Ark: Survival Ascended - How To Make Kibble & All Recipes (2024)

Taming dinosaurs can be a tedious process in ARK: Survival Ascended, but it can be made easier by using Kibble. There are a variety of Kibble types, and like with most foods in the game, each dinosaur will prefer a different kind. However, there are some nuances to using Kibble that you will have to navigate while you are attempting to tame dinosaurs. Additionally, players have to craft Kibble as opposed to finding it in the wild.

Dinosaurs are a large part of ARK: Survival Ascended, as is trying to tame and raise them. Dinosaurs can be tamed by either feeding them a certain amount of food, or they can be raised by mating dinosaurs already under your care. You will need a fair amount of ingredients to be able to make Kibble in a expedient fashion, which are all listed below.

Using Kibble For Taming Dinosaurs

Quality Tiers

Kibble can be used to either tame dinosaurs or to help baby dinosaurs imprint when they are young. Certain dinosaurs like certain types of Kibble, but in this case there is a hierarchy of quality Kibble types that go from Basic Kibble to Extraordinary Kibble with four other tiers in between. Dinosaurs will prefer a certain tier, and this matters a lot for how you feed them.

For instance, if you use Basic Kibble as food in ARK: Survival Ascended for a dinosaur who prefers Superior Kibble, the Basic Kibble will not increase the taming percentage by very much, and the taming effectiveness will actually drop. However, if you feed that same dinosaur a Kibble tier above Superior, such as Extraordinary Kibble, it will be just fine. As long as you are feeding your dinosaur its preferred tier or above, you will be able to tame or imprint dinosaurs much faster.

For instance, using normal food will take about five hours or more to effectively tame a dinosaur, whereas Kibble acts as a superfood and can cut the time expenditure down by a significant margin. Similarly, it will take a lot less Kibble as compared to Berries or Meat to fill up the Taming bar on any Dinosaur. YouTuber Crabbytron goes over these numbers in a very detailed fashion. That being said, Kibble has to be crafted as opposed to found, but it is well worth doing so if you can.

Getting Eggs For Making Kibble

Dinosaur Egg Farm

One of the primary ingredients and the one players might have the most trouble getting is Dinosaur Eggs. Eggs come from a number of possible dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Ascended, and they all come in all sorts of colors and sizes. These eggs can be fertilized and used to breed certain dinosaurs as well, so you may not want to use all your eggs to make Kibble.

The main way to get Eggs is to have tamed female dinosaurs around your base, along with a single male dinosaur of each type you plan to breed, as this gives them a mate bonus. You will also need an Oviraptor to pick up the Eggs around your base. The Oviraptor can also provide bonuses to female dinosaurs to get them to lay more Eggs, and a female Oviraptor can drop and pick up her own Eggs as well.

Here is a list of Egg types for each Kibble tier and the dinosaurs that can drop them. The dinosaur in bold in each list is the recommended breed to use for Egg farming. Many flying dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Ascended are very good at laying Eggs.

Kibble Recipes

Preparing Dinosaur Food

Kibble must be cooked in either a Cooking Pot or an Industrial Cooker, and you will have to have a certain amount of water as well. A full Waterskin will work best, although the Industrial Cooker has water already built into it. Additionally, it is recommended you focus on higher-tier Kibble, as it will be more useful in the long run.

Here are the full recipes for each tier of Kibble. Remember that you can always make a higher tier and use it on dinosaurs that prefer a lower tier. A list of popular dinosaurs that prefer each type is included.

And with that, you have everything you need to go make Kibble recipes, farm Eggs, and have a general idea as to what dinosaurs prefer what Kibble in ARK: Survival Ascended.

Source: YouTube|Crabbytron

Ark: Survival Ascended

Platform(s)

PC , PS5 , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S

Released

October 26, 2023

Developer(s)

Studio Wildcard

Publisher(s)

Studio Wildcard

Genre(s)

Survival , Open-World

Engine

Unreal Engine 5

ESRB

T For Teen Due To Blood, Crude Humor, Game Experience May Change During Online Play, Use of Alcohol, Violence