Spore Hound

Spore Hound
Health	150
Damage	20 (15 ) (100 )
Attack Period	2
Attack Range	3
Walk Speed	8.5
Run Speed	10
Sanity Aura	-40/min (-20/min ) (-30/min ) (-44/min )
Special Ability	Hops at players, creating a Spore Cloud. Creates a Spore Cloud on death. Bite applies 5% Max Health Penalty.
Drops	x1 x1 (25%)
Code	"hound_spore"

“You sick dog.”

–Wilson

“I don't care that you're sick. You're still a jerk.”

–Willow

“Rrrwoof! Hck!”

–Wolfgang

“An ill-fated beast.”

–Wendy

“ROBOTS CANNOT GET SICK”

–WX-78

“I wonder how the toad transmitted the mushrooms?”

–Wickerbottom

“What's that toad been up to now?”

–Woodie

“Hrmmph, it seems like that sickly toad improved them.”

–Maxwell

“Fenrir's spawn, twisted beyönd recögnition.”

–Wigfrid

“A sick angry puppy!”

–Webber

“I'm surprised it's still alive.”

–Winona

“This chein's sick.”

–Warly

“Even toadstool wants in on the new hound action!”

–Wortox

“Mushy... woofer? friend?”

–Wormwood

“Something wrong with this one...”

–Wurt

“Get away Woby! He might be contagious!”

–Walter

“Oh botheration, the mushrooms got to the hounds as well.”

–Wanda

“Go farding around elsewhere.”

–Winky

“Plague-spreader.”

–Wathom

“Don't get your filth on me!”

–Wixie

The Spore Hound is a hound type that can appear during hound waves in Autumn Year 2 onwards.

When chasing the player it will behave similarly a regular hound, but sometimes it will decide to hop in the direction of the player it's targeting, creating a Spore Cloud, which is functionally identical to Toadstool's, as well as creating one on death.

Its bite also deal 5% of a player's maximum health, with only WX-78 and players using a Plague Mask being immune to it.

Fighting Strategy

Recommended items

• Plague Mask to prevent damage from Spore Clouds and max health reduction from the bite. (Goose Mask can be used by WX-78 players, or if you have Booster Shots.)
• Non-food healing (Honey Poultice, Sweetflower Wrap, Brine Balm, or any other viable healing methods)
• Body armor to protect from other hounds

Fighting

If the Spore Hound doesn't hop, the kite pattern of a regular Hound applies, being 2 hits, then dodge, and repeat. If it proceeds to jump, then do as follows: bait the jump, bait the bite, land 2 hits, dodge, and repeat as you would with regular Hounds. Once the Spore Hound is killed, it spews out another spore cloud, which will quickly spoil the Monster Meat it drops.

Tips

• The main purpose of the spore hound is to disrupt the player's healing.
• Any weapon except a Ham Bat, as the Spore Clouds will spoil it quickly.
• It can be treated as an almost regular hound by WX-78 players.
• The danger of the bite scales with the max health of the survivor. For example, Wathom will take 11,25 hp, and Wes will take 3,75 hp.
• It can be a slow, but viable source of Shroom Skin Scraps, if the player doesn't want to kill Toadstool.

Trivia

• Spore Hounds were added in the Fight And Flight update.

Gallery

• SporeHound in game.png