Spritelight Mushroom

Spritelight Mushrooms are the core currency-item of the Spritelight seasonal event introduced with Publish 123 on 13 May 2026. Players harvest them from spawns scattered across the open world and dungeons, optionally identify and preserve them, and turn them in to Morelia at the Spritelight Trader in Heartwood for event rewards.

Spawn distribution

Spritelight Mushrooms appear across all facets — both in the open world and inside dungeons. The species that spawns at a given location is biome-dependent: forest, swamp, dungeon, and desert biomes each produce a distinct mushroom type, and each species has its own set of common-to-rare hue variants. Hunting across multiple biomes is therefore necessary to cover the full mushroom collection.

In addition to natural spawns, Spritelight Mushrooms are seeded by two special spawn events:

• Colossal Toadstools — rare oversized mushrooms that, on harvest, generate a cluster of Spritelight Mushrooms around their location. The Toadstool itself can be kept as a decorative item, and a rare drop is the Spritelight Forager pet statue (a precursor to an Ethereal Mount via Orb of Ethereal Transcendence).
• Spritelight Explosion — defeating boss-tier monsters during the event scatters Spritelight Mushrooms around the corpse. The roster includes Dread Horn, Travesty, Chief Paroxysmus, Lady Melisande, Monstrous Interred Grizzle, Shimmering Effusion, Medusa, Lord Oaks & Silvani, and Twualo of the Glade.

Harvesting

A Mushroom Harvesting Knife is required. The knife is craftable via Tinkering > Tools. With the knife equipped or in pack, double-click a Spritelight Mushroom in the world to harvest.

A TC1 Publish 3 quality-of-life addition allows harvesting from 2 tiles away and while mounted — earlier TC1 builds required the player to be on foot and directly adjacent. Colossal Toadstools still require the player to be dismounted to harvest.

Truffle hunting

If the player has a tamed Truffle Hog nearby while harvesting a Spritelight Mushroom, there is a chance the harvest also yields a Black Truffle, White Truffle, or — rarely — a Giant Truffle. Black and White truffles feed into new Tinkering and Tailoring recipes added in Publish 123; Giant Truffles are turn-in items worth a large number of Spritelight Trader points.

The decay cycle

Fresh-harvested mushrooms are unidentified by default and decay rapidly if left on the player or in storage. Unidentified mushrooms can still be turned in to the Spritelight Trader, but for minimal points.

To maximise yield, players follow a three-stage workflow:

1. Identify — Use The Forager's Field Guide: Mushrooms, a Cooking > Cookbooks craftable that names the species and assigns a rarity tier. Identified mushrooms are worth significantly more Trader points. Identifying mushrooms grants a small amount of the Honesty virtue. A TC1 Publish 3 ergonomics fix allows the Guide's "Identify Mushroom" button to be used on a container to identify every mushroom inside in one click.
2. Preserve (decorative only) — Use a Mushroom Preservation Pack (Tailoring > Miscellaneous) to permanently preserve a mushroom as a display item. Preserved mushrooms no longer decay and can be kept indefinitely as housing decor — but they cannot be turned in to the Trader. Preserving grants a small amount of the Humility virtue.
3. Turn in — Deliver identified-but-unpreserved mushrooms to the Spritelight Trader in Heartwood before they decay.

The Honesty/Humility tie-in is intentional: identification ("reveal the truth of the mushroom") feeds Honesty, preservation ("set aside without seeking gain") feeds Humility. Both surface at the Trader's reward catalogue, which includes Paragon of Honesty and Paragon of Humility reward titles for high-volume contributors.

Trader payout scaling

Per-mushroom point values scale on three axes:

• Rarity of the species (common biome variants < rare hue variants < Giant Truffle).
• Identification state (unidentified = minimal points; identified = full points).
• Freshness is implicit — preserving disqualifies a mushroom, and decay destroys it before turn-in.

Reward gradient at the Trader (selected entries): Mushroom Enthusiast title, Spritelight Seedling (random rare-hue plant), Spritelight Hedge, Bag of Grass Tiles, Spirit of Spritelight luck statue, Mycologist title, Verdant Kilt/Skirt/Cloak, Toadstool Earrings (Night Sight + Alchemy bonus), Hand of Honesty / Crook of Humility sculptures, and the two virtue-Paragon titles.

See also

• Spritelight — the full event reference
• Truffle Hog — companion creature for truffle drops
• Heartwood — Trader location
• Honesty, Humility — virtue gains tied to the workflow
• Publish 123 — the launch publish