Substrate

Substrate

A Mushroom Cultivation Mod for Vintage Story

Now Compatible with Mycodiversity!

Features

• Mushroom Cultivation: Collect wild mushrooms and cultivate them at home
• Spore Printing: Create spore prints through a multi-step realistic process
• Fruiting Bags: Use spore prints to inoculate substrate bags and grow fresh mushrooms
• New Items: Adds several new craftable items to support the mushroom cultivation process

Mushroom Cultivation Guide

Collecting Spore Prints

1. Gather Materials:
   • 4 samples of the same mushroom species
   • Parchment
   • Aqua Vitae, Diluted Borax, or Limewater
   • A barrel for mixing
   • Access to open storage for drying
2. Create Sterilized Spore Paper:
   • Mix parchment and Aqua Vitae, Diluted Borax, or Limewater in a barrel
   • Wait approximately 18-26 hours (depending on the liquid used) for the sterilization process to complete
3. Prepare the Paper:
   • Place the Sterilized Spore Paper in open storage to dry
   • Wait approximately 8 hours until it becomes Prepared Spore Paper
4. Collect Spores:
   • Place all four mushroom samples on a Prepared Spore Paper
   • Wait approximately 12 hours for the mushrooms to release their spores
   • The paper will change appearance when it becomes fully Imprinted Spore Paper
5. Create Spore Prints:
   • Use a knife to cut the Imprinted Spore Paper
   • This will yield 4 individual spore prints

Growing Mushrooms

1. Create Fruiting Bags:
   • Craft a Fruiting Bag using materials flax twine, grain, and dry grass
   • Fruiting bags can only cultivate wall growing mushrooms
2. Create Growing Beds:
   • Craft a Growing Bed using boards, grain, dry grass, and soil
   • Growing Beds can only cultivate ground growing mushrooms
3. Inoculate the Bags:
   • Use a spore print to inoculate a Fruiting Bag
   • Place the inoculated bag in a suitable environment (details in-game)
4. Harvest Your Mushrooms:
   • Wait for the mycelium to colonize the bag and produce mushrooms
   • Each spore print can yield between 10-40 mushrooms (on average) depending on how many sides of the bag are unobstructed

Fruiting Bags & Spore Collection

https://youtu.be/crGhsH6veZI?si=H-nFM941LGqAHphw

Growing Beds

https://youtu.be/J7n5IeWHTzo?si=CvWEUw3UHXoA23tX

Try also MycoBooster to replanish the productivity of the substrate.

Credits

• Dana for their guidance on mushroom rendering
• Averixus for updating the mod’s code for version 1.22.Х

Special thank you to the Vintage Story modding community for inspiration and feedback!

Localizations:
Ukrainian by MrFlame

Planned Features

• Light sensitivity
• Requirement to grow within a cellar