Air Conditioner
Requires electricity to run. Provides insulation from both the heat and the cold to an area.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 85 crates
- Item ID
- 185
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 61
- Engram points
- 21
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Air Conditioner guides
How to craft Air Conditioner
Air Conditioner is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 61, costs 21 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 50 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
190Metal
80Stone
45Silica Pearls
40Chitin/Keratin
10ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×95, Electronics ×15, Cementing Paste ×10, Polymer ×5.
How to get Air Conditioner
Air Conditioner is found in 85 loot crates.
Loot crates
85 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Fjordur RedFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Red BonusFjordur · 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 / ASE
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Island RedLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Red BonusLost Island · ASE
- 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
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Air Conditioner — Detailed Guide
Powered insulation for bases and eggs
The Air Conditioner, A/C for short, is an electric appliance in ARK: Survival Evolved. "Requires electricity to run. Provides insulation from both the heat and the cold to an area." When powered, it raises both heat and cold insulation over a short range. That helps with hatching fertilized 
Eggs and keeps survivors safe in extreme weather, and the ARK Wiki calls it useful for Breeding.
Range and strength
An A/C adds up to +100 to both insulation values. The bonus is strongest right at the unit and fades to zero two foundations away; it passes through structures, and placement indoors or outdoors makes no difference. Testing quoted by the wiki puts the insulation by distance at roughly -37.6x+128. Several units stack their effect, and some Eggs may need as many as ten to incubate, so the cost adds up.
Placement and toughness
No foundation is needed, so it does not interfere with natural resource spawns, and it does not snap to other structures. It counts as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks cannot hurt it, and the wiki lists aggressive creatures that cannot either, among them the 
Raptor, 
Titanoboa, 
Direwolf and 
Sabertooth.
Crafting
The engram unlocks at level 61 for 21 engram points. It is crafted in a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator from:
- 80
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 15
Electronics - 15
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 5
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule
Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 50 XP, and the unit weighs 4. Loot is another source: 85 crate types can contain one, for example Aberration Purple and Aberration Red and their bonus versions. Our records list it on 12 maps.