🔦 ARK Resource Calculator
Calculate all raw materials needed for ARK: Survival Evolved crafting, including smelted resources.
| Crafted Resource | Raw Ingredients | Qty | Station |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metal Ingot | Metal | 2 Metal per ingot | Refining Forge |
| Polymer (Crafted) | Obsidian + Cementing Paste | 2 + 2 | Fabricator |
| Electronics | Metal Ingots + Silica Pearls | 3 + 2 | Fabricator |
| Cementing Paste | Keratin/Chitin + Stone | 8 + 4 | Mortar & Pestle |
| Gunpowder | Charcoal + Sparkpowder | 2 + 3 | Mortar & Pestle |
| Sparkpowder | Stone + Flint | 2 + 1 | Mortar & Pestle |
| Item | Station | Engram Level | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Pickaxe | Inventory / Any | Level 2 | Tools |
| Metal Pickaxe | Smithy | Level 20 | Tools |
| Metal Hatchet | Smithy | Level 20 | Tools |
| Simple Pistol | Smithy | Level 30 | Weapons |
| Longneck Rifle | Smithy | Level 50 | Weapons |
| Fabricated Pistol | Fabricator | Level 55 | Weapons |
| Flak Helmet | Smithy | Level 48 | Armor |
| Full Flak Armor | Smithy | Level 48-58 | Armor |
| C4 Charge | Fabricator | Level 51 | Explosives |
| Campfire | Inventory / Any | Level 2 | Structures |
| Resource | Best Method | Best Tame | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metal | Mine metal nodes | Ankylosaurus | Mountains have most nodes |
| Wood | Chop trees | Castoroides / Mammoth | Abundant everywhere |
| Stone | Hit rocks | Doedicurus | Found near mountains |
| Hide | Hunt animals | Sabertooth | Common from most creatures |
| Fiber | Harvest bushes | Moschops | Common everywhere |
| Silica Pearls | Dive underwater | Ichthyosaurus | Ocean and caves |
| Obsidian | Mine obsidian nodes | Ankylosaurus | Volcano and mountain tops |
| Crystal | Mine crystal nodes | Ankylosaurus | Caves and mountains |
Note: This article is based on reliable data gathered by various members of the ARK community using their resources and tools.
Resources form one type of items in ARK: Survival Evolved. One can use them to make various objects inside the game. Since simple sticks to carrots and palm leaves, a big range of gathered materials wait to be collected through different maps.
How to Find and Gather Resources in ARK
The research of resources matters a lot. For ARK: Survival Evolved there are interactive maps about resources, that cover areas like The Island Scorched Earth, Aberration and more. They help to locate metal, crystal, obsidian, oil and special paths on the map for places like Valguero, Ragnarok and Astraeos.
Also the wiki of ARK offers maps about resources for the main story maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction and Genesis 1 and 2.
Crafts form all items, that have different stats and attributes. Each of them requires exact amounts of resources. Places in harsh and tough areas in ARK tend to give more precious materials.
Here among them the highest peaks, the most dark caves and teh depth of the sea.
Some creatures help in the harvest of certain resources. The castoroides, known also as beaver, and the therizinosaurus work well for wood. The doedicurus stays the main choice for stones.
When dealing about metal, obsidian and crystal, ankylosaurus are the best option. Also for oil, it works most. Every creature and item in the game has ratings about collect efficiency, so know well, which dinosaur to use for every task.
Common metal comes only from one kind of Resource nodes. Small rocks with shining, glowing spots. Special forges turn it into something truly useful.
Most dinosaurs have different skills, for instance for gathering of resources, hunting or flight. Their breeding itself is art, and the key part of the game truly deals about creating a team of dinosaurs, that helps too beat difficult bosses.
Use Resource calculators to plan, what materials to use for building or making items. They deal about weapons, armours, buildings, dyes, recipes and tools. Also there are calculators for crafts, armours, saddles and weapons.
A full list of identifiers for all Resource items counts for the game and its DLC packs.
Structures can block the appearance of resources nearby, and the times of their respawn deserve thought during building of base. Multipliers for resources and harvest adjust in the game. The grinder helps for recycling, one puts useless objects in it and receives resources back.
Because metal ingots always matter, looting bodies and grinding extra weapons form a reliable way to grow stocks.
A mod called Resource-Gatherer introduces drills, that make almost all crafting items, although they cost a lot to do. Stacking mods also change the Resource work, although sometimes theycause problems with crafting at stations like the forge or the mortar.
