Hungry for Mushrooms event art, Slay the Spire 2

Hungry for Mushrooms

How long has it been since you ate?
...wait, what's that fantastic smell?

Following the scent, you reach a cozy campground with all manner of tasty mushrooms being cooked! You don't consider the safety of eating these mushrooms because you are so hungry.
(So hungry that you don't notice the dead adventurer)
You bite into the Big Mushroom. Its flesh is firm, starchy, and satisfying. The more you eat, the hungrier you become, as if the mushroom is feeding on your hunger.

So yummy... you enter a food coma.
This gluttony will cost you.
You sample the Fragrant One, a small woody mushroom with a delicate scent of shellfish...

A burst of energy spurs you to run, jump, and rigorously train!
Then, a sudden stabbing pain hits you as the living fungi struggles within you during its brief final moments.
Individual choiceEach player picks their own

What you can obtain

Relic
Big Mushroom
Relic
Fragrant Mushroom
Upgrade
2 random cardsChoice: Fragrant Mushroom
Max HP
+20 Max HPChoice: Big Mushroom

Where it appears

How ? rooms roll ›
Act 3Glory

What each choice does

Big Mushroom

Draw 2 fewer cards at the start of each combat. Raise your Max HP by 20.

RelicBig MushroomMax HP+20
What the game says
You bite into the Big Mushroom. Its flesh is firm, starchy, and satisfying. The more you eat, the hungrier you become, as if the mushroom is feeding on your hunger.So yummy... you enter a food coma.
This gluttony will cost you.

Fragrant Mushroom

Lose 15 HP. Upgrade 2 random cards.

RelicFragrant MushroomHP−15Upgrade2 random cards
What the game says
You sample the Fragrant One, a small woody mushroom with a delicate scent of shellfish...A burst of energy spurs you to run, jump, and rigorously train!
Then, a sudden stabbing pain hits you as the living fungi struggles within you during its brief final moments.

Which option to take

Big Mushroom

RelicBig MushroomMax HP+20
  • Big Mushroom only when your HP is critical, or your deck runs on Innate cards and does not care about turn 1; a three-card opening hand loses more fights than 20 Max HP saves.

Fragrant Mushroom

Our pick
RelicFragrant MushroomHP−15Upgrade2 random cards
  • Fragrant Mushroom for nearly every deck: two upgrades in Act 3 are permanent and 15 HP is one rest site.

How it plays

  • Both options are relics with a pickup effect and there is no way to decline.
  • Big Mushroom raises Max HP by 20 (healing 20 as well) but you draw 2 fewer cards at the start of every combat, so your first hand is 3 cards.
  • Fragrant Mushroom costs 15 HP on pickup and upgrades 2 random upgradable cards.

Changes by version

  1. 2 Apr 2026NumberBeta branch
    Fragrant Mushroom option upgraded cards decreased from 3 to 2
  2. 5 Feb 2026ChangeBig MushroomFragrant MushroomInternal playtest
    Relics now modify your HP by static amounts instead of percentage-based amounts (Big Mushroom gives you 20 max HP instead of 25% and Fragrant Mushroom makes you lose 15 HP instead of 20%)
  3. 18 Dec 2025NumberInternal playtest
    "Fragrant" option: random upgrades decreased from 5 to 3 and HP cost decreased from 30% HP to 20% HP
    RemovedInternal playtest
    Deprecated Hungry For Mushrooms event "Medley" option
All 17 patch notes14 older
  1. 27 Aug 2025TextInternal playtest
    Updated wording
  2. 10 Apr 2025NumberInternal playtest
    "Medley" choice's HP healed increased from 75% of HP to full HP (still just displays number of HP healed) and "Fragrant One" choice's random cards upgraded decreased from 6 to 5
  3. 6 Mar 2025InterfaceInternal playtest
    Hungry for Mushrooms event's Fragrant One choice now displays how much Max HP you will lose
  4. 27 Feb 2025Bug fixInternal playtest
    Fixed a state divergence related to Hungry for Mushrooms event
  5. 9 Jan 2025Bug fixInternal playtest
    Removed energy hovertip from the "Fragrant Mushrooms" option in the Hungry for Mushrooms event
  6. 5 Dec 2024ChangeInternal playtest
    "Big Guy" choice max HP gain decreased from 50% to 25%
  7. 14 Nov 2024ArtInternal playtest
    Added VFX
  8. 24 Oct 2024ReworkInternal playtest
    Reworked Hungry for Mushrooms event
  9. 12 Jul 2024Bug fixInjuryWritheInternal playtest
    Medley option in Hungry for Mushrooms now correctly specifies Injury and not Writhe
  10. 29 Jun 2024ChangeInjuryWritheInternal playtest
    Changed Medley option from Hungry for Mushrooms event: now heals more and gives Injury instead of Writhe
  11. 21 Jun 2024ArtRoom Full of CheeseInternal playtest
    Updated Hungry for Mushrooms, Living Cocoon, and Room Full of Cheese event art
  12. 4 May 2024Bug fixInternal playtest
    The "Continue" button on the Hungry for Mushrooms event now displays properly
  13. 8 Sep 2023ArtInternal playtest
    Updated event art
  14. 25 Aug 2023AddedInternal playtest
    Added "Hungry For Mushrooms" event to Act 3

Internal playtest notes are from before the Early Access release. Names and numbers in them can differ from the game today.

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