Infected Stomach

An organ for infected augments

Infected Stomach is an infected body part that our records list for ARK: Survival Ascended; the ARK Wiki says it was introduced with Aquatica. The game describes it plainly: "An infected stomach. Can be used to apply infected augments to creatures."

Harvesting stomachs

The wiki points to the corpses of Abyssal Procoptodon, which can be found in the Abyss biome and also among the spawns of lower-tier Rifts. Corpses lying in the corrosive areas yield Infected Stomachs too, along with other infected parts. Farming such corpses completely brings on a spore debuff, which the wiki likens to the fertile spores on Aberration.

Making Infected Barnacles

In the Infectarium, Infected Stomachs go into Infected Barnacles. A barnacle made with a stomach changes the diet of the creature that receives it.

Eating it

• Survivors: eating one deals 25 damage and restores 10 Food. It raises Movement Speed and also the drain of Food and Water, by roughly 20% according to the wiki. The buff icon mentions higher Melee Damage, but the wiki saw no effect from it.
• Tames: force-feeding one to a tame boosts its Movement Speed without hurting it, and its damage output stays the same.
• Duration: the buff from eating infected body parts lasts 30 seconds. It does not stack; eating another while it is active just resets the timer to 30 seconds.

Weight and spoiling

Each stomach weighs 0.1 and they stack to 100, a full stack weighing 10. The wiki lists a spoil time of 1200 seconds.