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Artifact of the Cunning
ArtifactASE + ASA

Artifact of the Cunning

With craft and strategy, to outwit one's opponents may be essential to survival. Only one of these may be carried at a time by an organism.

Weight5
Stack1

Details

Category
Artifact
Games
ASE + ASA
Expansion
Base
Loot crates
1 crate

Engram

How you unlock it

Required level
None
Engram points
0
How to unlock
Artifact (Cave Drop)

Maps

Found on 5 maps

The IslandThe CenterAstraeosRagnarokValguero

Video guides: search YouTube for Artifact of the Cunning guides

How to get Artifact of the Cunning

Artifact of the Cunning is found in 1 loot crate.

Loot crates

1 crate

  • Island Artifact CunningThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE

Artifact of the Cunning — Detailed Guide

An artifact for portal tributes

The Artifact of the Cunning is one of the artifacts of ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, a cave find that goes into tribute recipes. The ARK Wiki notes its use in the Dragon tribute at every difficulty. Its description: "With craft and strategy, to outwit one's opponents may be essential to survival. Only one of these may be carried at a time by an organism."

Where to look

Our records list it on 5 maps: The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero and Astraeos, with a single loot entry, Island Artifact Cunning. The wiki's Explorer Maps mark artifact spots on interactive maps. Artifacts are not always there to pick up, the wiki warns: especially in single player, they need a cooldown before they respawn. The artifact weighs 5 and does not stack.

Tributes that need it

Every recipe below takes exactly one artifact. In ASA it goes into 14 tributes:

  • all four Dragon portals: the plain one plus Gamma, Beta and Alpha
  • the Nunatak portals for Gamma, Beta and Alpha
  • the Hydraskos the Unbroken portals for Gamma, Beta and Alpha
  • the Easy, Medium and Hard Abyssalus tributes
  • the Grendel (Beta) portal

ASE has 10 recipes with it: the same four Dragon portals, the Easy, Medium and Hard Ragnarok portals, the Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta) portal, the Dinopithecus King (Gamma) portal and the Portal to the Guardian's Sanctuary (Beta).

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