Poisonous Shroom

''Inhaling spores lowers Willpower for a short time. No one knows the medical basis for why this happens. It tastes great fried with butter.''

Overview
The Poisonous Shroom is a league 1 trap that inflicts the poison debuff to the player's burglar, the poison will reduces the burglars willpower every second for a moderate amount of time.

Strategy
Poisonous Shrooms can be used in conjunction with other traps to very quickly reduce willpower, thereby leading to many losses for the burglars. These aren't used for big increments of damage, however, but can discourage players from traveling through certain locations, and can also bait them into using their heal skills too early. Despite not having high immediate damage, at higher levels it can devestate any burglar who runs into to it more than once. When encountering it try to avoid it and see if you can heal the poison. However, these aren't that threatening, so they can usually be ignored as long as you're already at decent willpower, and don't run into it too much.

The poison effect does not stack if you run into a Poisonous Shroom twice before the first poison effect ends, but the time of the effect will reset, and you will receive the full damage of the second shroom. Because of this, on defense, you should try to space out your shrooms so burglars will take the full damage.

Rarity in Manors
Poisonous Shrooms are very common at the start, since it's one of the first traps unlocked. In the middle leagues, Shrooms are still used somewhat often. Their usage decreases in late game, due to the will damage being too low even at a high level.

Trivia

 * This trap is the only one that can inflict poison on burglars.
 * In version 1.5.9, There was an error where the Poison Shroom did 900 damage per tick no matter what level your Poison shroom was. This bug only affected iOS devices. It was eventually patched in version 1.6.0, March 28th 2021.