A meteor crashes near you. It plants a core that starts corrupting everything around it. The corruption spreads, the air turns toxic, and alien creatures start crawling out. They hunt in packs, they learn how you fight, and they get worse over time.

This is my biggest project to date, months of work building every system from scratch. Inspired by Scape and Run: Parasites, but all code, models, textures, animations, and sounds are entirely my own original work.

Corruption spreads from the meteor in four phases. The longer you ignore it, the worse it gets.

Phase 1 — Terrain starts changing. Air becomes toxic without hazmat gear.

Phase 2 — Stronger parasites show up. Outbreaks start happening.

Phase 3 — Hive structures grow. Bosses appear. Good luck.

It spreads even while you're away. Come back later and the whole area might be gone.

Vanilla mobs can get infected too. Zombies, cows, villagers, iron golems — they all turn parasitic eventually.

Use a bow too much? They zigzag and close distance faster.

Fight underground? More of them spawn in caves.

Use fire? They build resistance to it.

They also form coordinated swarms with assigned roles instead of just rushing you one by one.

Getting hit or breathing bad air builds infection. It gets worse in stages — nausea, then slowness, then hunger and weakness, then wither damage and blindness. Hazmat armor and antidotes keep you alive.

Everything is configurable — corruption speed, spawn rates, difficulty, and you can turn individual creatures on or off. Config file is at config/projectparasites.json.

Server admins get /parasites commands for testing and management.