Food

Overview

Food is a representation of how fed you currently are. You will gradually become more hungry over time, but actions that consume Stamina will also drain your food. If your character is Cold, they will become hungry faster. If your Food reaches 0, you will Starve, draining your Health and gradually increasing Torpidity. Food can be restored by eating Berries, Meat, Vegetables, Jerky, or Eggs.

Stamina and Healing

“	You starving on purpose, mate?	„
	~ HLN-A

Both regenerating and losing Stamina and Health will trigger food loss. At times, the Food-icon will turn pale/grey. When this occurs, your character is in the hidden "constipated" state and needs to poop. While "constipated," your character will lose food at a greater rate than normal (i.e. get hungry quickly). Pooping (default: + or + ) will cease this hidden status effect and your food consumption will return to normal. If you do not properly manage your character's constipation, you could drain an entire Food-bar during one Stamina-bar regeneration; this is especially true for characters with high stamina. Sometimes, such as when Cold or Injured, your character may even need to poop 3 or 4 times in just a couple of seconds. So don't just press the poop key once and stop; keep pressing it! If managed properly, what would normally drain an ENTIRE Food-bar might only drain 30% leaving you with 70/100 food instead of 0 (and 2 or 3 human feces). This can be an incredible way to conserve your food resources.

Note: Although tames show the same pale/grey food icon, they do NOT suffer the same food draining consequences as the player's character does. This means they do NOT get a hidden constipated status; they are simply ready to produce feces

Increasing

Putting a point into Food increases your maximum Food by 10. This does not have any effect on the nutrition or food values of what you eat, but allows you have more digested food at once, which therefore takes longer to deplete to 0.

Foods

Name	Food	Health	Stack size	Spoils in		Weight
Name	Food	Health	Stack size	Unit	Stack	Unit	Stack
Amarberry	1.5	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10.0
Azulberry	1.5	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10.0
Tintoberry	1.5	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10.0
Mejoberry	1.5	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10.0
Narcoberry	4	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10.0
Stimberry	1.5	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10.0
Citronal	20	0	100	5m	8h 20m	0.1	10.0
Longrass	20	0	100	5m	8h 20m	0.1	10.0
Rockarrot	20	0	100	5m	8h 20m	0.1	10.0
Savoroot	20	0	100	5m	8h 20m	0.1	10.0
Amarberry Seed	1	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.01	1
Azulberry Seed	1	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.01	1
Tintoberry Seed	1	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.01	1
Mejoberry Seed	1	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.01	1
Narcoberry Seed	1	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.01	1
Stimberry Seed	1	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.01	1
Citronal Seed	0.8	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.04	4
Longrass Seed	0.8	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.04	4
Rockarrot Seed	0.8	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.04	4
Savoroot Seed	0.8	0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.04	4
Raw Meat	10.0	-5.0	40	10m	6h 40m	0.1	2.0
Cooked Meat	20.0	8.0	50	20m	16h 40m	0.1	5.0
Cooked Meat Jerky	20	8	50	2d	60d	0.1	3.0
Raw Prime Meat	20	-5.0	1	4m 40s	4m 40s	0.1	0.1
Cooked Prime Meat	35.0	25.0	30	46m	23h	0.1	3.0
Prime Meat Jerky	35	25	30	2d	60d	0.1	3.0
Raw Fish Meat	5	-1.5	40	20m	13h 20m	0.1	2.0
Cooked Fish Meat	10.0	8.0	50	30m	1d 1h	0.1	3.0
Raw Prime Fish Meat	10	-1.5	1	4m 40s	4m 40s	0.1	0.1
Raw Mutton	20	-2	1	9m 20s	9m 20s	0.1	0.1
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	18	15.7	30	1h 7m 30s	1d 9h 45m	0.1	3.0
Cooked Lamb Chop	35	100	30	1h 7m 30s	1d 9h 45m	0.1	3.0
Spoiled Meat	2.5	-12.0	100	15m	1d 1h	0.1	10.0
Giant Bee Honey	20	8	1	20m	20m	0.1	0.1
Rare Mushroom	25	0	100	3d	300d	0.2	20
Rare Flower	15	0	100	3d	300d	0.15	15
Plant Species X Seed	1	0	100			0.01	1
Wyvern Milk	100	100	1	30m	30m	0.1	0.1
Cactus Sap	1	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10
Plant Species Y Seed	-1	0	100			0.01	1
Aggeravic Mushroom	3	0.05%	100	10m	16h 40m	0.2	20
Auric Mushroom	1.5	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10
Aquatic Mushroom	-10%	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10
Ascerbic Mushroom	4	0	100	10m	16h 40m	0.1	10
Plant Species Z Seed	-1	0	100			0.01	1
Nameless Venom	100	-50	1	30m	30m	0.1	0.1
Reaper Pheromone Gland	15	0	100			0.01	1

Notes

When you eat food (excluding Rare Mushroom), your hunger is not immediately refilled. It instead gives you a hunger regeneration effect, the total amount of which depends on what you eat.
Eating more Food than your Food bar can hold will not hurt you, but it will not carry over either. It will simply waste food.
Some foods will constipate you more than others. Rare Mushrooms being the worst culprit (i.e. they make you poop a lot!), because of their instant food replenishment mechanic and its interaction with the hidden food saturation mechanic. Cooked Fish Meat and Custom Consumables are amongst the highest saturation (i.e. you rarely poop)
Some players never invest any points in increasing the Food stat at all. It is usually considered a low-priority stat, as food sources are plentiful and easily obtained in ARK.
You can also eat Raw (Food= +10 & Health= -5) or Spoiled (Food= +3.5 & Health= -12) meat, but this will lower your health and only provide a slight Food increase.
Enforcer is currently the only creature to have Energy in place of food.
When regaining stamina or healing, going prone can greatly reduce the consumption of Food and Water. This can be extremely useful in very cold or hot environments. This is also useful if you need to go AFK. Remaining prone while being idle can prevent you from starving or being dehydrated while you are away.