Spoiled Meat

Spoiled Meat

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Eww... do not eat.
This must have a use, right?

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Consumable (values pertain to Humans)

Type

Meat

Food

+2.5

Health

-12.0

Spoils in

15m

Item

Weight

0.1

Stack size

100

Decomposes in

2m

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 13 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_SpoiledMeat.PrimalItemConsumable_SpoiledMeat'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

2 items

Spoiled Meat is a food item in Ark: Survival Evolved. It can be created by letting  Raw Meat,  Cooked Meat,  Raw Prime Meat,  Cooked Prime Meat,  Raw Fish Meat,  Cooked Fish Meat,  Raw Prime Fish Meat,  Cooked Prime Fish Meat,  Raw Mutton,  Cooked Lamb Chop, or any  Jerky spoil. Spoiled meat can also spoil, at which point the item will disappear from the player's inventory.

Uses

As a food item, Spoiled Meat is the very last resort; eating it will restore 3.5 points of  Food, but decrease  Health by 12.5 points. Because of this, Spoiled Meat is not initially worth much to the player.

However, it is a good idea to keep some lying around in a  Storage Box, because it has several important uses later on. For example, one Spoiled Meat can be combined with 5 ×  Narcoberries in the  Mortar and Pestle to craft  Narcotic, which is an essential tool for taming.

Spoiled Meat also is the preferred food of the  Scorpion,  Spider,  Arthropluera,  Vulture, and  Karkinos. Feeding Spoiled Meat to them will tame it more quickly than feeding it with  Raw Meat would while refilling the same 50 food points.

Spoil times

Container	Spoiling Time
Player Inventory	1h
Tamed Dino	4h
Preserving Bin	10h
Smokehouse	15h
Refrigerator	4d 4h

For more information, see Spoilage.

Notes

• The spoil timer for each variant of meat (Raw Meat, Cooked Meat, and so on) will only apply to one piece of meat at a time in a stack. This means that a full stack of 40 meat in an inventory will decay at a much slower rate than 40 individual meat items would.
  • Use "Split Stack - Split All" to spoil a large amount of meat. Useful when crafting Narcotic in bulk.
• You can separate your meat stack by holding down ⇧ Shift or Ctrl (PC), (Xbox) and dragging it into another slot. This will create a new slot for your meat, and will increase the amount of spoiled meat received per time. You can continue splitting the stacks until your inventory is full.
• On the Crystal Isles, there are sunken dinosaur carcasses in the southeastern swamp region. Bring a  Cryopodded Dunkleosteus to harvest the carcasses to get massive amounts of spoiled meat in seconds, one of the fastest ways to acquire thousands in minutes instead of having to wait for meat to spoil.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
187.0	Scorpions/Carrion eaters will now prefer to eat spoiled meat rather than raw meat after being Tamed.