ARK: Cooking and Taming with Kibble!
Cooking in ARK!
How to Make ARK Recipes
These recipes are not a learned skill, require no experience or engrams. Any survivor can cook any of these recipes at any time with nothing more than the cooker of choice, and the required ingredients.
Multiple recipes can cook concurrently, however be aware that some combinations of ingredients for multiple recipes may produce other unwanted dishes, as there are limited recipe ingredients creating considerable overlap in recipes. This feature is of the most use when mass cooking kibble; by placing all the required kibble ingredients into a cooker at once, it is possible to cook all the kibble types at the same time, without producing unwanted dishes.
All standard recipes require water. Water can be provided to the Industrial Cooker through pipes, or placed by hand into either cooker using Water Flasks and so on.
Basically there are a few considerations to make when planning a custom food. They are: HP, stamina, food, and weight. Making a good recipe requires a delicate balance of all these. Its also important to note that this is a great way to store surplus food that would otherwise rot. Sometimes you'll leave thousands of berries and meat in a feeding trough that eventually all spoil when you could've cooked them into the "Primary Cake" or the "Cheeseburger" shown in my attached pictures instead. Custom consumables have an extremely long shelf life when refrigerated compared to normal food.
NOTE: When you make the recipe you must use a normal cooking pot. You cannot create a recipe page in an Industrial Cooker. Other important tips:
Only eight stacks of ingredients can be in a single recipe.
Drugs and pre-made Dishes can not be used in a recipe.
If eggs are used in the recipe, the recipe is specific to that type of egg.
For a food filler, it's typically made of RAW meat. The best one I have is 10 raw meat for 101 food. Cooked meat technically gives more food, but I like the extra heal from raw
Element dust is a FANTASTIC ingredient. High stats evenly distributed with good weight
For healing recipes, try to use 2-4 bee honey and the rest of your 8 recipe slots some prime meat.
Mushrooms in general just make better recipes; primarily because they have more balanced stats. The downside is they lack real sustenance as food to fill your hunger. However, food is the easiest stat to fill almost without trying.
Stimberries and Auric mushrooms would normally decrease your water; but in a food recipe, they do not lower your water stat. It still does reduce the water given by a drink though when included in the drink's recipe.
DO NOT USE EGGS - THEY ARE MASSIVELY HEAVY! You're better off turning the eggs into kibble and using that in a recipe for the insane stamina regen. KIBBLE GIVES A TON OF STAMINA
Crops/veggies are best used in drinks. 2-4 on a good crafter will fill your water to 100 Please pay attention to weight. You would not believe how much extra room you can make just by getting rid of your egg recipes and doing meat or mushrooms instead.
KEEP IT SIMPLE. I tried making recipes with 4 or 5 different ingredients but it just leads to a big hassle that totally isn't worth it.
Also, note that recipes don't really become "worth it" until about 500% - 550% CS. That is the turning point when you start to reap benefits instead of taking losses.
To find out what ingredients have what effect, check out this guide: Ingredient Effects
CUSTOM RECIPIES from around the cluster and the Web.
ARK: How to Tame!
The Basics
The dinos fall into two categories: Herbivores and Carnivores. Or Vegetarians and Meat Eaters! Feeding the wrong Dino the wrong thing will hurt and possibly outright ruin your efforts. Most Dinos have an Egg Kibble that they prefer, a system that has for the most part replaced the favorite berry or meat theory. This primarily carnivorous food type is loved by a great many of the dinos. Keep in mind that there are several types of Kibble and each Dino has a preference. If you use the right Egg Kibble you'll get a 5x bonus to taming speed.
Another point to keep in mind is how to bring the Dino down so you can try to tame it. What seems to be the best is the Tranq Arrow. These do require a bow, a few engrams, and a Mortar and Pestle to make, but it is definitely worth the effort and resources. Tranq Arrows are fired from either a Bow or Crossbow. The Crossbow is far more expensive but far more effective. An Elite solution would be Tranq Darts in a Longneck Rifle. We have a table here in The PACK that has a 2x Tranq arrow, Bolt, and dart. These are really your best options, but are hard to come by really early on in the game.
Be aware also that the level of the Dino has a very big impact on taming times, the number of tranq arrows required, food, narcotic, or narcoberry requirements. Very low level Dinos will require very little of these compared to high level Dinos. The high level Dinos will require a great deal more. As for keeping it out cold, Narcotic is the most effective and does not spoil. Otherwise, it's Narcoberries.
Taming Herbivores
For the herbivore, you'll want a ton of berries and a ton of Narcoberries. The best results will occur if the creature has a favorite Egg Kibble. If it does, then you should use that to get yourself a 5x bonus on taming speed. Do keep in mind that each Dino has a preferred food, and when it comes to herbivores there are a number of different berry types. Also note that once the Dino is down for the count, Narcotics are stronger and don't spoil, so this should probably be your method of choice.
Taming Carnivores
For the carnivore, you'll want a ton of meat and a ton of Narcotics. Do keep in mind that each Dino has a preferred food. When it comes to carnivores, there are three (3) different types of meat normally used in taming. Also note that once the Dino is down for the count you'll want to use Narcotics. Prime Meat can be better than regular Raw Meat, and often a Carnivore will relish Mutton over any other meat. You'll get the best results if the creature has a favorite Egg Kibble. If it does and you use the right one, you'll get a 5x taming speed bonus. Spoiled Meat should be used rarely, and only with a few Dinos such as the Scorpion.
Egg-Based Kibble & Which One To Use
Kibble is one of the Rockwell Recipes. It is created in the Cooking Pot. There are many variations, but the basic idea is this: 1 Egg, 1 Meat, Mejoberries, Fiber, 1 Veggie, and Water.
A complete listing of the Kibbles is shown below:
KIBBLE CHART
Below are some Kibble Charts I found around the interwebs. The Top one is the most up-to-date one that I have found.
The older ones are just here for Legacy. Ark has been with us, and Us with it a long time!
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