Kibble (Dodo Egg)

A kibble from the earlier recipe system

Our database carries Kibble (Dodo Egg), a taming food, for both ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved. Its in-game text: "This pet food recipe has been carefully designed to give balanced nutrition to almost any creature native to the island. Includes plant fibers to help with digestion and egg to bind the mix. Humans have difficulty digesting this."

Where it can still be made

The ARK Wiki notes that PC and console versions of ASE stopped offering this kibble type with the Homestead! Kibble Rework patch (293.100 on PC), which moved kibble to quality-based types, and that the Nintendo Switch edition dropped it from 601.0 in its remastered version. The wiki now files it as a Basic Kibble of ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile. There a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker can still make it, and a TEK Kibble Processor (Mobile) can produce it from any kibble worth a value of 1. For today's kibble recipes in ASE and ASA, the wiki refers to its main Kibble page.

Taming with it

On Mobile it remains the kibble for force-taming a Pteranodon and for passively taming an Ichthyosaurus or a Mesopithecus, the same roles it previously had on PC and console. Other creatures value it at only 66% of regular Meat and Berries, and the wiki advises against using it for them. Kibble in general raises the taming meter faster than ordinary food and lowers Taming Effectiveness less, which adds more extra levels at the end of a tame. Mobile also has Super Kibble (Dodo Egg) (Mobile), made by swapping the normal Dodo Egg for a Super Fertilized Dodo Egg (Mobile); it tames faster and with greater effectiveness.

A food for raising babies

The wiki also covers Dodo Kibble as baby food. Carnivores and herbivores both eat it, each piece gives 10 food, and a baby eats kibble only after its normal food. Players often top a baby up with its usual meat or berries plus a row of this kibble, and its spoil time makes longer breaks from the game easier. A baby able to carry 100 weight can hold 1000 pieces.

Weight and spoilage

A piece weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 10. Our data gives a spoil time of 72 hours (3 days); the wiki gives 12 days inside a creature's inventory.