Mudborne Guide: 10 Beginner Tips You Actually Need
Mudborne tosses you into a swampy, frog-filled world with zero instructions and a lot of mushrooms. If you’re feeling lost, slimy, or both—don’t worry. Here are 10 useful tips to help you get started and avoid accidentally starving your tadpoles or composting your favorite frog.
1. Eat Bugs First, Ask Questions Later
Your frog needs to taste bugs to identify their flavor—sweet, salty, spicy, slimy, etc. Tadpoles are picky eaters, and won’t grow unless you feed them the right flavor bug. By default, bugs show as “unknown,” so take a bite to log their flavor in your encyclopedia. Also: eating bugs makes you move faster through water. Bonus snack perk.
2. Use Overflow Storage in Machines
Each machine has an overflow section at the bottom of its menu. Dump extra resources in there so you don’t clog up your inventory. You’ll thank yourself when your pockets aren’t full of frogborne eggs and compost sludge.
3. Switch Frogs for Different Jobs
Not all frogs are created equal. Frogs have traits (measured by the A.N.O.U.R.E.S. system) that affect what they can do.
Heavy frogs can press switches.
Tiny frogs can fit through tight spaces.
Always equip the right frog for the job, or get ready to do a lot of backtracking.
4. Commune in Dreams When You’re Lost
Stuck? Go to sleep and choose “Commune” instead of just napping. You’ll enter the dream world and get hints from the dream frog about what to do next. It’s like frog tech support, but mystical.
5. Compost Smarter, Not Harder
There are 8 compost types, but you’ll mostly make Leafy Compost by default.
Want more mushrooms? Use Rich Compost.
Want faster growth? Use Loose Compost.
Crafting better compost means more mushrooms, and more mushrooms means better mud magic for breeding frogs.
6. Use Lilypads to Cross Deep Water
Can’t swim? No problem. Jump across lilypads to move over deep water. Your frog can hop farther than you think—if there’s no “cancel” icon when you hover over a lilypad, you can jump to it. Check your map to plan routes.
7. Machines Are Better With Stuff In Them
Leave resources like bugs, mud, and eggs inside machines using the overflow slots. It keeps things tidy and saves inventory space, especially when you use the same machine over and over.
8. Store Spare Frogs With Furniture
Frogs are friends, not inventory clutter. Use frog furniture to store your spare frogs. You’ll see them chilling on the furniture in the world, ready to follow you or breed when needed. You can also steal furniture with a hammer. (Yes, really.)
9. Visit the Dream World for Hidden Paths
Reflection Pools let you jump into the dream world, where you can often find paths to chests, keys, or locked buildings that are unreachable in the waking world. If something doesn’t make sense, check the dream version—it’s probably clearer there.
10. Don’t Waste Bugs – Feed Tadpoles Correctly
Each tadpole batch demands a specific bug flavor to grow. Feed the wrong flavor, and they stay sad blobs forever. Check your encyclopedia for flavor info before feeding, and always keep extra bugs on hand.
Final Blurb
Mudborne is cozy but chaotic—just like real frogs. Whether you're composting mushrooms or playing frog matchmaker, these tips should help you hop ahead. Just remember: eat bugs, switch frogs, and don’t forget to check your dream world. It’s probably weirder than you think.
