Kibble

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 .

Usage

The order of effectiveness (in terms of taming duration) in food for taming creatures is:

Food	Taming Speed 1	Taming Effectiveness
	5x Speed	★★★★★
	3.8x Speed	★★★★☆
	3x Speed	★★★☆☆
	2x Speed	★★★☆☆ 2
	1.5x Speed	★★☆☆☆
	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆
	1x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆
	1x Speed	★★★☆☆
	1x Speed	★★☆☆☆
	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆
	0.66x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆

1. Speed values are outdated, just use it as a rough overview
2. 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.

In-game recipe for kibbles in general

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	▶	Quetzal	▶	Dimetrodon	▶	Gallimimus	▶	Terror Bird	▶	Woolly Rhino
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Beelzebufo	Giganoto

Dodo

Dodo	Ichthyosaurus
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▶	Pteranodon	▶	Carbonemys	▶	Brontosaurus	▶	Sabertooth
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Mesopithecus

Titanoboa

Titanoboa	◥	Gigantopithecus
◢	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	◥	Iguanodon	▶	Daeodon
◢	Pelagornis	▶	Archaeopteryx	▶	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	◥	Royal Griffin
◢	Unicorn

Standalone

Achatina

Arthro

Chalico

Dung Beetle

Liopleurodon

Manta

Onyc

Phiomia

Procoptodon

Titanosaur

Super Kibble (Mobile)

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.