Artifact of the Gatekeeper

One of the Scorched Earth trio

Survivors in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended collect the Artifact of the Gatekeeper and use it in tribute recipes that generate portals. The ARK Wiki groups it with the Artifact of the Crag and the Artifact of the Destroyer as the three artifacts that came with Scorched Earth.

Carrying the artifact

The in-game text sets a limit on holding it: "Only one of these may be carried at a time by an organism." Each artifact weighs 5 and has a stack size of 1.

Where each map keeps it

The wiki gives a spot for three maps. On Scorched Earth the artifact sits in the Old Tunnels, on Valguero it is in The Unknown, and on Crystal Isles it waits in the Central Oasis. Ragnarok has it as well, according to the same page. Our own records add Astraeos, and they count a single crate type that can contain it: the Scorched Artifact Gatekeeper crate. The artifact respawns on a timer: 30 minutes in singleplayer, and 3 minutes 15 seconds on servers.

Portals that call for it

Every recipe below takes 1 Artifact of the Gatekeeper. Our data counts 5 such recipes in ASA and 6 in ASE, and both games share these:

• Generate Scorched Earth Portal
• Generate Manticore (Gamma) Portal
• Generate Manticore (Beta) Portal
• Generate Manticore (Alpha) Portal

The ASA list also includes the Generate Grendel (Alpha) Portal. In ASE the artifact also goes into the Generate Crystal Wyvern Queen (Alpha) Portal and the Portal to the Guardian's Sanctuary (Alpha).