Kibble (Quetzal Egg)

A kibble from the earlier system

Kibble (Quetzal Egg) is a taming food that our database lists for both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ASA row describes it this way: "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." The ASE row just calls it kibble made from a Quetzal egg.

According to the ARK Wiki, it belongs to an earlier kibble system. PC and console players of ASE had it until the Homestead! Kibble Rework patch (293.100 on PC), which moved kibble to types based on quality, and the remastered Nintendo Switch edition dropped it from version 601.0. It lives on in ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile, where it counts as an Exceptional Kibble.

Taming with it

Its main use is taming. Compared with berries or meat, kibble makes the taming meter rise faster and costs less taming effectiveness, which means more bonus levels once the tame is complete. On PC and console this kibble was once used to force-tame a Mosasaurus, a Giganotosaurus or a Dimetrodon, and on Mobile it still does that job. Other creatures value it at only 66% of regular meat and berries, and the wiki advises against using it on them.

Crafting it on Mobile

The wiki states that PC and console players can no longer craft it in any way. On Mobile it is made in a Cooking Pot or an Industrial Cooker, and the TEK Kibble Processor can also produce it from any kibble adding up to a value of 15. Mobile also has a Super Kibble (Quetzal Egg): using a Super Fertilized Quetzal Egg in place of the normal egg gives a kibble that tames more quickly and with higher taming effectiveness.

Weight and spoilage

Our records give a weight of 0.1 and a stack size of 100, so a full stack weighs 10. The kibble spoils after 72 hours, which is 3 days, and our records also carry a crafting time of 30 seconds for 1 XP.