Intro

Mycelia is located throughout the maps in many forms, it can appear as plant specimens in caves that can be collected by hand or harvested with a chainsaw. While using the chainsaw in the Rocky Desert, cutting down cacti looking plants will yield mycelia, especially when using Area Mode of the chainsaw.  

Biomass

Once you have collected 5 x Mycelia you can perform the first research branch in the MAM. This rewards you with the ability to craft Biomass from Mycelia, either at the Craft Bench or in a Constructor.

Fabric

Three research branches now open up, starting on the left you can research fabric with 25 x Mycelia and 100 x Biomass. Fabric can now be made at the craft bench or in an assembler and additional research opens up.

Parachute

With 10 x Fabric and 50 x Cable you can research the Parachute, an equipment item for the pioneer that allows you fall slowly in the air and glide vast distances. It costs 20 x Fabric and 10 x Cable to craft a parachute at the Equipment Workshop.

From within the player inventory, drag the parachute to the pioneer BACK slot to equip it. Now it's a simple matter of pressing the jump button while in the air to deploy it, which is the spacebar. Once you land the parachute is ready to use again, it does not get consumed and hence is an infinite use item. You can also press crouch while the parachute is deployed to release it to resume falling quicker, which is the C key.

One useful game mechanic is that when the parachute is deployed, coming in contact with an incline surface will lift the pioneer, allowing you to reach higher ground that you might not have been able to without it.

Expanded Toolbelt

Expanded Toolbelt can now be researched requiring 50 x Fabric and 100 x Rotors. This add an additional hand slot for the Pioneer, allowing one more item to be carried and not consume an inventory slot.

Synthetic Polyester Fabric

Synthetic Polyester Fabric is the next research item, requiring 25 x Fabric and 100 x Polymer Resin. This unlocks the Fabric alternate recipe called Polyester Fabric. It requires 1 x Polymer Resin and 1 x Water to craft and hence it can only be crafted inside a Refinery. This recipe becomes useful when you want to automate the production of Gas Filters.

Gas Mask & Filters

Talking of Gas Filters, the Gas Mask is the next research item requiring 10 x Coal, 50 x Fabric and 50 x Steel Pipe. This will now give you the ability to craft the Gask Mask at the Equipment Workshop requiring 50 x Fabric, 10 x Copper Sheet and 10 x Steel Pipe. From within the player inventory, drag the Gask Mask to the pioneer HEAD slot to equip it.

However the Gas Mask does nothing without Gas Filters, these are crafted at the Equipment Workshop or in a Manufacturer requiring 2 x Fabric, 4 x Coal and 2 x Iron Plate. The Gas Filter is consumed at a rate of 1 per 24 seconds when you are in the vicinity of poisonous gas. You will find poisonous gas at pillars in the environment and certain Stingers will also produce poisonous gas.

Gas Nobelisks

The next research is Toxic Cellular Modification, requiring 10 x Nobelisk, 100 x Mycelia and 200 x Biomass. This provides the ability to craft Gas Nobelisks at the Equipment Workshop or in an Assembler. These require 1 x Nobelisk and 10 x Biomass and instead of exploding objects they produce a long lasting poisonous gas cloud. Most creatures can be killed with the gas cloud with the exception of Stingers *need to clarify.

Medicinal Inhalers

Medical Properies is the far right branch to research requiring 25 x Mycelia and 10 x Stator. This then unlocks two types of Medicinal Inhalers that can be researched. The Vitamin Inhaler requires 10 x Mycelia and 5 x Paleberries allowing a Medicinal Inhaler to be crafted at the Equipment Workshop for the same cost. The Therapeutic Inhaler requires 15 x Mycelia, 1 x Bacon Agaric and 1 x Alien Protein allowing a Medicinal Inhaler to be crafted at the Equipment Workshop for the same cost.

The Medical Inhaler will restore your health to full, very helpful for when you're battling it out with Alien Megafauna or recovering from fall damage.