Fungal Reality Shift

Consuming large quantities of Fungus, Frog Meat, or Glue does more than give you a Status Effect. Sufficient quantities of imbibed hallucinogens can cause the reality within the game world to shift in strange ways.

Behaviour
Starting at a minimum of 180s of the Tripping status effect, Fungal Shifts can be experienced, accompanied by an audio cue and one of six prominently displayed game messages. The resulting effect causes the targeted material(s) to forever be transformed into a new target material, determined at the event of the fungal shift, and persists for the remaining duration of the run.

After experiencing a shift, the visual effects will rapidly fade, but further shifts cannot occur for the next 5 minutes, and there is a maximum total of 20 shifts that can occur within a single run.

There is currently no in-game way to reverse or remove the effect of a fungal shift, other than attempting to override the effect with more fungal shifts. Because this change is both permanent and potentially quite hazardous, (for example, all the water in your world may forever become acid, or lava, or polymorphine...) fungal shifts should be approached with caution.

Holding a flask
If the player is currently holding a flask in their hand when the shift occurs, there is a 75% chance that one of the materials in the shift will be the main material in the flask, if any. If the flask material is selected to be used, one of two things will happen:


 * 1) If the flask is selected as the from material, the shift will consist of (flask material) => (to material). Or,
 * 2) If the flask is selected as the to material, the shift will consist of (from material(s)) => (flask material).

Even if the material is not present in either of the tables below, it can still be chosen as either the from or the to material if you are holding a flask of it.

Shiftable Materials
Any of the following materials can be selected, although some materials are more commonly selected than others. Note also that if a row with multiple materials is chosen, all of the materials in that row will be affected.

As mentioned above, holding a flask can alter which materials are selected for both initial and resulting materials.

Determining the Shifted Materials
It's sometimes possible to infer which materials were shifted at the moment the shift happens. One of the shifted materials will always be mentioned in the game message that appears (see above). It's not deterministic whether the "from" or "to" material happens to be mentioned in the message, but there are some pieces of information that can help:


 * The material mentioned in the message given when the fungal shift occurs
 * The small amounts of material that are scattered near the player when the shift occurs will always be the resulting material from the shift

With this information you can determine always at least one of the materials by inspecting any newly created dregs of material around you after the shift happens &mdash; look for materials with (Transformed) in their tooltip. If this material is the one mentioned in the shift message, the original material may be hard to determine. However, if this is not the material mentioned in the shift message, the shift message should indicate the original material that was shifted.

Additionally, if you're holding a flask for the shift, and the flask is shifted to the new material, you know without a doubt what the fungal shift was.

Inspecting Save Data
It is also possible to see the list of shifted materials by inspecting your save data. After closing the game, open your file in a text editor. Within this file will be a section of  string pairs, listing each shift as a sequence of [from] -> [to] pairs. For example:

In this example, there are two separate fungal shifts: Silver -> Chaotic Polymorphine, and Acid -> Vomit.