Sporeback Snails

What it is

A pale, lilac-footed cave snail with a layered shell and a little dew crown. It browses living mushrooms and leaves behind a bead of Mycelial Dew. It is peaceful, does not breed and drops nothing special.

How to get it

Look for snails in lush caves and dripstone caves. They live below Y 48, on dark moss or clay with no sky above. Only a few gather in one area.

How to use it

1. Wait for a snail to browse a living mushroom. It takes 2 seconds and doesn’t break the block. That gives the snail one dew bead.
2. Crouch with an empty hand and right-click the snail to take 1 Mycelial Dew.
3. The snail then rests for 2 minutes. It needs another mushroom visit before you can collect again.

Your first gather also gives you Mara’s journal, The Patient Spiral.

Fungal Poultice

Craft 1 Mycelial Dew, 1 Paper and 1 Brown Mushroom into a Fungal Poultice. Using it gives 30 seconds of Night Vision and 6 seconds of Slowness. You can’t use it while you already have Night Vision.

Tips and counterplay

• Bright light sends a snail looking for cover.
• If it’s hurt, it hides in its shell for 6 seconds.
• Life magic makes a snail puff spores but gives you no dew. Fire scares it.
• It also tucks in when a Rootmolt Strider raises its arms. Give snails a clear path in your Glowcap nursery.
• Bring a light. The poultice wears off.