Fortnite Season 8: Gain 50 Shield From Mushrooms & Mushroom Locations

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Week 5 of Fortnite Season 8 is here and with it comes the usual seven challenges. Week 5 is a rather busy week all up. One of the busier challenges requires us to gain 50 shields from mushrooms. This is essentially the shield variant of the ‘apple’ eating challenge from Week 2. Like the Week 2 challenge, this is a multi-stage challenge with the first step being the most challenging of the bunch.

Mushrooms tend to spawn in ‘shaded’ areas, especially in the shade of trees, which makes sense. 50 shields translates into 10 mushrooms in total and unlike the apple version of the challenge, you don’t start with full shields, so landing at a location with decent mushroom density can have this step knocked out in a minute or two.

 

Fortnite Season 8 Mushroom Locations

Fortnite Season 8 Mushroom Locations

The northwest location of the map contains the most amount of mushroom patches, but they tend to be quite sparse in density. That is, there tends to be a handful of (2-4) mushrooms per patch, which isn’t enough to finish it in one go. The highest density of mushrooms is Dusty Divot, but that’s also the most well known location of mushroom spawns and will be hotly contested. The places with the highest density aside from Dusty Divot is a decent sized patch to the west of Junk Junction and a patch north of Retail Row. There are enough mushrooms in these areas to knock the challenge out in one go.

 

Dusty Divot

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The entire crater of Dusty Divot is home to a large amount of mushrooms, the most of any location on the map. You can find Dusty Divot at F5, F6, G5 and G6 on the main map’s grid.

 

Haunted Hills

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Slightly to the south of Haunted Hills is a small mushroom field at B3. Even further south, just west of the haunted house turned pirate camp, is another mushroom field at B4.

 

Junk Junction

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Junk Junction houses a few mushroom fields in close proximity, one at D1, one at C2 and one at B2. The best of these is the one at B2, containing a fair few mushrooms in the area.

 

Lonely Lodge

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Just south of the main lodge, up a small cliff is a field of mushrooms. You’ll find them around J4 on the main map’s grid.

 

Retail Row

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North of Retail Row is a valley filled with trees, there will be mushrooms scattered throughout the region. H5 on the main map’s grid.

 

Tilted Towers

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To the west of Tilted Towers is an unnamed settlement with a soccer stadium and to the east of that town slightly up the hill is a small mushroom field overlooking the soccer stadium. C5 on the main map’s grid.

Getting this challenge done quickly just requires you land at either Junk Junction, Dusty Divot or Retail Row and slam down as many mushrooms as you can find. These three locations tend to have enough to get 50 shields in a single landing, but not always. As you start with zero initial shields, it alleviates the need to take damage to get it done as well. Week 5 also has a few other ‘travel’ related challenges, including: Eliminations at Pirate Camps, using a Volcano Vent, zipline and vehicle in a single match and searching 7 chests at Paradise Palms and Shifty Shafts. So this week will require a fair bit of hoofin’ it to get them all done.

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