Refrigerator

Powered food storage

The Refrigerator is the electric upgrade of the Preserving Bin in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. "Requires electricity to run. Keeps perishables from spoiling for a long time." It slows spoilage on food and cooking ingredients, eggs, honey and medicine.

How much longer things last

While powered, it multiplies spoil timers by 100. The ARK Wiki's example is Raw Meat, which normally lasts 10:00 but holds out for 16:40:00 inside. It has room for 80 stacks. A charged Cryopod kept inside loses charge at half the usual rate, so the charge lasts twice as long; the fridge never recharges it, but it fills the gap until the Cryofridge is unlocked. One thing it cannot do is turn cooked meat into jerky, which the Preserving Bin can.

Power and durability

Nothing happens until it is connected to a powered Electrical Outlet. It is treated as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks do it no harm, and neither do a long list of aggressive creatures, among them the Carbonemys, Kaprosuchus, Thylacoleo and Velonasaur.

Building one

The engram unlocks at level 60 for 20 engram points, after the Large Storage Box. It is made in a Fabricator, Tek Replicator or Exo-Mek from 120 Metal Ingot, 25 Crystal, 15 Polymer and 10 Electronics; Scrap Metal Ingot, Primal Crystal, Organic Polymer and Corrupted Nodule are accepted in place of the matching material. Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives a generous 73 XP. The fridge weighs 4, and 59 crate types can contain one, the Aberration Red and Yellow crates and the Fjordur Red crate among them.