Magic Mushrooms

🌈 🍄 About the Magic Mushroom Mod 🍄 🌈

This mod introduces psychedelic effects from new microdosing and tripping interactions on mushrooms. Mushrooms can cause positive or negative reactions.

❗ Spoilers ❗

When consuming magic mushrooms, paras can feel

🍄 Inspiration, focus, elation, hallucinations 🍄 Increased skill gain, reduced needs for sleep and nourishment 🍄 Desires to spend time outside and socializing 🍄 Enlightenment or existential crisis (rare)

Risks of eating bad mushrooms can cause

🍄 Increased need to use the bathroom 🍄 Exhaustion 🍄 Paranoia and scary visuals 🍄 Illness and un-aliving (rare)

The mod also adds

🍄 The mycology skill (check out my mycology mod for related careers, the two mods are compatible)
🍄 Foraging contributes to the mycology skill 🍄 High mycology skill allows paras to:
🍄 🍄 Order spores online
🍄 🍄 Grow mushrooms at home
🍄 🍄 Dehydrate shrooms 🍄 🍄 Bake mushroom chocolate 🍄 🍄 Sell dried shrooms, edibles, spores online

😵‍💫 Effects, strains and intensity 😵‍💫

Some magic mushrooms are more magical than others. Some aren’t magical at all - some are downright toxic, even deadly. Not all mushrooms are magic - eating a culinary mushroom won’t do anything... You can’t get high off of a portobello cap from Whole Foods, can you??!

🫶 How paras feel on magic mushrooms 🫶

The positive effects from microdosing and tripping will vary for different species, in terms of both intensity and duration.

🤢 Taking too much 🤢

Layering microdoses and trips (eating more before an active trip/microdose has worn off) can lead to intensified experiences and puts paras at risk for bad trips and other... consequences.

✨ Rarest of them all ✨

One very special, rare mushroom has the potential to bring paras into an existential crisis or enlightenment. If they try to double down on this mysterious species, they risk... an unusual consequence I'll leave for you to find out. ;) xn

New in 4.0, there are five custom mushrooms. See the guide in the gallery images 🍄 “Blue Meanie” is the electric one - it can be used to make edibles if the para has sufficient mycology skill. Paras will find this in the wild (like vanilla mushrooms). It’s uncommon.* 🍄 “Liberty Cap” is the fairytale. Common in the wild (like vanilla mushrooms) it’s subtle so it may be a bit tough to find! 🍄 “Ghost Cap” is a mystery - Grows in the wild but is very rare! Try your luck :) 🍄 “Golden Teacher” is the gentle one. It’s a beginner’s home grown species, so you won’t find it in the wild, but sufficient skill allows you to buy spores online to cultivate. 🍄 “APE” is the serious one. It’s the most advanced home grown species, doesn’t occur in the wild and requires a high skill level to purchase spores online and cultivate.

*CC Credit to the talented, awesome tinypapa | Steph3804 bringing to life our first custom magic mushroom!

💀 Bad trips and un-aliving 💀

The trip depends on what type of mushroom your para ate, how much, and where it came from. Eating all wild mushrooms will cause a mild temporary upset stomach from eating off the forest floor. It passes quickly. Ultimately, eating toxic mushrooms is the only way to introduce real risk to your paras.

🚫 How to avoid all bad trips 🚫

If you're not someone who enjoys the "chaotic" aspect of consuming mushrooms, you can avoid this and all other (more serious) negative consequences by sticking to collecting mushrooms and then placing them from inventory before interacting with them - no stomach sickness, and harmful mushrooms will no longer present options to trip or microdose, so when you see options to trip/microdose on a mushroom on your lot, you’re good to go!

❓ Which mushrooms will harm paras? ❓

Toxicity behavior generally follows the vanilla game's rules. If your para eats a toxic mushroom, they can have a bad trip / experience negative consequences. Un-aliving can only occur as a direct consequence from consuming the same mushroom that the base game considers to be lethal - Tripping on that lethal mushroom unalives paras instantly. Eating a little may not kill paras (microdosing)… but layering with other mushrooms before the effects have worn off could.

❗ Spoilers ❗

See the “mushroom guide” in the gallery for spoilers and guides. More BTS & Guides will be free on my Patreon www.Patreon.com/rumi-rue.

⚡ Features ⚡

The mod currently includes

✅ Status effects ✅ Skill + Unlocks ✅ Animations ✅ Wants ✅ Townie requests ✅ Social interactions ✅ New gameplay hooks ✅ Custom CC including the STUNNING Blue Meanie mushroom by the talented tinypapa | Steph3804 <3

⭐⭐ If you're enjoying the mod, it would mean a LOT to me if you gave it a thumbs up/positive review! ⭐⭐

And, if you love mushrooms, consider adding the Mycology mod in my workshop for related mushy career options :) as a less devious companion to the magic mushroom mod.

📣 Extra Content & Announcements 📣

If this mod ever gets removed by Steam, it will be available to download for free on my Patreon www.Patreon.com/rumi-rue. As a reminder: please back up saves, households, and lots before playing with experimental gameplay mods especially- this one included!

👍 Feedback 👎

Of course, please let me know if you run into any bugs or have any feedback. I will try to resolve any bugs as quickly as possible.

🎬 Credits 🎬

HUGE S/O to tinypapa | Steph3804 for bringing elevated CC created for the mod! (The Blue Meanie mushroom). More collaboration coming soon!!

Additional credits to

Paras Characters in the promo images include some made by NowhereGirl94 - “India” in the Steam workshop (“Amari” also in some of the older promos) and “Hair Rex” by h4ruexe.

Clutter CC Objects shown as clutter/decor in screenshots include chemical props from ParaPlug by HeyyyDevon, crystal decorations from Celestial Clutter by Ruto, appliances from Crackhead Clutter by Scotty_Summers. If I missed anything, lmk.

References Chocolate Bar mesh and unwrapped states inspired by a chocolate bar created by SSSS in their TreatTroves CC kit, NPC social behavior inspired by the approach taken by Shmii in the Talk To Me mod (these features are unreleased in the MM mod as of now, but coming soon), dehydrator finish and color inspired by items in Garage Furnitures by Feyn.

Vibes S/O to fellow mature themed paralives modders Shmii (Smoke Break, Happy Hour) & HeyyyDevon (ParaPlug) as well as CC creator Steph3804 / tinypapa for being generous with their expertise and support!