Raw Prime Meat

Raw Prime Meat is a food item in ARK: Survival Evolved. It can be obtained by harvesting the corpses of larger creatures.

Raw Prime Meat spoils very fast. After harvesting, a useful tactic is to store the meat immediately in a tamed creature's inventory for transport, as it spoils in 4 minutes and 40 seconds in a Player's inventory, but lasts around 18 Minutes and 40 seconds in a creature's inventory. However, if the Player wants to save Raw Prime Meat this way for later use, it should not be given to a tamed carnivore, as they may eat it if they don't have any normal Raw Meat to eat.

Raw Prime Meat is also the only taming food for the beside.

When cooked into it is one of the best foods for s.

Usage
Raw Prime Meat is very useful for taming. It is the fourth best thing to feed any Carnivore you want to tame (with being the first,  being the second, and  being the third). Raw Prime Meat replenishes the same 50 food as regular to a dino being tamed, but it tames the Dino at 3 times the speed. It also decreases the taming effectiveness by around .5% each bite, which is more effective than regular Raw Meat.

If eaten by the survivor, it slightly replenishes food, but decreases health by 5.0 points.

It can also be cooked at a or, which boosts the amount of time before expiration by 45 minutes in the player's inventory, and 3 hours in a creature's inventory. can be eaten for ~40-45 food. can also be fed to carnivores to tame at about 1.5 times the speed when compared to taming with.

Raw Prime Meat is also used to cook the dish.

Cooked Prime Meat is used to cook a.

Spoil times
For more information, see Spoilage.