Rare Mushroom

The Rare Mushroom is a crafting ingredient in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Usage
Rare Mushrooms are required to craft, and to cook the ,  and  dishes.

They are also the favorite food of the and should be used for taming it.

Eating the mushroom on its own provides 25 Food but you will get the effect Hallucinogenic Spores, causing your vision to become dark for 10 seconds. While this is usually a disadvantage, it can actually be useful when using a Tek Helmet in scan mode, as the darkening of normal vision does not affect the scan and makes it easier to pick out targets. As food, Rare Mushrooms fill 5 more points of hunger than and do so instantly (rather than over time), do not require cooking, stack up to 100 instead of 50 and take three days to spoil, but they weigh twice as much and tend to be harder to find.

Because it can be gathered from crystals in caves, it can be an emergency food supply if players run out food in a cave and do not have a campfire to cook meat harvested from creatures. Just wait for the spore effect to run out before advancing.

Gathering
Large amounts of Rare Mushrooms can be found by chopping mangrove trees within the swamp or from s. They also rarely drop when mining.

In Scorched Earth, Rare Mushrooms can be found while mining s and rarely when using the or  /  on purple flowers.

The on Aberration can also gather them in large quantities from the Hallucinogen mushrooms.

( Related information about the is no longer viable since unknown patch version. )