Feces

Waste that feeds your crops

Feces is a fertilizer item in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, introduced in-game with the line "Everyone poops." The same description says it adds nitrogen that helps crops in their plots and that it makes a more efficient fertilizer when combined with thatch in a bin. According to the ARK Wiki, creatures on land and in the air, and humans too, produce it at intervals that depend on how much they eat.

Turning it into Fertilizer

Feces can go straight into Crop Plots as fertilizer, but the wiki calls it more effective to process it first into Fertilizer, which is worth 54,000 fertilizer points. Our records list Feces in one recipe per game, Fertilizer, at 3 per craft. The wiki describes two ways to do the conversion:

• Compost Bin: 3 Feces and 50 Thatch yield a single bag of Fertilizer, ready in around 50 minutes.
• Dung Beetle: the more efficient route, by the wiki's account. In 15 minutes, along with Oil, the beetle turns feces into fertilizer, and its output can reach nine times as much.

Eating it, and getting more

Technically it is classed as food, so it can be eaten, though doing so causes Health damage. The wiki adds that feces was originally intended to let a stuck or trapped player kill themselves. For a quick supply it suggests feeding stimberries to a Phiomia or a Roll Rat, and for feces in bulk, deliberately walking into the poisonous spores of the fertile region on Aberration. The wiki also lists creatures that do not produce feces, among them the Titanoboa, Araneo, Basilisk, Megalodon and Mosasaur.

Spoiling and weight

Feces spoils after 5000 seconds, about 1.4 hours. Each piece weighs 0.1 and has a stack size of 1, so every piece takes its own slot. Our records list it on 9 maps.