| The Great Parasite is greedy, and requires additional ore from your base to feast upon. |
Overview[]
The Great Parasite is a Slipstream-tier cell furnace was released on March 8th, 2017 as part of The Ultimate Update and was originally going to be a reborn item. The cell furnace is mainly brown 'dirt' with some purple 'grass' on top.
Its original effect was that the more ores that were on this server at the moment, the more powerful the furnace would be at the moment. The Great Parasite's effects are affected by the number of ores on your base, but are not affected by ore on other bases.
At random moments, the furnace will attempt to feed on some ores on your base, with varying effects depending on if there are enough ores on your base. When a dropper first starts dispensing ores into the cell furnace, its ore value will be high but increase slowly, before the Great Parasite feeds and the multiplier is increased/decreased.
Upgrades[]
- Every ore that goes into the Great Parasite will increase its multiplier by 7B.
- In addition to adding 7B to the multiplier, the Great Parasite will sometimes attempt to feed on ore that is on your base.
- If there are at least 20 ores on your base, the Great Parasite will make a deposit sound, destroy 12 to 19 of those ores, and add (number of ore sacrificed x 14B) to the multiplier.
- If there are less than 20 ores on your base, the Great Parasite will make an explosion sound and subtract 350B from the multiplier.
- The Great Parasite's multiplier caps at x350T.
Trivia[]
- Due to the fact that the deposit sound is the same sound when a zombie eats a plant from the original Plants vs. Zombies game, it is a common misconception that the design for the purple plant on the back of the furnace is based off of the Chomper from Plants vs Zombies. However, it has been confirmed by elementninja645 that this is not the case, and that the plant was actually inspired off of the foliaath, a mob found in a popular Minecraft mod named Mowzie's Mobs.
- Due to the compact size of this furnace, it is possible to place droppers on every side, provided they are long enough.
- This was almost removed due to having too many parts, but it had been updated to have fewer parts in order to be accepted.
- This is one of three items originally made as an entry for a building contest. The other two items were the Overlord Device and Wild Spore. This and the Wild Spore were made for a "Plant-infested" contest.
- The Great Parasite had taken almost 10 months to finally be released. This makes it the third-longest anticipated item, falling behind on the Reinforced Security Wall, the Crystalized System, and the Green Tea Latte which took nearly 18 months for the Reinforced Security Wall, 30 months for the Crystalized System, and 37 months for the Green Tea Latte.