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If you kill carnivores they have a chance to have a random "Rockwell Recipe" on it when it dies.
You'll want to find "Rockwell Recipes: Egg-Based Kibble" and "Notes on Rockwell Recipes". depending on what Kibble you are looking to make, you might need more Rockwell Recipes to make the kibble as some of the more expensive ones require more expensive items.
If I recall the "Notes on Rockwell Recipes" may not be accurate information.
You might figure it out if you put everything one can eat, even things with negative effects into the industrial cooking pot and every other dish rockwell mentions. But it'll be very wasteful until you figure it out.
Personally I keep 1 copy of every rockwell recipie inside my industrial cooking pot so I never have to look those up.
Just use dododex
Extraordinary kibble is for so few island dinos, not figuring it out isn't a big deal if your not going to dlc arks. Pretty much the most important island dino its for is yutty and thycoleo. Yutty is okay as a mutton tame. Leo is a nice tame, but not vital. Theres about 3 eggs on the island off the top of my head that can be used for it.
For almost all island dinos, Exceptional Kibble will cut it.
Sorry but to be blunt and due to changes to the kibble system years ago, that's the only expeditious way to discover the recipes. Otherwise, you''d need to experiment to find out and wasting resources in the process.
You can learn the recipes in game so your saying it is impossible is false. You just have to do it through experimentation/trial and error. That's experiential learning.
Most activities in the game are not hand holding/tutorial based. Ark is primarily an experiential learning survival game( boy the early years were interesting when people didnt even understand and complained about having to discover punching trees to get wood on the The Island map to start).
That's why collectively over the years people have imparted their knowledge for game play either through the wiki, vids, or yep you guessed it, here for those that are experiential learning challenged. Nothing wrong with that except one's subjective view of it.
And I simply can't (fully) agree with you. Imagine you are completely new to the game. How do you know what part of real world is reflected in this game? And how? Do you want try everything in game instead of real playing? Touching every key in every situation? Trying every keyboard shortcus in every situation? Trying every action on every item? Without any clue? I am pretty sure most people do not want it. Any game should have at least hints that something is possible where to get it / with what tool / using with what material...
Punching trees to get wood is perfect example of completely illogical mechanic. Have you ever see people punching trees to get wood? Of course not! This is just stupid idea you only severely hurt yourself. But in real world you can pick a rock and punch a tree with it. And because ARK has not have this intuitive method there should be from the very beginnings of ARK help (by default active) informing you what you can do with bare hands with trees.
Cooking Pot has description "Must contain basic fuel to light the fire. Put various ingredients with water in this to make soups, stews, and dyes." It is good hint for the start for experimenting with dyes but expecting that you manage to cook Broth of Enlightenment from
10 × Mejoberry
2 × Rockarrot
2 × Longrass
2 × Savoroot
2 × Citronal
5 × Deathworm Horn or Woolly Rhino Horn
1 × Black Pearl
1 × Water
without any other clues is pure insanity.
In my opinion in survival game you should learn how to survive dangers surrounding you... not how to use your body and tools or how to reveal that some hidden item/feature/mechnanic even exists...
Your churlishness aside, I'm simply stating how the devs have set things up and have maintained it for years. Expectations at this point for there to be a tutorial, hand holding etc just is a case of wants not matching the reality of the situation. Thus someone can either choose to do as it is in game solely or(like the majority of players arguably) use outside information compiled by others(including devs actually but that's a different story...)
So what you think -should- happen isn't relevant. What is relevant is acknowledging the reality of the situation and making choices accordingly.
We get you don't like it but we're also saying either roll with it as it is in game, make the choice to get the information from other sources, shelve the game until it matches your sensibilities, or shelve it indefinitely.
Ranting aimlessly about it doesn't change those choices.
And if you have paid attention on here I have been very critical of the game on various points over many years(devs know that quite well from their twitter dm's too :P).
However gnashing teeth over inanely over this is not one of them. :P But if you're lucky, you may have caught another embedded criticism in this post too.... or two.... or....
All in all, don't be so silly.
I still don't have every explorer note because I don't look it up, I sniff them out with a dire wolf or stumble upon them.
I walked into my first boss fight with like 5 tames, with 2-3 of them not allowed to enter because of restrictions the game never told me about so I warped into the fight with barely anything to fight with. The level requirement on the gamma boss was so low I was like, well it can't be that hard can it? Only to die because about all I had with me in that fight was a therizino.
Thats not to say I never looked things up, such as deep sea crates which are obnoxious to find since they barely give off any light and can leave you looking for hours without anything to show for it, and even if you find one, the loot may be depressingly bad. Such as getting a wood club when your not a melee build.
Or sometimes I needed to look up console commands to fix bugs. Like climbing a tree on abberation forced my character to fall through the world. The center made my fps 0 because a dungeon over spawned dinos to the point the game was unplayable. A red crate bugged into the ground so it couldn't be opened and I didn't feel like letting the game cheat me out of a drop.
Some things if you look them up can make the game so easy it feels like cheating, such as youtuber "captain fatdog"'s ultra cheap dino traps that use so very few resources and are so effective. that you can often carry the entire trap on your argent all the time and build it in no time when a good dino is spotted, even gigas, Where before I could spend irl days or over a week making a trap the old way. Where the dino I wanted may have long since despawned or died.
Its about finding a balance, because I do think some stuff absolutely has to be looked up, specially in the case of fixing bugs.
I mean asking people online still counts as "search by internet" even if it is just for hints.
Your still getting knowledge from a source outside the game. what's the difference of someone telling you how to get the recipes and searching yourself? Maybe the people answering you got their answers online.. You're still searching for answers on the internet just indirectly.
Same thing here, you'll look up something online when you have no other option or feel like you've hit a wall. It's all arbitrary.
And I agree, Ark is still pretty buggy after all these years they still haven't fixed Loot drops from clipping through terrain making them impossible to open. I had to use the ghost cheat - coz i'm already there. The loot would've been mine if it behaved normally.
When starting out it's nice to figure things out for yourself, that's how I like to play too -but at some point you should learn things from other sources. you'll find out completely new and better ways to play. The game will even feel new again.
I can't tell you how to play the game. By all means play how you want to. But since you're telling us, then I can comment on it. You're really only holding yourself back that way.
It's not a weakness to learn and improve yourself. Your tribemates would also very much appreciate it if you knew more.
Also it's not even cheating if it's possible without cheats. You just didn't know it was possible. Like did you know all the whistle commands from the start of the game? was looking it up in the options cheating?
Also even tweaking anything in the game settings by even 0.000001 would already be breaking the game. So unless you're playing official, you kinda broke the game before you even started.
Again, arbitrary.
I remember dumping random stuff into cooker, seeing what gets made and which ingridients get used, and narrowing options from there, don`t remeber it being that bad, provided you`re rich enough to test:)