(Image credit: Aggro Crab / Landfall)

Peak dropped its Roots update last week, adding a new biome filled with towering redwood trees and filled with spore clouds and undead creatures. Between the trees though, you’ll find giant red mushrooms which you can bounce off, and it hasn’t taken players long at all to find an exploit which drastically increases the air time you get from doing so.

Most people would look at these mushrooms and not think much of them; I know I certainly did when I first saw them. Plus, when you jump onto one normally, you don’t actually travel very far into the air. Obviously the higher you climb before jumping onto a mushroom, the higher you’ll jump, but the more risky it becomes, too: one wrong move can cause you to hit the ground with a hearty splat, and I’m already pretty prone to injury in Peak.

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Kara is an evergreen writer. Having spent four years as a games journalist guiding, reviewing, or generally waffling about the weird and wonderful, she’s more than happy to tell you all about which obscure indie games she’s managed to sink hours into this week. When she’s not raising a dodo army in Ark: Survival Evolved or taking huge losses in Tekken, you’ll find her helplessly trawling the internet for the next best birdwatching game because who wants to step outside and experience the real thing when you can so easily do it from the comfort of your living room. Right?

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