So I'm hanging out on the last layer in the fungal caves with the pool still active and decide to try setting up an alarm trap to try and farm mushrooms.

Everything seems to be working well and the fungoids are killing each other without me lifting a finger. My mushroom stockpile grows.

However, I soon notice that the occasional fungoid that breaks off of the pack and comes after me is much tougher than when I started. MUCH tougher. I check my kill list and have only killed ~20 fungoids of each type.

So I start watching them more closely and, sure enough, I see their experience rating go from moderate to highly experienced without me ever killing a single one.

I thought the uber-jackal effect was only a problem if I killed the monsters myself. Does it also apply if the monsters are killed by any means or maybe even just generated?

Maybe this is a bug?

Thanks and please let me know your thoughts,
blargfoot