Preserving Campfire
A primitive way of preserving meat and drying crops. Must use sparkpowder or a form of oil as a fuel source.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 10
- Engram points
- 8
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Preserving Campfire guides
How to craft Preserving Campfire (Primitive Plus)
Preserving Campfire (Primitive Plus) is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 10, costs 8 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 3.7 XP.
Preserving Campfire — Detailed Guide
Preserving food over a fire
The Preserving Campfire is a cooking structure from the Primitive Plus DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. Its description: "A primitive way of preserving meat and drying crops. Must use sparkpowder or a form of oil as a fuel source."
Fuel and what it produces
The description asks for sparkpowder or some form of oil, and the ARK Wiki spells out three accepted fuels: 
Sparkpowder, Crude Oil and Organic Oil. The wiki describes two uses:
- Leave cooked meat in it together with salt, and over time the pair turns into Salted Jerky.
- Crops placed inside dry out with time, and once dried they can be used in more cooking recipes.
Building one
The engram unlocks at level 10 for 8 engram points. One campfire takes:
Wood
Stone
FiberA craft takes 5 seconds, yields 1 campfire and gives 3.7 XP. The structure weighs 4 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 400.
How easily it breaks
The wiki treats it as a thatch structure: any attack except a non-explosive ranged one can damage it.