Kibble (Microraptor Egg)

Microraptor Egg kibble and patch 293.100

Before kibble was reworked, Kibble (Microraptor Egg) was one of the Basic Kibble types in ARK: Survival Evolved. On PC it went away with v293.100, the Homestead! Kibble Rework, which replaced the old kibble types with quality-based ones; on consoles the versions were 784.13 on Xbox and 533.14 on Playstation. The remastered Nintendo Switch edition dropped it as of 601.0. Per the ARK Wiki, it cannot be crafted any more.

The game's text for it: "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."

Which creatures it tames

It was once used to force-tame the Iguanodon. The wiki now lists the Dodo, Phiomia, Parasaur, Dilophosaur and Kairuku for force-taming with it, and the Mesopithecus for passive taming. For those creatures, kibble raises the taming meter faster than berries or meat and lowers taming effectiveness less, leaving more extra levels after the tame. Any other creature gets only 66% of the value of normal meat and berries from it, so the wiki does not recommend it there.

How it used to be made

The old recipe, valid until v293.100, went into an Industrial Cooker or a Cooking Pot:

• 1 Microraptor Egg
• 1 Prime Meat Jerky
• 1 Longrass
• 2 Mejoberry
• 3 Fiber
• 1 Water

Our records give 30 seconds for the craft.

Weight, spoiling and maps

Each piece weighs 0.1 and the stack size is 100, for a full stack weight of 10. It spoils in 72 hours (3 days). Our records place it on 9 maps, for example The Island, Genesis Part 1, The Center and Valguero. The wiki gives patch 256.0 as the one that added it.