Amargasaurus Spike
An incredibly sharp keratin spike extracted from an Amargasaurus. Armor reducing abilities are nullified after removal, but the core of the spike still contains some thermal activity. Can be placed in a Sap Tap to increase production speed and quantity.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Lost Island
Video guides: search YouTube for Amargasaurus Spike guides
Amargasaurus Spike — Detailed Guide
A spike taken from a tame
The Amargasaurus Spike is a resource from the Lost Island DLC, found in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game describes it as "An incredibly sharp keratin spike extracted from an Amargasaurus. Armor reducing abilities are nullified after removal, but the core of the spike still contains some thermal activity. Can be placed in a Sap Tap to increase production speed and quantity."
Getting spikes
Spikes come from a tamed 
Amargasaurus: open its radial menu and choose Retrieve Spike. The creature loses that spike and has to grow it back, which the ARK Wiki puts at around 10 seconds per spike. Pulling spikes therefore leaves it with fewer of them if a fight comes.
Boosting a sap tap
Placed in a 
Tree Sap Tap, a spike doubles both how fast sap is produced and how much the tap can hold, raising the cap to 60 
Sap. There is no dedicated slot for it: the spike goes into the tap's normal inventory, which has to be free of sap first. The spike spoils after 30 minutes (1800 seconds) and does not stack, so the wiki advises replacing it regularly.
Crafting use and weight
In both games the spike has one recipe use: the 
Amargasaurus Saddle takes 6 of them. Each spike weighs 0.05 and has a stack size of 1. The wiki lists version 341.19 as the one that added it.