Salted Prime Jerky

Long-lasting prime meat

Salted Prime Jerky is a food from the Primitive Plus DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved, made by turning Cooked Prime Meat into jerky. The ARK Wiki calls it a durable food that keeps for a long time. Eating one restores 35.0 food points, the same as Cooked Prime Meat, and its description says it also provides health while being digested. One line of its in-game text: "Wild carnivores like this meat a lot."

Making it in a Smokehouse

The wiki says the ingredients go into a Smokehouse; its infobox also names the Preserving Campfire (Primitive Plus). The recipe:

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

Organic Oil can replace the Crude Oil. According to the wiki, jerky made with one oil does not stack with jerky made with the other, as the organic oil version has its own item class. The process takes 2160 seconds, which is 36 minutes, and gives 1 XP. The wiki also recommends bringing a Campfire to cook Raw Prime Meat, which spoils very fast, into Cooked Prime Meat before it goes into the Smokehouse.

How long it keeps

Spoil times on the wiki depend on where the jerky is stored:

• Refrigerator: 200 days
• Preserving Bin: 20 days
• on a tamed creature: 8 days
• survivor inventory: 2 days

A stack holds 30 pieces at 0.1 weight each, so a full stack weighs 3.

Taming and kibble

Wild carnivores can be tamed with it, although the wiki says the effect is the same as Cooked Prime Meat. It is also an ingredient for Kibble.