Meat Preserving Shed
Burns sparkpowder at low temperatures to dehydrate food and kill bacteria. Keeps perishables from spoiling for a longer time.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 15
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Meat Preserving Shed guides
How to craft Meat Preserving Shed
Meat Preserving Shed is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram costs 15 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 15 XP.
Meat Preserving Shed — Detailed Guide
A removed Primitive Plus structure
The Meat Preserving Shed belonged to the Primitive Plus DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. According to the ARK Wiki it was removed in version 1.5 of Primitive Plus, and the wiki keeps its page as a record. The wiki adds that the shed cannot be crafted and cannot be added to the engram list. Its in-game text describes the idea: "Burns sparkpowder at low temperatures to dehydrate food and kill bacteria. Keeps perishables from spoiling for a longer time."
What it did with food
The wiki states that the shed stretched spoil timers by 10x. It was also used to make jerky, and on Primitive Plus both Organic Oil and Crude Oil were accepted. With Salt or Crude Oil plus sparkpowder, it turned regular 
Cooked Meat into Salted Jerky and 
Cooked Prime Meat into Salted Prime Jerky.
The recipe still on record
The wiki infobox still lists 15 engram points, the 
Smokehouse (Primitive Plus) as prerequisite, and this recipe:
- 60
Lumber (Primitive Plus) - 40
Fiber - 20
Wood - 20
Thatch
Our records give a crafting time of 5 seconds and 15 XP. The shed weighs 4 and stacks to 100, and a full stack weighs 400.
Damage and how it compared
The game treats the shed as a thatch structure; the wiki says every kind of attack can damage it except non-explosive ranged attacks. The wiki calls it a better-looking choice for decor and use, but also notes reports that it was less efficient than the Preserving Campfire and the Smokehouse.