Fly Amanita

A red-capped cave mushroom – Resist Fire, Fortify Two-handed and Frenzy.

Fly Amanita is the classic red mushroom with white spots, growing in caves and mines all over Skyrim. It’s one of the first ingredients you’ll pick in Embershard Mine. Resist Fire and Fortify Two-handed are its useful sides; Frenzy is there if you’d rather turn your enemies on each other.

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. Resist Fire – reduces the fire damage you take for a while. Also on: Berit’s Ashes, Bone Meal, Dragon’s Tongue, Elves Ear, Fire Salts, Mudcrab Chitin, Snowberries.
  2. Fortify Two-handed – makes your two-handed weapons hit harder for a while. Also on: Dragon’s Tongue, Troll Fat.
  3. Frenzy – a poison effect that makes low-level creatures and people attack anything nearby. Also on: Blisterwort, Falmer Ear, Hagraven Feathers, Human Heart, Troll Fat.
  4. Regenerate Stamina – makes your Stamina regenerate faster for a while. Also on: Bee, Mora Tapinella, Scaly Pholiota.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 2 gold, weight 0.1.

Where to find it

  • Pinemoon Cave has around 66 – at least 28 in the first room with the wolves – and Geirmund's Hall about 44.
  • Chillwind Depths (34), Steamscorch Mine (22), Irkngthand (15 in the Falmer village), Orotheim, Rebel's Cairn and Tolvald's Cave (13 each).
  • Embershard Mine near Riverwood has ten, perfect for beginners.
  • Around Riverwood and Falkreath, on the side of Honeyside in Riften, and on a shelf in the Bannered Mare in Whiterun.
  • Also in the ashen south of Solstheim (Dragonborn).

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