ResourceASE + ASAItem ID 413
Absorbent Substrate
This sticky compound excels at absorbing other chemicals.
Weight0.25
Stack100
Unlocks atLv 8460 pts
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 74 crates
- Item ID
- 413
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 84
- Engram points
- 60
Learn these first
Chemistry Bench
Maps
Found on 9 maps
The IslandScorched EarthAberrationExtinctionLost ColonyThe CenterAstraeosRagnarokValguero
Video guides: search YouTube for Absorbent Substrate guides
How to craft Absorbent Substrate
Absorbent Substrate is crafted from 3 ingredients, and one craft makes 6. The engram unlocks at level 84, costs 60 engram points, takes 12 seconds, gives 0.56 XP.
Chemistry BenchHow to get Absorbent Substrate
Absorbent Substrate is found in 74 loot crates.
Loot crates
74 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Alpha TusoteuthisThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- TusoteuthisThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
Absorbent Substrate — Detailed Guide
A sticky compound with two uses
Absorbent Substrate is a crafted resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. In the game's words: "This sticky compound excels at absorbing other chemicals." Our ASE records list two recipes that use it, the 
Gas Mask and the 
Night Vision Goggles, each taking 2, and the ARK Wiki also names these two as its only current uses.
Crafting at the Chemistry Bench
The engram unlocks at level 84 for 60 engram points, and our records list the 
Chemistry Bench as its prerequisite. It can only be crafted in a Chemistry Bench, which according to the ARK Wiki multiplies the cost by 4 and the output by 6. A batch therefore takes:
- 8
Black Pearl - 8
Sap - 8
Oil (Oil (
Tusoteuthis) also works)
The result is 6 Absorbent Substrate. A craft takes 12 seconds and gives 0.56 XP.
Other sources
The ARK Wiki lists several ways to get it without crafting:
- killing a Tusoteuthis, which can drop it;
- fishing with a
Fishing Rod, where it comes up as rare loot and spares the hunt for Black Pearls; - poison trees in the Bog area of Genesis: Part 1;
- supply crates: our records count 74 crate types that can contain it, such as Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Yellow.
Carrying it
A unit weighs 0.25 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 25. Our records list it on 9 maps, and the ARK Wiki dates it to version 243.0.