Taming dinosaurs can be a tedious process inARK: 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, playershave to craft Kibble as opposed to finding itin the wild.
Dinosaurs are a large part ofARK: Survival Ascended, as is trying to tame and raise them. Dinosaurs can be tamed by eitherfeeding them a certain amount of food, or they can be raised by mating dinosaurs already under your care. You willneed a fair amount of ingredients to be able to make Kibblein a expedient fashion, which are all listed below.
Using Kibble For Taming Dinosaurs
Quality Tiers
Kibble can be used to eithertame dinosaurs or to help baby dinosaurs imprintwhen they are young. Certain dinosaurs like certain types of Kibble, but in this case there is a hierarchy of quality Kibble types that go fromBasic Kibble to Extraordinary Kibble with four other tiersin 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 inARK: Survival Ascendedfor a dinosaur who prefers Superior Kibble, the Basic Kibble willnot 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.
The higher the tier of Kibble, the more versatile it can be.
For instance, using normal food will take about five hours or more to effectively tame a dinosaur, whereas Kibble acts as a superfood and cancut the time expenditure down by a significant margin. Similarly, it will take a lotless Kibble as compared to Berries or Meatto fill up the Taming bar on any Dinosaur.YouTuber Crabbytrongoes 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 isDinosaur Eggs. Eggs come from a number of possibledinosaurs inARK: Survival Ascended, and they all come in all sorts of colors and sizes. These eggscan be fertilized and used to breed certain dinosaursas well, so you may not want to use all your eggs to make Kibble.
The main way to get Eggs is to havetamed 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 anOviraptorto 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 foreach 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. Manyflying dinosaurs inARK: Survival Ascendedare very good at laying Eggs.
Kibble Recipes
Preparing Dinosaur Food
Kibble must be cooked ineither 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 thefull 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.
Special Egg
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 inARK: Survival Ascended.
