Mortal Shell guide: Item dictionary

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.