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While you’re free to see the pond and explore pretty much at your own pace as you play throughMudborne, if you’re looking for a little bit more structure to help you get the most out of your time in the ecosystem, follow along with the Compendium guide offering goal-based tasks.
The Compendium asks you to explore the entirety of the pond’s maps, make friends along the way, and breed more than two dozen unique frog species to help restore the area after a hibernation event that seems to have gone awry. Finishing chapters offers plenty of helpful rewards, too.
Every Chapter Of The Compendium
In the tables below, we’ve distilled the entire Mudborne Compendium down to a quick-glance guide for you to follow along with, providing answers to some of the trickier puzzles that act as benchmark goals.
Read the text and click the button to continue.
Any freestanding tree, in the grass or the water, counts.
Excess Baggage
Open your inventory.
The E key opens your inventory for two more rows of storage. Move anything to the hot bar at the top to scroll through or use your numerical buttons to access it quickly.
Taking Out the Trash
Trash an item.
Move any inventory item to the garbage slot, even if you grab it back immediately.
On the Menu
Open a crate.
There are a few free crates right outside the Carpenter’s Shop. Use the sort button at the top of your inventory when using a chest or crate to auto-stash any items that are already in the storage bin.
Look it Up
Check the encyclopedia.
This is where you’ll keep track of all thefrog species you breed, the various kinds of mushrooms you’ve found, and where you’ll find all the information about critters (like what they taste like or where to find them).
Closer Look
Inspect a frog.
Using a magnifying glasson items gives you information at a glance in the bottom-right corner of your screen.
Catching Flies
Catch a bug.
Using your net, swing at any group of insects you see around the pond, which all appear only under specific conditions.
BFFs
Equip any frog.
Any frog you catch in your net can be placed in the slot with the heart icon over the trash can, and they’ll follow you around as you explore.
Hammer Time
Bonk something.
Hammers allow you to take any chests, crates, and even assorted frog furniture back to your home to use for yourself.
Axe You a Question
Plant a tree.
After chopping trees, you’ll receive seeds of some kind to replant them to keep the ecosystem plentiful.
Sleeping In
Sleep until morning.
Go back to your bed at the Carpenter’s Shop and interact with it to immediately pass time until the following morning.
Drop in the Bucket
Stick in the Mud
Get some mud.
While standing in mud, equip an empty bucket and click on the ground to collect a bucket of mud.
Hold Water
Get some water.
While standingin the waters of the pond, equip an empty bucket and click the ground to collect a bucket of water.
Looking Like a Snack
Eat some bugs.
Use the right mouse button to stick out your tongue while standing in a swarm of bugs to grab a taste for yourself, allowing you to work out each bug’s flavour profile.
Nothing but Net
Swing your net at any bug to collect it, though you won’t know what it tastes like until you taste it yourself.
Trade Secret
N/A
Read the text and click the button to continue, collecting 20 Dracoflies.
Mother Nature
Inspect spores.
When you see a mushroom beginning to bloom in the wild, use your magnifying glass to learn all the details about said mushroom before you even pick it.
Trade five logs and one bucket of mud to Hopert.
In the Mix
Make leafy compost.
Almost every combination in the composter makes Leafy Compost, but a staple recipe for it is one leaf, one waterproof coat, and one log.
Trade one log and one waterproof coating to Hopert.
Reap the Harvest
Harvest mushrooms.
Collect any fully-grown mushroom that might appear in your composter, which changes based on where you place the machine.
Mushroom Master
Read the text and click the button to continue, collecting 9 Leafy Composts.
Catch Me if You Can
Catch a frog.
Use your net to catch any frog you see in the pond. You can ribbit at them to draw them in.
You and What Army
Release any frog.
Open your inventory and place any frog from there onto the ground around you.
The Birds and the Frogs
Gather Frogspawn.
Follow the steps to begin breeding new frogs by putting two frogs into a spawner together.
Not Mushroom
Get Stout Funnels.
These mushrooms grow in the water during rainy conditions. You’ll see three tall blue mushrooms grouped together, all with white stems.
Toil and Trouble
Make +3A mud.
+3A mud is mud that adds three points of Amplitude to the resulting frog. It can be made with three piles of Stout Funnel powder in the cauldron.
Born of the Mud
Get tadpoles.
Place your Frogspawn and magic mud into a nursery with an empty bucket of water, and wait for them to grow into tadpoles.
One Born Every Minute
Grow new frogs.
Put tadpoles into a feeder, give them the critters they ask for, and wait until they’ve grown into adult frogs.
Key to Success
Read the text and click the button to continue, collecting two Arches.
Genetic Makeup
Read the text to learn all about the seven different traits frogs will take on, and then click the button to continue.
Saturation
Full Spectrum
Read the text and click the button to continue, collecting five Frog Ponds.
Playing God
Create Vast Mudlurker.
A Vast Mudlurker can be bred by raising the Amplitude of a Common Green frogspawn by three, using your +3A mud.
Time to Reflect
Use the Central Pool.
Unlock the central reflection pool by placing a Long-Legged Dazzler into the reader when you interact with the pool.
See the Future
Find the Predictor.
There are predictor machines in almost every building around the central pond.
Selective Breeding
Find the Breeder blueprint.
This blueprint is in the chest in the Mass Breeding office, which you’ll need to access the dream world to do.
Sleeping Spores
Get Dream Mushrooms.
These mushrooms can be found mud during wet, balmy weather in the dream world.
Lost in a Dream
Looking for Clues
Find the Reception Key
You’ll find the reception key after opening the Pontoon Reflection Pool.
Warm Reception
Find a way north.
Place a Vast Mudlurker from your inventory onto the pressure pad nearby to permanently compress it.
Heavy Lifting
Meet the Historian.
Find Dendro on a wooden pier to the north of Reception once the new stepping stones appear.
Down the Ages
Find the Progenitor.
The blueprint is in the Ancestry Research lab, and can be given to Hopert to facilitate for trades.
One Giant Leap
Open the Northern Pool.
Bring a Pungent Green with a Furious Lurker as the previous generation - this pool checks ancestry and lineage.
Learned the Ropes
Read the text and click the button to continue, collecting a backpack.
At this point, you can proceed into the next chapters at whatever pace you like. You’ll need to cross between worlds several times to get the right mushrooms for frog breeding, but you’re free to explore as you please.
Mile a Minute
Use a Gateway.
You may have done this already if you’ve been exploring the Gateway Nexus.
In Full Bloom
Get the Kindergarten Seal.
Complete the A Bite to Eat chapter and get the seal from the Kindergarten map with the help of Ribbert.
Down the Drain
Get the Residential Seal.
Complete the Down the Drain chapter and get the seal from the Residential District map with the help of Kroaka.
The Ice-Frog Cometh
Get the Control Seal.
Complete the Butter Wouldn’t Melt chapter and get the seal from the Climate Control map with the help of Annura.
No Filter
Use a filter.
You’ll need to get an Algae Filter from Ribbert, and use a frog with high Edacity (like a Furious Lurker) to clear algae blooms around the Kindergarten map.
Knowledge is Power
Give Ribbert Research.
Head into the Spore Lab and grab the Bug Trap blueprint for Ribbert, clearing a path through the algae going west from the central lift.
Special Delivery
Install a bucket.
Clear the algae leading to the pier north of Ribbert to get a spare bucket, then install it onto one of the broken lifts around the Kindergarten map.
Not the Sharpest Tool
Install a backup bucket.
Get the extra bucket from the maintenance shed, using the feeders to clear a path for yourself through the algae, and fix the broken lift near the center.
Busy Bees
Install an extra bucket.
Clear the algae blocking your path toward the apiary in the northwest area of the map, and grab the buckets from there to fix more lifts.
Home and Dry
Harvest a Mushroom.
By using a Dehydrator with a low Saturation frog (like a Weeny Sponge) indoors, you can dry out the air. This allows mushrooms to begin sporing, which can be hurried along if you’ve got a cultivator with compost inside as well.
Speak to Annura and trade for a heater.
Cooling Off
Freeze Water
Breed a Common Green in mud made with three Frosty Jacks for Frosty Hollow with minimal Umbrage to do this.
Brass Monkeys
Thaw the Sensors.
Use your Coolers to freeze water to make paths toward the weather sensors, and thaw them using your Heaters.
Turn it On and Off Again
Reset the System.
Use your Coolers to make a path to the XX room, then use a Frosty Hollow and an Evil Lurker to reset the machinery.
Seal the Deal
Make a Seal.
Use the Sealmaker to create the Climate Control seal for the main storyline.
