ATITD Wiki: Mushrooms

Overview

There are 28 varieties of mushroom native to Egypt (not counting the special Golden Puffball variety, which sprouted only during the Contest of Seven event). Mushrooms appear in the wild -- always late at night, vanishing around dawn or earlier. Finding and eating 7 mushrooms of each variety is the goal of the Test of Darkest Night.

The different types of mushrooms vary in rarity and utility, but all may be cooked as part of a kitchen recipe. In addition, some mushrooms have value in alchemy, while others can serve as paint ingredients.

Mushroom Rhymes

Mushroom Data

The information here has been digested from the forums' mushroom thread, new mushroom thread, and Shroomdar. The times are probably approximately right for the older mushrooms, and the guidelines below should help you find the right types of terrain to look in, but Shroomdar contains much more accurate information regarding areas to find shrooms.

Acorn's Cap

Known Spawn Time: 2:48am-4:18
Location/Info: near water, in groups of 5 (sometimes less, max 5), grass or sand.

Bleeding Hand

Known Spawn Time: 3:00am-4:53am (some places spawn at 3:35am)
Location/Info: rocky mountains or hills
Used at a Toxin Kitchen to make Nut's Essence.
Needed for Botanical Identification 1 skill tuition.

Brain

Known Spawn Time: 2:18am - 4:53am
Location/Info: new; seen on mountain terrain, steep slopes
Needed for Botanical Identification 3 skill tuition.

Camel's Mane

Known Spawn Time: 2:00-3:30am (some despawn at 3:00)
Location/Info: 7lakes, VoK (grassy hills), CCR (sandy hills), CotS (sandy hills), SE (rocky hills north of mega)
Associates with CF, TS, NC, SC, alone.

Cat Nip

Known Spawn Time: 2:14am-4:54am
Location/Info: steep dirt terrain, in sand/gravel mountains. Reports that it moved NW from night to night in NWVoK.

Cobra's Hood

Known Spawn Time: 3:35-5:06am
Location/Info: new; From grassy to rocky terrain. Looks like the spawn centers are on rocky hillsides, with individual shrooms spreading onto grass and sand sometimes.
Associates with Iron Knot sometimes, spawns in large and consistent spawns.
Tends to blend in on rocky terrain.
Large spawns in South CCR.

Colt's Foot

Known Spawn Time: 2:12am-3:42am
Location/Info: grassy hills/plains and mountain terrain
Associates with CM, TS, NC sometimes.
Needed for Botanical Identification 1 skill tuition.

Dead Tongue

Known Spawn Time: 2:49am-4:19am
Location/Info: banks of rivers and lakes, along the Nile very often. Usually in groups of five.
Used in paint recipes
Needed for Botanical Identification 2 skill tuition.

Dueling Serpents

Known Spawn Time: ~2:28-3:54AM
Location/Info: low-altitude hilly sand, grows in pairs, may migrate southward each night. (Khatzesput told me she has seen them move north and west 200 coords a night, keeping this in mind does seem to help -Toba) (I have found they always move South wardly. Not due South but close to it. -Neophant)
Needed for Botanical Identification 3 skill tuition.

Dung Rot

Known Spawn Time: 2:15am-3:38am
Location/Info: show up in one place for a few nights in a row then dissapears

Earth Light

Known Spawn Time: 2:30am-4:06am
Location/Info: mountainous terrain as well as hilly terrain, some open plain
Associates with SC
Used in paint recipes
Needed for Botanical Identification 2 skill tuition.

Eye of Osiris

Known Spawn Time: 4:00am-5:30am
Location/Info: large grassy plains as in Seven Lake and Southern Egypt.
Very rare
Needed for Botanical Identification 2 skill tuition.

Fish Hook

Known Spawn Time: 3:12am-4:42am
Location/Info: new; was found on grass near water in a wide valley. Similar to Pool of Tranquility. May move 100 coords north each night, depending on terrain.
- Extremely common around the Cat's Paw Mega. (picked like 82 once).
Associated with the HT Mega Spawn near Cat's Paw

Hairy Tooth

Known Spawn Time: 3:12am-4:42am
Location/Info: large open areas such as the desert/grassy plains, tend to spawn in the same areas of egypt (refer to Shroomdar for these areas)
- the Cat's Paw mega-spawn is slowly creeping southeast

Heart of Ash

Known Spawn Time: 4:19am-5:18am
Location/Info: large grassy plains as in Seven Lake and Southern Egypt (same terrain as Eye of Osiris), in groups of 7. More recently they have been sighted in River Plains / Midland Valley. May stay in the same area for 3 days, then move.

Heaven's Torrent

Known Spawn Time: 2:30-4:05
Location/Info: new; Found alone on a grassy peninsula, as well on rocky peninsula. apparently similar to SWF and DT, though fairly rare.

Iron Knot

Known Spawn Time: 3:35am-5:05am
Location/Info: mountainous terrain, desert, everywhere
Sometimes used as ante for public Heket's Rake courts
Needed for Botanical Identification 1 skill tuition.

Nature's Jug

Known Spawn Time: 2:47am-4:21am
Location/Info: open desert, rocky terrain as well, also found on grass with no sand anywhere in sight. Rare sightings.
Used in cooking to add duration
Used at a Toxin Kitchen to make Eye of God serum
Needed for Botanical Identification 3 skill tuition.

Nefertari's Crown

Known Spawn Time: ~2:30am-3:42am
Location/Info: new; mountainous terrain, sandy hills
Associates with CF, CM, TS, SC
Spotting Tips: Is short and dark, stay close to parallel to the ground and don't zoom out far or they will become invisible.
- Grows in groups of five. Four will be close together, with the fifth slightly away from others.

Peasant Foot

Known Spawn Time: 3:49(?)-5:17
Location/Info: new; seen on grass in very large groups (found a group of 70 once), though early reports showed only pairs (changed by Teppy)

Pool of Tranquility

Known Spawn Time: 2:00-3:36
Location/Info: new; desert

Ra's Awakening

Known Spawn Time: 3:00am-4:30am
Location/Info: Spawn in pairs. Sandy hills near grass; SB-type location
has been found both in grass and on sand

Razor's Edge

Known Spawn Time: 2:46am-4:21am
Location/Info: new; deep narrow valleys, or near very steep, almost vertical mountains, spawns of 3 to 80+, often unreachable

Salt Water Fungus

Known Spawn Time: 2:30am-4:05am
Location/Info: near large lakes such as Lake of Reeds and Seven Lakes, as well as along the Red Sea and Medditeranean Sea (similar to Dead Tongue locations, but much rarer)

Sand Spore

Known Spawn Time: 2:26am-3:54am
Location/Info: desert, in pairs

Scorpion's Brood

Known Spawn Time: 2:36am?-4:06am
Location/Info: Mountains, sandy hills
Associates with NC, EL

Slave's Bread

Known Spawn Time: 3:00am-4:30am
Location/Info: open terrain such as the desert, tend to spawn in the same areas (refer to Shroomdar for sightings), also seen on the sides of long rounded sand dunes. often seen in a NE/SW'ish line in pairs.

Toad Skin

Known Spawn Time: 2:00am-3:30am
Location/Info: grassy hills/sandy hills/mountains
Associates with CF, CM, NC
Used in paint recipes
Used to make weed killer for barley cultivation

Time Plot by mushroom

(credit: Megrez, contact in-game for updates)

Please consider adding mushroom sightings to Shroomdar, although Shroomdar does not currently allow reporting of the new shrooms.

For all shrooms, please entering sightings to Hodhr's Shroom Tracker at http://atitd.lr2.com/mushrooms/.

To find out the relative value of mushrooms and to exchange mushrooms, check out the Mushroom Exchange at http://neologic.net/atitd/mushroom/