you should make it so it can it eat props.

I support skeletrons idea

Is it possible to remove the sound of the rebellious human? Because I use tfa vox from combine, and with this voice it ruins the character that I am, and there could be a setting to keep the voice or not. Or even make the voice silent.

@Dead Man Walking I can do that I'll just add a toggle for the hurt sounds hopefully that is fine might take some time (can't promise a deadline but I am sure it won't be next year :D) since I just recently published a new addon so I am also adding minor changes to that but overall that is more finished than this addon.

my ideas for types of the rust:
the mass, it has a 5x rate of which it can attach to other rusts.
the consumer, if there are any props nearby that are made of metal, it will consume the prop to get to a victim or to reproduce.

Dunno if you're still working on the mod, but would be cool to see a fear mode, where npcs without guns run away if they see the rust virus, could be active during the aggro state or just in general

@samter Should be added now. But I can't promise it works well because every NPC reacts to fear in what way they were coded. So if you want to make civilians or whatever NPC without guns actually feel fear and run away then there's most likely an addon on workshop already that "enhances" them for example the addon that enchances civillian NPC behaviour etc etc.

Idea:Make the virus capable of spawning in metal-like entities that are covered in rust.
Here's how it would work:
There is a 50% chance (give or take) that the rust virus will convert the corpse(s) into rust blocks.
Divide this number by 2 and make the other 25% (again, give or take) have the rust virus LOSE a block and spawn a rust-covered, metal-like entity (must be vanilla).
This enemy will then rush the player, (hopefully) chasing them in the direction of the virus. The blocks surround your body and turn you into one of them until you respawn. The enemy will then turn back into a rust block.

blue rust virus it spawns 6 red ones when it attacks and teleports to a different rust virus