Plants

Plants

> Chips

Plants were introduced in version 3.0 of Leek Wars.

Plants behave much like bulbs, so it is best to be comfortable with those before reading on.

Summoning

Just like bulbs, plants are summoned with the summon function. Like bulbs, plants are summons. For example, the isSummon function returns true when used on a plant. You can use getType to tell them apart. The small addition is that the function can take a first parameter, which is the entity that woke your plant up (that entity can also be retrieved with the getPlantTrigger function).

function plantAI(triggerEntity) { say("Hello, I'm Fab.") // Oh no, not that one again?! say("Why did " + getName(triggerEntity) + " wake me up?") useChipOnCell(CHIP_POPCORN, getCell()) }

A basic AI function that politely introduces itself, displays the name of the entity that woke it up, and uses the Popcorn chip on itself.

Varieties

> The difference between varieties is for information only, and does not exist in combat

There are 2 varieties of plants.

• Plants with an awakening zone
• Corn (PLANT_CORN)
• Chilli Pepper (PLANT_CHILLI_PEPPER)
• Static plants
• Prototaxite (PLANT_PROTOTAXITE)

Static plant

A static plant does nothing in particular. It is there: that is already something! You could use it, for example, to block an enemy leek if it has only one empty cell next to it, or to hide behind it and block the line of sight.

So technically it does not need an AI. It is more like an obstacle with life points than an entity.

Plant with an awakening zone

A plant with an awakening zone does not play (does not run its AI) during its turn. It wakes up when another entity enters its awakening zone (given by getAwakeningZone) and runs its AI at that moment (yes, in the middle of the other entity's turn).

Good to know

• When it is summoned, the plant wakes up once for each entity already in its awakening zone.
• It can wake up several times per turn (but only once during the turn of a given entity).
• Summoning an entity in the awakening zone wakes up the plant already on the field, and if the summoned entity is another plant, that one wakes up too.
• Resurrecting an entity in the awakening zone does not wake up the plant.
• A resurrected plant does not wake up the way it does when it is summoned.
• If an entity stays in the awakening zone, even while moving around in it, the plant does not wake up again. The entity has to leave the zone first to be able to wake it up again.
• An entity that was outside and is moved into the awakening zone with EFFECT_PUSH / EFFECT_ATTRACT / EFFECT_REPEL / EFFECT_INVERT wakes up the plant.
• On the other hand, moving the plant next to other entities with EFFECT_INVERT does not wake it up.
• The operations spent by the plant are added to its summoner's operations for the summoner's whole turn.

> Each awakening has its own operations counter, and the summoner then gets its own counter back, increased by what the plant spent.

Movement

When it is summoned, a plant gets the Rooted state (STATE_ROOTED). This means it cannot move, nor be moved by EFFECT_PUSH, EFFECT_ATTRACT or EFFECT_REPEL. It can still swap positions with another entity if the EFFECT_INVERT effect is used on it, for example with the Inversion or Repotting chip.

Equipment

Each type of plant has a predefined chip loadout that cannot be changed (the prototaxite has no equipment). The cooldown of a plant's chips goes down by 1 at each awakening (and not at each turn).