Breeding new tadpoles so you can create new frogs with specific genetic variants is the key to progressing the story in Mudborne, but to make the most out of every bucket of tadpoles, you’ll want to carefully choose which magic mud recipe you give them to grow in.
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Depending on the magic mud you use in the breeding process in Mudborne, the resulting frogs can have some wildly different stats. You’ll need to carefully breed specific frogs to progress the story and restore the world around you, so the more mushrooms you can use for your magic mud, the better.
Magic Mud Decides A Frog’s Stats
How To Make Different Magic Muds
Once you’ve gotten the hang of breeding new frogs in Mudborne, the process is rather simple, but it comes with a bit of experimentation. At the beginning of the game, you’ll follow your Compendium as it walks you through the ins and outs of life for your little frog friend avatar, eventually asking you with breeding a plethora of new frog species and their potential variations.
After you’ve gotten some from the spawner boxes or breeder boxes, you’ll need to put Frogborne eggs into a Nursery to help them grow into tadpoles. Not only will you need a bucket of water for the tadpoles to end up in once they’ve grown, but arguably one of the most critical parts of breeding new frogs is using different magic mud recipes to change their traits.
Each bunch of Frogborne eggs needs a bucket of magic mud to grow, and the game will walk you through your very first one. You’ll need to trade Hopert for two key items: a crusher that he’ll give you for five logs and one bucket, as well as the secondary piece of the magic mud making eqation with a cauldron in exchange for five logs and one bucket of water. Once you’ve got them, place them anywhere near your home at the Carpenter’s, grab your mushrooms from storage, and get to work.
To begin making magic mud in Mudborne, you’ll need to grind mushrooms into powders using the crusher. See how each mushroom in the game is labeled with an effect, listing some of the A.N.O.U.R.E.S. traits? This is because different mushrooms have different effects in the resulting magic mud. To grind mushrooms, simply interact with the lever and collect your piles of powder.
Once you’ve ground some mushrooms, you’ll need to put three mushroom powders into the cauldron to create your magic mud. Here, you’ll need to pay careful attention to which powders you add to the mix, since the resulting magic mud will calculate stat changes that get passed onto the resulting tadpoles. Check what kind of frogs you need, and choose which traits to alter carefully.
If you manually remove a bucket of magic mud from the nursery, it appears back in your inventory without harm. If you shift-click the mud to return it to your inventory, it seems to disappear. If you’d like to reuse the bucket of mud in question, be careful how you change it out!
Use Magic Mud To Modify Traits
When using mushroom powders to make magic mud in Mudborne, you’ll see that at least one stat will be increased or decreased, resulting in a different genetic coding in the next generation of that kind of frog based on the statistics shown on the stats for your bucket of magic mud. For example, if you see “Nobility +1” when adding magic mud to your nursery, then the tadpoles that grow in this magic mud will result in frogs that have one additional point in their Nobility stat than their parent frogs.
In addition to the ones that outright increase and decrease statistics, you’ll also find several mushrooms that multiply an existing modifier to really get the most out of every bucket of magic mud you use. That said, you’ll need to get said modifier into the mud with another mushroom before it can be multiplied; modifiers do nothing without the trait present. For example, if you use magic mud that multiplies an Amplitude modifier by two, and use a mushroom that adds only one Amplitude, the resulting frog will have two additional Amplitude points with the multiplier included.
With so many mushrooms available in the game, and so many new frog species and all their assorted variants to create to complete your Encyclopedia, you’ll need to experiment and make assorted magic muds to change the genetics of your new tadpoles. Once the tadpoles have been created, place them into a nursery and wait for your new frogs to grow.
A good way to see what the impact of a batch of magic mud is going to be is to use the progenitor to predict a frog’s genetic coding after growing in mud made of the named mushrooms. Doing so can save you a lot of time and guesswork!
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