Artifact of the Strong

An artifact of raw strength

Survivors in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended collect the Artifact of the Strong from caves and spend it on tributes. Its in-game text: "Such power may be crucial when survival becomes a question of raw physical capability." The description also limits it to one per organism at any time. It weighs 5 and does not stack.

Portals that use it

Each recipe that calls for it takes 1, and all of them are tributes. Our ASA records count 14:

• Generate Dragon Portal plus its Gamma, Beta and Alpha versions
• Abyssalus Easy Tribute, Abyssalus Medium Tribute and Abyssalus Hard Tribute
• the Gamma, Beta and Alpha portals for Nunatak and for Hydraskos the Unbroken
• Generate Grendel (Beta) Portal

In ASE the total is 10: the same Dragon portals, the Ragnarok portals at Easy, Medium and Hard, Generate Dinopithecus King (Beta) Portal, Generate Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta) Portal and Portal to the Guardian's Sanctuary (Beta). According to the ARK Wiki, the Dragon tribute uses it on every difficulty.

Locations and respawns

Our records list 5 maps for it: The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero and Astraeos. The one loot entry we hold, Island Artifact Strong, names The Island, The Center, Ragnarok and Valguero. Do not count on finding it on every visit: the ARK Wiki points out that artifacts are not always present, and in single player above all they wait out a cooldown before returning.