Bio-Grinder

Bio-Grinder

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Walk Tamed Creatures onto this while active to grind them into Kibble. Requires Power to activate.

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DLC

ARK: Bob's Tall Tales

Item

Weight

4.0

Stack size

5

Spawn Command

cheat gfi BioGrinder 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/Packs/Wasteland/Structures/BioGrinder/PrimalItemStructure_BioGrinder.PrimalItemStructure_BioGrinder'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 85

Engram points

50 EP

Prerequisites

•  Industrial Grinder

Crafted in

•  Fabricator

Required stations

Fabricator
Refining Forge
Mortar and Pestle

Ingredients

Resources breakdown [Expand]

440 × Cementing Paste

3520 × Stone

1760 × Chitin, Keratin, or Shell Fragment

60 × Electronics

60 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

180 × Silica Pearls

240 × Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule

40 × Crystal or Primal Crystal

800 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

Total Base Ingredients

3520 ×	Stone
1760 ×	Chitin, Keratin, or Shell Fragment
180 ×	Silica Pearls
40 ×	Crystal or Primal Crystal
240 ×	Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule
860 ×	Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

Overview

The Bio-Grinder is a structure included in the Bob's Tall Tales DLC, and is unlocked at level 85. It was released alongside Extinction and was introduced in the Wasteland War DLC. It's purpose is to take tamed creatures and destroy them to make kibble.

Usage

Walk or place tamed creatures onto the grinder to make kibble out of them. The quality of kibble you receive is based on the size of the egg (for egg-layers) or its body size equivalent (for viviparous).

Only tamed creatures of the same tribe can be ground, tames of other tribes or wild creatures are not affected. Also not any species can be ground on it, if the creature is too big it will not be ground. Also, there are some exceptions to what can be ground, such as  Gachas,  Armadoggos or  Veilwyns.

The Bio-Grinder will harvest the sacrificed creature's corpse and collect their resources with a bit less efficiency than a  Chainsaw.

In addition to the grounded creature's resources, the grinder will also give  Kibble, which quality will be based on the kibble type that can be made using the species' egg (Or an equivalent quality based on creature's size if its a viviparous). The amount of kibble that the Bio-Grinder gets depends of the creature's level.

Bio-Grinder will only produce  Kibble from fully mature creatures consistently, babies on the other hand dont usually drop kibble, the actual percentage is unknown, but the babies rarely drop kibble.

If a creature with a saddle equipped and/or items in its inventory is placed into the grinder, the items will be deposited into a bag located in the grinder's corner. The deposit chute is marked by a red light and smoke rising from the top.

Grind Reward

For non-egg layers, they usually drop the same kibble quality that they require for its taming, and for egg layers they usually drop the same as its egg quality. The exceptions and others that don't require kibble for taming and don't produce unfertilized eggs are listed below:

Species	Additional Kibble/Resource Dropped
Achatina	Achatina Paste
Araneo	Regular
Arthropluera	Superior
Bulbdog	Simple
Cat	Simple
Chalicotherium	Superior
Coelacanth	Basic
Cosmo	Simple
Deinosuchus	Regular
Deinotherium	Exceptional
Dreadmare	Superior
Dung Beetle	Simple
Electrophorus	Regular
Enforcer	Only Resources
Giant Bee	Simple
Helicoprion	Regular
Hyaenodon	Simple
Jerboa	Basic
Lamprey	Basic
Leech	Basic
Liopleurodon	Extraordinary
Manta	Simple
Mantis	Superior
Onyc	Simple
Otter	Simple
Ovis	Only Resources
Piranha	Basic
Procoptodon	Regular
Pulmonoscorpius	Regular
Pyromane	Superior
Ravager	Regular
Reaper	Exceptional
Rhyniognatha	Exceptional
Roll Rat	Regular
Sabertooth Salmon	Basic
Shinehorn	Basic
Trilobite	Basic
Tusoteuthis	Extraordinary

Notes/Trivia

• Companion creatures such as  Armadoggo or  Veilwyn are not grindeable even without a companion, so it is safe to have them wandering around while the bio-grinder is active.