White Cap

A pale forest mushroom – Fortify Heavy Armor and Restore Magicka, plus two harmful effects.

White Cap is a pale mushroom growing in dark places and on fallen logs. It’s worthless to merchants but useful at the lab: Fortify Heavy Armor and Restore Magicka are its good sides, while Weakness to Frost and Ravage Magicka suit poisons.

Alchemy effects

The effects are listed in the order you discover them by eating the ingredient or using it in a potion. Two ingredients make a potion when they share at least one effect.

  1. Weakness to Frost – a poison effect that makes the target take more frost damage. Also on: Abecean Longfin, Elves Ear, Fire Salts, Ice Wraith Teeth.
  2. Fortify Heavy Armor – temporarily raises your Heavy Armor skill. Also on: Ice Wraith Teeth, Sabre Cat Tooth, Slaughterfish Scales, Thistle Branch.
  3. Restore Magicka – instantly restores spent Magicka. Also on: Briar Heart, Creep Cluster, Dwarven Oil, Ectoplasm, Elves Ear, Fire Salts, Frost Salts, Giant Lichen, Grass Pod, Human Flesh, Moon Sugar, Mora Tapinella, Pearl, Red Mountain Flower, Taproot, Vampire Dust.
  4. Ravage Magicka – a concentrated poison that lowers the target’s Magicka for a while. Also on: Frost Mirriam, Grass Pod, Lavender, Orange Dartwing, Red Mountain Flower.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 0 gold, weight 0.3.

Where to find it

  • Dark caves and logs in forests across Skyrim.
  • Chillwind Depths, Halldir's Cairn, Frostflow Abyss, Rebel's Cairn, Reachwater Rock and Lost Prospect Mine.
  • A few in Blackreach and Ysgramor's Tomb, and at least one in the Midden.
  • White Cap Circle, an unmarked spot north of the Twilight Sepulcher, and under a juniper tree in Karthwasten.

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