Prime Meat Jerky
Sates your hunger, and provides health while being digested. More effective than normal meat jerky, and lasts longer than cooked prime meat. Wild carnivores like this meat a lot.
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 104 crates
- Item ID
- 294
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Cooking Pot Recipe
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Prime Meat Jerky guides
How to craft Prime Meat Jerky
Prime Meat Jerky is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 2,160 seconds, gives 1 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
4Flint
2StoneCrafted along the way: Sparkpowder ×3.
How to get Prime Meat Jerky
Prime Meat Jerky is found in 104 loot crates.
Loot crates
104 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astral DeinosuchusThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MammothThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MegalodonThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MosasaurThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral TusoteuthisThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Candy Corn A (Fear Evolved Event)The Island, Scorched Earth, and The Center · ASA / ASE
- Extinction Cave BlueExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave RedExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave YellowExtinction · 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
- Island Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Ice Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Underwater BlueThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater RedThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater YellowThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · 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
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense HardLost Colony · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched Buried PurpleThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried RedThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried YellowThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall ArcherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DeadeyeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DemolisherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall EnforcerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall GunslingerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall HeraldThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall MarauderThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall PiercerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall ScattershotThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall SnarerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall WardenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Wild BroodmotherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Prime Meat Jerky — Detailed Guide
Prime meat that keeps
Prime Meat Jerky is preserved prime meat in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and the wiki calls it a durable, long-lasting source of food. The in-game text: "Sates your hunger, and provides health while being digested. More effective than normal meat jerky, and lasts longer than cooked prime meat. Wild carnivores like this meat a lot."
Making jerky
A batch needs:
- 3
Sparkpowder - 1
Cooked Prime Meat - 1
Oil (Oil (
Tusoteuthis) also works)
The ingredients go into a 
Preserving Bin; the wiki also names the 
Smokehouse (Primitive Plus). It takes 2160 seconds, which is 36 minutes, and yields one piece worth 1 XP. The wiki's tip: 
Raw Prime Meat spoils extremely fast, so it helps to bring a 
Campfire, cook the raw meat into Cooked Prime Meat on the spot and then turn it into jerky in a Preserving Bin. On Primitive Plus, jerky can be made with Organic Oil as well as Crude Oil, and the two versions do not stack together.
Food value and spoil times
Eating it restores 35.0 food, the same as Cooked Prime Meat, and taming wild carnivores with it has the same effect as using Cooked Prime Meat. Where it differs is shelf life: the wiki gives 200 days in a 
Refrigerator, 20 in a Preserving Bin, 8 in a creature's inventory and 2 in a survivor's. Each piece weighs 0.1 and stacks to 30, so a full stack weighs 3.
Recipes that use it
It goes into 8 recipes in ASA and 9 in ASE. 
Superior Kibble takes 1 piece in both games, and ASE also uses 1 for 
Superior Augmented Kibble. A group of emotes calls for 25 pieces each, for example the 
Air Drums Emote, 
Air Guitar Emote and 
Mosh Pit Emote.
Loot and maps
104 loot crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration Blue, Aberration Purple and Aberration Surface Blue crates. Our records list it on 9 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Lost Colony and Astraeos. The version that added it is 173.0.