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Items in Mortal Shell are as numerous as you’d expect from a soulslike game, with various mushrooms, tokens, tars, and baguettes that will end up in your inventory. This is made even more complex with Mortal Shell’s familiarity system, which means you won’t know what any item does until you use it.
In this guide, we’ll list (almost) all of Mortal Shell’s items and what they do, and we’ll list the added benefits you get from them when you max out your familiarity.
Familiarity
You start off Mortal Shell not knowing what any item does. You’ll get a quick, lore-adjacent quote, but no real help from the descriptions.
As you use the items, though, the descriptions will update to include information on their effects. When you use an item enough, you’ll become familiar with it. Items you are familiar with grant bonuses when you use them.
Mortal Shell items
Below, we’ve listed (almost) all of Mortal Shell’s 78 items in a sortable and searchable table. (We didn’t include the weapons you’ll find over the course of playing, and there are still a few Glimpses we haven’t found yet.) Your menu’s Compendium tab breaks them into categories, but we’ve ignored that for ease of reference.
Mortal Shell items
Name | Type | Effect | Familiar effect |
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Name | Type | Effect | Familiar effect |
Baguette | Health | ||
Roasted Rat | Health | Regenerate 35 health over 10 seconds, costs Resolve | Regenerate 45 health over 10 seconds |
Boiled Frog | Stamina | Increase stamina regeneration for 3 minutes | Lasts 5 minutes |
Bronze Bell | Tar | Gain a 10% bonus to Tar found for six minutes. | 10% chance enemies drop extra Glimpses |
Golden Bell | Resolve | Increase Resolve gain for 3 minutes. | Lasts longer |
Inferior Moonshine | Resolve | Adds a small amount of Resolve, costs health | Lose less health |
Superior Moonshine | Resolve | Adds a large amount of Resolve | Adds even more Resolve |
Tarspore | Poison | Deals 40 poison damage over 16 seconds | Grants immunity to poison for 120 seconds |
Weltcap | Health | Regenerate 30 health over 30 seconds | Heal more quickly |
Simple Lute | Lute | Practice makes perfect | Incites enemies to violence from a great distance |
Scripture of Euphoria | Health | Grants health on successful parry | More health recovered |
Scripture of Repent | Damage | Lights enemy on fire on successful parry | Boosts fire damage |
Scripture of Despair | Damage | Deal bonus damage on next attack after successful parry | Boosts damage further |
Scripture of Ardor | Damage | Poison enemy on successful parry | Boosts poison damage |
Scripture of Defiance | Resolve | Refunds Resolve on successful parry | More Resolve refunded |
Tainted Nektar | Shell | Ejects you from your shell, but does not use your Last Chance | Recover Tar as well |
Mortal Token | Health | Damage while Hardened converts to health | More health recovered |
Spectral Token | Damage | Damage while Hardened adds damage to next attack | Increases damage |
Ornate Token | Health | Damage while Hardened decreases next damage taken | Negates next damage completely |
Untarnished Mask | Fast travel | Recalls you to the most recent Sester Genessa you visited | Gain Resolve |
Etherial Diapason | Shell | Restores ability to reclaim your shell (Last Chance) | Gain Resolve |
Effigy of Harros | Shell | Summons Harros, costs health | Decreases damage taken |
Effigy of Solomon | Shell | Summons Solomon, costs health | Decreases damage taken |
Effigy of Tiel | Shell | Summons Tiel, costs health | Decreases damage taken |
Effigy of Eredrim | Shell | Summons Eredrim, costs health | Decreases damage taken |
Mango | Health | ||
Rotten Food | Health | Small increase to health, costs Resolve | Decreases Resolve cost |
Remnant of Tar | Tar | Grants 80 Tar | Grants 100 Tar |
Congealed Tar | Tar | Grants 150 Tar | Grants 200 Tar |
Bag of Tar | Tar | Grants 300 Tar | Grants 375 Tar |
Slurry of Tar | Tar | Grants 500 Tar | Grants 600 Tar |
Unguent Tar | Tar | Grants 750 Tar | Grants 850 Tar |
Extracted Tar | Tar | Grants 1300 Tar | |
Nascent Tar | Tar | Grants 2500 Tar | |
Glimpse of Futility | Glimpses | Grants 1 Glimpse | Grants 2 Glimpses |
Glimpse of Wisdom | Glimpses | Grants 2 Glimpses | Grants 3 Glimpses |
Glimpse of Affection | Glimpses | Grants 4 Glimpses | Grants 5 Glimpses |
Glimpse of Hope | Glimpses | Grants 6 Glimpses | Grants 7 Glimpses |
Glimpse of Truth | Glimpses | Grants 15 Glimpses | |
Glimpse of Disdain | Glimpses | Grants 22 Glimpses | |
Glimpse of Annihilation | Glimpses | Grants 15 Glimpses | |
Glimpse of Insignificance | Glimpses | Grants 15 Glimpses | |
Tarnished Mask | Fast travel | Recalls you to the most recent Sester Genessa you visited, costs all of your Glimpses | Costs half of your Glimpses |
Ornate Mask | Fast travel | Allows astral travel between Sesters Genessa you've visited | Gain Tar for one minute after use |
Tattered Vestment | Weapon | Summons the Hallowed Sword | |
Disciple's Rag | Weapon | Summons the Smoldering Macee | |
Martyr's Shawl | Weapon | Summons the Martyr's Blade | |
Sester's Binding | Weapon | Summons the Hammer and Chisel | |
Impervious Lute | Lute | Lute is life. | It must have taken a while to have gotten this good. |
Tools | Weapon | Repairs the Ballistazooka | |
Crystalline Gland | Weapon | Upgrade for the Tarnished Seal | |
Knotted Gland | Weapon | Upgrade for the Tarnished Seal | |
Inflamed Gland | Weapon | Upgrade for the Tarnished Seal | |
Mechanical Spike | Weapon | Upgrade for the Hallowed Sword | |
Molten Spike | Weapon | Upgrade for the Hallowed Sword | |
Foundry Stone | Weapon | Upgrade for the Smoldering Mace | |
Awakened Stone | Weapon | Upgrade for the Smoldering Mace | |
Petrified Winterglass | Weapon | Upgrade for the Martyr's Blade | |
Radiant Winterglass | Weapon | Upgrade for the Martyr's Blade | |
Perfumed Censer | Weapon | Upgrade for the Hammer and Chisel | |
Foul Censer | Weapon | Upgrade for the Hammer and Chisel | |
Quenching Acid | Weapon | Upgrade for any weapon | |
Solemn Offering | Weapon | Upgrade for the Tarnished Seal | |
Forbidden Offering | Weapon | Upgrade for the Tarnished Seal |