Cauldron

Bulk cooking with fifty slots

The Cauldron is a cooking structure from the Primitive Plus DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. Its description: "Must contain basic fuel to light the fire. Put various ingredients with water in this to make soups, stews, and dyes." The ARK Wiki points to its 50 item slots, which let players make custom recipes and kibbles in bulk, and several kibbles or recipes can be cooked at the same time.

Building a Cauldron

The engram unlocks at level 35 and costs 10 engram points. One Cauldron needs:

• 25 Iron Ingot (Primitive Plus)
• 20 Stone
• 5 Cementing Paste
• 5 Flint

Crafting takes 10 seconds and gives 19.5 XP. Each Cauldron weighs 4, and our records give a stack size of 100.

Fuel and placement

Not every fuel lasts equally long: each fuel item burns for its own length of time, and the wiki compares those burn times so players can pick a fuel that fits how long the fire has to run. When placing it, the Cauldron may hang over an edge or slightly overlap another object.

How hard it is to damage

The wiki treats it as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks that do not explode cannot harm it. A long list of aggressive creatures cannot damage it either, for example the Titanoboa, Sabertooth, Direwolf, Raptor, Kaprosuchus, Thylacoleo and Pulmonoscorpius.