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Mushroom Types

Type	Screenshot	Type	Screenshot	Type	Screenshot	Type	Screenshot
Acorn's Cap		Bleeding Hand		Brain		Camel's Mane
Cat Nip		Cobra's Hood		Colt's Foot		Dead Tongue
Dueling Serpents		Dung Rot		Earth Light		Eye of Osiris
Fish Hook		Hairy Tooth		Heart of Ash		Heaven's Torrent
Iron Knot		Nature's Jug		Nefertari's Crown		Peasant's Foot
Pool of Tranquility		Ra's Awakening		Razor's Edge		Salt Water Fungus
Sand Spore		Scorpion's Brood		Slave's Bread		Toad Skin

Introduction to Mushrooms

Mushrooms are a family of resources with different rarities, some extremely easy to find and others rare and troublesome to acquire. They can be used in Cooking and some have other uses (such as Paint ingredients). Mushrooms appear randomally throughout Egypt during the night, mostly between 2:00-4:30, though some have different spawn times.

You can hunt for mushrooms during the above hours; basically, choose a large stretch of land, away from the Chariot Stops, and arrive there at around 2:00. Start running around the area, using the Builder's Cam (shortcut is F7)- in several minutes you will be able to see small glints on the horizon. Approach them and change to a different camera (using F5, F6 and F8). Click on a mushroom to pick it up.

A good location for your first mushroom hunt (nicknamed Shrooming) is large stretches of grass, as it has a high variety of mushrooms, and they are easily seen using Builder's Cam.

Mushroom Tracking

Shroomdar - an online tool for tracking Mushroom appearances.
Please update the Shroomdar whenever you find clusters of mushrooms.

Currently Known Mushroom Information

Please notice the information below has varying degrees of accuracy.

• Tale 2 Information appears under this bullet
  • Tale 1 Information appears under this bullet

Acorn's Cap

• Known Spawn Time: 2:52-4:18
• Location/Info: Unclear spawning habits. Can be found on hills, not on hills, near water, or in dry riverbeds. See Shroomdar for possible hunting spots. (Note: i have seen anywhere from a lone acorn's cap to over 25 in a group)
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:48am-4:18
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: near water, in groups of 5 (sometimes less, max 5), grass or sand.

Bleeding Hand

• Known Spawn Time: 3:24 - 4:54
• Location/Info: Rocky mountains or hills.
• Needed for: Cooking Level 2 tuition.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 3:00am-4:53am (some places spawn at 3:35am)
  • Was used at a Toxin Kitchen to make Nut's Essence.
  • Was needed for Botanical Identification 1 skill tuition.

Brain

• Known Spawn Time: 2:20 - 4:53
• Location/Info: Rocky or dirt hills/mountains. Similar to Cat Nip.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:18am - 4:53am
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: seen on mountain terrain, steep slopes
  • Was needed for Botanical Identification 3 skill tuition.

Camel's Mane

• Known Spawn Time: 2:00 - 3:30
• Location/Info: Hills. Similar to Toad Skin. Pretty common.
• Needed for: Cooking Level 2 tuition.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:00-3:30am (some despawn at 3:00)
  • Associates with CF, TS, NC, SC, alone.

Cat Nip

• Known Spawn Time: <2:24 - 4:53
• Location/Info: Mountains, spawns of 5. Similar to Brain.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:14am-4:54am
• 2 Required per batch of Elixir of Regrowth

Cobra's Hood

• Known Spawn Time: 3:36-5:06
• Location/Info: Similar to Iron Knot. Found on the same terrain and often in the same area. Very common.

Colt's Foot

• Known Spawn Time: 2:12am - 3:42 am
• Location/Info: Similar to Nefertari's Crown.
• Needed for: Cooking Level 2 tuition, Botanical Identification 1 tuition
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:12am-3:42am
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: grassy hills/plains and mountain terrain
  • Associates with CM, TS, NC sometimes.

Dead Tongue

• Known Spawn Time: 2:49am-4:18 am
• Location/Info: Spawns in groups of five near water.
• Needed for: Paint recipes
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:49am-4:19am
  • Was needed for Botanical Identification 2 skill tuition.

Dueling Serpents

• Known Spawn Time: 2:26-3:54
• Location/Info: Spawns in pairs, in the desert (found in grass --Vilbert). Very similar to Sand Spore.
  • Tale 1 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)
  • Was needed for Botanical Identification 3 skill tuition.

Dung Rot

• Known Spawn Time: 2:06-3:36
• Location/Info: Mountains not too far from water. Large spawns, seems to migrate quickly. Similar to Pool of Tranquility.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:15am-3:38am
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: show up in one place for a few nights in a row then dissapears. Suspect severe increase in Acidity caused by Casting caused DR spawns (my observation --Erika)

Earth Light

• Known Spawn Time: 2:36-4:06
• Location/Info: Rocky or sandy terrain; tends to spawn in large groups (up to ~500). Similar to Scorpions Brood.
• Needed for: Paint recipes.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:30am-4:06am
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: mountainous terrain as well as hilly terrain, some open plain
  • Associates with SC
  • was needed for Botanical Identification 2 skill tuition.

Eye of Osiris

• Known Spawn Time: 4:00-5:30
• Location/Info: Large grassy plains as in Lower Nubia or Upper Nubia. Spawns in 5s.
• Needed for: Cooking Level 2 tuition
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 4:00am-5:30am
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: large grassy plains as in Seven Lake and Southern Egypt.
  • Was needed for Botanical Identification 2 skill tuition.

Fish Hook

• Known Spawn Time: 3:12-4:42
• Location/Info: Spawns in pairs, on grass, near water. Very similar to Hairy Tooth. Just east of the Nile in LN or UN would be a good place to check.
  • Tale 1 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.

Found soil acidity at 441 at large spawn and 281 at single spawn P I 21.

Hairy Tooth

• Known Spawn Time: 3:12-4:42
• Location/Info: Spawns in pairs, on grass, near water. Very similar to Fish Hook. Just east of the Nile in LN or UN would be a good place to check. Slow moving spawns. Check shroomdar for recent sightings.
• Location/Info: Observations in Yr 3, Shemu IV saw a spawn of over 100 in clumps in excess of 2 stated above. Located around -1000, 7450, they were found in a predominantly grassy area (80% on grass, 15% on sand, 5% on dirt), with terrain that was both flat and hilly. Ran out of time collecting them, and I was here 3.15am in-game time! Too much for one person!

Heart of Ash

• Known Spawn Time: 3:48 - 5:18
• Location/Info: Sandy banks of the Nile in Southern Nile Delta region. Large grassy plains as in Upper or Lower Nubia (Appear to have a tendancy to spawn near roads - Barhi). Usually spawns in 7s, sometimes less.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 4:19am-5:18am

Heaven's Torrent

• Known Spawn Time: 2:30-4:05
• Location/Info: Found along the coast of the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, or the former Lake of Reeds. Very similar to Salt Water Fungus.
  • Tale 1 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: 3:36-5:06
• Location/Info: On or near rocky terrain, spawns in groups of 5 but often has many, many groups nearby. Arguably the most common 'shroom in Egypt. Similar to Cobra's Hood.
• Needed for: Ante for Heket's Rake courts (one per person)
  • Was needed for Botanical Identification 1 skill tuition.

Nature's Jug

• Known Spawn Time: 2:46am-4:21am
• Location/Info: Flat, wide open spaces. Seems to spawn very randomly. Usually found in open, flat desert, though not the really deep desert. Psychotically rare.
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: open desert, rocky terrain as well, also found on grass with no sand anywhere in sight. Rare sightings.
  • Was used at a Toxin Kitchen to make [Eye of God serum]?
  • Was needed for Botanical Identification 3 skill tuition.

Stays in one spot for several nights, with increasing spawns each night, before moving somewhere completely different. Seems to spawn in powers of 2 (4, 32, 128, 256).

Nefertari's Crown

• Known Spawn Time: 2:12-3:42
• Location/Info: Similar to Colt's Foot. Can spawn in very large groups (10-300)
• Needed for: Making Nut's Essence in a Toxin Kitchen.
  • Tale 1 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's Foot

• Known Spawn Time: ~3:48-5:17 (3:48+/- 3 minutes)
• Location/Info: Spawns in groups of 20 on flat, grassy plains. Pretty common.
• Needed for: Cooking Level 2 tuition

Pool of Tranquility

• Known Spawn Time: 2:06-3:36
• Location/Info: Large spawns around RSO chariot stop sometimes, but it seems to migrate east/west rather quickly. (Saw one spawn move 100 coords east in one game day) Similar to Dung Rot.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:00-3:36

Ra's Awakening

• Known Spawn Time: 3:00am - 4:30
• Location/Info: Spawns in pairs, on sandy hills. Similar to Slave's Bread.
• Needed for: Cooking Level 2 tuition

Razor's Edge

• Known Spawn Time: 2:46-4:21
• Location/Info: Found on or near steep cliffs. Can spawn in large or small groups.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:46am-4:21am
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: deep narrow valleys, or near very steep, almost vertical mountains, spawns of 3 to 80+, often unreachable

Theory: May stay in one spot for several nights, with increasing spawns each night, before moving somewhere completely different (like Nature's Jug). Also seems to spawn in powers of two, like NJ.

Salt Water Fungus

• Known Spawn Time: 2:30-4:05
• Location/Info: Found along the coast of the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, or the Lake of Reeds in the NorthEast. Very similar to Heaven's Torrent.

Sand Spore

• Known Spawn Time: 2:26am-3:54am
• Location/Info: Always spawns in pairs, in the desert. Very similar to Dueling Serpents.
• Needed for: Cooking Level 2 tuition

Preliminary data suggest 500 to 1000 pairs spawn, Egypt-wide, each night. (Can anyone confirm this?)

Scorpion's Brood

• Known Spawn Time: 2:36-4:06
• Location/Info: Large spawns in sandy terrain. Similar to Earth Light.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:36am?-4:06am
  • Tale 1 Associates with NC, EL

Slave's Bread

• Known Spawn Time: 3:00am-4:30am
• Location/Info: Seems to spawn in pairs, in hilly sand. Similar to Ra's Awakening.
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 3:00am-4:30am
  • Tale 1 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: Hills. Similar to Camel's Mane. Pretty common.
• Needed for: Paint recipes, Weed Killer for Barley cultivation
  • Tale 1 Known Spawn Time: 2:00am-3:30am
  • Tale 1 Location/Info: grassy hills/sandy hills/mountains
  • Tale 1 Associates with CF, CM, NC

Raw data and Ideas

Spawn Times, and other details

--It seems to me that each type of mushroom, with the exception of Bleeding Hand and Eye of Osiris, has a "partner" that has similar spawning habits. This is especially linked to spawning time, and in most cases the type of terrain as well. Nature's Jug and Razor's Edge, though, while spawning at the exact same times, spawn in very different areas.

It's unclear what significance this has, if any.

Mushroom Type Pairs

Dead Tongue	Acorn's Cap
Razor's Edge	Nature's Jug
Camel's Mane	Toad Skin
Cat Nip	Brain
Iron Knot	Cobra's Hood
Colt's Foot	Nefertari's Crown
Sand Spore	Dueling Serpents
Pool of Tranquility	Dung Rot
Scorpion's Brood	Earth Light
Peasant Foot	Heart of Ash
Hairy Tooth	Fish Hook
Heaven's Torrent	Salt Water Fungus
Slave's Bread	Ra's Awakening

Hmm. Each of these pairs has one "ancient" mushroom, and one mushroom that was introduced halfway through T1 when Darkest Night was first released. I smell code reuse :) -- Amtep

Mer-GanGetham: The pairing of Camels Mane and Toad Skin must be weak or influenced by other factors, as we get CM in my area almost every "night", but I have never found a TS here.

Knives: Nothing says the pairs have to spawn in the exact same locations; just that they have similar spawning habits and have the same spawning/despawning times.

A couple of times recently, mixed batches of Iron Knot and Bleeding Hand have spawned in Desert of Shades, shortly after Razor's Edge spawned.

Mushroom Progressions/Patterns

Ifur asserts that there is a progression of shrooms. So, for example, one night you see EL, the next night Brain will be nearby (assuming an appropriate habitat is nearby), then Cat Nip. So if you want Brain, look at EL spots from the day before.

Please verify or disprove the concept.

Chain

EL -> Brain -> Cat Nip

- Is EL the start of the chain or does it go in circles? - Calqu
- Doesnt seem to go full circles, but can probably loop within it, if you take enough shrooms into concideration in the circle. A recent brain spawn in DoS seem to have looped once with CN->Brain->CN. - Ifur
- I've noticed this sort of thing too, but I don't think it's caused by a set cycle. Probably just variations in the ecology, which we have no way of testing. I know I picked up EL for almost a week straight in one spot before, and never saw any Br or CN around. Oh, and you do realize Br and CN are one of the 'pairs' mentioned above... so it's only natural they'd spawn in the same area. ~Knives

Mushroom Ecology

Acorn's Cap depends on elevation, nitrogen, phosphorous, acidity and eco-density.
Bleeding hand - nitrogen, phosphorous, eco-density
Brain - nitrogen and eco-density
Camel's mane - elevation, heavymetals, acidity, nitrogen, eco-density

How do we know any of this? --Megrez
This is all complete speculation. We currently have no way to test any of that and never had a way to test nitrogen and phosphorus. --MacPhisto
It's from cache-mining, I guess; this information has been in the cache files since T1. Note that you're not told *how* the shrooms depend on the variables or how they affect them, and there are currently no ways to measure any of these variables or even officially know they exist. --insomnia
Since you cannot understand, I cannot? Tut tut that is fallacious.-- Anon
If you understand it, surely you can explain it better? For example, how does nitrogen affect Bleeding Hand shrooms? Does there need to be a high level of nitrogen for BH to appear? What is a high level of nitrogen? How can I measure the level of nitrogen in a given area? -- insomnia

ShanVizen: Starting to update this page, tidying things up and adding some reference links for easier navigation. This may take a while (10/27/2005)

Shadus: I went ahead and moved this to Resources/Mushrooms and uploaded all the geocities graphics to the main server... sorry whoever's graphics I moved over. I also moved the two pics from old "Mushrooms" page. Someone needs to upload a 120x120 pic of scorpions brood called SCB.jpg and it'll automatically fill in the appropriate place in the chart.

Erika I found all of the double-indents and references to Tale 1 info confusing. I added Tale 1 flags to the double-indents, took out information that seemed to be verified (by a single-indent), and verified a few things either from Shroomdar or my own knowledge of shroom uses (eg IK and TS). Hope this doesn't bother anyone too much. January 11, 2005.