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While trying to survive among the various insects in your backyard in Grounded, players will find dozens of different items and pieces of gear. You will need most of them to craft new tools, armor, or weapons. However, sometimes you will unlock recipes in Grounded that require new materials, such as Fungal Growth. To get it, you will have to fight not only beetles but also toxic gas. Here is how to get your hands on this funky material without becoming a bug snack.
Where To Find Fungal Growth
Fungal Growth is a natural resource that only grows in the form of Haze Fungus in the Haze location. Due to the influence of spores, all beetles around become infected, and this material grows on them. Therefore, finding it is not very difficult. All you need to do is reach the Haze location in the southwest of the backyard. However, finding Fungal Growth in Grounded is much easier than getting them to base.
The entire Haze location is covered in a toxic fog that will quickly kill you if you come without preparation. Before you go looking for Fungal Growth in Grounded, you need to craft a Gas Mask. To do this, analyze the Weevil Nose, Stinkbug Part, or Stinkbug Gas Sack to unlock the recipe for this piece of armor:
- Weevil Nose – 1
- Gnat Fuzz – 4
- Crude Rope – 2
- Stinkbug Part – 1
After this, you can start farming Fungal Growth in large quantities in Grounded. Besides harvesting Haze Fungus, you should also kill every infected insect to get this material. But be careful, as most of them can explode.
What Is Fungal Growth Used For?
As with other materials in Grounded, Fungal Growth will allow you to unlock new recipes. These will mainly be various Infected Mounts and Stuffed Infected Beetles. But that’s not all you need this material for. Here are a few recipes that require Fungal Growth:
- Bratburst – 4 Dry Grass Chunk, 1 Red Ant Egg, 2 Fungal Growth.
- Splody Rounds – 1 Fungal Growth, 2 Gunpowder Clump, 2 Spiky Bur.
- Merica Rounds – 2 Fungal Growth, 2 Gunpowder Clump, 2 Acorn Shell.
- Bomb Arrow – 2 Gunpowder Clump, 2 Fungal Growth, Splinter Arrow.
- Blaster of the Moldy Matriarch – 25 Fungal Growth, 5 Infected Venom, 10 Infected Chunk.
- Funguspacho – 3 Toadstool Chunk, 3 Mushroom Chunk, 4 Fungal Growth.
- Explosive Bur Trap – 1 Lint Rope, 4 Fungal Growth, 1 Spiky Bur.
Here’s everything you need to know about Fungal Growth. You need this toxic material for explosives and even meals, so you need to stock up on it as early as possible.
Grounded is available for PC and Xbox consoles.
