Small Animal Feces
Everyone poops. Can provide nitrogen to help crops grow in their plots. Would be more efficient fertilizer if combined with thatch in a bin.
Details
- Category
- Fertilizer
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Item ID
- 54
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Drop / Event Item
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Small Animal Feces guides
Small Animal Feces — Detailed Guide
Droppings from small creatures
Small Animal Feces are the droppings of small creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, with 
Dodos and Dilos as the ARK Wiki's examples. The animals let them fall on their own from time to time, and survivors gather them as crop fertilizer. The in-game description gets to the point: "Can provide nitrogen to help crops grow in their plots." Eating them lowers a survivor's health, the wiki warns.
Two ways to use them on a farm
- Straight into a plot: each dropping put into a Crop Plot's inventory adds 3500 fertilization points.
- Through a
Compost Bin: combined there with Thatch, the feces become 
Fertilizer; the item's own text calls this the more efficient way.
Which creatures leave them
The wiki's creature list is long. Among the names on it are the 
Compy, Dodo, 
Ovis, 
Otter, 
Parrot, 
Raptor and 
Troodon, along with the 
Pteranodon, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Gigantopithecus and 
Yeti. The 
King Titan and 
Moeder, Master of the Ocean are on the list too.
Spoilage, weight and maps
The ARK Wiki gives 5050 as its spoil time. A single dropping weighs 0.3, and with a stack size of 1 each one fills its own slot. Our records place the item on 14 maps, among them The Island, Scorched Earth, Genesis Part 1, Crystal Isles and Fjordur.