I Tried to Break Stardew’s Economy with Only Mushrooms

Can you break Stardew Valley’s economy using ONLY mushrooms?
I set a rule where every single gold I earned had to come from mushroom related items.

By the end of the run, things got… weird.

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23 Comments

  1. …Um, my dude? Moss on the trees that your Mushroom Logs are near is incredibly important. It gives that tree two checks when the Mushroom log checks it, giving it a higher chance of a rarer and therefore more valuable mushroom. Chanterelles and Purple Mushrooms rather than Red and Common Mushrooms, as well as higher quality. You also wanna focus on pine trees in the early game since the variety of tree matters a lot and they are guaranteed to give Morels. Later on you can branch out when your foraging is higher and your Mushroom Log Empire is bigger.

  2. Fun fact: truffles aren't mushrooms. Both are fungi but mushrooms typically appear above ground on dead trees while truffles are underground fungi that are symbiotic with living trees, helping them gather water.
    So this is technically an "only fungi" run instead of an "only mushroom" run.

  3. You didn't need to check the secret woods every day, forages reset on Sunday so you only need to check on Saturday.

    Edit: Just realized that this only applies to before you got the copper axe because the stumps respawn every day.

  4. I was very surprised you went for forester v getting a doubled harvest of foraged items- since mushrooms are foragables, this has a 20% chance of giving you two mushrooms whenever you pick one up and then later would let you get iridium quality mushrooms every time. So the 2,000 gold you get from mushrooms you pick up would have been 2,400 (+20%) and much higher once you hit level 10 foraging since you’re getting more mushrooms and they’re all top quality.

    The perks also work on truffles since they’re considered foraged and not animal products.

    Not sure how they affect the mushrooms from mushroom logs but your mushroom floor runs and truffle collecting would have been improved a lot IMO.