Preserving Bin

Preserving Bin

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Burns simple fuel at low temperatures to dehydrate food and kill bacteria. Keeps perishables from spoiling for a small time.

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Structure

Type

Cooking

Health

600

Item slots

48

Size

0.45L × ⅓W × 1.0H

Fuel

 Sparkpowder

Decay time

16d

Item

Weight

4.0

Stack size

100

Added in

v173.0

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 291 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Misc/PrimalItemStructure_PreservingBin.PrimalItemStructure_PreservingBin'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 18

Engram points

9 EP

Crafting XP

27.6 XP

Prerequisites

•  Storage Box

Unlocks

•  Barrel Storage
•  Industrial Preserving Bin

Used to craft

2 items

Crafted in

•  Inventory

Ingredients

30 × Stone

30 × Wood or Fungal Wood

10 × Thatch

20 × Fiber

The Preserving Bin is a storage and crafting structure used to extend the spoil time on various Food items, ingredients, and other perishables when fueled by Sparkpowder. Any eligible perishables will have their spoil timer increased by a multiplier of 10. For example;  Raw Meat spoils in 10 minutes, but when placed in the Preserving Bin, the spoil timer will be increased to 100 minutes (1:40:00).

The Preserving Bin fits inside a 1x1 sized hut.

Crafting

In addition to preserving food, the Preserving Bin can make  Cooked Meat Jerky or  Prime Meat Jerky. Producing Jerky in the Preserving Bin takes 36 minutes per item, though the Preserving Bin can produce both varieties of Jerky simultaneously. Jerky lasts for 20 days in the Preserving Bin when fueled. Creating Jerky requires both  Oil and  Sparkpowder, in addition to the Sparkpowder required to power the appliance.

The formula to find how much  Sparkpowder would be needed to produce X amount of Jerky, including both the recipe requirement and to keep the Preserving Bin powered for the duration, is X × 4.2 for a single type (or ×3.6 for both types concurrently), rounded up. For example, 20 Cooked Meat would need 84 Sparkpowder; while 20 Cooked Prime Meat and 20 Cooked Meat would require 144 Sparkpowder. This does not take into account spoil times, so the exact yield will be off. Factoring stack and inventory limits, the most convenient ratio is 1:1 for single-type production (stacks of Cooked Meat/Cooked Prime Meat to stacks of Sparkpowder) or 2:2:3 for multi-type (Cooked Meat to Cooked Prime Meat to Sparkpowder).

Powering

The Preserving Bin is powered by Sparkpowder. Placing a single Sparkpowder in the bin will keep it running for 30 minutes. For more information on spoilage and timings, see Spoilage.

Fuel	Burn Time
1 ×  Sparkpowder	30 minutes
100 ×  Sparkpowder	2 days, 2 hours

Notes

• Unlike the refrigerator the preserving Bin Can store  Leech Blood and  Ammonite Bile, however this resources not increase their spoil time.* Unlike the refrigerator the preserving Bin Can store  Leech Blood and  Ammonite Bile, however this resources not increase their spoil time.* Unlike the refrigerator the preserving Bin Can store  Leech Blood and  Ammonite Bile, however this resources not increase their spoil time.* Unlike the refrigerator the preserving Bin Can store  Leech Blood and  Ammonite Bile, however this resources not increase their spoil time.

Painting and Color Regions

The Preserving Bin is not currently paint-able, however this object may be re-mapped to include paint regions in a future update.

For more information on Paint Regions and how to use them, please view the Dye,  Paintbrush, or  Spray Painter pages.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
174.0	Made it clear via description that the Food Preservation Bin requires  Sparkpowder to preserve food, and that it can also create  Beef Jerky.
186.0	Fixed a bug where you couldn't place the Preserving Bin.
186.1	You can place the Preserving Bin again.
200.0	Fixed Preverving Bin bug with consuming items and not giving you jerky.
201.0	Fixed issue with not getting more Jerky created from Preserving Bin if you already have Jerky+Meat in it.
245.989	Preserving Bin can no longer be built within range of enemy foundations.
250.0	Preserving Bin now has 24 item slots.
265.51	Made Preserving Bins able to take all receive all items again.
303.1	Modified the inventory slot size of Preserving Bins from 24 to 48.

Gallery

Screenshot of the Preserving Bin's interface.