You’ve got plenty of work to do around each of the Atlas maps you’ll explore inMudborne, but one of your chief roles in this strange world is to help grow the decimated frog population back into prosperity. You’ll capture, learn about, and breed all kinds of new frogs!
With so many different species of frogs to breed and discover in Mudborne, each of which has its own unique taste preferences, size, and genetic sequencing, you’ll need to keep a constant eye on your nurseries and feeders to ensure you’re making frogs with the best ACRONYM stats you possibly can.
Breed Tadpoles And Create New Frogs
Across the various maps in Mudborne, you’ll find (or breed)29 different kinds of frogsin an attempt torevitalize the ecosystemsafter a curious extinction event of sorts, but a variety of them will need to bebred for their traits, since quite a lot of the things you’ll do in Mudborne relies on having frogs with thedesired genetic sequencing.
To begin breeding frogs, you’ll first need toplace two frogs into a spawnertogether. If you don’t have one yet, talk to Hoppert who will trade one to you for five logs and one small crate. After setting the frogs into the spawner together, you’ll know your efforts have worked if you see a stream of little reddish-pink hearts coming from said box.Give them a little time and spaceto let the magic happen, and when you can come back to check, look for asingle heart over the boxto let you know it’s time.
Inside, you’ll findfrogspawn, the very first step in breeding new frogs in Mudborne! From here, you’ll need anursery, which you’re able to trade five logs, five waterproof layers, and one bucket of mud to Hopper to receive. Set the nursery down someplace on a platform outdoors, and interact with it to open an involved menu that helps breed your eggs into proper tadpoles. You’ll need eggs fromthose amorous frogs, a bucket of magic mudto help assign new traits, and a bucket of water.
After leaving the eggs in the nursery with magic mud and some water for a while, check back to discover abucket of tadpoles, which you’ll see on the right-most side of the nursery menu - it’s what’s become of your bucket of water. Pop it into your inventory, set up a new breeding if you’ve got the eggs ready to do so, and then head over to a nearby feeder to get started there.
The feeder will allow you tonourish your tadpoles into frogsthat are healthy and strong, so trade Hoppert five logs, five waterproof layers, and a bucket of water this time to grab one and place it in the water nearby to get started with your tadpoles. You’ll need to pay attention to which kinds of frogs you’re trying to breed, sinceeach kind of tadpole wants a different flavored foodto eat as they develop.
There are seven potential flavors, with each bug having its own flavor profile, so you’ll need toeat and catch a variety of bugsto ensure you’ve got the desired taste for everyone to grow big and strong. To learn the flavor profile of a frog, you’ll need toeat some bugs yourselfto deduce what they taste like. After your frog knows themselves, this information will be logged in your Encyclopedia.
A.N.O.U.R.E.S Are Your Frogs Genetic Traits
When you’ve reached the end of the Hop To It! segment in the compendium, you’ll be introduced to the A.N.O.U.R.E.S system, which are thespecifications and stats belonging to each frog.
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These are all the traits that can be passed onto a frog once it’s matured, existing on a sliding scale to denote how much or how little of something your frog is. When you highlight any frog with your magnifying glass, you’ll see their specific A.N.O.U.R.E.S stats. To progress through Mudborne, you’ll need to gradually cross-breed new frogs to discover new traits!
