Savoroot
This starchy tuber grows naturally in densely wooded areas. It is very hearty, but tastes better when cooked.
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 57 crates
- Item ID
- 228
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Drop / Event Item
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Savoroot guides
How to get Savoroot
Savoroot is found in 57 loot crates.
Loot crates
57 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Candy Corn B (Fear Evolved Event)The Island, Scorched Earth, and The Center · ASA / ASE
- 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
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- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · 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
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Savoroot — Detailed Guide
A crop for the kitchen
Savoroot is a starchy root crop in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended; the game has only 4 crops, and this is one of them. Its description says: "It is very hearty, but tastes better when cooked." The ARK Wiki points out that it cannot actually be cooked, despite that line; its value lies in cooking recipes and kibble, where it serves as an ingredient.
Growing and finding Savoroot
A Savoroot Seed planted in a medium or large crop plot grows into a Savoroot plant, and one plot holds no more than 150 roots at a time. Wild plants and seeds grow in the warm mountain areas of The Island and The Center, in the Highlands on Ragnarok and in The Farm on Valguero; they are picked up with the use key like other plants.
Spoilage: leave it in the plot
Once picked, it spoils within 5 minutes, much like 
Raw Prime Meat. A 
Preserving Bin or 
Refrigerator extends that a little, but the wiki's advice is to leave the roots in the crop plot until you need them, unless the plot has run out of fertilizer. Each root weighs 0.1 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 10.
Recipes that use it
Enduro Stew and 
Lazarus Chowder: 5 each
Broth of Enlightenment and 
Sweet Vegetable Cake: 2 each
Shadow Steak Saute: 1
Regular Kibble: 2, plus 
Regular Augmented Kibble in ASE
That makes 6 recipes in ASA and 7 in ASE in our data. The wiki also names 
Sea Dragon Soup and Kibble (
Griffin Egg). Loot is a further source: 57 crate types can contain Savoroot, among them the Astraeos Blue crates and the Candy Corn B crate from the Fear Evolved Event.