Mushrooms inPEAKcome in different shapes and sizes, and it becomes important for you to distinguish the poisonous types from the harmless ones.
You will find these items frequently along the SHORE, and they come in four types. Each type, however, has a poisonous variant (barring the one with a thick stalk if the players are to be believed, and I haven’t encountered one either). While eating these mushrooms will help you manage hunger, consuming the toxic ones will get you poisoned. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to tell which ones are safe to eat and which can give you a poisoned status.
How to identify poisonous mushrooms in PEAK
While all three types, apart from the thicker kind, aka Chubby, can have poisonous variants, you can tell the difference by how they appear. I have attached images of how each of the non-poisonous variants looks. If you can find a mushroom that’s similar to the following appearance, you’re safe.
Below are pictures of non-poisonous mushrooms for those who want to know what to look for.
Mushrooms are a great way to reduce hunger, especially in the SHORE region. Just be careful about not consuming the poisonous kind, as it will apply eight to eleven stacks of poison. If you repeat this with a few toxic shrooms, you’ll lose your life and end your round prematurely.
Additionally, consuming all four types of mushrooms on a single run (all four have to be non-toxic) will complete the Mycology Patch achievement. You’ll be rewarded with a Mushroom cap for your efforts. While you’ll have to be careful about not consuming a poisonous variant, it will also boil down to luck (as you’ll have to find four different types of mushrooms on your run).
