre-Hardmode › Hardmode › Post-Plantera

NPC ID	Type		Health	Damage	Defense	KB Resist	Coins
254		Mushroom Zombie	180/360›360›396/540›540›594	40/80›80›72/120›120›108	10	60%/64%/68%	10 SCPre-Hardmode: 25 SCHardmode: 25 SCPost-Plantera: 20 SC
255		Hat Mushroom Zombie	220/440/660	38/76/114	16	70%/73%/76%	12 SC30 SC

Notes

• The Spore Zombie can be seen as a sort of counterpart to the Spore Skeleton, as they are both mushroom biome versions of normal undead enemies.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Spore Zombie: "The fungus controlling the minds of these zombies wants only one thing: brains! This is very convenient for the zombie."

• This is likely a reference to the infected from the video game franchise The Last of Us.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.3: Sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Name now displayed as "Spore Zombie" instead of just "Zombie".

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.