The Official Shroomie Guide

Getting Started

First, unpack your starter kit. Inside you will find 2 starter bloomies, a candy bowl and a redelivery shroom. First check your current active group is set to the group that has land rez rights, then rez your candy bowl near the center of the area you want your shroomies to roam, next rez your bloomies near the candy bowl.

Next click a bloomie and you will be presented with a menu on whether to birth your bloomie. Select YES for an animesh version (27LI) or Static for a static version (1LI). Once your shroomie rezzes, it will set it's "Home Position" and have a range of 3.0 meters. Click your shroomie, if you wish to change the home position, move it to where you want it's home position first. You can set the range via the menu. Whilst static shroomies do not move, their home position and range are important as it determines whether their candy bowls are reachable. (that is, the candy bowl must be within range of the shroomie's home position). If you have animesh shroomies you can unfreeze them and they will roam and animate.

Breeding

Once your shroomie is 10 days old, it can start breeding. Shroomies can be paired to ensure they only breed within their pair, if they are not paired they will still breed, but with any available shroomie of the opposite sex. Once hitting age 10 shroomies will seek a partner and rez a bloomie every 5 days, until age 120 when they retire.

Traits

Your starter shroomies will contain a random selection of starter traits. To get new traits, you will need to breed shroomies with the same trait at least 3 generations. Not all traits give new traits, but those with the possibilitiy will be announced. Sometimes, on special occasions, you may get a Special bloomie. This special bloomie will contain unique traits, some of which pass, some which pass other traits,

Happiness

Fed shroomies are happy, however if they run out of food to eat and they get very hungry, they will become flat, then sad, then depressed. Only happy shroomies breed - flat, sad and depressed shroomies will need to be fed and become happy again before they will breed.

Once a shroomie's hunger reaches 100% the shroomie will gain unhappiness at the rate of 1% every hour.

To gain happiness feed the shroomie and while the shroomie remains below 100% hunger it will gain happiness at a rate of 1% every 30 minutes. Depressed shroomies are 100% unhappy, sad shroomies between 50% and 100% and flat shroomies between 1% and 50%

Redeliveries & Updating

Sometimes Second Life may eat your shroomie, as it sometimes has an appetite for NO-COPY objects. In this case, you can redeliver your shroomie using a Redelivery Shroom. Redelivery shrooms can be obtained from XS-Pets.

To send a lost shroomie for redelivery (in the case where you can't find, or no longer have the shroomie) go to your web portal, find the shroomie and click the redelivery checkbox, then click redeliver lives button. You can then copy the redelivery code and paste it into the dialog of your Redelivery shroom (Touch Menu -> Live Shroomies -> Get 1).

In the case of an update, new redelivery shrooms will be issued, and updating your shroomies can be done via the redelivery system. Shroomies and bloomies can be sent for redelivery via their touch menu, or via the web portal, Starter bloomies can not be redelivered.

Surprises

Shroomies when active and walking around always keep their eyes open for interesting things, sometimes they find something extra interesting and let you know about it. These are surprises, and if you click them before they vanish, you earn some compost points.

Shroomies find surprises randomly and will instant message you if you are online. A discovered surprise will last inworld for an hour. Each surprise is 1 LI, and only a maximum of one will be active per shroomie a time.

Gathering

Gatheringis shared with all Glitter Grove breedables, and is a system that allows you to harvest virtual resources which can be used with blueprints to obtain special items. There are currently three types of gathering: Mining, Foresting and Gardening.

Each type of gathering requires a tool, and a novice tool for each type is available for free in the Glitter Grove area of the XS Pets region. Novice tools are slow, but get you started. Once you have a tool, you should attach it to your right hand, then find a corresponding harvest node and click it. You will perform an action on the node, and may or may not be successful. When successful, you may be awarded either a virtual item, which goes into your Glitter Grove server inventory, or an inworld item that you can rez.

Virtual items are items which are used to craft things, inworld items are other things - for example blue prints, special rewards etc. To view your virtual inventory, you can use the web portal for your chosen Glitter Grove pet (log in to your portal, and select "Inventory" from the portal dropdown menu) or you can use an inworld Glitter Grove inventory checker.

Retirement

Shroomies retire at age 120. They will no longer breed, they will also no longer need food.