Cooking Pot
Must contain basic fuel to light the fire. Put various ingredients with water in this to make soups, stews, and dyes.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 57 crates
- Item ID
- 127
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 8
- Engram points
- 9
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Cooking Pot guides
How to craft Cooking Pot
Cooking Pot is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 8, costs 9 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 19.5 XP.
How to get Cooking Pot
Cooking Pot is found in 57 loot crates.
Loot crates
57 crates
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · 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
Show all 57 crates
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost 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
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Cooking Pot — Detailed Guide
Soups, stews and dyes over a fire
The Cooking Pot is a cooking structure in ARK: Survival Evolved. Survivors load it with ingredients, water and fuel to make food items, kibble, soap and dyes in every colour, and during events it can also craft skins. Its in-game 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 names the 
Industrial Cooker as its upgraded version.
Crafting a pot
The engram unlocks at level 8 for 9 engram points. The pot is crafted in the inventory from:
- 75
Stone - 15
Thatch - 10
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 5
Flint
Crafting takes 10 seconds and gives 19.5 XP. A pot weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. It also shows up in loot: 57 crate types can contain it, such as the Aberration White and Fjordur Green crates and the Genesis Blue and Cyan crates.
Fuel, water and lighting
Wood, Thatch, 
Sparkpowder and 
AnglerGel all work as fuel. Put the fuel and ingredients in its inventory together with a 
Waterskin, 
Water Jar or 
Canteen filled to at least 25%, then start the fire with the button beneath the inventory slots. At intervals the wiki puts at every few seconds, possibly every minute, one set of ingredients is used up and one item comes out. The wiki adds that all three water containers are single use, even though, compared with a Waterskin, a Water Jar carries double the water and a Canteen triple.
Food or dye: watch the charcoal
When cooking edibles, take any 
Charcoal out of the pot first, or it makes dyes instead. Thatch burns without leaving Charcoal, and the wiki suggests Thatch or AnglerGel as fuels that help avoid dyes.
Placement and durability
- The pot counts as a thatch structure; anything but non-explosive ranged attacks can damage it.
- Touching water or standing too close to it hides the button that lights the fire.
- With water containers in your inventory, you can stand in water and place the pot in front of you, then keep its inventory open there, saving trips to a beach or a
Water Tap. - A
Hesperornis Egg cooked in the pot quickly becomes 12 
Oil.