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Wormwood Plant Fx

Based on game build 714014 | Last updated: 2026-03-07

Overview​

wormwood_plant_fx is a visual effect entity that plays an animation sequence representing Wormwood’s plant growth cycle. It is automatically spawned and managed in response to Wormwood’s transformation state changes. The effect cycles between "grow", "idle", and "ungrow" animations depending on nearby plantkin players (specifically Wormwood himself) and their status (alive, non-ghost, visible, and within proximity). This prefab does not possess logic for self-control—instead, it responds to external calls via its exposed SetVariation function and listens for animation-over events to determine its lifecycle.

Usage example​

--Typically instantiated and controlled internally by the game or Wormwood's stategraph
local fx = SpawnPrefab("wormwood_plant_fx")
if TheWorld.ismastersim then
    fx.components.wormwood_plant_fx:SetVariation(2) -- Play grow_2, then idle/ungrow accordingly
end

Dependencies & tags​

Components used: Transform, AnimState, Network Tags: Adds FX, NOCLICK, wormwood_plant_fx. Checks plantkin and playerghost tags and fullbloom field on players.

Properties​

No public properties.

Main functions​

SetVariation(inst, variation)​

  • Description: Updates the effect variation and initiates the corresponding "grow" animation. Automatically transitions to "idle" or "ungrow" based on player conditions.
  • Parameters:
    • variation (number) – identifies which visual variant to use (e.g., 1 or 2).
  • Returns: Nothing.
  • Error states: No explicit error handling; silently overwrites existing variation if called multiple times.

Events & listeners​

  • Listens to: animover – triggers OnAnimOver to decide whether to remove the entity or continue looping animation.
  • Pushes: None.