Shadow Steak Saute

A dish against weather and recoil

Shadow Steak Saute is a cooked dish in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game description: "This dish grants you a hunters instinct. Consume it to ignore most weather, and steady your aim. Effects last 3 minutes." In numbers, the ARK Wiki gives +50 hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation and 80% less weapon recoil for 180 seconds.

Before patch 298.3 it also raised sensitivity to light, which let players see in the dark. That effect is gone: the wiki notes that, despite the original recipe description, the dish gives no improved night vision.

When to eat it

The ARK Wiki recommends it for cave exploring and points to its resistance to cold; it adds that lower recoil suits shotguns, which it calls highly effective in caves. It also helps long-range shooting: with a Fabricated Sniper Rifle or a Longneck Rifle, eating the dish and crouching keeps the scope nearly still.

Cooking it

It is made in a Cooking Pot or an Industrial Cooker from:

• 20 Mejoberry
• 8 Narcotic
• 3 Cooked Prime Meat (Prime Meat Jerky, Cooked Lamb Chop or Cooked Prime Fish Meat also work)
• 2 Rare Mushroom
• 1 Rockarrot
• 1 Savoroot
• 1 Water

For the water, the wiki advises putting a Waterskin, Water Jar or Canteen in the pot with no less than 25% water. Cooking takes 60 seconds (1 minute) and gives 1 XP.

Storage and loot

A serving weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, for a full stack weight of 10, and spoils after 5 hours. Our records list it on 14 maps and count 312 loot crate types that can contain it, for example the Aberration Purple, Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Purple crates.