Is There a Way to Make Food Last Longer in a Feeding Trouch Ark

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Put food for your nearby pets in this, and they'll automatically eat it when hungry!

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Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 371 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi FeedingTrough 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Misc/PrimalItemStructure_FeedingTrough.PrimalItemStructure_FeedingTrough'" 1 0 0

The Feeding Trough in ARK: Survival Evolved simplifies the feeding of nearby tames, allowing them to eat from a shared trough instead of having food in their own inventories, and thereby potentially reducing spoilage from multiple stacks.

Construction

The Feeding Trough does not require a foundation for placement, and as such does not interfere with the spawning of natural resources. It does not snap to other structures. Feeding troughs may also be placed and used underwater for taking care of marine creatures. The trough works through walls and from higher elevations, so there is no need to put them in water if you have a base above or adjacent to your water pen, nor is it necessary for animals in individual pens to have individual troughs.

Usage

The feeding trough holds anything that can be used as feed for any type of tame. This includes such strange items as stone or sulfur for Rock Elementals. Tames within its range eat from the trough before consuming food in their inventory. Any and all foods can be placed in the trough at once, so Berries, Meat, and so on can all be mixed together to feed all types of tames.

Tames belonging to allied tribes can also feed from a trough.

Spoilage

Food placed in the trough has its spoil time multiplied by 4, just as it would when carried by a dino. It is therefore advisable to keep food in a nearby Preserving Bin or Refrigerator and only top up trough supplies periodically. For more information on spoil times, see Spoilage.

Range

The Feeding Trough allows tames to feed within a cubic range of 11 foundations horizontally maximum (depending on the orientation of the map) and 15 walls vertically from the point of placement. The tames do not have to move as long as they are within this cube. Tames that wander through the range area are also able to feed from it. You can confirm which tames are within range by observing the feeding trough icon above each tame's name. Tames display the icon regardless of whether the trough(s) they are in range of actually have suitable food for them. Since patch 311.74 or earlier, the Feeding Trough has an option to show the range with a green circle.

Notes

Other players can steal from a feeding trough if it is left unlocked.
Baby dinosaurs can't eat from the trough until they reach the Juvenile stage.
Creatures only eat food from the feeding trough if they would eat it from their inventory - herbivores will not eat meat, carnivores will not eat berries, and so on.
An icon appears above the name on tames that indicates if they are within range of a feeding trough.

The Feeding Trough is treated as a thatch structure and can be damaged by anything except non-explosive ranged attacks.

Painting and Color Regions

The Feeding Trough is not currently paint-able, however this object may be re-mapped to include paint regions in a future update.

For more information on Paint Regions and how to use them, please view the Dye, Paintbrush, or Spray Painter pages.

Structures

Primitive

Crafting	Campfire • Cooking Pot • Mortar and Pestle • Refining Forge • Smithy

Production	Bee Hive • Beer Barrel • Compost Bin • Crop Plot (Small, Medium, Large) • Feeding Trough • Fish Basket • Tree Sap Tap • Water Well

Irrigation	Metal Irrigation Pipe (Flexible, Inclined, Intake, Intersection, Straight, Tap, Vertical) • Stone Irrigation Pipe (Flexible, Inclined, Intake, Intersection, Straight, Vertical, Tap) • Water Reservoir (Metal)

Storage	Bookshelf • Delivery Crate • Preserving Bin • Storage Box (Large) • Vessel • Wooden Cage

Furniture	Artifact Pedestal • Crystal Wyvern Queen Flag • Dragon Flag • Gorilla Flag • Gravestone • Hide Sleeping Bag • King Titan Flag (Mecha) • Manticore Flag • Mirror • Moeder Flag • Multi-Panel Flag • Painting Canvas • Pressure Plate • Rockwell Final Form Flag • Rockwell Flag • Shag Rug • Simple Bed • Single Panel Flag • Spider Flag • Standing Torch • Stone Fireplace • Taxidermy Base (Small • Medium • Large) • Tent • Toilet • Training Dummy • Trophy Wall-Mount • VR Boss Flag • Wall Torch • War Map • Wardrums • Wooden Bench • Wooden Chair • Wooden Table

Weaponry	Ballista Turret • Cannon • Catapult Turret • Plant Species X

Elevator	Wood Elevator Top Switch • Wood Elevator Track • Wood Elevator Platform (Small, Medium, Large)

Vehicles	Wooden Raft

Industrial

Crafting	Chemistry Bench • Fabricator • Industrial Cooker • Industrial Forge • Industrial Grill • Industrial Grinder

Production	Air Conditioner • Dino Leash • Gas Collector • Lamppost (Omnidirectional) • Oil Pump

Power	Electrical Cable (Flexible, Inclined, Intersection, Straight, Vertical) • Electrical Generator • Electrical Outlet • Wind Turbine

Storage	Refrigerator • Vault

Furniture	Bunk Bed • Remote Keypad

Weaponry	Auto Turret (Heavy) • Minigun Turret • Rocket Turret

Elevator	Elevator Track • Elevator Platform (Small, Medium, Large)

Vehicles	Motorboat

Tek

Crafting	Tek Replicator

Production	Cloning Chamber • Tek Trough

Power	Tek Generator

Storage	Cryofridge • Tek Dedicated Storage

Furniture	Tek Bridge • Tek Jump Pad • Tek Light • Tek Remote Camera • Tek Sensor • Tek Sleeping Pod • Tek Surveillance Console • Tek Teleporter • Tek Transmitter

Weaponry	Tek Forcefield • Tek Turret

Vehicles	Tek ATV • Unassembled TEK Hover Skiff

Other

Crafting	Charge Node • City Terminal • Mission Dispatcher • Obelisk

Loot	Deep Sea Loot Crate • Giant Beaver Dam • Loot Crate • Orbital Supply Drop • Supply Crate • Treasure Chest

Veins	Element Node • Flower • Gas Vein • Oil Vein • Poison Tree • Water Vein

Nests	Deinonychus Nest • Magmasaur Nest • Rock Drake Nest • Wyvern Nest

Events	ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake • Birthday Cake • Bunny Egg • Fossil Pile • Gift Box • Holiday Lights • Holiday Stocking • Holiday Tree • Pumpkin • Scarecrow • Snowman • Stolen Headstone • Wreath