How To Get Kibble In Ark

Kibble are food items used to tame creatures more quickly and with higher affinity, allowing players to save time and end up with better stats on their tamed pet.

The Kibble system was reworked with the ARK: Homestead update and is currently available on every platform excluding the Mobile and Nintendo Switch versions. Instead of Kibbles based on eggs, the Kibbles are replaced by quality-based types: Basic, Simple, Regular, Superior, Exceptional, and Extraordinary. The egg-based Kibbles are still in the game and are able to be used; Additionally they are categorized into one of the 6 quality-based types.

All Eggs (excluding insect eggs, like Araneo Egg or Moth Egg) now have a size and can be used to create a corresponding quality-based Kibble.

In the Mobile and Nintendo Switch versions, most Creatures have a preferred egg-based Kibble that tames the Creature with the greatest taming efficiency and effectiveness. However, using a Kibble that is not preferred by the Creature is even worse than taming with Raw Meat or Berries.

1 Usage
2 Recipes
3 Creatures
4 Kibble Taming Chart
5 Using as regular food
6 In Mobile
- 6.1 Recipes (Mobile)
- 6.2 Creatures (Mobile)
- 6.3 Super Kibble (Mobile)
7 Notes

Usage [ ]

Kibble can be used as food when taming a creature. Although all Kibble types will technically work to tame all creatures, certain kibbles will work better for certain creatures. Using the wrong kibble will take longer in the best case, but can also be only 2/3 as effective as using the creature's regular food and will instead decrease the taming effectiveness.

Creatures prefer at least one specific class of kibble, but accept also kibbles of a higher class, e.g. Argentavis can most effectively be tamed with Superior Kibble and better, but Basic, Simple, and Regular class have worse results than meat.

The order of effectiveness (in terms of taming duration) in food for taming creatures is:

Food	Taming Speed ¹	Taming Effectiveness
Preferred Kibble class or better	5x Speed	★★★★★
Raw Mutton	3.8x Speed	★★★★☆
Raw Prime Meat	3x Speed	★★★☆☆
Spoiled Meat	2x Speed	★★★☆☆ ²
Cooked Prime Meat / Prime Meat Jerky	1.5x Speed	★★☆☆☆
Raw Meat	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆
Cooked Meat / Cooked Meat Jerky	1x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆
Crops	1x Speed	★★★☆☆
Mejoberries	1x Speed	★★☆☆☆
Other Berries	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆
Other Kibble	0.66x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆

Speed values are outdated, just use it as a rough overview
Scorpions, Dung Beetles, Spiders, Vultures, and Karkinos only

The food value of a Kibble depends on the Creature and the type of food. For Kibble it varies between 20 and 135. Non-favorite kibbles gives only 1/8 of the taming progress than the favorite kibbles.

Kibble is also used for imprinting baby dinos. During care, they may want to be hand fed a randomly selected kibble, including any kibble that is not their species' preferred food. For this reason, having as many types of kibble as possible will allow the imprinting rate to increase.

Recipes [ ]

Learning an Engram is not necessary to create kibbles and there are no Engrams available for them, instead recipes are found throughout the world. Follow the same instructions as when cooking with a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker.

In addition to the ingredients listed below, all kibble recipes require a Waterskin with at least 25% water in it (any other Water-container works, but will be completely used up regardless of capacity).

When creating Kibbles in an Industrial Cooker which is hooked up to a water irrigation system, no waterskin or other water-container is necessary.

Fertilized eggs can also be used to make Kibble. Breeding creatures is a great way to generate eggs on-demand.

Cooking these kibbles requires a lit Cooking Pot so in addition you need fuel for the fire. It takes 30 seconds to cook 1 kibble in a Cooking Pot.

See also Egg for a list of eggs and their size.

Kibble	Egg Type	First Resource	Second Resource	Third Resource	Fourth Resource	Fifth Resource	Sixth Resource
Basic Kibble	Extra Small Egg	5x Mejoberry	10x Amarberry	10x Tintoberry	1x Cooked Meat	5x Fiber	Water (such as 1x Full Waterskin)
Simple Kibble	Small Egg	5x Mejoberry	2x Rockarrot	1x Cooked Fish Meat	-
Regular Kibble	Medium Egg	2x Longrass	2x Savoroot	1x Cooked Meat Jerky	-
Superior Kibble	Large Egg	2x Citronal	2x Rare Mushroom	1x Prime Meat Jerky	1x Sap
Exceptional Kibble	Extra Large Egg	10x Mejoberry	1x Rare Flower	1x Focal Chili	-
Extraordinary Kibble	Special Egg	10x Mejoberry	1x Giant Bee Honey	1x Lazarus Chowder	-

Creatures [ ]

The following Kibbles are used to tame the dinos listed below them.

Basic Kibble

Simple Kibble

Regular Kibble

Superior Kibble

Exceptional Kibble

Extraordinary Kibble

Standalone

Kibble Taming Chart [ ]

An overview of the Kibble system.

An overview of Kibble taming requirements and taming in general.

Using as regular food [ ]

Kibble can be used as regular food for tamed dinos. Kibble takes 3 days to spoil, which makes it last longer than most other food types. It also stacks to 100 and weighs little compared to other foods. Kibble can last for very long periods of time when stacked and preserved in a Preserving Bin or Refrigerator (Refrigerator is recommended as the spoilage time is greatly increased).

The amount of food per kibble depends on the type of kibble and whether the kibble is preferred by a particular dino. Most dinos gain 80 food from their preferred kibble, even if other dinos would gain more. There are exceptions; for instance, Daeodons gain 120 food from their preferred kibble (Iguanadon/Superior), which normally only gives 90. Aside from being preferred by a dino, kibbles will give either 60 or 90 food per kibble. Kibbles that give 90 food generally require Prime Meat Jerky and as of v257 are: Ankylo, Araneo, Archaeopteryx, Argentavis, Ichthyornis, Iguanodon, Kaprosuchus, Mantis, Megalosaurus, Microraptor, Moth, Oviraptor, Pulminoscorpius, Quetzal, Rex, Spino, Stego, and Tapejara. All other kibbles give 60 food, unless preferred, of course.

Due to these traits, using Kibble as regular food can be useful on some occasions. Like when leaving your creatures behind for long periods of time, as you have to fill the creatures' inventories less often.

However, farming Eggs is still very time consuming and expensive, so generally it is not recommended to use as regular Dino food. When using Kibble for this purpose, it is advised to use Kibble types that are easy to make, like the Basic Kibble.

In Mobile [ ]

Recipes (Mobile) [ ]

This section is about a feature exclusively available on Mobile

Although these Kibbles are no longer craftable for PC and Console, they are still craftable in ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile. They can be crafted in the Cooking Pot, Industrial Cooker, or the TEK Kibble Processor.

The value of the Kibble is used to determined the necessary amount of Kibble needed when using the TEK Kibble Processor, and the Crafting yield.

Kibble	Egg	Plant Matter	Other Ingredient(s)	Favorite Kibble for	Kibble Value
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	Allosaurus Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Prime Meat	Tapejara, Royal Griffin**	10
Kibble (Ankylo Egg)	Ankylo Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky	Carno	5
Kibble (Araneo Egg)*	Araneo Egg	Rockarrot	Prime Meat Jerky		N/A
Kibble (Archaeopteryx Egg)	Archaeopteryx Egg	Longrass	Cooked Fish Meat	Diplocaulus	3
Kibble (Argentavis Egg)	Argentavis Egg	Citronal	Prime Meat Jerky	Spino	10
Kibble (Baryonyx Egg)	Baryonyx Egg	Savoroot	Raw Fish Meat	Megatherium	5
Kibble (Bronto Egg)	Bronto Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Sabertooth	15
Kibble (Carbonemys Egg)	Turtle Egg	Rockarrot	Prime Meat Jerky	Bronto	5
Kibble (Carno Egg)	Carno Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat	Trike, Direwolf, Dire Bear	5
Kibble (Compy Egg)	Compy Egg	Citronal	Cooked Fish Meat	Iguanodon	1
Kibble (Dilo Egg)	Dilo Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat Jerky	Ankylo, Doedicurus, Equus, Pachy	1
Kibble (Dimetrodon Egg)	Dimetrodon Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat Jerky	Gallimimus	5
Kibble (Dimorph Egg)	Dimorph Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Megaloceros	3
Kibble (Diplo Egg)	Diplo Egg	Savoroot	Rare Flower	Allosaurus	5
Kibble (Dodo Egg)	Dodo Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Pteranodon, Ichthyosaurus, Mesopithecus	1
Kibble (Gallimimus Egg)	Gallimimus Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Terror Bird, Castoroides	3
Kibble (Griffin Egg)	Griffin Egg	Savoroot Longrass Citronal	Cooked Prime Meat Snake Plant Seeds	Royal Griffin, Unicorn	30
Kibble (Iguanodon Egg)	Iguanodon Egg	Rare Mushroom	Prime Meat Jerky	Daeodon	5
Kibble (Kairuku Egg)	Kairuku Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Angler	1
Kibble (Kaprosuchus Egg)	Kaprosuchus Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky		5
Kibble (Lystrosaurus Egg)	Lystro Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Prime Meat, Cooked Prime Fish Meat, or Prime Meat Jerky	Diplodocus	1
Kibble (Megalosaurus Egg)	Megalosaurus Egg	Rockarrot	2 × Prime Meat Jerky	Therizinosaur	15
Kibble (Moschops Egg)	Moschops Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Purlovia	10
Kibble (Oviraptor Egg)	Oviraptor Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky	Megalosaurus	3
Kibble (Pachy Egg)	Pachy Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat	Paracer	3
Kibble (Pachyrhino Egg)	Pachyrhino Egg	Citronal	Cooked Prime Fish Meat	Baryonyx	5
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	Parasaur Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Raptor	1
Kibble (Pegomastax Egg)	Pegomastax Egg	Citronal	Raw Prime Fish Meat		?
Kibble (Pelagornis Egg)	Pelagornis Egg	Citronal	10 × Chitin	Archaeopteryx	5
Kibble (Pteranodon Egg)	Pteranodon Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Carbonemys	3
Kibble (Pulmonoscorpius Egg)	Pulmonoscorpius Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky	Rex, Beelzebufo	5
Kibble (Quetzal Egg)	Quetzal Egg	3 × Rockarrot	3 × Prime Meat Jerky	Mosasaurus, Giganotosaurus, Dimetrodon	15
Kibble (Raptor Egg)	Raptor Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat Jerky	Mammoth	3
Kibble (Rex Egg)	Rex Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky	Plesiosaur, Quetzal	15
Kibble (Sarco Egg)	Sarco Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Stegosaurus	5
Kibble (Spino Egg)	Spino Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky	Megalodon	10
Kibble (Stego Egg)	Stego Egg	Citronal	Prime Meat Jerky	Argentavis	5
Kibble (Tapejara Egg)	Tapejara Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Prime Meat	Kaprosuchus	10
Kibble (Terror Bird Egg)	Terror Bird Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Woolly Rhino	5
Kibble (Therizinosaurus Egg)	Therizino Egg	Citronal	AnglerGel	Basilosaurus	15
Kibble (Titanboa Egg)	Titanoboa Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat Jerky	Gigantopithecus, Dunkleosteus	10
Kibble (Trike Egg)	Trike Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Sarco	3

* = This Kibble is not craftable.

** = This Creature prefers another Kibble over this one, but this Kibble can still be used to tame the Creature effectively.

Creatures (Mobile) [ ]

This section is about a feature exclusively available on Mobile

Dilophosaur

Dilophosaur

Doedicurus

Dire Bear

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Ankylo

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Carnotaurus

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Triceratops

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Sarco

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Stegosaurus

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Argentavis

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Spino

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Megalodon

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Equus

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Pachy

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Paraceratherium

Direwolf

Pulmonoscorpius

Pulmonoscorpius

Plesiosaur

Mosasaurus

Castoroides

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Rex

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Quetzal

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Dimetrodon

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Gallimimus

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Terror Bird

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Woolly Rhino

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Beelzebufo

Giganoto

Dodo

Dodo		Ichthyosaurus
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	▶	Pteranodon	▶	Carbonemys	▶	Brontosaurus	▶	Sabertooth
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		Mesopithecus

Titanoboa

Lystrosaurus

Lystrosaurus

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Diplodocus

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Allosaurus

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Tapejara

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Kaprosuchus

Compy

Compy	◥	Iguanodon	▶	Daeodon

	◢	Pelagornis	▶	Archaeopteryx	▶	Diplocaulus

Dimorphodon

Kairuku

Moschops

Oviraptor

Oviraptor

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Megalosaurus

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Therizinosaur

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Basilosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

Pachyrhino

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Baryonyx

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Megatherium

Parasaur

Parasaur

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Raptor

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Mammoth

Royal Griffin

Standalone

Achatina

Arthro

Chalico

Dung Beetle

Liopleurodon

Manta

Onyc

Phiomia

Procoptodon

Titanosaur

Super Kibble (Mobile) [ ]

This section is about a feature exclusively available on Mobile

Super Kibble is a type of Kibble exclusive to ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile.

These Kibbles can be crafted in a Cooking Pot or in an Industrial Cooker by substituting the normal Egg with a Super Fertilized Egg. They can be used to tame Creatures faster and with greater Taming effectiveness.

Notes [ ]

When using Kibble to passive tame by placing it in the last slot of your hotbar, be aware that if a Pegomastax steals it, it will eat the entire stack!
If you are trying to make kibble and nothing is being produced with correct ingredients, try making a cooking pot or industrial cooker. Some updates render a crafting station disfunctional in a way.
Kibble used to not work on the official Primitive + mod, but now works as intended.

v · d · e Consumables

Plants

Berries	Amarberry (Seed) • Azulberry (Seed) • Mejoberry (Seed) • Narcoberry (Seed) • Stimberry (Seed) • Tintoberry (Seed)

Crops	Citronal (Seed) • Longrass (Seed) • Rockarrot (Seed) • Savoroot (Seed)

Mushrooms	Aggeravic Mushroom • Aquatic Mushroom • Ascerbic Mushroom • Auric Mushroom • Rare Mushroom

Other	Cactus Sap • Plant Species R Seed • Plant Species X Seed • Plant Species Y Seed • Plant Species Z Seed • Rare Flower

Creatures

Meat	Raw Meat (Cooked, Jerky) • Raw Prime Meat (Cooked, Jerky) • Raw Mutton (Cooked) • Spoiled Meat

Fish	Raw Fish (Cooked) • Raw Prime Fish (Cooked)

Miscellaneous	Ambergris • Giant Bee Honey • Nameless Venom • Reaper Pheromone Gland • Snow Owl Pellet • Wyvern Milk

Feces	Human Feces • Animal Feces (Small, Medium, Large, Massive)

Eggs

Extra Small	Dilo • Dodo • Featherlight • Kairuku • Lystro • Parasaur • Tek Parasaur • Vulture

Small	Archaeopteryx • Camelsaurus • Compy • Dimorph • Gallimimus • Glowtail • Hesperornis • Microraptor • Oviraptor • Pachycephalosaurus • Pegomastax • Pteranodon • Raptor • Tek Raptor • Tek Trike • Trike

Medium	Ankylo • Baryonyx • Carno • Dimetrodon • Diplo • Ichthyornis • Iguanodon • Kaprosuchus • Kentro • Pachyrhino • Pelagornis • Sarco • Stego • Tek Stego • Terror Bird • Thorny Dragon • Troodon • Turtle • Velonasaur

Large	Allosaurus • Argentavis • Megalania • Megalosaurus • Moschops • Snow Owl • Spino • Tapejara • Titanoboa • Tropeognathus

Extra Large	Basilisk • Bronto • Giganotosaurus • Megachelon • Quetzal • Rex • Tek Quetzal • Tek Rex • Therizino

Special	Crystal Wyvern Egg (Blood, Ember, Tropical) • Deinonychus • Golden • Maewing • Magmasaur • Rock Drake • Voidwyrm • Wyvern (Fire, Lightning, Ice, Poison) • Yutyrannus

Other	Angler • Arthropluera • Araneo • Beelzebufo • Bloodstalker • Diplocaulus • Eel • Mantis • Moth • Pulmonoscorpius • Tusoteuthis

Kibble

Base	Basic • Simple • Regular • Superior • Exceptional • Extraordinary

Augmented	Basic • Simple • Regular • Superior • Exceptional • Extraordinary

Egg-based	Allosaurus • Ankylo • Araneo • Archaeopteryx • Argentavis • Baryonyx • Bronto • Camelsaurus • Carbonemys • Carno • Compy • Dilo • Dimetrodon • Dimorph • Diplo • Dodo • Featherlight • Gallimimus • Glowtail • Ichthyornis • Iguanodon • Kairuku • Kaprosuchus • Kentrosaurus • Lystrosaurus • Mantis • Megalania • Megalosaurus • Microraptor • Moth • Moschops • Oviraptor • Pachy • Pachyrhino • Parasaur • Pegomastax • Pelagornis • Pteranodon • Pulmonoscorpius • Raptor • Rock Drake • Quetzal • Rex • Sarco • Spino • Stego • Tapejara • Terror Bird • Therizinosaurus • Thorny Dragon • Titanoboa • Trike • Troodon • Vulture

Cooking/
Chemistry

Dishes	Battle Tartare • Broth of Enlightenment • Cactus Broth • Calien Soup • Custom Consumable • Enduro Stew • Focal Chili • Fria Curry • Lazarus Chowder • Mindwipe Tonic • Mushroom Brew • Shadow Steak Saute

Dino Food	Sweet Vegetable Cake

Medicine	Blood Pack • Energy Brew • Lesser Antidote • Medical Brew • Narcotic • Stimulant

Chemicals	Bio Toxin • Bug Repellant • Organic Polymer • Re-Fertilizer • Soap

Coloring	Black • Blue • Brick • Brown • Cantaloupe • Cyan • Forest • Green • Magenta • Mud • Navy • Olive • Orange • Parchement • Pink • Purple • Red • Royalty • Silver • Sky • Slate • Tan • Tangerine • White • Yellow

Liquids	Waterskin → Water Jar (Iced) → Canteen (Iced, Tek) • Beer Liquid (Jar)

Recipes

Rockwell Recipes	Battle Tartare • Calien Soup • Decorative Coloring • Egg-based Kibble • Enduro Stew • Energy Brew • Focal Chili • Fria Curry • Lazarus Chowder • Meat Jerky • Medical Brew • Mindwipe Tonic • Shadow Steak Saute

Other	Custom Recipe • Notes on Rockwell Recipes

Event-only

Candy	Box o' Chocolates • Dino Candy Corn • Festive Dino Candy • Summer Swirl Taffy • Thanksgiving Candy • Valentines Dino Candy

Cake	ARK Anniversary Cake Slice • Valentine's Cake

v · d · e Taming

Plants

Amarberry • Azulberry • Citronal • Longrass • Mejoberry • Narcoberry • Rockarrot • Savoroot • Stimberry • Tintoberry

Meat

Meat (Raw, Cooked, Jerky) • Prime Meat (Raw, Cooked, Jerky) • Fish Meat (Raw, Cooked) • Prime Fish Meat (Raw, Cooked) • Raw Mutton • Cooked Lamb Chop • Spoiled Meat

Kibble

Base	Basic • Simple • Regular • Superior • Exceptional • Extraordinary

Augmented	Basic • Simple • Regular • Superior • Exceptional • Extraordinary

Egg-based	Allosaurus • Ankylo • Araneo • Archaeopteryx • Argentavis • Baryonyx • Bronto • Camelsaurus • Carbonemys • Carno • Compy • Dilo • Dimetrodon • Dimorph • Diplo • Dodo • Featherlight • Gallimimus • Glowtail • Ichthyornis • Iguanodon • Kairuku • Kaprosuchus • Kentrosaurus • Lystrosaurus • Mantis • Megalania • Megalosaurus • Microraptor • Moth • Moschops • Oviraptor • Pachy • Pachyrhino • Parasaur • Pegomastax • Pelagornis • Pteranodon • Pulmonoscorpius • Raptor • Rock Drake • Quetzal • Rex • Sarco • Spino • Stego • Tapejara • Terror Bird • Therizinosaurus • Thorny Dragon • Titanoboa • Trike • Troodon • Vulture

Tools

Weapons	Slingshot • Wooden Club • Bow → Crossbow → Compound Bow (Tranq, Flame) • Longneck Rifle (Tranq, Shocking) • Harpoon Launcher (Tranq) • Electric Prod • Flamethrower (Ammo) • Rocket Launcher (RPG, Homing Missile) • Catapult Turret (Boulder) • Cannon (Cannon Ball)

Armor	Ghillie Armor (Mask, Chestpiece, Gauntlets, Leggings, Boots)

Other

Taming Food	AnglerGel • Beer Jar • Black Pearl • Broth of Enlightenment • Clay • Feces • Deathworm Horn • Eggs • Giant Bee Honey • Golden Hesperornis Egg • Leech Blood • Mushroom (Aggeravic, Aquatic, Ascerbic, Auric) • Nameless Venom • Organic Polymer • Plant Species R Seed • Plant Species X Seed • Plant Species Y Seed • Plant Species Z Seed • Rare Flower • Rare Mushroom • Reaper Pheromone Gland • Snow Owl Pellet • Stone • Sulfur • Sweet Vegetable Cake • Wyvern Milk

Narcotics	Bio Toxin • Narcotic

Taming Ingredients	Ammonite Bile • Chitin • Oil • Obsidian • Sap • Sparkpowder

Other	Bug Repellant