Tintoberry

A common red berry

Tintoberry is a berry in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and the ARK Wiki counts it among the most common berries a survivor will come across. It is gathered by harvesting flora. The in-game description says: "This red berry grows mostly in wide open grasslands. Tasty, and can be used to make red dye."

Food and taming value

A survivor who eats one regains 1.5 Food and 0.2 Water; the wiki notes that before version 246.0, berries restored 1 Water instead of 0.2. Fed to a tamed creature, or to one during taming, a berry is worth 20 Food. The berry helps with taming many creatures, though herbivores go for Mejoberries first.

Recipes that use it

Our records count 44 recipes with Tintoberry in ASA and 20 in ASE. In both games, Calien Soup, Focal Chili and Medical Brew each take 20 berries. The ASE list also includes Tintoberry Juice (60), Jam of Tintoberry (25), Juice (25) and Basic Kibble (10).

Beyond these, the berry goes into dyes. In ASE, for example, Red Coloring takes 15, Pink Coloring and Brick Coloring 12 each, and Orange Coloring, Purple Coloring and Magenta Coloring 9 each. ASA examples include Gore Coloring and Edocha Coloring (12 each), Bubblegum Coloring (6) and Bark Coloring (2).

Spoilage, weight and sources

Our records give the berry a spoil time of 10 minutes (600 seconds). One weighs 0.1, and a full stack of 100 weighs 10. In loot, 120 crate types can contain it, such as Aberration White and Aberration White Bonus. It is listed on 9 maps: The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok and Valguero.