Lore
While some archaic rumours claim otherwise, consumption of this fungus does not engender a feeling of euphoria but rather agony, madness and death.
The game reveals this in play at high Radiance or Inferno.
Quoted from the item as the game writes it. Datamined
Damage absorption
| Damage type | Absorbs | Defence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical | 24.9% | 200 | |
| Fire | 29.3% | 250 | Toughest |
| Holy | 29.3% | 250 | Toughest |
| Wither | 29.3% | 250 | Toughest |
| Magic | 20.7% | 158 | Weakest |
Magic is spell damage. No weapon deals it — every spell does, whichever school it belongs to — so that row is how well casting works against this enemy, and the other four are what your weapon does.
Lowest absorption is where your damage goes furthest — magic here. The Defence column is the game's own stored value, on the same scale as an armour piece's absorption. The percentage is derived from it as K/(K+defence) with K = 604, a constant solved from three mitigations measured in game rather than read out of a table — so treat it as accurate to a few tenths, not exact.
How to hurt it
- If you swing
- Blunt
- If you cast
- Magic 20.7% absorbed
- Resists
- Pierce · Fire, holy and wither 29.3% absorbed
Both lines matter whichever way you play. The game gives you two hands for melee and a third slot for casting or a throwable, so most fights use both — and a cast has a wind-up that a crowd at close range will not wait through. Take the number for whatever is in your hand at the time.
Its absorption is even across the four schools a weapon can deal — 24.9% to 29.3%, a spread of 4.4 points. There is no school worth switching weapons for, so bring whatever you already hit hardest with.
What does not work
No mechanic is ruled out — it can be staggered, backstabbed and Soulflayed.
Least effective: fire, holy and wither 29.3% absorbed · pierce
Not a wall — it can be killed with any of these. At 29.3% absorbed you are giving up 9 percentage points against magic, which is the difference between a fight and a long fight.
Drops
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
| Fungal Bowman Bow | 4.3% |
| Minor Wither Salts | 4.0% |
| Briostone | 4.0% |
| Small Manastone Cluster | 4.0% |
| Fungal Bowman Collar | 3.5% |
| Arm Fungus | 3.5% |
| Torso Fungus | 3.5% |
| Fungal Bowman Trousers | 3.5% |
| Fungal Bowman Dagger | 3.5% |
Entries without a link are consumables, upgrade materials or vigor — things the site does not have pages for yet.
Where you find Fungal Bowman
Placed in Sunless Skein, and nowhere else in the game.
In order of how much of each region they cover. Datamined
Status resistance
| Status | Resistance | |
|---|---|---|
| Bleed | 185 | Procs soonest |
| Poison | 185 | Procs soonest |
| Frostbite | 185 | Procs soonest |
| Smite | 245 | |
| Burn | 185 | Procs soonest |
| Ignite | 245 | |
| Wither | 200 | Applies on hit |
These are buildup thresholds, not percentages, so they read the opposite way to absorption — a lower number procs sooner. They are comparable between enemies but not against any other figure on the site. The proc itself is a damage event that scales off your own attributes, which is why two players see different numbers from the same status.
Wither sits outside that comparison. It applies on the hit rather than building toward a threshold, so its figure is not measuring the same thing as the other six and is left out of "procs soonest" — otherwise it would win on most enemies in the game and the tag would stop telling you anything.
Similar enemies
Also in Sunless Skein
Same faction
The game files this one by where it lives rather than by what it is: the loot row has a single slot for both, and this one holds a place. There is no faction to show, and none is inferred.
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