Fungiculture

Grow mushrooms in the cellar under your island, and pick them wild on every map.

The Fungiculture skill page — every level, every item and the xp, in tables.

On this page: Getting started · Compost · The mushrooms · Wild clusters · How it works · What mushrooms make · Going further

Getting started

Every island has a Cellar ladder by the cottage. Click it to climb down.
Make compost at the bin in the corner. That's how you train Fungiculture from level 1.
Click a fungus bed and plant spawn in it. Each planting takes one to three compost, depending on the mushroom.
Come back when it's ripe. A bed gives its mushrooms and 2 spawn back, 3 10% of the time, so a bed you plant once keeps going.

Compost

Level	Makes	From
1	2 Compost	3 Tomatoe, 1 Bones
8	4 Compost	2 Hornworm husk, 1 Bones, 1 Charcoal
18	5 Compost	3 Olive pit, 2 Bones, 1 Charcoal
45	8 Compost	1 Bonegourd, 3 Bones, 2 Charcoal
85	2 Compost	2 Stormcorn, 1 Bones
85	2 Compost	1 Golden tomatoe, 1 Bones
85	3 Compost	1 Glass gourd, 1 Bones
85	3 Compost	1 Ember wheat, 1 Bones
85	3 Compost	1 Bog rice, 1 Bones
103	3 Compost	1 Cinderroot, 1 Bones
108	3 Compost	1 Brineberry, 1 Bones
113	3 Compost	1 Crownheart squash, 1 Bones
118	3 Compost	1 Starwheat, 1 Bones

The mushrooms

Level	Shroom	Grows	Compost	xp	Wild in	Goes into
1	Sulky sporecap	8 min	1	24	The Yard, The Gloam	Swift draught, Keen-eye water, Feather, Arcane ink, Ordinary pet food, Hunter's camo, Eagle-eye drops, Fleetfoot salve, Casserole sauce, Woodcutting potion I, Woodcutting potion II, Woodcutting potion III, Woodcutting potion IV
5	Button cap	15 min	1	50	The Yard, The Orchard Wall	Ordinary pet food, Arcane ink, Mushroom soup, Mushroom potion I
12	Oyster shelf	25 min	1	95	The Gloam, The Boardwalk	Ordinary pet food, Feather, Mushroom potion I, Mushroom potion II, Mushroom potion III, Mushroom potion IV
20	Puffball	40 min	1	160	The Lantern Mire, The Orchard Wall	Greater pet food, Puffball sleep-dust
28	Blue mould	60 min	1	270	The Boneyard, The Boardwalk	Greater pet food
35	Inkcap	80 min	1	400	Cloudreach, The Works	Greater pet food, Arcane ink
42	Bleeding tooth	1.7 h	2	1,080	The Golden Sands, The Works	Bleeding-tooth draught, Mushroom potion II
50	Glowcap	2 h	2	1,800	The Thunderhead, The Carnival, The Depths of the Mountain	Greater pet food
58	Ghost pipe	2.5 h	2	2,600	The Carnival, The Wilderness	Ghost-pipe tincture
65	Black truffle	3 h	2	3,600	A Truffle Pig finds it	Legendary pet food, Truffle dinner, Steak pie IV
72	Lion's mane	4 h	3	3,640	The Vault, The Depths of the Mountain	Legendary pet food, Lion's-mane focus, Starcap elixir, Growth tonic, Mushroom potion III
80	Void morel	5 h	3	5,200	The Deep Wild	Legendary pet food, Void ink, Penumbra page, Stormward page, Chrono page
90	Starcap	6 h	3	7,800	The Trailer Park	Legendary pet food, Starcap elixir, Starcap feast, Rex's draught
95	Rimecap	7 h	3	8,200	A Truffle Pig finds it	Rimecap stew, Mushroom potion IV
99	Rex's rot	8 h	3	9,600	A Truffle Pig finds it	Rex's draught, Mushroom potion V
95	Coalcap	6.3 h	3	3,200	A Truffle Pig finds it	Charcoal
103	Ashbell	8 h	3	11,880	A Truffle Pig finds it	Fishing potion V, Mining potion V
108	Salt morel	8 h	3	14,355	A Truffle Pig finds it	Woodcutting potion V, Harvesting potion V
113	Antler bracket	8 h	3	16,830	A Truffle Pig finds it	Thieving potion V, Agility potion V
118	Nebula puffball	8 h	3	19,305	A Truffle Pig finds it	Mushroom potion V

Wild clusters

Every outdoor map has three clusters, always in the same places. Each gives you one pick a day: 1 to 3 mushrooms, some xp, and about 35% of the time its spawn. A cluster you've picked today looks faded.
The Gloam's toadstools drop sporecap spawn now and then too.

How it works

A first island opens 6 beds, a bigger one 8, and the Far Shore all 10.
Rainmaker waters a bed like a plot. A Truffle Pig makes every harvest a quarter heavier (its Legendary, the Truffle Baron, nearly half), and either one out triples the mushrooms and the spawn a bed gives back.
The black truffle grows nowhere wild. Wear a Truffle Pig while you pick: about 20% of picks turn one up, and some turn up its spawn. The Truffle Baron finds them about 35% of the time. Either one also triples the mushrooms a wild pick gives, and any spawn it turns up.

What mushrooms make

Every recipe that uses a mushroom. Potions and inks are brewed at a cauldron (Alchemy). Meals and pet food are cooked at a campfire (Cooking).

Level	Makes	From	Where
1 Alchemy	Swift draught	1 Small vial, 2 Sulky sporecap	Cauldron
1 Alchemy	5 Arcane ink	1 Small vial, 2 Sulky sporecap	Cauldron
3 Alchemy	5 Arcane ink	1 Small vial, 2 Button cap	Cauldron
5 Alchemy	15 Feather	1 Small vial, 3 Feather, 1 Sulky sporecap	Cauldron
5 Alchemy	Mushroom potion I	1 Small vial, 4 Oyster shelf, 2 Button cap	Cauldron
12 Alchemy	20 Feather	1 Small vial, 3 Feather, 1 Oyster shelf	Cauldron
15 Alchemy	Woodcutting potion I	1 Small vial, 4 Sulky sporecap, 2 Gloomwillow logs	Cauldron
19 Alchemy	Keen-eye water	1 Small vial, 2 Wheat, 1 Sulky sporecap	Cauldron
20 Alchemy	Puffball sleep-dust	1 Small vial, 2 Puffball	Cauldron
35 Alchemy	13 Arcane ink	1 Small vial, 1 Inkcap	Cauldron
35 Alchemy	Woodcutting potion II	1 Medium vial, 4 Sulky sporecap, 2 Ancient yew logs	Cauldron
42 Alchemy	Bleeding-tooth draught	1 Medium vial, 2 Bleeding tooth, 1 Bones	Cauldron
42 Alchemy	Mushroom potion II	1 Medium vial, 4 Oyster shelf, 2 Bleeding tooth	Cauldron
58 Alchemy	Ghost-pipe tincture	1 Medium vial, 2 Ghost pipe	Cauldron
65 Alchemy	Woodcutting potion III	1 Large flask, 4 Sulky sporecap, 2 Rustpine logs	Cauldron
72 Alchemy	Lion's-mane focus	1 Large flask, 2 Lion's mane	Cauldron
72 Alchemy	Mushroom potion III	1 Large flask, 4 Oyster shelf, 2 Lion's mane	Cauldron
80 Alchemy	8 Void ink	1 Medium vial, 1 Void morel	Cauldron
90 Alchemy	Starcap elixir	1 Large flask, 1 Starcap, 1 Lion's mane	Cauldron
92 Alchemy	Woodcutting potion IV	1 Large flask, 4 Sulky sporecap, 2 Cycad logs	Cauldron
93 Alchemy	Growth tonic	1 Large flask, 1 Lion's mane, 1 Glass gourd	Cauldron
95 Alchemy	Mushroom potion IV	1 Large flask, 4 Oyster shelf, 2 Rimecap	Cauldron
99 Alchemy	Rex's draught	1 Large flask, 1 Rex's rot, 1 Starcap	Cauldron
104 Alchemy	Fishing potion V	1 Large flask, 2 Ashbell, 2 Cinderroot	Cauldron
106 Alchemy	Mining potion V	1 Large flask, 2 Ashbell, 1 Starfruit	Cauldron
109 Alchemy	Woodcutting potion V	1 Large flask, 2 Salt morel, 2 Brineberry	Cauldron
111 Alchemy	Harvesting potion V	1 Large flask, 2 Salt morel, 1 Frostbloom	Cauldron
114 Alchemy	Thieving potion V	1 Large flask, 2 Antler bracket, 2 Crownheart squash	Cauldron
116 Alchemy	Agility potion V	1 Large flask, 2 Antler bracket, 2 Brineberry	Cauldron
119 Alchemy	Mushroom potion V	1 Large flask, 2 Nebula puffball, 1 Rex's rot, 2 Starwheat	Cauldron
5 Cooking	Mushroom soup	2 Button cap, 1 Wheat, 1 Small vial of water	Campfire
20 Cooking	3 Ordinary pet food	1 Raw beef, 2 Button cap	Campfire
20 Cooking	3 Ordinary pet food	1 Raw chicken, 2 Sulky sporecap	Campfire
20 Cooking	3 Ordinary pet food	1 Raw boar, 1 Oyster shelf	Campfire
50 Cooking	3 Greater pet food	1 Boar tusk, 2 Blue mould	Campfire
50 Cooking	3 Greater pet food	1 Scarab shell, 2 Inkcap	Campfire
50 Cooking	3 Greater pet food	1 Static pelt, 1 Glowcap	Campfire
50 Cooking	3 Greater pet food	2 Enormous cobweb, 2 Puffball	Campfire
65 Cooking	Truffle dinner	1 Black truffle, 1 Raw beef	Campfire
80 Cooking	2 Legendary pet food	1 Marrow, 1 Lion's mane	Campfire
80 Cooking	2 Legendary pet food	1 Raw grimscale, 1 Void morel	Campfire
80 Cooking	2 Legendary pet food	1 Catalytic converter, 1 Starcap	Campfire
80 Cooking	2 Legendary pet food	1 Cobra fang, 1 Black truffle	Campfire
86 Cooking	Casserole sauce	2 Tomatoe, 2 Sulky sporecap, 1 Medium vial of water	Campfire
90 Cooking	Starcap feast	1 Starcap, 1 Starfruit	Campfire
95 Cooking	Rimecap stew	2 Rimecap, 1 Frostcap, 1 Large flask of water	Campfire
98 Cooking	Steak pie IV	4 Wheat, 2 Raw mammoth steak, 5 Black truffle	Campfire
48 Fletching	Fleetfoot salve	2 Small vial, 4 Sulky sporecap, 10 Feather	fletching table
50 Fletching	Hunter's camo	4 Cowhide, 4 Sulky sporecap	fletching table
70 Fletching	Eagle-eye drops	2 Small vial, 6 Sulky sporecap, 10 Feather	fletching table
1 Smithing	12 Charcoal	1 Coalcap	furnace
110 Wizardry	10 Penumbra page	10 Spell paper, 2 Arcane ink, 1 Umbral ember, 5 Void morel	Arcane altar
115 Wizardry	10 Stormward page	10 Spell paper, 2 Arcane ink, 1 Storm sigil, 5 Void morel	Arcane altar
120 Wizardry	10 Chrono page	10 Spell paper, 2 Arcane ink, 1 Time-worn gear, 5 Void morel	Arcane altar

Going further

At Fungiculture 95, every cellar opens one more bed, whatever the island: a seventh on a first island, and on the Far Shore the eleventh bed by the east wall.
The top two grow nowhere wild. Rimecap spawn (Fungiculture 95) drops from a Frost Wraith; Rex's rot spawn (Fungiculture 99) drops from Old Rex. Plant one and every harvest gives spawn back, like any bed.
The Grower's cape: at Fungiculture 99, Yahsmeena, on your island sells it for 99,000 tickets. Every harvest from a fungus bed gives one more mushroom, and the compost bin makes a fifth more.

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