Kibble (Mantis Egg)
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.
Details
- Category
- Kibble
- Games
- ASE
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
Maps
Found on 6 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Kibble (Mantis Egg) guides
Kibble (Mantis Egg) — Detailed Guide
A Superior Kibble that was removed
In ARK: Survival Evolved, Kibble (Mantis Egg) ranked as a 
Superior Kibble. The ARK Wiki dates it to version 246.0, and our records place it in the Scorched Earth DLC. The Homestead! kibble rework, which switched kibble to quality-based types, took it out of the game: it left PC in 293.100, Xbox in 784.13 and PlayStation in 533.14, and the remastered Nintendo Switch edition dropped it from 601.0. Today it cannot be crafted by any means. Its old description opened with: "This pet food recipe has been carefully designed to give balanced nutrition to almost any creature native to the island."
Its place in taming
Kibble fills the taming meter faster than berries or meat and drains less taming effectiveness, leaving more bonus levels at the end. The ARK Wiki lists this kibble for force-taming creatures such as the 
Argentavis, 
Allosaurus, 
Direwolf, 
Dire Bear, 
Mammoth, 
Megalodon, 
Plesiosaur, 
Snow Owl and 
Tapejara, and for passively taming the 
Deinosuchus. It was once used to force-tame the 
Rock Elemental as well. Other creatures valued it at only 66% of plain meat and berries.
The recipe before v293.100
Until its removal it was cooked in a 
Cooking Pot or 
Industrial Cooker from:
Water
Fiber
Mejoberry
Obsidian
Citronal
Mantis EggOur records give a crafting time of 30 seconds. A single kibble weighed 0.1 and a stack held 100, adding up to 10 for a full stack, and it spoiled after 72 hours, or 3 days. Our data lists it for Scorched Earth, Extinction, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles and Lost Island.