Secret Spore-Tending Unit Dantooine Biomes Achievements

The Spore-Tending Units in the Dantooine Biomes are dangerous floating droids that give off a toxic debuff that will quickly kill your character if you don’t take the right precautions. While you are mostly supposed to avoid them as a hazard in the area, there are two special secret achievements called Spore Thing and Violent Tendencies you can get by gathering a group up and killing

BUG/ISSUE: Many players are experiencing the Spore-Tending Units randomly despawning. This was supposedly fixed in 7.8c patch notes but does not seem to be true, especially not with this achievement added in 7.8.1. I don’t recommend trying this achievement till that issue is fixed, it’s very frustrating as they can randomly despawn as you fight them. I also can’t really figure out what causes them to respawn – once killed, I’m unsure if they consistently come back.

Dantooine Biomes

If you are not familiar with the Dantooine Biomes, they are a level 80 area introduced in Update 7.8 You can learn how to start on the Dantooine Biomes guide.

SWTOR Dantooine Biome Dynamic Encounters Guide

Spore-Tending Units

The Spore-Tending Units are the “scary” droids that when you approach them, if you don’t get away quickly, will kill you in a few seconds due to their stacking spore debuff. They will may have a green-yellow, or red nameplate, but all version of them are dangerous.

The debuff they give you is bright-pink.

Immunity

You can protect yourself from these Spore-Tending Units! There are  glowing blue workshop tables around the area called Hazard Mitigation Modules. 

Once you reach the Hero rank with the Galactic Sustainability Institute reputation faction, you can spend 100,000 Credits to purchase the Mycelial Immunity buff from the terminal which will protect you from all forms of Sporefall in the Sporefall area, including the deadly pink Heavy Sporefall. The buffs that are available from the earlier ranks will protect you from spores but will not protect you from the special deadly spores from the Spore-Tending Units.

Fighting Spore-Tending Droids

Once you have immunity, it’s time to take on a Spore-Tending droid, either a yellow-named or red-named one. They start off with about 5 million health for one player, and for every player or companion that attacks them, will go up by 3 million health (so 8 million for you and your companion if playing solo). They are a nasty fight solo, and I did not have much luck alone.

It is important to interrupt Energy Surge whenever possible, as it really hurts, taking about 10% of your health with every cast.

Spore Specifications

When you manage to defeat a Spore-Tending Unit of any kind, a few random members of your group will get Spore Specifications, a binds-on-pickup item that will allow you to build a Spore Purifier. In our group of 8 people, roughly 2 to 3 people would get an item.

Construct Spore Purifier

If you have a Spore Specifications item, there are a few specific areas around the map where a blue hologram and temporary ability called Construct Spore Purifier will show up.

If you click the temporary ability, you will lose your item, and build part of the Purifier.

Once done, you or another player can use up another item to Construct Spore Purifier. Make sure not to have multiple players build at the same time, or you might wind up with issues where items are deleted but don’t count towards the build.

Once the purifier is mostly built, a third player can use a third item to Construct Spore Purifier. I think it took us 3 or 4 constructions before we completed it.

The Purifier should last until the entire area resets after the Core Unlocked phase,

While standing near the Purifier, you will get the Purified debuff which gives you immunity to Sporefall and to Heavy Sporefall from the Spore-Tending Droids.

Why you would want to build this, when you probably need the immunity to fight the droid in the first place, I’m not sure.

Achievements

•  Spore Thing: Attack and defeat a non-hostle Spore-Tending Unit
•  Violent Tendencies: Defeat 25 Spore-Tending Units