Collect mushrooms to spice up the explorers stew, the last ingredient is you, so be sure to get to the explorer before you run out of lives. You start with 3 eggs, which you can lay down in front of the green dodos to kill them.
Yellow mushrooms are worth 10 points
Blue mushrooms are worth 20 points
Red mushrooms are worth 50 points
Green mushrooms give you three more eggs.