Ascerbic Mushroom
A mushroom as black as moonless midnight. Looks to be highly narcotic.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Loot crates
- 53 crates
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Ascerbic Mushroom guides
How to get Ascerbic Mushroom
Ascerbic Mushroom is found in 53 loot crates.
Loot crates
53 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 53 crates
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- NamelessThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- SeekerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Ascerbic Mushroom — Detailed Guide
A narcotic mushroom from Aberration
The Ascerbic Mushroom is a black fungus introduced with Aberration and found in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game calls it "A mushroom as black as moonless midnight. Looks to be highly narcotic." The ARK Wiki notes that the in-game name really is spelled this way, while the expected spelling would be acerbic. Survivors can eat it, tame a 
Glowtail with it and use it in recipes in place of 
Narcoberry.
What it does when eaten
Each one adds 25 points of torpidity over 2 seconds, and eating it also makes you immune to Element Biome Poisons. The wiki calls the mushroom more potent than Narcoberries. It also notes that a 
Narcotic takes 5 of them and gives 40 torpor, while 5 mushrooms give 125.
Gathering and recipes
Picking the small brown, red and blue mushrooms of Aberration by hand yields them. A Sickle gathers more efficiently but only works on the red and blue ones. Apart from standing in for Narcoberry, the mushroom has one recipe of its own in our records for each game: 
Mushroom Brew, which takes 5.
Maps, storage and crates
Besides Aberration, the wiki lists it on Fjordur, Lost Island, Genesis: Part 2, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 1 and Valguero. A mushroom weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 10, and our records give a spoil time of 10 minutes. 53 crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Red, Aberration Surface Red Bonus and Aberration White.