Truffles and pigs

[Clenda]

I'm pretty sure theres a lot of mushrooms capable of making fairy rings. Its just an effect created when they consume from one spot and radiate outwards from it in a circle.

This is true.
Also, can anyone confirm if truffles are tasty? They look inedible like charcoal briquettes.

They are tasty but no all people like it.

But you can find truffles only near specific trees (oaks, hazelnuts, lime trees, charms)

[Blueberry]

Necroing instead of making my own truffle post.

Maybe without a leashed pig they're a very rare fate item. With a pig they're more common, but still suitably rare.
Higher quality pigs find more truffles or just better truffles?
Should the hearthling's stats have any effect?
Should they simply pop up like any other foregable? Or should one have to follow a radius as if using a dowsing rod, then dig when the truffle is pinpointed? Higher quality pigs have a larger radius.
Pigs could get something like pony power. As it runs out their radius slowly shrinks until they are too tired to continue.
Truffle oil could be a superior alternative to black pepper. Could you put both on food?

Hmm...

[Dakkan]

Truffles are goddamn delicious.

Fairy rings are a general term for those rings of mushroom fruiting bodies, while the specific term for the feature you see around trees that have been colonized by this fungus is call "brûlé." Means burnt in French, because the plant life (other than the tree) around the base of the colonized tree is reduced to the point of seeing bare ground, as if it was burnt away. The fungi is sucking away all the nutrients from the soil basically.

Truffles form what is called a mycorrhizal relationship with trees such as hazelnut. The fungi is better adapted at reaching nutrients and water underground than the tree is, and act as an extended root system for the tree. In exchange, the tree provides the colonizing fungi with a carbon source. At least 90% of plantlife is dependent on this type of relationship with fungi, though usually it's with boring arbuscular mycorrhiza, which doesn't make macroscopic big delicious mushrooms.

I always hoped to see stuff like this in H&H. Various fungal associations with their respective trees. We have boletes, which are almost always mycorrizal (an example of a bolete that farms aphids which eat the tree roots instead is the only counter example I can think of). It would be really fun to be able to start truffle/bolete farms similar to real life, where you basically plant an entire orchard and just hope that they colonize with the appropriate fungus. I think I do remember the origins of mycellial innoculations in farming being very basic and old, germinating the seeds in soil from the successful parent tree farm? Something like that. Would be cool if certain trees we planted resulted in certain mushrooms growing.

Always want more mushrooms.

Edit: Amanita, those are frequently mycorrhizal with pines, and a berserk effect would be fun. Or something, just would like more mushrooms.

[jorb]

Will consider!