Fungal Flexin' in the Ancient Forest

Your primary objective is to collect twenty Gourmet Shroomcaps. These will count towards your total automatically when harvested and do not take up inventory space.

The Ancient Forest is divided into numbered sections, which appear on your minimap (the small circular map in the bottom-left corner of your screen) and your compass. You must enter an area for its section to be revealed.

Points of interest, including resources and monsters, will be marked on your minimap once you get close enough to spot them.

You can fast travel to discovered camps. Items for quests are found in the Supply Box at camps.

While exploring, be mindful of your Stamina bar. If it depletes, your recovery will be slower. You can hide in foliage by pressing [X]/[A].

Monsters like Aptonoth, Jagras, and Kestodon can be found. Most monsters will leave you alone if you maintain a moderate distance. If a monster's ire is raised, you must fight or flee. The edge of the minimap will glow red when under threat.

Avoid conflict with larger, more dangerous monsters such as the Pukei Pukei (frequents AREA 4) and Great Jagras (found in AREA 3 and AREA 4). They are not terribly aggressive if you avoid getting too close or staying near them too long.

Researching monsters involves being near them or in areas they frequent. Scoutflies will guide you to signs of their passage (scrape marks, tracks, sheddings, etc.) when you are near a monster you can research.

The Gourmet Shroomcaps you need are most easily found along the northwestern edge of AREA 4.

Look for three Unique Mushroom Colonies. Each has a good chance of dropping a Gourmet Shroomcap and can be harvested multiple times.

If you encounter large monsters while in AREA 4, be wary and flee if they attack.

Once all three Unique Mushroom Colonies have been expended, wait a few minutes and return. They should have respawned.

Continue harvesting from the colonies until you have collected twenty Gourmet Shroomcaps.