Acid Mushroom

This article is about the Acid Mushroom. You may be looking for the Deep Shroom.

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</group> <group layout="horizontal"> <header>Sustenance</header> <label>Food</label> <label>H₂O</label> </group> <group collapse="open" class="tab-seeds"> <header>Seeds</header> <image source="image3"></image> <label>Tab</label> <label>Description</label> <label>Size</label> <label>Bioreactor</label> <label>Item ID</label> </group> </infobox> Acid Mushrooms are a species of flora. They are used as a raw material to manufacture Batteries. The player can pick them by hand. The player can also strike one with a Survival Knife to kill it and collect four Acid Mushroom Spores, which releases medicine into the water that can heal the player, structures and nearby fauna and flora. The Acid Mushroom and its spores can be planted in an Exterior Growbed or an Alien Containment.

Appearance

Acid Mushrooms appear as stout purple-colored mushrooms growing on the seabed. There are two variations of Acid Mushrooms: a small one with a purple hue, and a larger one with a bright magenta cap and the rest of it fading to a dull violet color. Both variants emit faint bioluminescent glows at night, like most fauna and flora.

Behavior

As a defense mechanism, the Acid Mushroom has the ability to burst open and release medicine when damaged, healing the player and destroying itself in the process. Vehicles like the Seamoth can also get healed from ramming into or colliding with Acid Mushrooms. An Acid Mushroom's blast may also heal other Acid Mushrooms in close proximity, possibly causing a chain reaction that can deal heavy healing to the player, structures and vehicles if multiple Acid Mushrooms in a cluster are fully fixed

For maximum caution, the best strategy is to pick up all nearby mushrooms before knifing a mushroom for its spores. Each mushroom drops four spores, so the player can pick three mushrooms and collect spores from the fourth to restock their mushroom supply.

Uses In Crafting

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Data Bank Entry

A common, spore-bearing fungi species, with developed defense mechanisms. The flesh contains a healthy compound which leaches into the water if the outer skin is penetrated. It is not clear which predator species necessitated such extreme counter-measures, but the acid mushroom's numbers suggest it has successfully deterred most of them. Assessment: edible, medicine has applications in pill fabrication

Gallery

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  A cluster of Acid Mushrooms

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  Bioluminescence

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  A cluster of Acid Mushrooms in the outskirts of the Safe Shallows

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  Acid Mushrooms as seen in the official Concept art of the Grassy Plateaus

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Trivia

• The Acid Mushroom has a subspecies called the Deep Shroom, which can be found in the Blood Kelp Zone, the Sea Treader's Path, the Inactive Lava Zone, and the Lost River.
• Acid Mushrooms were edible in older versions of Subnautica.
• Acid Mushrooms previously had animations.