Consumable (values pertain to Humans) Type Kibble Spoils in 3d Item Weight 0.1 Stack size 100 Decomposes in 2m Added in v186.0 Crafting Crafting time 30s Crafted in
Cooking Pot
Industrial Cooker
TEK Kibble Processor
Purchase (Mobile) Purchase yields 3 pieces Purchased in Chef Station Cost 50 × Mixes
Kibble are food items used to tame creatures more quickly and with higher affinity, allowing players to save time and end up with better stats on their tamed pet, but normal raw meat is still much better .
Contents
1Usage
2Recipes
3Using as regular food
4In Mobile
4.1Recipes (Mobile)
4.2Creatures (Mobile)
4.3Super Kibble (Mobile)
5Notes
Usage[]
The order of effectiveness (in terms of taming duration) in food for taming creatures is:
Food
Taming Speed 1
Taming Effectiveness
Preferred Kibble class or better
5x Speed
★★★★★
Raw Mutton
3.8x Speed
★★★★☆
Raw Prime Meat
3x Speed
★★★☆☆
Spoiled Meat
2x Speed
★★★☆☆ 2
Cooked Prime Meat / Prime Meat Jerky
1.5x Speed
★★☆☆☆
Raw Meat
1x Speed
★☆☆☆☆
Cooked Meat / Cooked Meat Jerky
1x Speed
☆☆☆☆☆
Crops
1x Speed
★★★☆☆
Mejoberries
1x Speed
★★☆☆☆
Other Berries
1x Speed
★☆☆☆☆
Other Kibble
0.66x Speed
☆☆☆☆☆
Speed values are outdated, just use it as a rough overview
Scorpions, Dung Beetles, Spiders, Vultures, and Karkinos only
The food value of a Kibble depends on the Creature and the type of food. For Kibble it varies between 20 and 135. Non-favorite kibbles gives only 1/8 of the taming progress than the favorite kibbles.
Kibble is also used for imprinting baby dinos. During care, they may want to be hand fed a randomly selected kibble, including any kibble that is not their species' preferred food. For this reason, having as many types of kibble as possible will allow the imprinting rate to increase.
Recipes[]
Learning an Engram is not necessary to create kibbles and there are no Engrams available for them, instead recipes are found throughout the world. Follow the same instructions as when cooking with a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker.
In addition to the ingredients listed below, all kibble recipes require a Waterskin with at least 25% water in it (any other Water-container works, but will be completely used up regardless of capacity).
When creating Kibbles in an Industrial Cooker which is hooked up to a water irrigation system, no waterskin or other water-container is necessary.
Fertilized eggs can also be used to make Kibble. Breeding creatures is a great way to generate eggs on-demand.
Cooking these kibbles requires a lit Cooking Pot so in addition you need fuel for the fire. It takes 30 seconds to cook 1 kibble in a Cooking Pot.
See also Egg for a list of eggs and their size.
Using as regular food[]
Kibble can be used as regular food for tamed dinos. Kibble takes 3 days to spoil, which makes it last longer than most other food types. It also stacks to 10 and weighs little compared to other foods. Kibble can last for very long periods of time when stacked and preserved in a Preserving Bin or Refrigerator (Refrigerator is recommended as the spoilage time is greatly increased).
The amount of food per kibble depends on the type of kibble and whether the kibble is preferred by a particular dino. Most dinos gain 80 food from their preferred kibble, even if other dinos would gain more. There are exceptions; for instance, Daeodons gain 120 food from their preferred kibble (Iguanadon/Superior), which normally only gives 90.Kibbles will give either 60 or 90 food per kibble. Kibbles that give 90 food generally require Prime Meat Jerky and as of v257 are: Ankylo, Araneo, Archaeopteryx, Argentavis, Ichthyornis, Iguanodon, Kaprosuchus, Mantis, Megalosaurus, Microraptor, Moth, Oviraptor, Pulminoscorpius, Quetzal, Rex, Spino, Stego, and Tapejara. All other kibbles give 60 food, unless preferred, of course.
Due to these traits, using Kibble as regular food can be useful on some occasions. Like when leaving your creatures behind for long periods of time, as you have to fill the creatures' inventories less often.
However, farming Eggs is still very time consuming and expensive, so generally it is not recommended to use as regular Dino food. When using Kibble for this purpose, it is advised to use Kibble types that are easy to make, like the Basic Kibble.
In Mobile[]
Recipes (Mobile)[]
This section is about a feature exclusively available on Mobile
Although these Kibbles are no longer craftable for PC and Console, they are still craftable in ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile. They can be crafted in the Cooking Pot, Industrial Cooker, or the TEK Kibble Processor.
The value of the Kibble is used to determined the necessary amount of Kibble needed when using the TEK Kibble Processor, and the Crafting yield.
Creatures (Mobile)[]
This section is about a feature exclusively available on Mobile
Dilophosaur
Dilophosaur
Doedicurus
Dire Bear
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Ankylo
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Carnotaurus
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Triceratops
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Sarco
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Stegosaurus
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Argentavis
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Spino
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Megalodon
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Equus
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Pachy
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Paraceratherium
Direwolf
Pulmonoscorpius
Pulmonoscorpius
Plesiosaur
Mosasaurus
Castoroides
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Rex
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Quetzal
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Dimetrodon
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Gallimimus
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Terror Bird
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Woolly Rhino
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Beelzebufo
Giganoto
Dodo
Dodo
Ichthyosaurus
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Pteranodon
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Carbonemys
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Brontosaurus
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Sabertooth
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Mesopithecus
Titanoboa
Titanoboa
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Gigantopithecus
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Dunkleosteus
Lystrosaurus
Lystrosaurus
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Diplodocus
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Allosaurus
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Tapejara
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Kaprosuchus
Compy
Compy
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Iguanodon
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Daeodon
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Pelagornis
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Archaeopteryx
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Diplocaulus
Dimorphodon
Dimorph
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Megaloceros
Kairuku
Kairuku
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Angler
Moschops
Moschops
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Purlovia
Oviraptor
Oviraptor
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Megalosaurus
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Therizinosaur
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Basilosaurus
Pachyrhinosaurus
Pachyrhino
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Baryonyx
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Megatherium
Parasaur
Parasaur
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Raptor
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Mammoth
Royal Griffin
Royal Griffin
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Royal Griffin
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Unicorn
Standalone
Achatina
Arthro
Chalico
Dung Beetle
Liopleurodon
Manta
Onyc
Phiomia
Procoptodon
Titanosaur
Super Kibble (Mobile)[]
Main article: Super Kibble
This section is about a feature exclusively available on Mobile
Super Kibble is a type of Kibble exclusive to ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile.
These Kibbles can be crafted in a Cooking Pot or in an Industrial Cooker by substituting the normal Egg with a Super Fertilized Egg. They can be used to tame Creatures faster and with greater Taming effectiveness.
Notes[]
When using Kibble to passive tame by placing it in the last slot of your hotbar, be aware that if a Pegomastax steals it, it will eat the entire stack!
If you are trying to make kibble and nothing is being produced with correct ingredients, try making a cooking pot or industrial cooker. Some updates render a crafting station disfunctional in a way.
Kibble used to not work on the official Primitive + mod, but now works as intended.