AFK Mushrooms¶
The Berry Field in the Skill World is home to living mushrooms you can pick hands-off to train Gathering. They work like the mining nodes: stand still, keep looking at the mushroom, and keep gathering forever.
How mushrooms work¶
Right-click a mushroom with a hoe to start gathering. A progress bar fills over ten segments, then the pick completes and the next one starts automatically. Like every AFK activity, the session ends only when you move, look away, swap tools, the hoe breaks, or your inventory fills (the AFK Overflow perk lifts that last limit).
- Speed depends on your hoe, on the same ladder as pickaxes and axes: netherite is three times faster than diamond, and every tier below scales down from there (see Pixelmon Tools). Bare hands work too, at about a tenth of netherite speed.
- Not every pick finds something: each completed bar rolls 1 in 10 for a common find, 1 in 400 for a mid find (3x XP), and 1 in 4,000 for a jackpot (10x XP). The Seeker enchant boosts the two rare tiers, and Reactivity can finish a bar instantly.
- XP arrives with the item and scales with the found item's Gathering level, the mushroom's tier, and your AFK XP Boost tier. Prestige applies its usual 5 percent per rank.
- The hoe loses 1 durability per successful find (empty picks are free, bare hands never wear). AFK Efficiency can remove the wear entirely.
- Skill Points accrue with finds, up to roughly 1,000 per hour on the Max Shroom with a top loadout.
- Every find also rolls the Poke Ball find ladder, same as woodcutting: higher mushrooms find more balls, about 1 find in 200 is a Master or Park Ball jackpot, and the Found Ball Storage perk (Gathering 35) banks them into your Poke Bags.
The three mushrooms¶
| Mushroom | Gathering level | What it gathers | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Brown Mushroom | 1 | Mostly apricorns (all seven colors), some brown mushrooms |
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Red Mushroom | 40 | Berries from your unlocked pool (low-level berries most common), some red mushrooms |
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Max Shroom | 70 | The best berry pool, with the richest XP per pick |
Each mushroom's page has its full loot table with exact odds.
Berry finds are level-gated: you never receive a berry above your own Gathering level. Mid-tier finds pull from the healing berries (Oran, Sitrus, Lum, and friends), and jackpots pay rare mushrooms: Tiny and Big Mushrooms from the Brown, Balm Mushrooms from the Red, and the Mystical Mushroom from the Max Shroom.
The Mystical Mushroom¶
The Max Shroom's 1-in-4,000 jackpot is a glinted trip-fruit. Eat it and, for a while, the Berry Field's mushrooms come alive for you: they wander, and chasing them down insta-forages their common finds. Only you see your living mushrooms; everyone else's field stays put.