Active Mycelium is a Common crafting material in Enshrouded that grows inside the Shroud. You collect it by mining clusters of mushroom caps with a pickaxe, and each hit adds more to your pickup list. The material stacks up to 250 and feeds a wide range of potions, armor pieces, and dyes.
Quick answer: Go into a Shroud area and locate a group of mushroom caps. Equip a pickaxe and mine them; every strike adds Active Mycelium to your pickups.
The game describes it this way: “The active mycelium of mushrooms absorbs the Shroud’s magical properties. Could this be used for alchemical purposes?”
Where Active Mycelium grows
These spots appear across every region in the game: the Springlands, Revelwood, Nomad Highlands, Kindlewastes, Albaneve Summits, Blackmire, Veilwater Basin, and Cinder’s Cradle. The interactive map marks each location.
Don’t confuse Active Mycelium with regular Mycelium; the regular kind is mined close to the Shroud, too.
How to mine Active Mycelium
Watch the pickup list as you work. Active Mycelium shows up with each hit.
What Active Mycelium is used for
Potions, flasks, and spells
| Recipe (station) | Active Mycelium | Other materials |
|---|---|---|
| Flask of the Fell (Alchemist) | 10 | 1 Strawberry, 10 Shroud Mushroom |
| Shroud Survival Flask (Alchemist) | 20 | 1 Fresh Shroud Spore, 1 Wood Acid |
| Ancient Mana Potion (Alchemist) | 5 | 4 Thyme, 1 Diamond Dust |
| Eternal Shroud Beam (Alchemist) | 25 | 5 Bursting Fell Heart, 5 Shroud Relic, 5 Diamond Dust |
| Shroud Vapor (Laboratory), makes 5 | 15 | 10 Enshrouded Ice, 20 Salt |
| Shroud Arrow III (Hunter), makes 25 | 15 | 5 Twigs, 5 Archaic Shards |
Shroud Vapor pulls in Enshrouded Ice, and Shroud Arrow III needs Archaic Shards from Cinder’s Cradle.
Early chest armor
Three early chest pieces each take 25 Active Mycelium: the Alchemist Apprentice Chest (Alchemist), the Rising Fighter Chest (Blacksmith), and the Scout Chest (Hunter).
Later armor
Several later pieces take 10 Active Mycelium each:
- Crestflame boots and Emberguard Boots (Blacksmith)
- Emberguard Helmet (Blacksmith)
- Hunter: Sky Specter Pants; Ashwind Strider Boots
- Alchemist: Flame Arcanist Pants; Lifelock Gloves
- Ancient Researcher: Vorgoth’s Soulbound Pants
Dyes
At the Coloring Station, Sun & Shore, Convergence and A Distant Star take 2 Active Mycelium each.
