Custom Consumable

The Custom Consumable is a player-created, customizable dish in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Overview
The Custom Cooking System allows survivors to create their own consumable items with custom names and ingredients to provide different effects. In order to create a custom recipe, you must first place a inside the.

Custom recipes are most useful due to the fact that they both stack and have a standard spoil time of 48 hours. Keep in mind, however, depending on your crafting skill, custom recipes may not be as nutritious as the items used to create them, and can quickly become a cumbersome item to keep hold of. That being said, custom drinks are lighter and stack, unlike Water Jars and Canteens, and are often available earlier than either of those alternatives.

1. Make a Custom Recipe

 * 1) Craft a . When the UI asks for a title and contents for the note, just select  or press . You may also wish to use a Mindwipe Tonic to max out your Crafting Skill to get the best possible result for the recipe.
 * 2) Ensure you have plenty of the ingredients on hand. Some might spoil while you set up the recipe.
 * 3) Place the Note into a . The central part of the UI displays a new option: . Select this and a new window displays.
 * 4) Select whether to create a drink or a dish - the icons at the top right next to the CREATE RECIPE heading.
 * 5) Select which icon to use for the recipe by using the arrow keys under the picture. There are 3 food icons and two drink icons to choose from.
 * 6) Customize the colorization of the icon. The numbers are for the different regions, and there is a standard palette of colors to use for each region. Any region can be set to any RGB value you like using the sliders provided.
 * 7) Type the recipe name, and a description. These appear in the tooltip when mousing over the finished items.
 * 8) Add the ingredients to the recipe from your inventory. Currently, the menu does not allow hotkey transfer of items, so they must be moved by dragging and dropping, or by left-clicking an item to move one of them, or shift+clicking them to move half of the stack.
 * 9) * Only eight stacks of ingredients can be in a single recipe.
 * 10) * Drugs and premade Dishes can not be used in a recipe.
 * 11) * If eggs are used in the recipe, the recipe is specific to that type of egg.
 * 12) Select  at the very bottom of the window to finalize the recipe, and the new recipe is placed into your inventory. The Cooking Pot does not update its contents at this stage; to update it, close its inventory and reopen it.

2. Using the Custom Recipe
Place the finished recipe into a or  with the required ingredients and light the fire to begin the cooking process. The speed at which the dish is created is directly related to the Crafting Skill used to create the recipe; that is higher Crafting Skills create dishes faster.

All drinks require a with at least 25% water; however, foods do not require water, unlike any  or kibble.

Ingredient Effects
The formula for the stats of the consumable are determined by 1 + (CraftingSpeed * 1.5625 - 0.3125) * (5 x Ingredient1 x Quantity1 + 5 x Ingredient2 x Quantity2 + ...) adds 100% to crafting skill, so if in use, simply add 1 to the crafting skill value or an extra 100% into the calculator.

The weight is equivalent to 0.1 + (0.2 * WeightOfAllIngredients)

If you so choose, you can make poison as either a suicide aid or a weapon to feed to your enemies. *Food is only added when the consumable is a food. **Water is only added when the consumable is a drink. ***Depends on weight of the actual Egg/Poop used. Some of the numbers are estimates.