Ark Survival Evolved: How To Make Kibble

Kibble is ideal for taming animals quickly and efficiently in Ark: Survival Evolved. Here's how to make this useful item. Ark: Survival Evolved is a great survival adventure that allows players to build powerful bases, survive on a desolate island, and tame creatures from dinosaurs to giant turtles. Taming is an aspect that requires a certain amount of skill, understanding, and the right food.

Taming Animals can be a real challenge when players don't have the right food. It's often a lengthy process that requires a vast amount of resources, time, and patience, and even after all this there's still a chance players won't be successful. This is where Kibble comes in. It's an extremely useful resource in Ark: Survival Evolved and will undoubtedly make players' lives much easier.

What Kibble Is Used For

At its simplest description, Kibble is an inedible food item that can be used to tame creatures. It speeds up the process when the player is initially taming the dinosaur of their choice and makes it much more efficient and not as resource-heavy.

While it may speed up the taming process as a whole, it has other elements that can help save the player's life or make their experience a little easier. Feeding Kibble to a creature to tame it will grant them better stats once the process has been completed. This can make them stronger, healthier, or quicker depending on the animals. All these benefits may be concerning when it comes to creating the Kibble, but luckily it's one of the easier recipes in Ark: Survival Evolved and requires few ingredients and even fewer machines to make it in.

The Ingredients

Due to the fact, that there are six different versions of Kibble available to be created on the console edition of Ark, selecting the one players should make all depends on the creature they're intending to tame. Each creature will prefer a different type of Kibble and feeding them the wrong one will prove the polar opposite of effective. Nevertheless, creating any type of Kibble requires a fair few ingredients.

This table shows the ingredients for the Console version of Ark: Survival Evolved.

Kibble	Egg	First Ingredient	Second Ingredient	Third Ingredient	Fourth Ingredient	Fifth Ingredient	Sixth Ingredient
Basic Kibble	Extra Small Egg	Five Mejoberries	Ten Amarberries	Ten Tintoberries	One Cooked Meat	Five Fiber	Water
Simple Kibble	Small Egg	Five Mejoberries	Two Rockarrots	One Cooked Fish Meat		Five Fiber	Water
Regular Kibble	Medium Egg	Two Longrass	Two Savoroots	One Cooked Meat Jerky		Five Fiber	Water
Superior Kibble	Large Egg	Two Citronal	Two Rare Mushrooms	One Prime Meat Jerky	One Sap	Five Fiber	Water
Exceptional Kibble	Extra Large Egg	Ten Mejoberries	One Rare Flower	One Focal Chili		Five Fiber	Water
Extraordinary Kibble	Special Egg	Ten Mejoberries	One Giant Bee Honey	One Lazarus Chowder		Five Fiber	Water

The console edition of this game only has five different versions of Kibble to feed to creatures. Unfortunately, the Mobile or Switch version has many more, making it more specific to each animal and a bit more challenging for the player.

This table shows the ingredients for the Mobile and Switch version of Ark: Survival Evolved based on what Kibble to craft for each creature.

The Kibble For Each Creature	Egg	First Ingredient	Second Ingredient
Tapejara Kibble	Allosaurus Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Prime Meat
Carno Kibble	Ankylo Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky
Diplocaulus Kibble	Archaeopteryx Egg	Longrass	Cooked Fish Meat
Spino Kibble	Argentavis Egg	Citronal	Prime Meat Jerky
Megatherium Kibble	Baryonyx Egg	Savoroot	Raw Fish Meat
Sabertooth Kibble	Bronto Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat Jerky
Bronto Kibble	Turtle Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat Jerky
Direwolf and Dire Bear Kibble	Carno Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat
Iguanodon Kibble	Compy Egg	Citronal	Cooked Fish Meat
Ankylo, Doedicurus, Equus, and Pachy Kibble	Dilo Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat Jerky
Gallimimus Kibble	Dimetrodon Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat Jerky
Megaloceros Kibble	Dimorph Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat
Allosaurus Kibble	Diplo Egg	Savoroot	Rare Flower
Pteranodon, Ichthyosaurus, Mesopithecus Kibble	Dodo Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat
Terror Bird, Castoroides Kibble	Gallimimus Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky
Royal Griffin, Unicorn Kibble	Griffin Egg	Savoroot, Longrass, Citronal	Cooked Prime Meat Snake Plant Seeds
Daeodon Kibble	Iguanodon Egg	Rare Mushroom	Prime Meat Jerky
Angler Kibble	Kairuku Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat
Diplodocus Kibble	Lystro Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Prime Meat
Therizinosaur Kibble	Megalosaurus Egg	Rockarrot	Two Prime Meat Jerky
Purlovia Kibble	Moschops Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky
Megalosaurus Kibble	Oviraptor Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky
Paracer Kibble	Pachy Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat
Baryonyx Kibble	Pachyrhino Egg	Citronal	Cooked Prime Fish Meat
Raptor Kibble	Parasaur Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat
Archaeopteryx Kibble	Pelagornis Egg	Citronal	Ten Chitin
Carbonemys Kibble	Pteranodon Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat
Rex, Beelzebufo Kibble	Pulmonoscorpius Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky
Mosasaurus,Giganotosaurus, Dimetrodon Kibble	Quetzal Egg	Three Rockarrots	Three Prime Meat Jerky
Mammoth Kibble	Raptor Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat
Plesiosaur, Quetzal Kibble	Rex Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky
Stegosaurus Kibble	Sarco Eg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat Jerky
Megalodon Kibble	Spino Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky
Argentavis Kibble	Stego Egg	Citronal	Prime Meat jerky
Kaprosuchus Kibble	Tapejara Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Prime Meat
Wooly Rhino Kibble	Terror Bird Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat
Basilosaurus Kibble	Therizino Egg	Citronal	AnglerGel
Gigantopithecus, Dunkleosteus	Titanoboa Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat Jerky
Sarco	Trike Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky

How To Get Eggs

Getting hold of the other ingredients shouldn't be too much of a challenge as players progress through the game. For example, beginners may find it tough to create Extraordinary Kibble but as they progress through the game and different resources begin to get easier to find, they should be able to grab the required ingredients. The first and main element players will want to get hold of are the eggs. This is needed for any type of Kibble and typically the name hints at where the egg will come from.

Firstly, find a female dinosaur of the size players want the egg to be, Dodo's can't lay Large Eggs, and a Triceratops can't lay Small Eggs. It's worth finding or taming a female creature and finding them a mate. This will allow them to be mate boosted. Players can mate boost their pets by having two different gendered pets of the same species nearby each other. It should be obvious as to if this has worked by the sign of a pink heart by their name.

Once this has been achieved the player will just need to wait. If the creature is mate boosted then the player shouldn't need to wait around the pen for the female to lay an egg as it can happen no matter where the player is. However, it's worth checking in every so often since it does decompose 30 minutes after dropping.

Essentially, a female boosted creature has a high chance to drop an egg every 17 minutes. Once the egg has dropped players have eight-day before it spoils.

How To Make Kibble

Kibble itself can be made through either a Cooking Pot, an Industrial Cooker, or the TEK Kibble Processor. For ease, it's worth using a cooking pot for the beginning of the game since it doesn't do too much in terms of efficiency when compared to the amount of work it is to create the Kibble Processor or the Industrial Cooker.

Simply, take the ingredients required for the Kibble and place it all into the Cooking Pot. Players on console will need to make sure they have at least 25 percent water in there before cooking. Then, add some thatch to the bottom to light the fire. Using Wood or having charcoal will often create something the player doesn't want so be careful when creating this recipe.

After the campfire is on and the ingredients are in, the player will need to wait 30 seconds, and it will produce some Kibble. In short steps the player needs to: