A short introduction about me!
Hi! My in-game name is Shrubbie, currently lvl 89 and almost wearing a full Immortal gear.
I started this little blog to help you get stronger!
If you want to join me in-game, you can find me on Server EUEN-14 and add me with my code “3I59EEWYBY” in Invite Friends > Enter Code.
TL/DR
Legend of Mushroom is a game where your mushroom hero needs to get stronger. To get stronger, a kind genie and his lamp will give you a hand. Touch the lamp and you will get rewarded pieces of gear that will make you stronger. I strongly recommend you keep reading to avoid some common beginner mistakes.
What is Legend of Mushroom all about?
Legend of Mushroom is a semi-AFK (Away From Keyboard) game where you train your tiny and cute mushroom warrior to become the strongest in the land. Despite the cute and simplistic look of the game, getting strong in Legend of Mushroom (LoM) is far more complex than you think.
In LoM you will fight waves and waves of enemies, over and over again. The basic idea is to gain levels and get better gear. Every time you face some setbacks, you try to grow stronger and overcome those obstacles.
Your Mushroom adventure begins!
The first time you log in, a fairy—the Lamp Goddess—will guide you through the basics of the game. She tells you that a magic lamp will provide all you need to get stronger! The genie in that lamp will become your best friend! You light the lamp by tapping on it or activating the Auto-Use (more later). Every time you tap, the Genie will randomly provide you with one piece of gear of lower or higher quality than you already have.
You can get gear for any of the following slots:
- Weapon
- Helmet/Hat
- Glasses/Mask
- Shoulderpads
- Tshirt/Armor
- Armpad/Arm protection
- Gloves
- Belt
- Pants/Kneepads
- Shoes/Boots
Every time you tap the lamp, there are 3 possible outcomes:
1. You don’t have a piece of gear for the dedicated slot, thus you equip it,
2. You already have a piece of gear on that slot and the gear provided by the genie is better, you decide to equip it then sell your older gear,
3. You already have a piece of gear for that slot and the genie provided a crappier piece of gear, thus you decide to sell the crappy piece of gear.
Every time you sell gear, you get compensated for it: the genie gives you gold and experience. Selling gear is the only way to get experience, thus the only way to level up your character. I will repeat: “Selling gear is the only way to get experience!” Though the Goddess will tell it to you early on, I thought for a long time that killing waves of enemies would give me experience. Forget that!
From that point on, progressing in the game will turn into a lamp management. When to ask help from the genie, either to get gear, experience or gold, and when to save lamps for later.
Lamp beginner mistake!
Every time you kill a new enemy, you get a lamp. Every time you kill a new boss, you get a bunch. Beware that lamps are only awarded for new levels and newly defeated enemies. If you were defeated and were sent back in time, you will not get lamps for the enemies you already beat, only gold.
The game will reward you a lot of lamps early on. It is tempting to start spending all your lamps, but please, abstain to do so!
The quality of a piece of gear differs in two main ways:
Level,
Quality tier.
The level of a gear is somewhat capped by your current level. A warrior level 20 will randomly get gear level 20 or lower (though I have received gear a few levels higher than my current character level 🤯).
Gear can be one of ten possible quality tiers, from the lowest to the best:
Normal (#grey)
Unique (#green)
Well #(blue)
Rare (#purple)
Mythic (#sand)
Epic (#orange)
Legendary (#red)
Immortal (#pink)
Supreme (#gradient)
Aurous (#gold)
Here is the trick! The tier you can get is capped by the level of the lamp. What you can get falls within a tier interval from a lower to a higher possible tier, which will shift to become better as you level up your lamp. The higher the level, the higher tier you can get, and the higher the probability of getting a higher tier piece of gear.
If that seems obscure for now, click the purple button with a number located on the handle of the lamp. The number is your current lamp level. The Magic Lamp Upgrade will show you what you will unlock by getting to the next level. For instance, at level 1, you can get a piece of gear from the following tiers at the following probabilities. See what happens when you get to level 2.
| Tier | Probability at lvl 1 | Probability at lvl 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 80% | 73.5% |
| Unique | 15% | 17% |
| Well | 5% | 8% |
| Rare | 0% | 1.5% |
| Mythic | 0% | 0% |
By simply upgrading your lamp to level 2, you unlock the chance to get Rare pieces of gear.
Now, if you already burnt all your lamps, you might start regretting that choice as all those lamps could never have granted you gear of quality Rare or higher. But no worries, you will get more. At least, you sold those pieces of gear and got some gold and experience. If your character levelled up, maybe you got higher level Well tier gear that should last you for a little while.
In the near future, I will dedicate a blog post to the lamp since the lamp is such a core part of the game. Just hang in there!
Main Quests
On the left of the lamp, you will find your current objectives. These quests will reward you Gems that will become crucial for later. Start saving them! You will need them for unlocking and upgrading your mount in a couple of levels.
Quests will reward gems, gold, lamps, skill summon tickets and pals/familiars summon tickets.
There are several types of quests and you cannot get to the next quest before you clear the current one (though you might clear some in the background, for instance “character levels”). Pay attention to them as you might start spending lamps though a related quest is coming.
I have tried to sort them from the most common to the least common below:
Clear Level X-Y (e.g. Level 2-10),
Light/Tap the Magic Lamp X times. The number of times increases the further you get in the game,
Sell X pieces of gear,
Assault Lamp Thief Lv.X (dungeon),
Challenge Lv.X Molten Ruins (dungeon),
Defeat X enemies,
Character reaches Lv.X,
Complete X skill draws,
Complete X skill draws in total,
Complete X pal draws,
Complete X pal draws in total,
Magic Lamp reaches Lv.X,
Enhance a skill X time,
Enhance a pal X time,
Equip X piece of
gear (e.g. purple), Claim preview rewards 1 time (the Feature Preview menu with a “mushroom soldier” icon located on the top right),
Complete X arena challenges (PvP arena).
I think you are starting to understand how to play this game: tap the lamp! Smash that lik… I digress!
How to get stronger
Better gear is the main, but not only, way to get stronger. Everything in the game aims at increasing your base stats (HP, DEF, ATK) or at multiplying those base stats by a factor. We will dive more in depth with this, but know that your total power will depend on:
your character level,
your character class and evolution (e.g. Mage Darklord vs. Archer Shadow Hunter),
your character rank promotion (e.g. Expert II),
the level and tier of your gear,
the amount of unique skills and their level,
the amount of unique pals and their level, and which you have currently in use,
the activation of skills and pals combinations in your handbook,
the level and tier of your mount (BIG INCREASE! More on that later),
the class and amount of buff prayers,
the completed tech skills,
how many and which relics you have activated, and their level,
your artifact level and evolution,
and a bunch of other features I have not unlocked yet!
I hope this guide showed some of the depths of this game and put you on the right track! If you cannot wait to see what features are coming to the game, I made a list! For now, we shall meet again for some Legend of Mushroom adventure!
Happy quest to you!