Kibbles are special dino food in the survival MMO ARK Survival Evolved. A Kibble helps you with taming. The statistics of your dinos also improve through Kibbles. Here you will learn how to make them.
If you want to tame a dino in ARK Survival Evolved, food plays an important role. The food you give the animal while taming determines the taming duration and later statistics of the dinosaur. Each creature prefers different food: A carnivore loves meat the most, while a herbivore eats plants and fruits. Then there are creatures that prefer to eat fish.
One thing they all have in common: Every dino is crazy about Kibbles!
In this Kibble guide you will learn:
- the advantage of Kibbles
- the effect of Kibbles during taming
- which Kibble recipes there are (complete list)
- how the Kibble chart works
- how to plant crops
ARK Kibble – These benefits provide you Kibble
A Kibble is a type of food for dinos that must be made in a cooking pot. All dinos prefer Kibble as food. The taming process is significantly shortened by these special dino treats and creates a stronger bond between survivor and dino. As a result, the dino has better stats after taming and will become a stronger companion for you.
A Kibble only spoils after three days, making it more durable than other foods. If you want to leave your dino sitting for a while, it’s best to put Kibble in its inventory. Then you don’t have to hurry back to fill its inventory with food.
Wrong Kibbles slow down the taming process
Attention: Each dinosaur has one individual favorite Kibble that brings positive effects while taming. If you give the dino a Kibble it doesn’t like, you will even achieve a negative effect. The dino’s stats will decrease and you will slow down the taming process. You might even be better off feeding berries or raw meat instead of a Kibble the dino doesn’t like.
Favorite Kibbles satisfy the hunger of dinos by 80 points. Other Kibbles fill 90 or 60 points, but slow down the taming process by 1/8. Once a dino is tamed, it doesn’t matter which Kibble you feed it. The hunger bar of a tamed dino fills with Kibbles by 90 points, regardless of which one.
This is how Kibble recipes are structured
Dinos in ARK are real foodies and don’t all like Kibbles equally. Each species only prefers a certain Kibble. In the table below, you will find the Kibble recipe for each individual dino that they like the most.
Kibble recipes always consist of the same components and are made in a cooking pot. These components differ in their composition from recipe to recipe:
- Eggs of a specific species
- 3x Fiber
- 2x Mejoberries
- Water (1x Waterskin with at least 25% content)
- Another ingredient like meat, jerky, or fruits (crops)
Eggs: Kibble Chart – Start with Dodo and Dilo Kibbles
The hardest part about making Kibble is collecting the eggs. It is not easy to gather all the eggs needed for the recipes. Especially with strong and aggressive dinos like the Rex, you don’t necessarily want to steal the eggs. Moreover, you won’t often come across most of the eggs in the wild.
If you study the Kibble recipes closely, you will notice that the eggs follow a specific flowchart. Instead of wandering aimlessly and searching for eggs, you can follow this flow and effectively tame one dino after another with Kibbles.
The table shows that the Dodo Kibble and the Dilo Kibble are preferred by three different dinos each. You can get these eggs most easily and they should be your starting point in making Kibbles.
Farming Dino eggs – This is how you produce them permanently
You have the option to build your own egg farm. Dodo and Dilo eggs can often be found lying around and are easy to steal. You should tame the following dinos in the chart and place a female and male in your base for egg production. This will greatly simplify your Kibble production.
If you want to produce Kibble even faster, you need more eggs. The Oviraptor can help you with this. This is a small dino that eats eggs. The Ovi produces a sexual pheromone that causes dinos to lay more eggs. Just place an Ovi among your other dinos in the base.
Guide: Tame Oviraptor and farm eggs
Follow this Kibble chart
In the image below, you can see the Kibble chart. It indicates which dinos you should start with for Kibble production.
Let’s take the Dodo as an example: You need Dodo eggs for the Pteranodon -> The eggs of the Pteranodon for the Carbonemys -> The eggs of the Carbonemys for the Brontosaurus -> And the eggs of the Brontosaurus for the Sabertooth.
Crops for farming Kibble – Plant seeds and fertilize them with dung
Crops are valuable fruits in ARK Survival Evolved that you can plant and farm in “Crop Plots”. You can find the seeds of the fruits in your surroundings. Place the seeds in crop plots and fertilize them with dung. Regularly give your new plants water and fertilizer to help them grow.
These plants will yield seeds:
- Azulberries
- Amarberries
- Mejoberries
- Tintoberries
- Stimberries
- Narcoberries
- Citronal
- Longrass
- Rockcarrot
- Savaroot
From this list, you will need for the production of Kibbles: Mejoberries, Citronal, Longrass, Rockcarrot, Savaroot.
The Kibble production is worth it. Once you have it all up and running, you will need to spend less time taming and will get stronger dino pets. If you have any tips and tricks, feel free to share them in the comments. This way we will all become master chefs for dino gourmets!
Kibble will also be useful for learning how to fly in ARK. Here’s a link to our Flying Creature List – How to tame flying creatures.
