ARK: Survival Evolved: How to Cook Kibble – Ingredients & Recipes

In order to effectively tame dinosaurs and other creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved, you need, the so-called kibble. These ensure that the dinosaur or creature is tamed 5x faster, which is why you have to be careful which kibble you feed.

Since there are different types and almost every dino has also a special kibble, we explain in our taming guides how to make them and show you all the recipes. In this guide, we will show you, what you need to prepare Kibble and which dinosaur lays which egg.

Making Kibble in ARK: Survival Evolved

To make kibble, you require an Industrial Cooker or Cooking Pot. In the mobile version of ARK, you can craft kibble at a Chef Station or TEK kibble processor.

You then put all the necessary ingredients in this and wait 30 seconds for the kibble to be made.

Cooking Pot

To craft a cooking pot, you need level 8 and 9 engram points, as well as the following resources:

• 75x Stone
• 15x Thatch
• 10x Wood
• 5x Flint

You can bring the cooking pot to a boil by igniting Thatch, Wood, Sparkpowder, or Angler Gel.

Industrial Cooker

To craft the industrial cooker, you must have reached level 89 and spent 60 engram points. You also need the following resources:

• 300x Polymer
• 1800x Metal Ingots
• 450x Cement paste or Achatina paste
• 300x Oil

TEK Kibble Processor (mobile game)

In the mobile version of ARK: Survival Evolved, you need a TEK Kibble Processor to make the kibble. You craft it with 66 Crafting XP in the Fabricator or TEK Replicator. You need the following resources:

• 50x Element
• 500x Metal Ingots
• 50x Electronics
• 25x Crystal

Chef station (mobile game)

The boss stations, also from the mobile version, are made from level 23. For this, you need:

• 25 Ancient Amber

Recipes for Kibble in ARK: Survival Evolved

In ARK: Survival Evolved there are six different kibbles, each made with different egg sizes and ingredients, pay attention to the dino or creature you want to tame or have already tamed which kibble is needed. We have prepared a list of ingredients and an overview of the kibbles for you (if an ingredient needs to be made, you will find the recipes for it at the end of the article):

Basic Kibble 1x Extra Small Egg 1x Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky 5x Fiber 5x Mejoberry 10x Amarberry 10x Tintoberry 1x Water	Simple Kibble 1x Small Egg 1x Cooked Fish Meat 5x Fiber 5x Mejoberry 2x Rockarrot 1x Water
Regular Kibble 1x Medium Egg 1x Cooked Meat Jerky 5x Fiber 2x Longrass 2x Savoroot 1x Water	Superior Kibble 1x Large Egg 1x Prime Meat Jerky 5x Fiber 2x Citronal 2x Rare Mushroom 1x Sap 1x Water
Exceptional Kibble 1x Extra Large Egg 5x Fiber 10x Mejoberry 1x Focal Chili 1x Rare Flower 1x Water	Extraordinary Kibble 1x Special Egg 5x Fiber 10x Mejoberry 1x Lazarus Chowder 1x Giant Bee Honey 1x Water

You get the following eggs from these dinosaurs:

Extra Small Egg: Dilosophosaurus Dodo Featherlight Kairuku Lystrosaurus Parasaurus oder TEK-Parasaurus Vulture	Small Egg: Archaeopteryx Camelsaurus Compy Dimorphodon Gallimimus Glowtail Hesperornis Raptor, Microraptor, TEK-Raptor, Oviraptor Pachycephalosaurus Pegomastax Pteranodon Triceratops, TEK-Triceratops Sinomacrops
Medium Egg: Ankylosaurus Baryonyx Carbonemys Carnotaurus Dimetrodon Diplodocus Ichtyornis Iguanodon Kaprosuchus Kentrosaurus Pachyrhinosaurus Pelagornis Pulmonoscorpius Sarcosuchus Stegosaurus, TEK-Stegosaurus Terror Bird Thorny Dragon Troodon Velonasaurus	Large Egg: Allosaurus Argentavis Bloodstalker Megalania Megalosaurus Moschops Snow Owl Spinosaurus Tapejara Titanoboa Tropeognathus
Extra Large Egg: Basilisk Brontosaurus Giganotosaurus Megachelon Quetzal, TEK Quetzal T-Rex, TEK T-Rex Therizinosaurus	Special Egg: Deinonychus Golden Hesperornis Crystal Wyvern Magmasaurus Rock Drake Voidwyrm Wyvern Yutyrannus

Ingredient preparation for kibble in ARK

Cooked Meat Jerky/ Prime Meat Jerky

To smoke meat or tenderloin, you must first create a Preserving Bin, Smokehouse, or Preserving Campfire. Once you have done this, you will need the following ingredients:

• 1x Cooked Meat or Cooked Prime Meat (simply cook Raw Meat or Raw Prime Meat)
• 1x Oil
• 3x Sparkpowder

The production time is 36 minutes.

Focal Chili

You make Focal Chili in a Cooking Pot or in an Industrial Cooker. To make it, you will need the following ingredients:

• 9x Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, Cooked Meat Jerky
• 5x Citronal
• 20x Amarberry
• 20x Azulberry
• 20x Tintoberry
• 10x Mejoberries
• 1x Water

The crafting time is 1 minute.

Lazarus Chowder

You can also make Lazarus Chowder in a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker with the following ingredients:

• 9x Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, Cooked Meat Jerky
• 5x Savoroot
• 5x Longrass
• 10x Mejoberries
• 2x Narcotic
• 1x Water

The crafting time is 1 minute.

Special kibbles in ARK

Some dinosaurs or creatures, in addition to one of the six main kibbles, like kibble made from eggs of other creatures or dinosaurs. Since these are very specific and not elemental like the main kibble, we have specified them in the respective taming guides. So you can see directly which special kibble you could also prepare.

Of course, the guide is also available in video form, hereby YouTuber pterafier:

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