Raw Prime Meat

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Eating raw food will sate hunger, but is unhealthy for humans. This excellent cut spoils very quickly. Most wild carnivores love this meat.

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Consumable (values pertain to Humans)

Type

Meat

Food

+20

Health

-5.0

Spoils in

2m 20s

Spoils to

Spoiled Meat

Item

Weight

0.1

Stack size

1 / 2

Decomposes in

2m

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 248 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_RawPrimeMeat.PrimalItemConsumable_RawPrimeMeat'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

3 items

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 2 minutes in a Player's inventory, but lasts around 9 Minutes 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.

Usage

Raw Prime Meat is very useful for taming. It is the fourth best thing to feed any Carnivore you want to tame (with Kibble being the first, Raw Mutton being the second, and Cooked Lamb Chop being the third). Raw Prime Meat replenishes the same 50 food as regular Raw Meat 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 Campfire or Industrial Grill, which boosts the amount of time before expiration by 45 minutes in the player's inventory, and 3 hours in a creature's inventory. Cooked Prime Meat can be eaten for ~40-45 food. Cooked Prime Meat can also be fed to carnivores to tame at about 1.5 times the speed when compared to taming with Raw Meat.

Raw Prime Meat is also used to cook the Battle Tartare dish.

Cooked Prime Meat is used to cook a Mindwipe Tonic.

Sources

Raw Prime Meat can be harvested from the following creatures so far:

Non-adult versions of any creature will also yield Raw Prime Meat. However, Kairuku are currently the only creatures that have wild babies. Other creatures must be bred by players.

Raw Prime Meat can also be obtained by harvesting Alpha Creatures as they give prime meat instead of Raw Meat. The boss creatures DodoRex and Dragon also drop prime meat. One notable thing is that Wyvern have fertilized eggs in the wild,so butchering a young wyvern could yield prime meat, although most players just raise the baby.

Gathering

Raw Prime Meat
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Allosaurus	★★★★★
Carnotaurus	★★★★★
Gacha	★★★★★
Ichthyornis	★★★★★
Mosasaurus	★★★★★
Rex	★★★★★
Spino	★★★★★
Argentavis	★★★★☆
Chainsaw	★★★★☆
Dire Bear	★★★★☆

Spoil times

Container	Spoiling Time	Spoiling Time in Scorched Earth
Player Inventory	2m 20s	2m 6s
Player Inventory (with Preserving Salt *)	4m 40s	4m 12s
Tamed Dino	9m 20s	8m 24s
Tamed Dino (with Preserving Salt *)	18m 40s	16m 48s
Hyaenodon Meatpack	18m 40s	16m 48s
Hyaenodon Meatpack (with Preserving Salt *)	37m 20s	33m 36s
Preserving Bin	23m 20s	21m
Preserving Bin (with Preserving Salt *)	46m 40s	42m
Smokehouse	35m	31m 30s
Refrigerator	3h 53m 20s	3h 30m

*Keep in mind that a full stack of preserving salts will spoil in 2 hours for all of these containers and must be restocked periodically in order to maximize the spoil time.

For more information, see Spoilage.

Notes

If you are having trouble transporting, you may consider using the Hyaenodon Meatpack as it doubles the Spoilage timer compared to transport in a regular dino's inventory.