Mushroom
Food · FoodVegetable0★Safe to eat straight off the ground, and it turns up all over the island.
Mushroom is 11th of 20 foods by hunger restored, at 13 against the 100 of Corn Soup.
Mushroom feeds 9 different recipes, which is why it is worth farming past the point you think you need it.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Where to Find Mushroom
Mushroom comes out of the ground: there are 274 mushroom nodes on the Palpagos Islands, and each one grows back a while after you break it, so a good cluster is worth remembering.
5 Pals drop Mushroom when defeated or captured, which is usually the faster route if you are already out hunting — the drop list below is sorted by how reliably each one gives it up.
If you would rather just buy it, the seller is Caravan Shop at 300 Gold.
Sending a team on the Verdant Hollow, Secret Realm of the Forest and Free Pal Alliance Illicit Trading Post expeditions brings some back without you leaving base.
Hands-off option: Shroomer produces it at a Ranch, so a single assigned Pal keeps a slow supply coming in.
"All over the island" hides how lopsided the spread actually is. Of the 274 mushroom nodes, 104 sit within a short run of the Sakurajima - Mushroom Wetlands fast travel point, and 84 of those are closer to it than to any other travel point on the map — one landing spot covers roughly a third of every mushroom in the game. Nothing else comes near that density, so once Sakurajima is unlocked, a single loop out from the Wetlands statue and back is the whole farm.
Before Sakurajima there are two dense pockets on the starting island. Desolate Church has 66 nodes in range, split between a 23-node patch a couple of minutes out and a 13-node patch almost on top of the statue. Small Settlement has 54, including 14 clustered right beside the travel point. Either one fills a cooking run at level 10 without needing a flying mount.
Mushrooms grow in tight clumps, not scattered singles — the 274 nodes resolve into 23 patches, and the biggest hold 25 to 32 within a few seconds' walk of each other. That means route planning beats sweeping: hop between three or four known patches rather than combing terrain, since the gaps between clumps are genuinely empty. Nodes regrow, so the same circuit repeats indefinitely.
Do not confuse these with Cavern Mushroom (Cavern Mushroom), the pale variant that grows inside dungeons and grottos — it is a separate item on 1,445 of its own nodes, worth 500 Gold to this one's 300. Mushroom Cake asks for both, 5 of the surface kind and 3 of the cavern kind, so a cake run needs an overworld circuit and a dungeon trip, not one or the other.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Mining and gathering | Palpagos Islands — 274 mushroom nodes | Respawns after you break it |
| Merchant | Caravan Shop | 300 Gold |
| Expedition | Verdant Hollow | Easy · 30 min · 50% chance · 3–10 at a time |
| Expedition | Secret Realm of the Forest | Easy · 30 min · 50% chance · 3–10 at a time |
| Expedition | Free Pal Alliance Illicit Trading Post | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| Ranch | Shroomer at a Ranch | Ranch Lv 3 |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Tomato at 15 hunger restored; step down and it is Potato at 11. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other foods at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
