Beer Jar

A drink with a hangover attached

The Beer Jar is a consumable in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its in-game description is a single word: "Mmmmm." According to the ARK Wiki, drinking it gives a set of temporary buffs that is followed by a hangover.

Brewing it in a Beer Barrel

The jar comes out of a Beer Barrel. The wiki explains the steps: an irrigated Beer Barrel, placed on pipes, turns 40 Thatch and 50 berries of any kind into Beer Liquid, and the beer takes 6 hours to form. That Beer Liquid is then combined with a Water Jar in the barrel. Both games use the same two ingredients:

• 1 Beer Liquid
• 1 Water Jar

This last step takes 0.1 seconds and gives 1 XP.

Effects of a drink

Drinking makes your character intoxicated for 2 minutes; a countdown next to a beer jar icon shows how long is left. For that time the wiki lists:

• higher insulation and damage resistance
• 40% more melee damage
• lower water consumption
• a fast drain on stamina

Once the 2 minutes are up, a hangover follows for 1 minute: stamina stays at 0 and the effects of any Stews are blocked. The wiki adds that without upgraded stamina you cannot run after drinking, and that beer can be drunk only once every 5 minutes.

Taming, weight and loot

Beer Jars are also used to tame the Chalicotherium and the Deinotherium passively, and a jar used for taming does not come back as an empty jar. Each Beer Jar weighs 6 and a stack holds 20, so a full stack weighs 120. Our records list it on 9 maps, and 69 crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration Blue and Aberration Purple crates on Aberration and Valguero.