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While you’ll make your way out of the Spawning Pools before long inMudborne, you’ll revisit fairly often for a number of reasons, not least of which is to trade with Hopert for all kinds of tools and helpful gear to keep pressing ever further into the mystery of Mudborne.
Scattered around the pond, you’ll find six blueprints that you can give to Hopert, who will then use the knowledge to build new items that you can trade for in his shop. No matter which process you’re looking to speed up a bit, Hopert can make it with a blueprint.
Return Blueprints To Hopert For New Gear
Wandering through the different maps in Mudborne always yields exciting new finds, but be sure you’re poking your head into all the buildings you can access on each one, since you never know what may have been left inside. Some of these treasures will beblueprints inside of stone treasure chests, and you’ll find six of these between two maps: theSpawning Poolswhere you first begin playing, and theKindergartenwhere you help Ribbert fix all the lift buckets and dive intothe hybrid mushroom-making processfor the first time.
In the Spawning Pools, you were lodging withHopert, the resident carpenter send to the ponds, who will trade you for a variety of things like essential tools, frog furniture to let your extra breeding frogs live in lavish luxury, or evenextra storage for your resources. When you first begin playing Mudborne, the bottom row of Hopert’s shop is unavailable, but never fear, since Hopert just needs a blueprint or two to get cracking on the six items available there.
Every time you find new blueprints in Mudborne, be sure to bring them back to Hopert to see what kinds of new items he can make for you. After returning any of the blueprints, you’ll be able to trade for the new items the next time you trade with Hopert.
If you’ve lost track of where you found a blueprint or would like more information about it, you cancheck the Scrapbookfor information on each device.
Mud Analysis
Spawning Pools
Allows you to experiment with mushroom combinations to see what the effects will be over time, effectively sampling magic muds before needing to use real resources to make it to ensure your recipe is right. Finding it is part of progressing through the Spawning Pools' storyin the Compendium.
Mass Breeding
Frogs bred in the breeder can breed into frogspawn eggs like the Spawners, if you’re looking to change traits into the next generation, or you may add buckets of water to receive tadpoles right away.
Ancestry Research
Shows the previous six generations of a frog’s lineage at a glimpse, ensuring you have the right frog for the next Reflection Pool if ancestry plays a role in opening the pool itself.
Fungal Projection
Kindergarten
Offers a chance to see what the resulting trait changes will be when two basic types of mushrooms are hybridized together into one mushroom. View up to three mushrooms at a time for a glimpse at a full magic mud recipe.
Bug Farm
Carefully recreates a specific environment to encourage bugs to spawn where they normally would not.
Improved Farming
Allows the growth of plants and trees wherever you’d like, provided you’reable to power the machineswith a frog that has maximum Ribbit.
You won’t everneedthe items that Hopert can make you from the blueprints you find around the pond in Mudborne, but they’re always helpful to have if you’re trying to look ahead to your next breeding project.
