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When you wake up in the Spawning Pools inMudborne, you’re given one objective: follow the Compendium given to you by the frog in the stars and repopulate the area using frogs that have all kinds of varying traits. Best grab some breeding equipment from Hopert and get to tinkering.
With seven potential traits, measured by the acryonym A.N.O.U.R.E.S., you’ve got your work cut out for you if you’re hoping to log every frog in Mudborne into your Encyclopedia. You’ll find 29 individual frog species in Mudborne by using a careful selection of magic muds to tinker with their traits.
New Species Have Unique Traits Bred Into Them
One of the very first instructions you’re given when you wake up asyour cute little frogin the Spawning Pools is to help repopulate the area that’s been decimated of all but a few frog species after an unnamed catastrophe. From here, it’s up to you to helpreplenish the area’s population by breeding new frogs. There are29 different kinds of frogsyou’ll find in Mudborne, but most of them, you’ll need to do some careful breeding to bring back.
The first frog you’re likely to see is theCommon Greenfrog, the little green pals hopping around out in the pond when you first walk out of the Carpenter’s Shop. Following the Compendium and learning to use your net will help you catch a few of these guys, since they’re one of twobase frogs for breeding. The other base frog is theDozy Dreamer, the reddish frog with white eyes you seearound the dream world- they’re the Common Greens of the other realm, so to speak.
Past these two basic frogs, every other trait will need to be bred into your future generations of frogs byselective genetic breeding, a careful process by which you’ll create several new species of frogs. Place these frogs from your inventory and watch them hang out around the different maps in the game, colorfully decorating each area. As such, you may want tobreed for several frogspawn eggsearly in the game, both from the Common Greens and Dozy Dreamers, since you’ll need them to further your tinkering with traits.
After you’ve got frogspawn eggs from one of the base frogs, you’lluse magic mud to alter the eggs' traitsas they turn into the tadpoles that you feed to grow into full-size frogs. By combining three mushrooms into one nutrient-rich mud for the eggs to lay in as they grow into tadpoles, the resulting frogs will take on the trait changes specified on the bucket of magic mud.
Check the trait changes on your magic mud carefully, asevery frog starts with a base and changes from there. While you may find it takes a generation or two to breed frogs' traits up or down to the specific number you need, with each A.N.O.U.R.E.S. stat listed with anumber one through seven, with one being the lowest end of that statistic and seven being the highest. You’ll need frogs with extremely specific traits to open the Reflection Pools and the various gates into the Gateway Nexus, so pay sharp attention to your breeding procedures and how traits change.
Eventually, you’ll unlock better machinery that allows you to make even more powerful magic muds, so if some of the trait changes are tough to achieve in the early game, you’ll either need to use more advanced equipment or use a different assortment of mushrooms in your magic mud.
For more information about how traits change through generations, you can use either the predictor to plug in mushroom species to see the traits of a frog if they’re grown in a magic mud made from those three mushrooms, or the proginator to see the previous six generations of any frog’s lineage. There are certain times you’ll need a specific lineage on a frog to use a Reflection Pool, so be mindful of how many generations it takes you to make any requisite changes, too.
Early in the game, the Encyclopedia offers hints at the genetic makeup of each frog before you’ve logged it, but you’ll need tobreed and catch a frog to log a new speciesinto your Encyclopedia. you’re able to release them again if you’d like or use them to further your breeding work, but pay attention to the feeder when they’re almost done growing up from tadpoles, since the fully-grown frogs hop out of the feeder once they’ve grown up - you’ll need to be nearby with a net if you’re logging a new species!
Every Frog And Their Variations
In the tables below, you’ll see the traits of all 29 frog species in Mudborne, broken down by which base frog you’ll need to begin with to breed said species. We’ve also listed each species' two variants and the stat changes required to make them.
Sublime Empyrean *
- Even if you get the genetics down, you can’t make the Sublime Empyrean until the requisite point in the story.
