How does breeding work?
Breeding can be performed in the Breeding Lab when you have 2 epic shrooms: One shroom is the mother and the other used as the father. Epic shrooms are dropped randomly during harvesting and also automatically when a perfect health (mastery) is achieved. Epic shrooms take up space and are stored in your warehouse. Breeding shrooms in the lab can yield 2 results:
Breed to upgrade the mother strain
Breed to create a new strain
Each time you breed two shrooms you have a chance to improve one trait of the mother shroom. The green area shows you the minimum and maximum range for how many points your strain can get for that quality, depending on where the marker lands. If you land on the “Bonus” category, then no matter which quality you land on, it'll get maxed out.
To summarize, it's like the birds and bees.
Step 1: Select 1 mother strain,
Step 2: Select 1 father strain.
Step 3: Breed them together. Watch the magic.
Result: The child has the same traits as the mom but with the bonuses of dad
Strategy
Each strain has a maximum benefit it can provide for each trait. So you have to use a mix of strains to level up your quality. i.e You can't keep using Golden Teacher over and over to level up your strain. At the higher levels you will need all 9 strains to level up!
Legendary Shrooms
Legendary shrooms are the highest quality epic shrooms you can possibly get. You can only find them or purchase them. They have higher average rewards in ALL 4 traits (potency, purity, enhance, and euphoria). They are unique in this way.
Benefits of breeding?
Higher quality shrooms! Higher quality fathers will give more bonuses in the Research Field and higher quality shrooms will give you more money every quality level!