Bacon
Item
Sates your hunger, and provides health while being digested. Lasts longer than cooked meat. Wild carnivores will eat it, but prefer raw meat. Acts as a substitute for Cooked Meat Jerky. Mmmmm... Bacon....
- Weight
- 0.1
- Stack
- 50
- Crafting XP
- 1
- Spoils in
- 48h

Bacon is an item in ARK: Survival Ascended. It can be crafted at a Preserving Bin using 3 different resources. As a consumable, it will spoil over time if not stored properly.
Crafting recipe
1 Cooked Meat
1 Oil
3 Sparkpowder- 1 Craft XP
- 2,160 s Craft time
To craft Bacon, you need 1x Cooked Meat, 1x Oil, 3x Sparkpowder. Available crafting stations: Preserving Bin, Industrial Preserving Bin. Use the calculator below to figure out exact quantities for multiple crafts.
Crafting
Crafting calculator
Stat effects
- Food: 20 over time
- Health: 8 over time
Best harvesters
Harvesting
Bacon harvest yields
1× harvest rate · 55 wild melee levels · 88 harvest levels
Ways to harvest
Top 5 of 25- Open Therizinosaur1
Therizinosaur9per corpseCorpse · Boaratos
- Open Chainsaw2
Chainsaw5per corpseCorpse · Boaratos
- Open Anglerfish3
Anglerfish5per corpseCorpse · Boaratos
- Open Baryonyx4
Baryonyx5per corpseCorpse · Boaratos
- Open Carnotaurus5
Carnotaurus5per corpseCorpse · Boaratos
Corpse sources
Best recorded hand tool for each corpse
- Open Boaratos1
Boaratos5per corpseWith Chainsaw
Found on maps
Item locations
Found on maps
1 maps with recorded nodes or creature drops



