Kibble (Baryonyx Egg)

A kibble from the old system

Kibble (Baryonyx Egg) is a taming food that our records list for ARK: Survival Evolved. The ARK Wiki explains that on PC and consoles it belongs to the kibble system from before the Homestead kibble rework, which switched kibble over to quality-based types. It left PC with patch 293.100, Playstation with 533.14 and Xbox with 784.13, and the remastered Nintendo Switch edition dropped it as of 601.0. The wiki now counts it as a regular kibble of ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile.

The item text describes the mix: "This pet food recipe has been carefully designed to give balanced nutrition to almost any creature native to the island. Includes the best protein, plant fibers to help with digestion, and egg to bind the mix. Humans have difficulty digesting this."

What it does for taming

Kibble is fed to creatures during taming. Next to Berries or Meat it fills the taming meter faster and loses less Taming Effectiveness, which leaves more bonus levels at the end of the tame. On PC and console this kibble once served to force-tame a Megalania, and on Mobile it can force-tame a Megatherium. Other creatures value it at only 66% of regular meat and berries, and the wiki advises against using it for them.

Crafting it now

On PC and console it can no longer be crafted by any means. Mobile players can still cook it in a Cooking Pot or an Industrial Cooker, and a TEK Kibble Processor makes it from any kibble that adds up to a value of 5. Mobile also has Super Kibble (Baryonyx Egg): it is cooked with a Super Fertilized Baryonyx Egg in place of the normal egg and tames creatures faster with greater effectiveness.

Weight and spoilage

Our records give each piece a weight of 0.1 and a stack size of 100, so a full stack weighs 10. It spoils after 72 hours, which is 3 days.