r/mushroom_hunting

Found this beauty the other day and cooked it up

I’ve been trying to ID these for some hours now it’s leading me to so much different species.

I just started a spore print I looked a bit before it was done, and it started to be brownish, found these on the ground close to a dead tree. I have only one picture under the sun, and the colour seem way more purpleish than in real life

Butterball boletes, shrimp of the woods, and honey mushrooms. It will be my first time cooking with these specifically so any suggestions are welcome

Got these yesterday, along with a 25 pound COTW that I already posted. There's 40+ pounds in just the last 2 pics. I would have posted yesterday, but I've been cleaning, roasting, making stock, and dehydrating like a madman since I got back from the woods. I'm gonna have literal gallons of beautiful mushroom stock laid up for winter, in addition to heaps of really nice dried HOTW.

I didn't pick the little guys in the first picture, but I may go back for them tomorrow if I have time. The should have grown well since yesterday.

I think i found a young Giant Puffball in my backyard. Can anyone confirm that this is one? This is pretty new to me (started with corn smut), and want to try a puffball.

I'm in northern Ohio, if that helps any.

I’ve been building a small experiment called River Racing League, and it has pushed me toward a different way of thinking about what actually needs to be “built.”

Instead of creating a digital world, programming its physics and deciding how objects behave, I start with a real river.

I put racers into it. People pick who they think will win. Then the river does the computation.

Current, rocks, obstacles, collisions, slow water, getting stuck, breaking free and random paths determine the actual outcome.

Here’s what the current version looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rm8pP2A97bk

Right now it’s deliberately primitive because I’m trying to avoid building complexity before I know what people actually respond to.

The build path I’m testing is basically:

real physical event → audience prediction → measure attention/interaction → add only the digital layers that prove useful

Eventually that could mean persistent racers, scoring, statistics, seasons, computer vision, AI commentary, predictions and other game systems.

But I don’t want to build all of that first.

The interesting question for me is whether the physical world can supply enough complexity that software only needs to organize and enhance the experience around it.

So this is genuinely being built in public. The simple version is running now, and what people actually respond to will influence what I build on top of it next.

I’d be interested in what other builders would add first—and what you’d deliberately leave out.

Found in Nova Scotia. Just wondering if they are Honey Mushrooms?

Found in upstate ny growing at the base of a tree. Going to do a spore print when I get home.

Mushroom substrate was definitely a first for me today. When foraging and tracking come together!