Bear Trap
Immobilizes humans and small creatures.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 59 crates
- Item ID
- 379
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 28
- Engram points
- 9
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Bear Trap guides
How to craft Bear Trap
Bear Trap is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 28, costs 9 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 8 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
6MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×3.
How to get Bear Trap
Bear Trap is found in 59 loot crates.
Loot crates
59 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- 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
Show all 59 crates
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- 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
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Bear Trap — Detailed Guide
A trap for people and small creatures
The Bear Trap is a placeable trap in ARK: Survival Evolved. In the game's words, it "Immobilizes humans and small creatures." By the ARK Wiki's reading, small creatures include the 
Gallimimus, the 
Baryonyx and anything an 
Argentavis could carry.
How long it holds
Once something is caught, the trap's durability drains by one point every 8 seconds, and it lets go after 800 seconds, or 13.33 minutes. It can be repaired while a victim is still in its jaws. The wiki does not know whether that time applies to tamed creatures, wild ones or both. Humans can get caught too and cannot open it, so a trapped player has to sit out the full time. A Bear Trap holds considerably longer than a Large Bear Trap, and longer still on a tamed creature.
Which creatures it stops
The wiki's list of affected creatures includes, for example, the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Dodo, 
Pteranodon, 
Thylacoleo and 
Gigantopithecus, as well as the Alpha Raptor. Its list of creatures the trap does not affect includes the 
Allosaurus, 
Carnotaurus, 
Brontosaurus, 
Basilisk and 
Alpha T-Rex.
Placing and handling traps
- Anyone can pick up a placed trap. After it has sprung, only its owner or the tribe responsible can demolish it, depending on tribe settings; the wiki says this currently works on PVE servers.
- Owners can set off their own traps and cannot demolish one they are stuck in; the wiki suggests eating
Feces or 
Spoiled Meat to die and then recovering the corpse as a faster way out. - Placement follows a distance rule between traps, which the wiki gives as 3 foundations for small traps.
- Traps can go underwater, although swimming players do not seem to trigger them.
- One can be hidden in the top of a pillar.
Crafting the Bear Trap
The engram unlocks at level 28 for 9 engram points. Traps are made in a 
Smithy, and the wiki also lists the 
Argentavis Saddle as a crafting station. Each one takes 5 seconds, gives 8 XP and needs 6 
Hide, 5 
Fiber and 3 
Metal Ingot (
Scrap Metal Ingot also works). A trap weighs 2 and they stack to 10, so a full stack weighs 20. Our records count 59 crate types that can contain one, such as the Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan crates on Genesis Part 2, and list the trap on 12 maps.