Field Mushroom
Field Mushroom is a mushroom food item in DayZ found around haybales and strawstacks. Raw Field Mushroom takes 2 inventory slots, weighs 150 g, provides 180 kcal and 150 mL of water, and can be eaten raw or cooked.
Quick item summary
Quick answer
Field Mushroom is a mushroom food item in DayZ. It is found around haybales and strawstacks, making it useful when searching farms, rural areas, or agricultural spots. Field Mushrooms can be eaten raw when fresh, but cooking changes their energy, water, and stomach values. Burned or rotten Field Mushrooms should be avoided because they can cause poisoning.
In-game description
“Fleshy mushroom. A little bland on its own, but filling nonetheless.”
Main Uses
- Eat raw for food and hydration
- Bake for higher energy value
- Boil for the best hydration value
- Dry for longer-lasting food value with less water
- Use as a rural or farm-area survival food source
- Avoid burned or rotten Field Mushrooms because they can cause poisoning
How to use this item
Eat Field Mushroom safely
Field Mushroom can be eaten raw when fresh, but cooked versions provide different food and hydration values. Avoid burned or rotten mushrooms.
- Find a Field Mushroom near haybales or strawstacks.
- Check its condition before eating.
- Eat it raw if you need both food and hydration.
- Cook it if you want better energy or hydration values.
- Do not eat burned or rotten Field Mushrooms unless you are willing to risk poisoning.
Find Field Mushrooms
Field Mushrooms are commonly associated with haybales and strawstacks.
- Search farms, rural areas, and agricultural spots.
- Check around haybales.
- Check around strawstacks.
- Look carefully on the ground near farm props.
- Pick fresh mushrooms and avoid rotten ones when possible.
How to get Field Mushroom
- Search around haybales.
- Search around strawstacks.
- Check farms and rural agricultural areas.
- Loot players carrying mushrooms or other farm-area food.
Spawn info
- • Field Mushroom is found around haybales and strawstacks.
- • It is a Food and Drink item under Mushrooms.
- • Raw Field Mushroom provides 180 kcal.
- • Raw Field Mushroom provides 150 mL of water.
- • Raw Field Mushroom has 375 mL stomach volume.
- • It takes 2 inventory slots.
- • It weighs 150 g.
- • It has raw, baked, boiled, dried, burned, and rotten variants.
Food and nutrition notes
Energy
180 kcal
Water
150 mL
Stomach
375 mL
Quantity
150
Max wetness
Damp (24.9%)
Freeze time
33 minutes
Freezing point
-0.5 °C / 31.1 °F
Max temperature
105 °C / 221 °F
Notes
- • Raw Field Mushroom provides 180 kcal and 150 mL of water.
- • Baked Field Mushroom provides 450 kcal and 90 mL of water.
- • Boiled Field Mushroom provides 375 kcal and 240 mL of water.
- • Dried Field Mushroom provides 375 kcal and 30 mL of water.
- • Burned Field Mushroom provides 135 kcal and 0 mL of water.
- • Rotten Field Mushroom provides 135 kcal and 60 mL of water.
- • Burned or rotten Field Mushrooms can cause poisoning.
- • Field Mushrooms are found around haybales and strawstacks.
Important notes
- Field Mushroom is found around haybales and strawstacks.
- Raw Field Mushroom provides 180 kcal.
- Raw Field Mushroom provides 150 mL of water.
- Raw Field Mushroom has 375 mL stomach volume.
- It takes 2 inventory slots.
- It weighs 150 g.
- It is categorized as Food and Drink > Mushrooms.
- It can be eaten raw when fresh.
- It can be cooked, boiled, dried, burned, or become rotten.
- Burned or rotten Field Mushrooms can cause poisoning.
- Its real-world mushroom reference is Agaricus.