Shambling Synthmeat

[JohnnyJohn]

Small change. Infusing synthmeat (base synthmeat, not any of the organ ones) with changeling blood will get you Shambling Synthmeat. It has a change to deal a couple points of brute damage whenever you harvest it without plant protection, and generally needs to be weakened like a lasher plant. Thankfully, it can't break chainsaws and isn't nearly as violent.

When harvested, it drops changeling meat, the same you'd get from gibbing a changeling. It's just a nice way to make cursed food abominations when the ling was already cremated, or never existed to begin with.

[Egregorious]

I like the concept, the problem I see is that changeling blood is rather easily come by via blood oranges, which would result in changeling meat being far too available and thus lose any lustre it has. Currently being able to cook with changeling meat is quite special, and is always connected to an antag's story is some way. So while I think harvesting its blood to produce a meat tree wouldn't necessarily take away from that, being able to obtain changeling blood from elsewhere would.

Although I have literally never seen it done, changeling blood being available elsewhere than from a changeling is conceptually cool for the possibility of tricking people, so I don't think it's worth removing it from blood oranges. Perhaps you could add a "changeling slurry" reagent - some sort of bundle of unmorphed changeling cells - that could only be extracted from changeling meat, as the mutation infuser instead.