Cactus Broth
This magical soup will greatly reduce your water consumption. The aroma of the cactus has a side effect of making the wildlife notice you less.
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 64 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Cooking Pot Recipe
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Cactus Broth guides
How to craft Cactus Broth
Cactus Broth is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 60 seconds, gives 1 XP.
How to get Cactus Broth
Cactus Broth is found in 64 loot crates.
Loot crates
64 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Cactus Broth — Detailed Guide
A soup for hot climates
Cactus Broth is a cooked dish in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that slows how fast a survivor gets thirsty and makes them harder for wild animals to notice. The game describes it like this: "This magical soup will greatly reduce your water consumption. The aroma of the cactus has a side effect of making the wildlife notice you less." According to the ARK Wiki it first appeared with Scorched Earth, and the wiki also lists it for Valguero, Fjordur, Ragnarok, Lost Island, Extinction, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2.
What a bowl does
The wiki gives exact figures. Eating it restores 100 water at once, and for 10 minutes it brings:
- 50% lower water consumption
- +60 hyperthermal insulation, described by the wiki as higher heat resistance
- a maximum detection distance cut to 12 meters
The detection cut adds up with the effects of the Ghillie Suit and 
Bug Repellant. The wiki points out two practical uses: it can help when taming territorial creatures passively, such as the 
Gigantopithecus, 
Manta or 
Chalicotherium, and in caves it lets a survivor head directly for the artifact while staying undetected.
Cooking it
The broth is cooked in a 
Cooking Pot, and the wiki also names the 
Industrial Cooker. One serving needs:
Cactus Sap
Blood Sap
Mejoberry
Azulberry
Amarberry
WaterFor the water, put a 
Waterskin, 
Water Jar or 
Canteen holding at least 25% water into the pot. Fuel the fire with Thatch or 
AnglerGel; the wiki warns that otherwise the pot makes a coloring dye instead. Cooking takes 60 seconds and gives 1 XP.
Storage and spoilage
Each portion weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 10. It spoils after 5 hours. Loot can supply it too: 64 crate types can contain Cactus Broth, for example the Astraeos Desert Blue, Astraeos Desert Purple and Astraeos Desert Red crates.