Mushroom is a basic Meadows-tier food that increases your health by 15, stamina by 15 and health regeneration by 1 hp/tick for 15 minutes. You can also use them in a number of advanced recipes.
Acquisition
Mushrooms grow on the ground in the Meadows, Black Forest, and Swamp biomes
Mushrooms respawn after 240 minutes of real time
Since Mushrooms are a good early food source and are required for some nice advanced recipes, make sure you’re grabbing them whenever you’re exploring the Meadows, Black Forest, and Swamp biomes. You’ll recognize them by their rich red caps. You can also mark the spots where a lot of Mushrooms grow, as they will respawn in that area after 240 minutes.
Mushrooms growing in the Black Forest
Uses
Raw Food
Ingredient in food or crafting recipes
Boar Taming
Food
When you eat them raw, Mushrooms provide a bonus of 15 health, 15 stamina, and extra 1hp/tick health regeneration for 15 minutes. You can eat a Mushroom by right-clicking it in your inventory screen. Its effects can be combined with up to two other foods, but you can’t eat more than one Mushroom at a time.
Eating a Mushroom will grant its full effects. Over time these effects will weaken. But at 50% duration, or 7.5 minutes after you eat the Mushroom, the Mushroom buff icon will start glowing and you’ll be able to eat another one and refresh the effects.
Cooking & Crafting
Mushrooms are a decent source of health and stamina in the early game. However, they can also be cooked as part of the more advanced recipes, brewed into a Mead, and used to craft an advanced cooking station. The Recipes section below has the full list.
Taming
If you’re looking to run a boar farm that gives you easy access to Boar Meat and Leather Scraps, Mushrooms can help you with that.
In order to tame a boar, start by creating a pen, preferably surrounded by a Roundpole Fence, in a safe location. Find some boars nearby and when they spot you, lead them to the pen. Trap them inside by either closing the pen’s gate or placing the final piece of the fence, then move away so that the boars lose aggro (the red exclamation mark above them disappears).
The next part is a bit tricky. You need to approach the boars so that they notice you (a yellow dot appears above them), but don’t yet become aggressive. When they’re in this state, throw a Mushroom inside the pen. The boars will eat the Mushroom and you’ll see yellow hearts above them. This means they’re in the process of being tamed. In this state, boars can still attack you, so move away from them, but not too far. For the taming process to work, you need to be in the vicinity of the pen and the boars must not be attacking you. It takes 30 minutes to tame a boar. If done right, you’ll need a total of 3 Mushrooms to tame a boar. You can also use the Brew of Animal Whispers to double the taming speed.
Once tamed, you can start breeding and farming your boars, provided you have at least two of them.
A boar has spotted youDropping a boar’s aggroA boar is being tamedA boar in a pen with food
Recipes
Here’s what you can do with Mushrooms aside from merely eating them.
Recipe
Ingredients
Purpose
Carrot Soup
Mushroom Carrot x3
Max Health +15 Max Stamina +45 Regeneration +2hp for 25 minutes
Serpent Stew
Mushroom Cooked Serpent Meat Honey x2
Max Health +80 Max Stamina +26 Regeneration +4hp for 30 minutes
Wolf Skewer
Wolf Meat Mushroom x2 Onion
Max Health +65 Max Stamina +21 Regeneration +3hp for 25 minutes
Place a marker on your map to remember particularly bountiful Mushroom spots
Mushrooms respawn after 240 minutes, or just slightly over twelve in-game days
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