Preserving Bin
Burns sparkpowder at low temperatures to dehydrate food and kill bacteria. Keeps perishables from spoiling for a small time.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 56 crates
- Item ID
- 291
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 18
- Engram points
- 9
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Preserving Bin guides
How to craft Preserving Bin
Preserving Bin is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 18, costs 9 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 6.9 XP.
How to get Preserving Bin
Preserving Bin is found in 56 loot crates.
Loot crates
56 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 56 crates
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Preserving Bin — Detailed Guide
Slowing down spoilage
The Preserving Bin, found in ARK: Survival Evolved, works both as storage and as a crafting structure. With 
Sparkpowder as fuel, it multiplies the spoil timer of eligible food, ingredients and other perishables by 10. The ARK Wiki gives 
Raw Meat as an example: it normally spoils in 10 minutes, but in the bin it lasts 100 minutes (1:40:00). In the game's own description, the bin burns fuel at a low heat to dry out food and kill bacteria, keeping perishables from spoiling for a short time.
Fuel and jerky
A single Sparkpowder keeps the bin going for 30 minutes. The bin can also make 
Cooked Meat Jerky and 
Prime Meat Jerky, at 36 minutes per piece, and it can work on both kinds at the same time. Besides the Sparkpowder that powers it, jerky takes Oil and Sparkpowder as ingredients, and once made it lasts 20 days in a fueled bin.
The wiki offers a formula for the total Sparkpowder, recipe and fuel together: multiply the number of jerky by 4.2 for one type, or by 3.6 when both types are made together, then round up. By its examples, 20 
Cooked Meat need 84 Sparkpowder, while 20 Cooked Meat plus 20 
Cooked Prime Meat need 144. It does not account for spoil times, and the actual yield will differ.
Building a bin
The engram unlocks at level 18 for 9 engram points. The bin is crafted in the inventory in 5 seconds for 6.9 XP, from 30 
Stone, 30 
Wood or 
Fungal Wood, 20 
Fiber and 10 
Thatch. It fits inside a 1x1 hut. A bin weighs 4, and a full stack of 100 weighs 400.
Storage notes and loot
Unlike the refrigerator, the wiki says, the bin can hold 
Leech Blood and 
Ammonite Bile, though it does not lengthen their spoil time. Our records count 56 crate types that can contain the bin, among them Astraeos Blue, Astraeos Desert Blue and Genesis Cyan, and list it on 9 maps.