Super Test Meat

A meat outside normal play

Super Test Meat is listed in our records for ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, but the ARK Wiki describes it as an item that exists in the game files and cannot be obtained through normal play: console commands are the only way to get it. The description says as much: "You shouldn't have this. Seriously. It's not possible to obtain. There's either a huge bug you need to report, or you're cheating." Its icon looks like ordinary raw meat.

Taming with it

The meat tames any species on the spot, herbivore or carnivore. It is given like the food the creature normally eats: for a creature tamed by knocking it out, put the meat in its inventory while it is unconscious; for a passive tame, place it in the last slot and press E to feed it. A survivor who eats it regains some food and health.

A one-minute spoil timer

Like any perishable it spoils, and in a player's inventory that happens after 1 minute (60 seconds). A stack loses one piece at a time and the timer then starts over. When pieces with different timers end up in one stack, the timer with the least time left is the one that counts. Splitting a stack leaves two stacks that share the same timer; splitting it into single pieces makes all of them spoil at the same moment.

Weight and other notes

A piece weighs 0.1 and a stack holds 20, so a full stack weighs 2. The meat cannot be cooked in a Campfire. Our records list the item on 14 maps, from The Island and Scorched Earth to Lost Island and Fjordur.