Salted Jerky

Preserved meat from Primitive Plus

Salted Jerky is a meat food from the Primitive Plus DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. Its description: "Sates your hunger, and provides health while being digested. Lasts longer than regular jerky. Wild carnivores will eat it, but prefer raw meat." The ARK Wiki calls it a very durable, long-lasting food source, and one piece restores 20.0 food points, the same as Cooked Meat.

Smoking a batch

Jerky is made in a Smokehouse or a Preserving Campfire. Each piece needs:

• 1 Cooked Meat
• 3 Sparkpowder
• 1 Crude Oil (Primitive Plus)
• 1 Salt (Primitive Plus)

The process takes 36 minutes (2160 seconds) and gives 1 XP. Organic Oil can stand in for the Crude Oil, but the wiki notes that jerky made with it has its own item class string, and the two kinds will not stack together.

Shelf life and stacking

A piece weighs 0.1, and the wiki gives a stack size of 30. Its infobox spoil time is 345600 seconds, and the wiki adds that in a Preserving Bin it lasts 20 days. Whatever the description promises, the wiki also notes that salted jerky spoils at the same rate as normal jerky.

Taming and kibble

Wild carnivores can be tamed with it, but the wiki advises against doing so: it is expensive to make and gives no taming benefit over other kinds of meat. It is also an ingredient in Regular Kibble.