Auric Mushroom
An oily-looking mushroom which glitters gold even in the dimmest light. Looks invigorating!
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Loot crates
- 48 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Auric Mushroom guides
How to get Auric Mushroom
Auric Mushroom is found in 48 loot crates.
Loot crates
48 crates
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- 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
- 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
Show all 48 crates
- 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
Auric Mushroom — Detailed Guide
A golden fungus from Aberration
Players of ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved can eat the Auric Mushroom, a fungus that first appeared with the Aberration DLC. Its description reads: "An oily-looking mushroom which glitters gold even in the dimmest light. Looks invigorating!" Besides Aberration, the ARK Wiki places it on Valguero, Crystal Isles, Fjordur, Lost Island, Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2.
What eating one does
A mushroom gives a survivor a little nourishment, and the ARK Wiki lists these effects for each one eaten:
- about 4 seconds come off radiation sickness, although the radiation keeps dealing damage;
- torpor goes down slightly;
- stamina regenerates slightly, by 3%;
- water drops by 10.
It also works as a taming food for the 
Featherlight. The wiki adds a contrast: 
Stimberry lowers a creature's food bar, while the Auric Mushroom does not.
Gathering and storage
Hand-gathering works on the small mushrooms of Aberration in brown, blue and red. A Sickle gathers more efficiently, but only from the red and blue ones. Loot is a second source: 48 crate types can contain it, such as the Aberration White crates and the Genesis Blue and Genesis Green crates on Genesis Part 2.
One mushroom weighs 0.1 and a stack holds 100, so a full stack weighs 10. It spoils in 600 seconds, which is 10 minutes. 
Mushroom Brew is the one recipe in our records that uses it, in both games, taking 5 per craft.