Stalburg Mushrooms

Types of mushrooms

Green

Green mushroom cultivation in river.

Green mushrooms are the most commonly found type, and are heavily overused by the citizens of Stalburg as hallucinogenics, especially in Turnip Hill, the place where the virus is most rampant. They are found in three potency levels—low, medium, and high—with higher potency levels producing stronger effects when used. Being near the mushrooms induces heavy coughing and hurts one's physical health.

In Obenseuer, the player can farm their own mushrooms, like any other plants, but with Moist modifier gotten in dark corners of Player's Tenement. When the player is high, they get a boost to crafting, highly decreasing fail chances of crafted recipes. Bags of mushrooms can be found from looting the Player's Tenement, and can also be bought from Svamppatrullen Mushroom Seller or Shrooms vending machines.

There are various products containing green mushrooms, such as mushroom-laced Winstead Cigarettes, glowing meat, and Shroom Water that can be used to satisfy addiction caused by the Fungal Disease.

A recipe can be acquired from Skeida Pharmacy, which involves treating mushrooms using Methanol and Charcoal to kill their viruses, allowing the player to safely benefit from their effects.

Orange

Cluster of orange shrooms in the coal mine.

Orange mushrooms are a rarer type often found in mines, and are speculated to make people go crazy. In INFRA they are found only in a coal mine beneath coal-fired powerstation in West Stalburg. In Obenseuer they are found in small Caves where they can be gathered to be planted, and can also be bought at Svamppatrullen Mushroom Seller.

Orange Mushrooms have many negative health and mental effects when consumed, but are highly valuable themselves.

Blue

Tank of blue shrooms in Kevin Herts's apartment.

The only places in INFRA where blue mushrooms can be found are around UGU in the stormdrains and in Kevin J. Herts's apartment in Turnip Hill in a tank, where Kevin notes that the blue shrooms have healing powers and can in fact cure people of S.M.V. However, he also notes that it is unknown if there are any side effects from them.

Currently, in Obenseuer, the only way that a player can acquire them is by spawning them in using console commands.

Red

Red shrooms among green shrooms at the site of Xeander and Eric's death.

The only place in INFRA where red mushrooms are found are in tiny amounts on the ground where Xeander Berg and Eric Kleinmann died. It is theorized that red mushrooms are a byproduct of green mushrooms that have consumed a person or animal.

The "special coffee tin" that provides the Mörkö effect at the Mulex CoPan Coffee Machine has a red lid, which suggests red mushrooms' hallucinogenic effects are very different than that of green mushrooms, and that the special coffee itself is red. Some claim that they can even summon Mörkö.

Properties

Green Mushrooms combine several traits of real mushrooms, the green bioluminescence found in Agaricales order, hallucinogenic substances found in the Psilocybe genus, and the carnivory of the Pleurotus ostreatus. Green Mushroom spores are highly toxic.

As described by experiments performed by Mushroom Co., the Green Mushrooms have trouble surviving in cold temperatures, decreasing their bioluminescence. Applying antifreeze on Green Mushrooms causes them to enlarge, but they do not gain additional immunity from the cold. A selective breeding of the most resistant mushrooms shows marginal effects of withstanding lower temperatures. It is said in the Stalburg Mushroom Book that Stalburg is the only place where the Green Mushrooms can grow.

History

The Green Mushrooms are first found while building the main Bergmann Water Tunnel connecting Hammer Valley with the city, and have been documented in the Stalburg Mushroom Book.

The origin of the virus itself seems to predate the S.N.W bunker, since the document says that "They found something" while building the bunker. It mentions everyone had left the bunker because of some kind of leak that caused immediate evacuation. All information on S.M.V was sold at some point to an unknown party.

Because Stalburg's residents were already heavily overusing the mushrooms, the virus has spread across the city, starting with Turnip Hill which was the epicenter for the resulting pandemic. The government has planned to clean the city from mushrooms and relocate every person diagnosed with S.M.V to a quarantined area in Obenseuer. Most of Stalburg has been cleaned since, causing a major overpopulation in Obenseuer on top of other problems the district suffered from.

Documents

• I just found our green mushrooms in a book!
• MUSHROOM CO. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMET DEPT.
• That Mushroom Co. fella is still doing that science thing.
• I found a green mushroom growing on my hand this morning.
• S.N.W PROJECT INVESTIGATION

Gallery

Documents

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  Erik's letter about green mushrooms
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  Mushroom Co. research project
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  Discovery of blue mushrooms
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  Xeander Berg's diary
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  A folder by S.N.W describing S.M.V
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  A Vacuette vacuum vial containing a S.M.V sample
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  Notes describing Xeander Berg's research on Green and Orange mushrooms