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==Useful Info==
 
==Useful Info==
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Wandering mushrooms initially appear to be stationary. Once you move out of sight, wandering mushrooms will stalk you, staying just beyond vision range. This means they are quite likely to be in your way if you need to retreat from other, more serious threats.
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'''Wandering mushrooms''' are shy, fungal monsters with [[confusing]] melee attacks. Hostile mushrooms cannot move while in your [[line of sight]]. Every time a wandering mushroom attacks, it loses 1 [[HD]], becoming weaker (and dying at 0 HD).
  
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Despite their apparently nonthreatening (but rather creepy) behavior, they can be surprising difficult to kill in melee. Their attacks release clouds of confusing spores, and they hit hard. Wandering mushrooms become weaker each time they attack, losing 1 [[HD]] per attack (and dying at 0 HD), but that's small consolation if you are fleeing something dangerous and find yourself confused and missing a chunk of hit points. They can be summoned by players through Fedhas' Evolution ability and by monsters through the [[Summon Mushrooms]] spell.
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Monsters can summon them using the [[Summon Mushrooms]] spell, while players can use [[Fedhas]]' Overgrow ability to create them.
  
 
==Tips & Tricks==
 
==Tips & Tricks==
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*Stay safe and keep your retreat paths open by killing them when you first see them.
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*By the time you find [[curse toe]]s, wandering mushrooms aren't anything special. However, the mushrooms can block your retreat path, and they can finish off players who've been hit by the toe's [[torment]] a few times. You may want to clear them out.
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*Fight them at range if at all possible; anyone can kill one in perfect safety using a [[spear]], even without training.
 
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*You probably don't want to [[polymorph]] it, as wandering mushrooms typically turn into [[oklob plant]]s.
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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As of [[0.17]], they no longer spawn, but they can still be summoned by [[curse toe]]s and you can make them through [[Fedhas]].
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*Prior to [[0.17]], wandering mushrooms spawned naturally. They can still be summoned by [[curse toe]]s, or created by Fedhas.

Latest revision as of 15:26, 11 August 2023

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wandering mushroom f Wandering mushroom.png
HP 29-59
HD 8
XP 311
Speed 10
AC 5
EV 0
Will 40
Attack1 20 (spore: confuse)


Resistances rPois+
rDrown
rTorm
Vulnerabilities None
Habitat Land
Intelligence Brainless
Uses Uses nothing
Holiness Plant
Size Tiny
Type fungus, wandering mushroom
Flags Unbreathing
A large, fleshy mushroom that wanders slowly around the dungeon. It is both innately curious and incredibly shy, pursuing the objects of its curiosity only when out of sight. Noxious spores drift around its cap.

“Telimena, wearied with the prolonged wrangling, wanted to go out into the fresh air, but sought a partner. She took a little basket from the peg. “Gentlemen, I see that you wish to remain within doors,” she said, wrapping around her head a red cashmere shawl, “but I am going for mushrooms: follow me who will!” Under one arm she took the little daughter of the Chamberlain, with the other she raised her skirt up to her ankles. Thaddeus silently hastened after her—to seek mushrooms!”
-Adam Mickiewicz, _Pan Tadeusz_, II. 1834.
trans. G.R. Noyes, 1917.

Useful Info

Wandering mushrooms are shy, fungal monsters with confusing melee attacks. Hostile mushrooms cannot move while in your line of sight. Every time a wandering mushroom attacks, it loses 1 HD, becoming weaker (and dying at 0 HD).

Monsters can summon them using the Summon Mushrooms spell, while players can use Fedhas' Overgrow ability to create them.

Tips & Tricks

  • By the time you find curse toes, wandering mushrooms aren't anything special. However, the mushrooms can block your retreat path, and they can finish off players who've been hit by the toe's torment a few times. You may want to clear them out.

History

  • Prior to 0.17, wandering mushrooms spawned naturally. They can still be summoned by curse toes, or created by Fedhas.
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