Mushroom question

[narib414]

So on this new game run, I chose to get the mushroom cave instead of the fruit bat cave. What are mushrooms used for and why are they considered better vs the fruit bats?

[Katalia19]

Mushrooms can be eaten or used in recipes/crafting (depending on type). The mushroom cave is considered better than fruit bats because it produces 6 mushrooms guarunteed regularly (every couple of days, I believe), while the fruit bats can go a week or more without dropping anything and when they do, it's commonly one-two fruits that you could easily find yourself. The only real advantage that fruit bats have is they *sometimes* can drop a fruit from an expensive tree before you buy the tree, which can make the Community Center a bit easier to finish.

[yodabauer]

This question starts wars.

[Pixel Peeper]

The mushrooms are worth a lot more gold than the fruit bats.

Unfortunately that's all they have going for them. It's idiotic to use them for recipes or to eat them. They have no use. They're just vendor fodder.

The fruit bats are worth far less gold, but they're more useful because they give you hard-to-get tree fruit for the Artisan bundle.

Both cave options are kind of bad, really.

[yodabauer]

I would have liked a gem cave or something. Also helpful for bundles and gifts. Also decent money. Makes sense in a cave. Gives me the opportunity to get gems on days I have no time to go to the mines.

[narib414]

So mushrooms are mostly "vendor trash"?

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by narib414:

So mushrooms are mostly "vendor trash"?

Valuable vendor trash, but yes. I really don't see what else you'd want to do with them.

When used to craft a Life Elixir, the resulting Elixir actually gives less health/Energy than the mushrooms that went into its creation. Even if it didn't, you could just sell the mushrooms and buy two or three Salads or whatever, you'd still come up ahead. And even then you'd be better off keeping the gold and just eating berries since they have little to no value.

At best, if you feel like putting in the time, you could use the common brown mushrooms to make Stir Fry. You get a small profit from doing so. I personally don't bother.

It's mind-boggling how so many mushrooms have so few uses.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by red255:

mutters.

1. Red mushrooms and purple mushrooms are frequent requests from the help wanted board.
2. Fried mushroom is loved by george

but its mainly the fact that is more money and more stamina than the fruit cave by a signicant amount.

Of the hundreds of requests I've had on the Help Wanted board, not a single time have I seen a mushroom...

George loves Leek. Leek is like four times cheaper than Fried Mushroom and, unlike cooked items which are always no-quality, can have quality which will impact its effects on George by up to 50%.

Ineed, it really is all about the money.

[yodabauer]

I get mushroom requests from the wizard. But not often.