Cooking

Survivors have the ability to cook several food types using a  Campfire, a  Cooking Pot, an  Industrial Grill, or an  Industrial Cooker. Moreover, if tamed, creatures such  Phoenix and  Magmasaur can be used by survivors as mobile campfire as well.

Cooking  meat and  fish require a Campfire or an Industrial Grill, while cooking more complex recipes requires either a Cooking Pot or an Industrial Cooker. Jerky recipes, which allow to preserve longer cooked meats, require instead a  Preserving Bin powered with  Sparkpowder and  Oil.

For each meat type, cooking double the spoiling times and to change the feeding values for survivors doubling them, while for tames the values will be halved.

Finally, cooking allows to complex food suck  Kibbles, Rockwell recipes and custom recipes using either a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker.

The Basics

All recipes except Jerky

• Require a  Waterskin,  Water Jar or  Canteen that is at least 25% full.
• Take 60 seconds to cook in a  Cooking Pot (8x  Thatch or 2x  Wood or 1x  Sparkpowder per recipe.)
• Cook using an  Industrial Cooker is 12x faster, and it can hold much more items, can be irrigated and is powered by 1 ×  Gasoline for 15 minutes.
• Take 5 hours to spoil.
• Can be placed on a creature to extend spoiling time to 20 hours.
• Can be placed in a  Preserving Bin to extend spoiling time to 2 days.
• Can be placed in a  Refrigerator to extend spoiling time to 20 days.

Some recipes require ingredients that you can only acquire through farming, like  Citronal,  Longrass,  Rockarrot, and  Savoroot.

Jerky recipes

• Require a  Preserving Bin powered with 3x  Sparkpowder and 1x  Oil for each jerky piece.
• For each jerky piece, a  Cooked Meat or a  Cooked Prime Meat
• Take 2 days to spoil
• Can be placed on a creature to extend spoiling time to 8 days.
• Can be placed in a Preserving Bin to extend spoiling time to 20 days.
• Can be placed in a  Refrigerator to extend spoiling time to 200 days.

Jerky recipes are required to craft specific Kibble types as well specific Rockwell recipes, and can be requested by baby creatures for imprinting.

Recipes

Recipes can be found in the inventories of various carnivores. Recipes list the ingredients that can be put in the  Cooking Pot or  Industrial Cooker in order to craft food that gives extra buffs such as increased insulation, hp regeneration, stamina regeneration, prolonged oxygen and more. The Rockwell recipe items are not required to make any foods, acting only as an in-world guideline to cook the food items.

Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Enduro Stew	+35% Melee Damage +1.2 Health per second	15m	5h	1	10						5	5		2	9
	Focal Chili	+25% Movement Speed +100% Crafting Skill	15m	5h	1	10	20	20	20	5						9
	Lazarus Chowder	-85% Oxygen consumption underwater +1.2% Stamina per second (allow constant swimming)	10m	5h	1	10					5		5	2		9
	Calien Soup	+50 Hyperthermic Insulation -25% Water consumption	15m	5h	1	10	20		20	5					2
	Fria Curry	+50 Hypothermic Insulation -25% Food consumption	15m	5h	1	10		20			5	5		2
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Medical Brew	+40 Health	5s	2h	1				20					2
	Energy Brew	+40 Stamina	5s	1h	1			20							2
	Sweet Vegetable Cake	+500 Health and heals 15% HP (over 10s) when force fed to a tamed herbivore	Instant	2h40m	1	25					2	2	2		4	4	2
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Shadow Steak Saute	+50 Hypothermic Insulation +50 Hyperthermic Insulation -80% Weapon recoil	3m	5h	1	20	2					1	1	8			3
	Battle Tartare	+65% Melee Damage +15% Damage resistance +50% Movement Speed +50% Food/Water consumption +Increased Stamina regen -0.45 Health per second (-90HP total)	3m20	5h	1	20		2	3	1	1				8
	Mindwipe Tonic	+Reset Attributes and Engrams	Instant	5h	1	200	20	20						72	72		24
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Broth of Enlightenment	+50% increased Experience gain	20m	5h	1	10				2	2	2	2	5	1
	Cooked Meat Jerky	Used for cooking kibbles		2d			1	3								1
	Prime Meat Jerky	Used for cooking kibbles		2d			1	3									1
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Cactus Broth	Reduce water consumption and hide partly from wild animals	10m	1h30	1	10	10	10		30
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Mushroom Brew	Protects tame dinos from the effects of radiation	2m	5h	1	5	5	5	5	3	3

Kibble

Egg-based  Kibbles are cooked in a  Cooking Pot or in an  Industrial Cooker. In addition to the ingredients listed below, all kibble recipes require a source of water: using a Cooking Pot requires a  Waterskin or any other Water-container works, filled at least at 25% with water water (any higher percentage will be completely used up regardless of capacity), while the usage of an Industrial cooker can take advantage of a working irrigation system.

Kibbles are used as specialized food when taming a creature, as well as long preserving food due their long spoiling time or to fast feed specific tames like  Daeodon. Although all kibble types will technically work to tame all creatures, most creatures have a favorite type of Kibble. Favorite kibbles provides 5x faster taming speed than regular food with much less taming effectiveness lost in time. However, using any kibble of a lower quality than the creature's preferred type is only 2/3 as effective as using the creature's regular food and so instead decreases the taming effectiveness.

Fertilized eggs can also be used to make Kibble. Breeding creatures is a great way to generate eggs on-demand.

Kibble	Egg Type	First Resource	Second Resource	Third Resource	Fourth Resource	Fifth Resource	Sixth Resource
Basic Kibble	Extra Small Egg	5x  Mejoberry	10x  Amarberry	10x  Tintoberry	1x  Cooked Meat	5x  Fiber	Water (such as 1x Full  Waterskin)
Simple Kibble	Small Egg		2x  Rockarrot	1x  Cooked Fish Meat	-
Regular Kibble	Medium Egg	2x  Longrass	2x  Savoroot	1x  Cooked Meat Jerky	-
Superior Kibble	Large Egg	2x  Citronal	2x  Rare Mushroom	1x  Prime Meat Jerky	1x  Sap
Exceptional Kibble	Extra Large Egg	10x  Mejoberry	1x  Rare Flower	1x  Focal Chili	-
Extraordinary Kibble	Special Egg		1x  Giant Bee Honey	1x  Lazarus Chowder	-

Kibble (Mobile)

 ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile uses a different Kibble system no longer available for PC and Console: each creature has a preferred egg-based Kibble similar to the legacy Kibble system removed since 293.100 and in Switch version after patch Switch 601.0 with the release of the remastered version.

For more information about the Mobile Kibble System, please read Kibble#Recipes (Legacy and Mobile).

Super Kibble

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 ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile implements an additional  Super Kibble using  Super Fertilized Egg  to further speed up and improve the  Taming effectiveness.

Custom Cooking System

The Custom Cooking System allows survivors to create their own  Custom Consumable items with custom names and ingredients to provide different effects. In order to create a custom recipe, the items one wishes to use in the recipe should be placed into a  Cooking Pot or  Industrial Cooker. However, this is not required as they can be added into the recipe in the cooking screen.

• A  Note MUST be placed in the Cooking Pot before continuing. Once the note is placed inside the inventory, exit the inventory and hold E to access the options menu and select the Create New Recipe option. A new menu will appear with the ingredients in the cooking pot and other options as well, such as the options to choose the name and description of the consumable, as well as the dish type and icon/icon color, with 3 icons for each and a precise RGB color slider with color presets. Currently, the menu does not allow hotkey transfer of items, so they must be moved by dragging and dropping the items.
• Once satisfied with all options, click Make Recipe to finalize the recipe, and the new recipe will placed into the character inventory.
• Place the finished recipe into the Cooking Pot with the required ingredients and light the fire to begin the cooking process.
• Only eight stacks of ingredients can be in a single recipe.
• Drugs and Premade Dishes can not be used in a recipe.
• All drinks require a  Waterskin with at least 25% water; however, foods do not require water, unlike any  Rockwell Recipes.
• See the Custom Consumable page for values and the consumable calculator.
• Crafting Skill provides a bonus to the stats of the recipe when it's created. When cooking, the crafting speed has no influence.