Where to find Mushrooms in Arc Raiders

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Mushroom locations in Dam Battlegrounds
Mushroom locations in Spaceport

Mushrooms in Arc Raiders are best found in locations across two of the main maps: Dam Battlegrounds and Spaceport. You'll you'll need quite a lot of them to upgrade Scrappy the Rooster for the fifth and final time, as getting a level 5 chicken back at Speranza requires 12 mushrooms, a lot more than the 3 Arc Raiders Apricots you needed before. There are other things to collect across Arc Raiders for this upgrade, but it's the large amount of mushrooms that are the biggest sticking point. So I'll lay out all the four main locations you can find them in here.

Arc Raiders Mushroom locations in Dam Battlegrounds

Hydroponic Dome Complex and surrounding forest: Containers in this area can have mushrooms on them, and so can the trees in the swampy forest to the South of the area, close to the extraction. Look for layered, white-brown fungi growing in ridges on tree trunks. This is by far the best place to look for them.
Water Treatment Control: This location doesn't have many mushrooms, but they have a small chance to grow on the massive pipes in corridors.
Small Creek: Like with the Forest around the Dome Complex, this compact woodland area has a small chance to spawn mushrooms. I've found them here clinging to fallen trees, rather than upstanding ones.

Arc Raiders Mushroom locations in Spaceport

The Trench (Spaceport): This marked section of The Trench in Spaceport, between the Little Hanger and the East Container Yard, has trees in it that have a chance to grow mushrooms.

It's worth keeping in mind that in any map, Mushrooms have a higher chance to spawn during a Lush Bloom, when that event is in rotation. Though not as dramatic as Arc Raiders' Electromagnetic Storms, these events trigger a much higher chance to spawn Nature-themed loot, so if you're out to upgrade your Rooster or find some fruit, this is also a great time to get Prickly Pears in Arc Raiders.

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