Raw Prime Meat

Raw Prime Meat

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Eating raw food will sate hunger, but is unhealthy for humans. This excellent cut spoils very quickly. Most wild carnivores love this meat.

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Consumable (values pertain to Humans)

Type

Meat

Food

+20

Health

-5.0

Spoils in

4m 40s

Spoils to

 Spoiled Meat

Item

Weight

0.1

Stack size

1

Decomposes in

2m

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 248 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_RawPrimeMeat.PrimalItemConsumable_RawPrimeMeat'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

3 items

Raw Prime Meat is a food item in  ARK: Survival Evolved and  ARK: Survival Ascended. It can be obtained by harvesting the corpses of larger creatures.

Raw Prime Meat spoils in just 4 minutes and 40 seconds in a Player's inventory, but lasts 18 Minutes and 40 seconds in a creature's inventory. However, if the Player wants to save Raw Prime Meat this way for later use, it should not be given to a tamed carnivore, as they may eat it if they don't have any normal Raw Meat to eat.

Raw Prime Meat is the only taming food for the  Compy beside  Mutton.

When cooked into  Cooked Prime Meat it is one of the best foods for  Humans.

Usage

Raw Prime Meat is very useful for taming. It is the third best thing to feed most Carnivores you want to tame (with  Kibble being the first and  Raw Mutton being the second) but much easier to obtain on site than the other two. Raw Prime Meat replenishes the same 50 food as regular  Raw Meat to a dino being tamed, but it tames the Dino at 3 times the speed. It also decreases the taming effectiveness by around .5% each bite, which is more effective than regular Raw Meat.

If eaten by the survivor, it replenishes as much food as Cooked Meat, but decreases health by 5.0 points.

It can also be cooked at a  Campfire or  Industrial Grill, which boosts the amount of time before expiration by 45 minutes in the player's inventory, and 3 hours in a creature's inventory.  Cooked Prime Meat can be eaten for 35 food.  Cooked Prime Meat can also be fed to carnivores to tame at about 1.5 times the speed when compared to taming with  Raw Meat.

Raw Prime Meat is also used to cook the  Battle Tartare dish.

Cooked Prime Meat is used to cook a  Mindwipe Tonic.

Sources

Raw Prime Meat can be harvested from the following creatures so far:

•  Allosaurus
•  Argentavis
•  Brontosaurus
•  Carnotaurus
•  Chalicotherium
•  Dimetrodon
•  Diplodocus
•  Giganotosaurus
•  Hyaenodon
•  Mammoth
•  Managarmr
•  Megalosaurus
•  Mosasaurus
•  Paracer
•  Plesiosaur
•  Purlovia
•  Quetzal
•  Rex
•  Sarco
•  Spino
•  Stegosaurus
•  Therizinosaur
•  Titanoboa
•  Wyvern

Raw Prime Meat Can also be harvested from the following creatures ( only if your  Ichthyornis has hunted them)

•  Compy
•  Dodo
•  Jerboa
•  Lystrosaurus
•  Pegomastax

• Non-adult versions of any creature will also yield Raw Prime Meat. However in ARK: Survival Evolved, Kairuku are currently the only creatures that have wild babies. Other creatures must be bred by players. In ARK: Survival Ascended a variety of wild babies can be found for easy access to prime meat.

Raw Prime Meat can also be obtained by harvesting Alpha Creatures as they give prime meat instead of Raw Meat. The boss creatures  DodoRex and  Dodo Wyvern also drop prime meat.

Gathering

Raw Prime Meat
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Allosaurus	★★★★★
Gacha	★★★★★
Giganotosaurus	★★★★★
Ichthyornis	★★★★★
Chainsaw	★★★★☆
Dire Bear	★★★★☆
Direwolf	★★★★☆
Magmasaur	★★★★☆
Raptor	★★★★☆
Metal Pick	★★★☆☆

Spoil times

Container	Spoiling Time	Spoiling Time in Scorched Earth
Player Inventory	4m 40s	4m 12s
Player Inventory (with  Preserving Salt *)	9m 20s	8m 24s
Tamed Dino	18m 40s	16m 48s
Tamed Dino (with  Preserving Salt *)	37m 20s	33m 36s
Hyaenodon Meatpack	37m 20s	33m 36s
Hyaenodon Meatpack (with  Preserving Salt *)	1h 14m 40s	1h 7m 12s
Preserving Bin	46m 40s	42m
Preserving Bin (with  Preserving Salt *)	1h 33m 20s	1h 24m
Smokehouse	1h 10m	1h 3m
Refrigerator	7h 46m 40s	7h

*Keep in mind that a full stack of preserving salts will spoil in 2 hours for all of these containers and must be restocked periodically in order to maximize the spoil time.

For more information, see Spoilage.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
186.0	Raw Prime Meat is now 1/3rd as fast as it was previously to tame.
293.100	Fixed ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity issue with RawPrimeMeat.
312.65	Spoil time on Prime Meat and Prime Fish have doubled.

Notes

• If you are having trouble transporting, you may consider using the  Hyaenodon Meatpack as it doubles the Spoilage timer compared to transport in a regular dino's inventory.