Plasma

The plasma is a colorful ionised blob that expands into empty spaces and consumes bases. It can collapse to zonks or suffocate and turn into infotrons. It is safe to touch for Murphy, but fatal for hostile entities – they explode on contact.

Growth

Plasma is very unpredictable and chaotic, because each plasma tile grows randomly. It grows in two stages: slow growth and fast growth. Slow growth phase has a duration set by the level designer. When it expires plasma enters fast growth phase, which spawns new plasma tiles much faster.

Collapse and suffocation

When plasma reaches the growth limit which is also set by the level designer - it collapses into zonks. The default growth limit is 200.

However if plasma becomes trapped in a confined space before it reaches the limit and cannot grow anymore - it suffocates. It turns into infotrons.

Hostile entities

Hostile entities explode on contact with plasma. Large groups of snik-snaks and electrons can be used to control the growth of plasma or even eradicate it completely. It works the other way too – plasma offers an easy way to destroy large groups of hostile entities.