Cooking

Cooking is the act of creating food using a  Campfire, a  Cooking Pot, an  Industrial Grill, or an  Industrial Cooker.

Cooking meat requires a  Campfire or an  Industrial Grill, while cooking recipes requires a  Cooking Pot or an  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.

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 Kibble are also cooked in a Cooking Pot, taking 30 seconds (4 thatch) and are used as specialized food when taming a creature. Although all kibble types will technically work to tame all creatures, certain creatures have a favorite type of Kibble that is 5x faster than regular food with much less taming effectiveness lost but using the wrong kibble is only 2/3 as effective as using the creature's regular food and will instead decrease the taming effectiveness.

In addition to the ingredients listed below, all kibble recipes require a  Waterskin with at least 25% water in it (any other Water-container works, but will be completely used up regardless of capacity).

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 crafting system 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.