All Items and Their Uses in the Mortal Shell Beta

The open beta for Mortal Shell is available for free right now on the Epic Games Store. While the beta is only a small taste of the full game that will be available at launch, it’s surprisingly generous when it comes to how much gameplay you’re given. 

With this gameplay comes access to different areas, weapons, lore, items, and more. If you’re working to collect all of the available items in the game, or you picked a few up and simply want to know what they do before you use them, we’ve got you covered. 

Below, we’ve listed all of the items currently available in the Mortal Shell beta and what they’re used for. 

All Items and Their Uses in the Mortal Shell Beta

In the Mortal Shell beta, there are a variety of items that can help you make it through the game and the boss fight at the end. With the game’s Familiarity system, the more you use an item, the more effective and helpful it’ll be. 

When you pick up a brand new item, you won’t know what it does until you use it. Because of this, it can be helpful to run through a list of available items and their uses to ensure you don’t waste something, or use something that may be detrimental to you at the wrong time. 

Once Mortal Shell is officially released, the list of items will likely expand, so we encourage you to check back in the future as we expand our list of available items and their uses. We’ll also be updating this list as we uncover more information about some of the rarer items in Mortal Shell.

Simple Lute

• Familiarity 1: Sit on the floor and lure nearby enemies. 
• Familiarity 10: The sheer audacity incites enemies to violence from a great distance. 

Baguette

• Familiarity 1: This baguette offers a small boost to health.
• Familiarity 9: Those familiar gain more health when sinking their teeth into this wholesome treat.

Boiled Frog

• Familiarity 1: Increases stamina regeneration speed for 3 minutes.
• Familiarity 10: Lasts 5 minutes for those familiar with the peculiar taste.

Mango

• ???

Roasted Rat

• Familiarity 1: Regenerates 30 health over 40 seconds at the cost of resolve.

• Familiarity 8: Those familiar heal for 10 more. Regenerates 40 health over 40 seconds at the cost of Resolve. 

Rotten Food

• Familiarity 1: Restores a small amount of health at a large cost to resolve
• Familiarity 4: It takes less resolve to stomach the putrid item for those familiar with eating garbage.

Inferior Moonshine

• Familiarity 1: Grants those who drink it a small amount of resolve, but at the cost of their health.
• Familiarity 4: Those familiar lose less health from the swill.

Superior Moonshine

• Familiarity 1: Grants those who drink it a large amount of resolve.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar gain even more resolve.

Tarspore

• Familiarity 1: Deals 40 poison damage to the user over 16 seconds.
• Familiarity 2: Those familiar gain immunity to poison damage for 120 seconds. 

Weltcap

• Familiarity 1: Regenerates 40 health over 60 seconds.
• Familiarity 10: Those familiar consume no stamina on their next dodge.

Tainted Nektar

• Familiarity 1: This foul slurry rends you from your shell.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar with the foul nektar are able to extract a single drop of tar. 

Mortal Token

• Familiarity 1: Next damage taken while hardened is converted to health.
• Familiarity 10: More health is granted to those familiar with the token’s intricacies. 

Ornate Token

• Familiarity 1: Getting struck while hardened will grant a buff which reduces the next damage taken.
• Familiarity 10: When familiar, the buff negates the damage completely.

Spectral Token

• Familiarity 1: Getting struck while hardened will boost the damage of your next attack.
• Familiarity 10: Those familiar gain even more damage.

Bronze Bell

• Familiarity 1: Gain a 10% bonus to tar found for six minutes.
• Familiarity 2: Those familiar with the bell’s ring are able to resonate with the connection longer. 

Golden Bell

• Familiarity 1: Ringing the bell grants increased resolve gain for 3 minutes.
• Familiarity 2: Those familiar with the bell’s ring are able to resonate with the connection longer. 

Effigy of Harros

• Familiarity 1: Summons Harros through astral conversion (can swap from Tiel to Harros).
• Familiarity 4: The shell takes less harm if the user is of the effigy is familiar.  

Effigy of Tiel

• Familiarity 1: Summons Tiel through astral conversion (can swap from Harros to Tiel).
• Familiarity 10: The shell takes less harm if the user is of the effigy is familiar.

Etherial Diapason

• Familiarity 1: Restores your ability to reclaim your shell upon death.
• Familiarity 10: Grants resolve to those familiar with the attenuation. 

Tarnished Mask

• Familiarity 1: Recalls you back to Sester Genessa in exchange for all your Glimpses.
• Familiarity 3: Cost half Glimpses to those familiar

Untarnished Mask

• Familiarity 1: Recalls you back to Sester Genessa.
• Familiariy 3: Those familiar with the mask gain some resolve on use (one bar).

Scripture of Ardor

• Familiarity 1: Next parry poisons enemy on success.
• Familiarity 3: More poison damage is granted to those familiar with the verse. 

Scripture of Defiance

• Familiarity 1: Next parry refunds resolve on success.
• Familiarity 3: More resolve is granted to those familiar with the verse.

Scripture of Despair

• Familiarity 1: After a successful parry, your next attack deals bonus damage.
• Familiarity 3: More bonus damage is granted to those familiar with the verse.

Scripture of Euphoria

• Familiarity 1: Next parry grants health on success.
• Familiarity 3: More health is granted to those familiar with the verse.

Scripture of Repent

• Familiarity 1: Next parry lights enemy on fire on success.
• Familiarity 3: Familiarity with the verse increases duration and damage of the burn. 

Remnant of Tar

• Familiarity 1: Grants 80 Tar when consumed.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar extract more Tar (100 Tar).

Congealed Tar

• Familiarity 1: Grants 100 Tar when consumed.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar extract more Tar (200 Tar).

Bag of Tar

• Familiarity 1: Grants 300 Tar when consumed.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar extract more Tar (400 Tar).

Slurry of Tar

• Familiarity 1: Grants 500 Tar when consumed.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar extract more Tar (600 Tar). 

Unguent Tar 

• Familiarity 1: Grants 750 Tar when consumed.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar extract more Tar (850 Tar).

Extracted Tar

• ???

Nascent Tar

• Familiarity 1: Grants 2,500 Tar when consumed.
• Familiarity 3: Those familiar extract more Tar (3,500 Tar).

Glimpse of Futility

• Familiarity 1: Can be consumed to gain 1 Glimpses.
• Familiarity 9: Those familiar gain 2 Glimpses.

Glimpse of Wisdom

• Familiarity 1: Can be consumed to gain 2 Glimpses.
• Familiarity 9: Those familiar gain 3 Glimpses.

Glimpse of Affection

• Familiarity 1: Can be consumed to gain 4 Glimpses.
• Familiarity 9: Those familiar gain 5 Glimpses.

Glimpse of Reverie

• Familiarity 1: Can be consumed to gain 15 Glimpses.
• Familiarity 9: Those familiar gain 16 Glimpses.

Glimpse of Truth

• Familiarity 1: Can be consumed to gain 15 Glimpses.
• Familiarity 9: Those familiar gain 16 Glimpses.

Glimpse of Courage

• ???

Glimpse of Fallacy

• ???

Glimpse of Disdain

• ???

Glimpse of Oblivion

• ???

Glimpse of Annihilation

• ???

Glimpse of Insignificance

• ???

Glimpse of Hope

• ???

Corvid’s Glimpse of Admiration

• ???

Thestus’s Glimpse of Tenacity

• ???

Tarnished Seal

• Enables you to parry enemy attacks, interrupting their strikes. Awards health with successful parries using Empowered Riposte.

Forbidden Offering

• Can be used to boost the Resolve acquisition of the Tarnished Seal.

Solemn Offering

• Can be used to increase the Tarnished Seal’s healing effect from Empowered Ripostes.

Mechanical Spike

• Can be used to unlock the Mechanical Spike Ability of the Hallowed Sword.

Molten Spike

• Can be used to unlock the Molten Spike Ability of the Hallowed Sword.

Foul Censer

• Can be used to unlock the Foul Censer Ability of the Hammer and Chisel.

Perfumed Censer

• Can be used to unlock the Perfumed Censer Ability of the Hammer and Chisel.

Petrified Winterglass

• Can be used to unlock the Petrified Winterglass Ability of the Martyr’s Blade.

Radiant Winterglass

• Can be used to unlock the Radiant Winterglass Ability of the Martyr’s Blade.

Quenching Acid

• Can be used at the Anvil to increase Weapon Strength.

Awakened Stone

• ???

Foundry Stone

• ???

Crystalline Gland

• ???

Inflamed Gland

• ???

Knotted Gland

• ???

Large Bolt

• ???

Ornate Mask

• ???

Tools

• ???

Related: How to Get Into the Mortal Shell Beta

Again, the Mortal Shell beta is available for free right now on the Epic Games Store, and the game is slated to release sometime later this year for PC via the Epic Games Store, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

Now that you have a better idea as to what all of the items in Mortal Shell are for, we have a few other guides we recommend taking a look at including:

• Can You Beat Hadern in the Mortal Shell Beta? 
• How to Save in Mortal Shell
• How to Heal in Mortal Shell