Emily Johnson
Mushrooms are a great early-game food source in Valheim, providing a boost in health and stamina. They are also used in recipes like Carrot Soup and Serpent Stew. While mushrooms can be challenging to obtain as they cannot be farmed like other crops, there are strategies to farm them consistently. This guide will explore these strategies and provide tips for setting up your own mushroom farm in the game.
| Characteristics | Values |
|---|---|
| Mushroom types that can be farmed | Magecaps and Jotun Puffs |
| Mushroom types that cannot be farmed | Red and Yellow Mushrooms |
| Biome where farming is possible | Mistlands |
| Biomes where mushrooms can be found | Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp |
| Time taken to grow | Two in-game days |
| Time taken to respawn | 240 minutes (4 hours) or eight days in-game |
| Use | Food, taming wild boars, cooking recipes like Carrot Soup and Serpent Stew |
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What You'll Learn
Mark mushroom locations on your map
Marking mushroom locations on your map is a simple and effective method for farming mushrooms in Valheim. This can be done from the start of the game, helping you plan efficient foraging routes. Mushrooms spawn primarily in the Meadows, but you'll also find patches in the Black Forest and the Swamps. They seem to be more likely to spawn near trees and structures, but there is no clear confirmation that this is the case.
To make it easier to spot mushrooms, you can lower the vegetation quality in your settings menu. This will reduce the wavy grass along the ground, making it easier to spot the distinctive red colour of the mushrooms. Additionally, you can zoom out your camera when searching in the Black Forest to spot the mushrooms more easily.
Once you've found a patch of mushrooms, mark the location on your map with a simple reminder of what it is. That way, you can return to the spot later when the mushrooms have respawned. Mushrooms will respawn in the same place every 240 minutes (or around eight days in-game).
If you have enough resources, you can also set up ""portal chains" for rapid mushroom collection. Place a portal at your base with a short name ending in "1". Then, travel to an area with a large mushroom patch, link up the first portal, and set up a new portal with the same name ending in "2". Continue this process to create a chain of portals for easy access to multiple mushroom-rich areas.
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Set up portal chains for rapid collection
Collecting large quantities of mushrooms in Valheim can be tedious and time-consuming. However, setting up portal chains is one of the most effective methods for rapid mushroom collection. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to set up portal chains:
Start by placing a portal at your base or a central location. Give this portal a short, distinct name, ending with a number, such as "Base1". This first portal will serve as the starting point of your chain. Make sure you have the required materials to craft portals, which include Finewood, Surtling Core, and Greydwarf Eye.
Next, travel to an area with a dense growth of mushrooms. Look for the Meadows, Black Forest, or Swamp biomes, as these are known to have an abundance of common mushroom types like red and yellow mushrooms. Once you've located a suitable spot, set up another portal close by, ensuring it's within range of a Workbench. Name this portal something like "MushroomPatch2", continuing the naming convention from the first portal.
Now, you can easily teleport between your base and the mushroom patch, significantly reducing travel time. To further optimize your collection process, repeat these steps to create additional portals near other mushroom-rich areas. Set up a portal in each new location, linking it to the previous one, and give it a name like "MushroomArea3", continuing the sequence.
By creating a network of portals, you can quickly move between different mushroom patches, making your mushroom-gathering expeditions much more efficient. Remember to mark these locations on your map as well, so you can keep track of the respawn timings and plan your foraging routes accordingly.
With this portal chain system in place, you'll be able to maximize your mushroom collection rate and spend less time travelling back and forth. Happy farming!
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Plant Magecaps and Jotun Puffs in the Mistlands
Mushrooms in Valheim can be challenging to farm because they cannot be cultivated with a cultivator. However, there are specific strategies to make mushroom collection more efficient. One method is to mark mushroom locations on your map, helping you plan effective foraging routes. Another strategy is to create "portal chains" by placing a portal at your base and travelling to mushroom-rich areas to set up additional portals, allowing for rapid mushroom collection.
While most mushroom types in Valheim cannot be planted, Magecaps and Jotun Puffs are exceptions. These mushrooms are native to the Mistlands biome and can be cultivated and grown exclusively within this biome. To plant Magecaps and Jotun Puffs, follow these steps:
- Obtain at least one Magecap or Jotun Puff mushroom by collecting them in the Mistlands.
- Find a suitable location in the Mistlands for farming. Look for green, grassy areas between the hills, as the Mistlands biome has rocky terrain that may not support cultivation.
- Use a Cultivator tool to prepare the land for planting. Ensure that the terrain has a sufficient amount of grass, as grass is necessary for successful cultivation.
- Open the Cultivator's crafting menu by right-clicking and select either the Magecap or Jotun Puff icon to plant the respective mushroom.
- Check the growth conditions by hovering over the mushrooms. If the conditions are met, you will see the word "healthy" on the screen.
- Allow the mushrooms to grow for about two in-game days. Each planted mushroom will yield three mushrooms of the same type when fully grown.
- Harvest the mushrooms when you see the "pick up" interaction option or notice a visual change in their appearance, indicating they are ready.
By following these steps, you can successfully plant and grow Magecaps and Jotun Puffs in the Mistlands of Valheim.
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Lower vegetation quality in settings to spot mushrooms
If you're struggling to spot mushrooms in Valheim, a survival game set in a procedurally generated purgatory inspired by Viking culture, one tip is to lower the vegetation quality in the settings. This makes it easier to find ground objects, including mushrooms.
While the game looks great with its wavy grass along the ground, this can make it harder to see the distinctive red of the mushrooms. Lowering the vegetation quality can help you distinguish the red mushrooms from the grass. This is especially useful if you are red-green colour blind, as the red mushrooms can be hard to spot.
In addition to lowering the vegetation quality, you can also use a hoe to clear the grass from the area around the mushrooms. This makes it easier to find them when you come back, as they will still spawn on cleared land.
Another tip is to mark the locations of the mushrooms you find on your map so that you can return to harvest them later. Mushrooms respawn every 240 minutes (or around eight days in-game) in the same spot, so you can keep coming back to harvest them again.
While you cannot farm mushrooms with a cultivator in Valheim, these strategies can help make mushroom collection more manageable.
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Use mushrooms to tame wild boars
Mushrooms can be fed to hungry boars to either begin or continue the taming process, or to allow reproduction. Red mushrooms are edible to boars, while yellow mushrooms are not. To tame a wild boar, players should approach while sneaking to avoid alarming it. Boars will chase a player if they feel threatened, so it is recommended to herd them into a pen before attempting to tame them. Constructing a secure pen is essential to prevent the boar from escaping and to avoid disruption of the taming process by outside sources.
To successfully tame a boar, players need to feed it raspberries, blueberries, carrots, onions, turnips, or red mushrooms. They will ignore all other foods dropped on the ground. Just drop the food on the ground within one meter, and the boar will eat, as long as it is not frightened (indicated by a red exclamation mark). Players can place the food on the ground in a stack, as the boar will only eat one food from the stack at a time. It takes 30 minutes of the boars not being hungry, not being aware of you, and you being within 64 meters of them to tame them successfully.
Tamed boars can breed, provided the boar is happy and well-fed with berries, carrots, onions, turnips, or red mushrooms, along with there being another boar at least within three meters, and no more than five boars within at least 10 meters. Once the conditions are met, the boar will accumulate love points with one another until the pregnancy starts. Successful love points are indicated by pink hearts. After gaining enough love points, the boar becomes pregnant, which is not visualized. After one minute, the boar gives birth to a baby boar (piglet), visualized by a red cloud. Any boar can become pregnant, which means that if two boars breed and one becomes pregnant, they can still breed and get the other pregnant.
Although you can't plant every type of mushroom, you can grow Magecap and Jotun Puffs. These are the only Valheim mushroom types that you can plant and grow, and they are both native to the Mistlands biome. To plant a Magecap or Jotun Puff, you need a Cultivator tool. Use it to cultivate a patch of land inside the Mistlands, as this is the only biome where the mushrooms will grow. Each planted mushroom will yield three mushrooms of the same type when fully grown. This should take about two in-game days. You know the mushrooms are ready when you get the 'pick up' interaction option, but you can also see the visual change.
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Frequently asked questions
Mushrooms are hard to come by in Valheim as they can't be farmed like carrots, turnips, or onions. However, they do regrow in the same place so you can keep coming back to them. Mark the location on your map and return after 240 minutes (or eight days in the game) when they've respawned.
Mushrooms spawn primarily in the Meadows, but you'll also find patches in the Black Forest and the Swamps. They seem to be more likely to spawn near trees and structures.
The only Valheim mushroom types that you can plant and grow are Magecaps and Jotun Puffs, both native to the Mistlands biome. You'll need a Cultivator tool to plant them.
Mushrooms are one of the best early-game foods in Valheim as they provide a small boost in health and stamina. They're also key ingredients in recipes like Carrot Soup and Serpent Stew.
