MycoDex Guide
Welcome to the Myco-Vault ecosystem. This guide explains how to unlock Vault-Specimens, grow your collection, understand rarity, use currencies, incubate specimens, battle, showcase favorites, clone, trade, and explore deeper discovery paths.
Quick Start Path
New Myco-Patrons can follow this route to start playing without needing to understand every advanced system immediately.
- Start with MycoDex Training. The training page introduces the basics and can grant a beginner-friendly starter specimen.
- Redeem a Vault Key. Use the Specimen Vault page to enter a code from a Myco-Vault coin, event, pack, or special drop.
- Check My MycoDex. Your unlocked specimens live in your collection, along with traits, stats, rarity, quirks, and other details.
- Watch incubation timers. Some specimens unlock instantly, while others need time inside the incubator before they stabilize.
- Spend carefully. Use Spore Dust, Prism Spores, and Incubator Credits to unlock paths, save time, buy offers, or support future systems.
- Choose your play style. Active players can battle. Passive players can focus on collecting, showcasing, learning, and trading.
Recommended Player Route
This is the cleanest route through the public MycoDex pages.
Vault-Specimens
Vault-Specimens are collectible digital critters, fungal entities, botanicals, cryptids, spirits, and other strange beings cataloged through the MycoDex.
Species vs Individual
A species is the main Vault-Specimen template. An individual is your personal unlocked version of that species. Two Myco-Patrons may both own the same species, but each individual can have its own rolls, traits, quirks, stats, and collector value.
Every Unlock Can Feel Different
When a specimen is unlocked, it can roll unique details such as stats, size, weight, morph tint, movement flavor, traits, quirks, and future battle behavior.
Specimen Type
What the specimen broadly is: fungi, insects, arachnids, reptiles, bats, owls, birds, botanicals, cryptids, and more.
Family / Shelf
Where it mainly belongs in collection browsing: butterflies, mantises, spiders, gilled fungi, bamboo relics, owls, bats, and similar shelves.
Battle Class
How it behaves in combat: Winged Insect, Arachnid Hunter, Fungal Entity, Nocturne Bat, Owl Night-Sentinel, Poison Flora, and more.
Rarity & Access
Rarity affects how special a specimen is. Access tier affects how difficult it is to obtain. Some specimens may be rare because of their drop odds, while others may be locked behind events, education, special currencies, or limited offers.
| Layer | What It Means | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Common / Uncommon | Good starter or early collection specimens. Easier to obtain and useful for learning the system. | Sporelings, starter insects, basic spiders, simpler field finds. |
| Rare / Ultra Rare | Harder pulls with stronger collector appeal, better showcase value, or more unusual traits. | Rare butterflies, specialty fungi, stronger arachnids, unusual botanicals. |
| Advanced | Specimens that usually require more focused pulls, special access, or stronger signal paths. | Birds, corvids, rare butterflies, stronger mantises. |
| Difficult | Intentionally harder groups that should feel earned. | Bats, elite mantises, rare class families. |
| Elite | Top-shelf chase specimens. These should not flood the ecosystem. | Owls, bamboo relics, elite anomalies, special relic-class specimens. |
| Education / Event Locked | Specimens tied to learning paths, special drops, events, seasonal access, or future missions. | Discovery rewards, event specimens, limited Vault signals. |
Traits, Bonus Traits & Quirks
Traits help define what a specimen is good at. Quirks add personality, realism, odd behavior, and sometimes small advantages or drawbacks.
Signature Trait
The main identity trait for a specimen. This can influence how the specimen feels in battle, collection lore, showcase value, and future move pools.
- Owls: Silent strike, night vision, focused predator energy.
- Bats: Echo, sonar, cavewind movement, nocturnal signal reading.
- Fungi: Spore pressure, mycelial memory, bloom guard, decomposition energy.
- Botanicals: toxins, thorns, trap reflexes, vines, dream signals, or bloom lures.
Bonus Trait Slots
Some specimens may roll extra trait slots. These are meant to make exceptional individuals feel like the cream of the crop. Not every specimen gets bonus traits.
- Single trait: normal specimen identity.
- Two traits: stronger individual with better potential.
- Three traits: rare A-team style roll with higher collector and battle value.
Quirks & Handicaps
Quirks are small personality or physical details. Some are just flavor. Others can affect battle behavior, bonding, recovery, evasion, damage, or future potion reactions.
| Quirk Type | Possible Feel | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Physical | Small body or movement oddity. | Bent Wingtip, Heavy Plume, Lucky Limp, One-Eyed Focus. |
| Behavioral | Personality or reaction pattern. | Storm-Skittish, Slow to Trust, Overeager Reflex. |
| Class-Specific | Connected to the specimen’s type or battle class. | Rootbound for botanicals, Web-Shy for spiders, Noisy Takeoff for flyers. |
| Risk / Reward | Could help in one situation and hurt in another. | Overprimed Venom may hit harder but behave less predictably. |
Currencies & Resources
The MycoDex uses different resources for different kinds of progress. Some are common and steady, while others are rarer and reserved for advanced systems.
Spore Dust
The most common Vault resource. Used for everyday progress, recycling systems, showcase slots, sparring rewards, certain market actions, and clone attempts.
Prism Spores
A rarer signal resource. Used for higher-value access paths, focused pulls, rare offers, special unlocks, and future premium systems.
Incubator Credits
A time and lab resource. Used to reduce incubation wait time, assist stabilization, and support clone or replication attempts.
Incubation & Stabilization
Some Vault-Specimens unlock instantly. Others enter incubation first. Incubation means the specimen signal has been found, but it needs time to stabilize before it joins your active MycoDex collection.
How Incubation Works
- A Vault Key, capsule, or reward finds a specimen signal.
- If incubation is required, the specimen enters your reservoir.
- A countdown shows how long remains before stabilization.
- When ready, the specimen can be claimed into your collection.
Using Incubator Credits
Incubator Credits can reduce wait time or support future stabilization systems. They are especially useful when a specimen is rare, tied to a special pack, or needed for cloning and replication systems.
Battle Arena
The Battle Arena lets active Myco-Patrons test specimens in spar battles. Battle performance can be shaped by stats, traits, quirks, rarity, battle class, and future item systems.
Active vs Passive
Active players can participate in battle systems. Passive players can focus on collecting, learning, showcasing, and trading without being pulled into challenge-style gameplay.
What Affects Battle?
- Stats: Glow, Signal, Agility, Camouflage, and Spore Energy.
- Battle Class: The combat identity of the specimen.
- Traits: Can enhance offense, defense, signal, movement, or special behavior.
- Quirks: May add small bonuses, drawbacks, or unusual interactions.
- Future Items: Potions, stabilizers, catalysts, and other additives may influence outcomes later.
Showcase, Marketplace & Trading
Not every specimen needs to battle. Some are display pieces, collector trophies, trade targets, clone candidates, or rare rolls worth showing off.
Showcase
Choose favorite specimens to place on public display. Additional showcase slots may require resources to unlock.
Marketplace
Myco-Patrons can list specimens for in-game resources such as Spore Dust, Prism Spores, or Incubator Credits when marketplace systems are available.
Future Trades
Future trade systems may allow requested-specimen offers, review windows, verifier fees, and trade settlement rules.
Clone Lab & Replication
The Clone Lab is for Myco-Patrons who want another specimen connected to an owned specimen line. Cloning is designed to be expensive and uncertain so rare specimens do not flood the ecosystem.
How Cloning Feels
A clone attempt may try to produce a related specimen from something you already own. It may not always create a perfect copy. Future systems can allow instability, mutation, trait shifts, or special additives.
Why It Costs Resources
Cloning creates more circulation, so it should require meaningful investment. Spore Dust fuels the attempt, while Incubator Credits help stabilize the lab process.
Discovery Portal & Learning
The Discovery Portal is where learning, lore, and rewards can connect. Some paths may eventually unlock badges, Spore Dust, Incubator Credits, Prism Spores, or education-linked specimens.
Regular Discovery
MycoDex questions and discovery activities can help players learn the system, understand specimen ecology, and earn rewards.
Myco-Deep-Dive Paths
Players who want more depth can follow longer learning paths with interactive content, advanced lore, H5P activities, and future mission rewards.
Myco-Deep-Dive
This section is for players who want more detail. Open any topic to go deeper without forcing new players to read everything at once.
How specimen identity works
A specimen has several identity layers. The broad type says what it is, the family or shelf says where it appears in collection browsing, the battle class says how it behaves in combat, and group tags allow it to appear in extra shelves or special access systems.
Example: a rare butterfly may be Type: Insects & Bugs, Family: Butterflies, Battle Class: Winged Insect, and Tags: Pollinator, Advanced, Rare Prism Pull.
Why some species are intentionally harder
Some groups are designed as long-term chase goals. Owls, bats, bamboo relics, elite mantises, rare butterflies, and special anomalies should not appear as common filler. These specimens give collectors something to build toward.
How traits can affect value
Traits can make a specimen more interesting for battle, collection, showcase, and future trade value. A normal version of a species may be useful, but a version with strong bonus traits may become much more desirable.
How quirks can create personality
Quirks prevent specimens from feeling like identical copies. A quirk may be a tiny flaw, a behavior, a special reaction, or a small advantage. Some quirks may become more important when potions, bonding, clone lab systems, or deeper battle mechanics expand.
How incubation supports pack design
Physical Myco-Vault packs and codes can unlock specimens instantly, place them into incubation, or grant extra rewards. This lets different packs feel different. A quick starter pack may unlock instantly, while a rare signal pack may require a short stabilization period.
How future H5P missions can fit in
Interactive lessons can become MycoDex missions. Activities like Interactive Video, Course Presentation, Drag and Drop, Image Hotspots, Branch Scenario, Interactive Book, Memory Game, Crossword, Game Map, and other H5P content types can eventually connect to rewards.
How trading and verifier windows may work later
Future trade systems may allow Myco-Patrons to list a specimen for in-game currencies or request specific specimens in trade. Optional verifier windows could allow a seller to review an offer for a set period before approving, rejecting, or allowing the system to settle the offer automatically.
Need the Fastest Path?
Follow this simple route and ignore the advanced systems until you are ready.