Human Feces
Everyone poops. Can provide nitrogen to help crops grow in their plots. Would be more efficient fertilizer if combined with thatch in a bin.
Details
- Category
- Fertilizer
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Item ID
- 55
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Drop / Event Item
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Human Feces guides
Human Feces — Detailed Guide
Something every survivor produces
Human Feces exist in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki says they drop from survivors on their own from time to time, and a player can also drop them manually. They have several uses around crops and 
Fertilizer. Part of the in-game description: "Can provide nitrogen to help crops grow in their plots."
The constipated state
The ARK Wiki describes a hidden constipated status: when you are ready to go, the food icon turns grey or pale, and food is used up faster than normal until you do. Afterwards the bar goes back to its usual teal. Restoring stamina or health can sometimes mean having to go several times in a row. Besides humans, the wiki lists the 
Mesopithecus as a creature that drops Human Feces.
Crops, compost and Dung Beetles
- Crop Plot: put into a Crop Plot's inventory, it adds 1000 points of fertilization.
Compost Bin: in a Compost Bin, Human Feces and Thatch together make Fertilizer.
Dung Beetle: it can be used to tame Dung Beetles, and a Dung Beetle turns it into Oil and Fertilizer. The ARK Wiki rates Human Feces as the most weight-efficient feces for making Fertilizer with a Dung Beetle, if you can collect a large amount.
Weight, spoilage and eating it
A single dropping weighs 1 in ASA and 0.1 in ASE, and each takes its own slot with a stack size of 1. The ARK Wiki gives a spoil time of 5050 seconds. Eating it costs 30 points of health, and the wiki notes that eating enough of your own is a way to die. Force-feeding it to unconscious players to kill them no longer works. Our records list it on 7 maps, among them The Island, Extinction, Ragnarok and Valguero.