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[Flaede]

they're dead and dried.
what you have to worry about is the spores. 

[Mel_Vixen]

The article says that the mushroom/Mycelium is dead in the state were you build stuff from it. I guess they dry/fry the stuff pretty hard or starve it. And the different strengths could come from variables you manipulate during the growth. A more spongy growth would be lighter but less hard. I guess shitake etc. are used because they arent poisonous.

I wonder if you can build a entire boat from it with the right mold.

edit: Since there are no "caps" which produce spores the walls should be sterile.

[nenjin]

I wonder if you can build a entire boat from it with the right mold.

Probably. The article doesn't give any weights, but the creator considers it "the wood equivalent to plastic." I bet that stuff at the 2x4 size is probably pretty buoyant.

[alway]

The thought of a giant house made of a massive mushroom sucking the life out of someone while they sleep is both hillarious and scary as all hell at the same time.

[Papa Cauldur]

Make a kingdom out of it.

MUSHROOM KINGDOM!

[LegoLord]

This sounds like some sort of sci-fi miracle material.  But apparently it's real.  Funky.

[LostEnder]

The mycelium is still a complex organic compound, so at the least, any carbohydrates present will ignite for sure, I'm not so sure about the proteins that would be there though. It would be interesting to experiment.

Either way, melting it would wreck the structure and negate the thermal properties, which derive from the ability to trap air in spaces in the material.  It might still work as a building material, but I doubt it.

[kcwong]

Morrowind-style mushroom castle.
That is what must be made.

I prefer smurf houses...

[Thursday Postal]

This is so awesome. But, wouldn't your mushroom-walls slowly rot away?

More entertainingly, if it were living Mushroom you might have to keep sanding the walls down, lest they grow and envelop you.

Would you even be able to use a wooden bed or other wooden furniture?

[Lancensis]

This is so awesome. But, wouldn't your mushroom-walls slowly rot away?

More entertainingly, if it were living Mushroom you might have to keep sanding the walls down, lest they grow and envelop you.

Would you even be able to use a wooden bed or other wooden furniture?

Well, you COULD, but they wouldn't match the decor; if you had any style whatsoever, you'd have to put up with a carnivorous fungus sofa, with matching puffball pouffé.

[Mel_Vixen]

Lets combine this stuff with some "human Braincell"-specific Genes and we get "thinking stuff".

[Lancensis]

Lets combine this stuff with some "human Braincell"-specific Genes and we get "thinking stuff".

Also Axolotl so it regenerates, and scorpion or cheetah, or something so it's super deadly. Then we just have to sell the idea to whatever the SciFi channel is calling itself these days.

[Zironic]

If it is fireproof a.k.a as in it melts, then you have an effective way of destroying rice/corn husks into a fertilizer for mulch.  If it keeps it's strength when reformed, now you are talking about a way to run a self sustaining society in which they feed all waste into mushroom plants to produce fertilizer and building material. Space Ships made of mushmetal.

[ein]

Ye gods, this is amazing.

[InsanityPrelude]

Science. It works, bitches.