Cooked Prime Meat
Sates your hunger, and provides health while being digested. More effective than normal meat. Wild carnivores like this meat a lot.
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
- Loot crates
- 80 crates
- Item ID
- 249
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Cooking Pot Recipe
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Cooked Prime Meat guides
How to craft Cooked Prime Meat
Cooked Prime Meat is crafted from 1 ingredient. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 20 seconds, gives 0 XP.
How to get Cooked Prime Meat
Cooked Prime Meat is found in 80 loot crates.
Loot crates
80 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 80 crates
- Candy Corn A (Fear Evolved Event)The Island, Scorched Earth, and The Center · ASA / ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- 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
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- 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
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall ArcherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DeadeyeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DemolisherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall EnforcerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall GunslingerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall HeraldThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall MarauderThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall PiercerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall ScattershotThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall SnarerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall WardenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Cooked Prime Meat — Detailed Guide
Prime meat after cooking
Cooking Raw Prime Meat produces Cooked Prime Meat, a food for survivors and a taming food for carnivores in ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved. The description begins "Sates your hunger, and provides health while being digested." and goes on to rate it above normal meat, adding that wild carnivores like it a lot.
Cooking it
One Raw Prime Meat makes one piece, and our data sets the cooking time at 20 seconds. The ARK Wiki names the 
Campfire and the 
Industrial Grill as places to cook it, and the 
Stone Fireplace appears in its list as well.
Eating and taming
For a survivor, each piece restores 25.0 health and 35.0 food over 6 seconds. Any carnivore can be tamed with it: a creature being tamed gets the same 50 food as from 
Raw Meat, but taming goes 1.5 times as fast. The ARK Wiki still advises against it, as 
Raw Prime Meat tames even better, at 3 times the rate of Raw Meat. The 
Thylacoleo is the exception, preferring cooked meat over raw.
Recipes, weight and spoilage
Our records count 36 recipes using it in ASA and 37 in ASE. The food recipes among them include 
Mindwipe Tonic (24), 
Shadow Steak Saute (3) and 
Prime Meat Jerky (1); the ARK Wiki describes the jerky as made in a 
Preserving Bin with Oil and 
Sparkpowder, taking about 36 minutes. The ASE list also shows Prime Salad, Salted Prime Jerky and 
Regular Augmented Kibble. Many of the other uses are skins: swim tops and bottoms take 50, print shirts 75 and hats such as the Angler Hat 100.
A piece weighs 0.1 and stacks to 30, so a full stack weighs 3. The ARK Wiki gives a spoil time of 2760 seconds. Our records count 80 crate types that can contain it, for example the Aberration Blue and Aberration Purple crates, and list it on 14 maps.