How does one get Prime Meat fast, and prevent it from spoiling so fast?

[Bignastycupcake]

So I plan on taming a rex or spino at one point, but I can't seem to keep prime meat from spoiling. I put prime meat on my carno or argent, but it only lasts for around 10 minutes, and i have a tough time getting it, I can get about 5 or 6 just wandering the little island I'm on, but it doesn't seem to work very well. Do I need a fridge? It seems hard to run, with all the gas, and the generator, and I can't really afford that much quite yet, I can certainly make it, but I don't know how people do it. Do people kill stuff while they're taming things like Spinos or Rexes, then just take the prime meat they get, and throw them on the dino? Or is there a specific dino that keeps it from spoiling so fast?

I do know in the jungle, if I just take my carno over there and kill everything, I can get quite a bit of prime meat, around at least 30, but it seems far if I were to tame something that has torpor depleting fast

[Sinister]

cook it works the same so i have seen.

[Jerryn]

Raw prime is better than cooked prime.

[Critter]

Cooking it isn't as good taming effect wise but... It lasts longer and still gives better results than reg raw meat. You can also make the jerky, lasts even longer.

[Jerryn]

If you have something that can carry a fridge, then putting prime in a fridge would be a big help.

Also, when moving prime, keep it on yourself for a short of time as possible, as it spoils much faster.

One of the tricks I use, especially if there are two of us, is to lure animals that are good for prime closer to my tame, and then kill them, but don't harvest them all at once. That is, I only harvest the corpse when I need to add more prime.

Another trick, at least for the first round, is to use the starve method. That is, you let the dino get really hungry, so that it eats everything you put on it. Just make sure you have enough to feed it; and make sure to put spare meat on it, just in case.

[Jerryn]

See for speed and efficiency info: http://ark.gamepedia.com/Kibble

[crimsondrac]

Originally posted by Jerryn:

See for speed and efficiency info: http://ark.gamepedia.com/Kibble

Not every beast has a kibble and the Compys actually require raw Prime to tame.

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Okay. So, little tip. Your animals you have tamed, like your pteradons and the argents for example. What ever meat is first in their inventory is what they will eat. So put like, 5-10 stacks of normal raw meat first in their inventory. And arrange it so the prime meat is down at the bottom below that in their inventory.

Then they won't eat it when moving about. And if you put raw prime meat in to an animals inventory, it spoils at half the time than if you're holding it. This way you can starve a knocked out animal as needed, and run around and do multiple kills for raw prime, stashing it lower in your flyer's inventory the whole time. Then fly back to what you have tamed, land beside it and quickly pull it out of flyer's inventory and fast-feed it to knocked out critter and if you starve it, it will nom it all up quickly, then you don't deal with spoilage so much.

[crimsondrac]

The Paracers give a crp ton of Raw Prime. They are a bit hard to kill, but worth it in PRime Meat.

Barring the fridge, you can make a preserving bin. It uses spark power to run and it will not preserve it as long as a fridge, but it will extend the decay timer by quite a bit.

Tame a paracer and see if you can get a platform saddle on it. Then you can build a preserving bin on it and take it with you. You can do the same with a raft if you plan on traveling by water.

[Sinister]

Originally posted by crimsondrac:

The Paracers give a crp ton of Raw Prime. They are a bit hard to kill, but worth it in PRime Meat.

Barring the fridge, you can make a preserving bin. It uses spark power to run and it will not preserve it as long as a fridge, but it will extend the decay timer by quite a bit.

Tame a paracer and see if you can get a platform saddle on it. Then you can build a preserving bin on it and take it with you. You can do the same with a raft if you plan on traveling by water.

quetz with a fridge is what i use but havent rebuilt its platform yet to see if i can even still have a gen and fridge on it since 231.0

[Bignastycupcake]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Okay. So, little tip. Your animals you have tamed, like your pteradons and the argents for example. What ever meat is first in their inventory is what they will eat. So put like, 5-10 stacks of normal raw meat first in their inventory. And arrange it so the prime meat is down at the bottom below that in their inventory.

Then they won't eat it when moving about. And if you put raw prime meat in to an animals inventory, it spoils at half the time than if you're holding it. This way you can starve a knocked out animal as needed, and run around and do multiple kills for raw prime, stashing it lower in your flyer's inventory the whole time. Then fly back to what you have tamed, land beside it and quickly pull it out of flyer's inventory and fast-feed it to knocked out critter and if you starve it, it will nom it all up quickly, then you don't deal with spoilage so much.

so say if i were to want to tame a spino, in order to get all the meat i want, i should probably take my carno out, kill some things that drop prime meat, then just give it spino? (or a flyer, which would probably work better if i'm taming things far away.)

[Spectre]

fyi dropping the meat from the tamed dinos inventory to the ground and then picking it back up, resets the timer...

[Jerryn]

Originally posted by crimsondrac:

Originally posted by Jerryn:

See for speed and efficiency info: http://ark.gamepedia.com/Kibble

Not every beast has a kibble and the Compys actually require raw Prime to tame.

Yes...but that chart had more than kibble list, so I am not sure why you are pointing that out to me.

I posted it for reference about kibble vs prime vs cooked prime vs jerky vs etc. instead of retyping it myself.

Also, some animals don't use prime, kibble, meat, berries or crops. Ovis need eggs; I prefer Giga eggs for a really fast tame, and the Roos only tame on Rare Mushrooms and Plant X Seeds.

But, thanks anyway.

[Spine]

Originally posted by tkepe168:

fyi dropping the meat from the tamed dinos inventory to the ground and then picking it back up, resets the timer...

Dam, i have over 1000 hours and didnt know that

[Sinister]

Originally posted by Spine_iv:

Originally posted by tkepe168:

fyi dropping the meat from the tamed dinos inventory to the ground and then picking it back up, resets the timer...

Dam, i have over 1000 hours and didnt know that

well seems the secret is out now lol.. be the next thing they fix

[AgeAgainst]

Originally posted by crimsondrac:

Originally posted by Jerryn:

See for speed and efficiency info: http://ark.gamepedia.com/Kibble

Not every beast has a kibble and the Compys actually require raw Prime to tame.

Not relevant to the topic of the thread: The trick to taming a compy is to knock it out, let it wake up, knock it out again. Go farm prime meat and when you get back it'll be awake again so you knock it out a third time and then pump it full of prime. Almost instant tame. Tranq Darts are required for this, an x-bow will probably kill the compy.

Relevant to topic:

The best way that I've found to keep the timer on prime up a bit while you're taming is to build a foundation and then build a preserving bin/mortar & pestle. Farm a bit of prime, put on dino, put rest in preserving bin with sparkpowder. Once you have 5 on the dino that won't decay, put a few in the preserving bin. Farm more until dino is tamed.