Beer Barrel

Brewing Beer in a barrel

In ARK: Survival Evolved, Beer is brewed in the Beer Barrel, a cooking structure that turns Thatch, Berries and water into it. Its in-game description: "Ferments tasty brew from Thatch, Water, and Berries." Our records list it on 12 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Genesis Part 2 and Fjordur.

How the brewing works

The barrel runs on water, supplied either from a water container or through pipes coming from an intake. Load it with 50 of any regular Berry plus 40 Thatch, and it produces 1 Beer Liquid every six hours, or every hour with singleplayer settings. To draw the beer off, insert a Water Jar: this takes one unit of Beer Liquid and gives a Beer Jar, which you can move to your inventory and drink like an ordinary water jar.

Water sources that work and those that do not

• A Waterskin or Canteen cannot serve as its water source.
• A Water Jar can serve through remote use, adding 200 water points out of 1000.
• Like a plant, it gets irrigated when it stands near a water tap, and a pipe can also feed it through the top or the bottom.
• It does not work with a Water Reservoir: when the water comes through pipes, those pipes must be fed by an irrigation intake.
• On Scorched Earth a Water Well cannot fuel it.

Crafting and placement

The engram unlocks at level 36 for 24 engram points. A barrel takes:

• 500 Wood (or Fungal Wood)
• 80 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 100 Cementing Paste (or Achatina Paste)

Crafting takes 10 seconds and gives 20 XP, and the wiki's infobox names the Argentavis Saddle as one place to make it. Each barrel weighs 4 and they stack to 3, so a full stack weighs 12. Once placed it is half a foundation wide, three quarters of a foundation deep and one wall tall, and it cannot go on platforms. The wiki classes it as a thatch structure: every source of damage can hurt it except ranged attacks that do not explode. Our records also count 56 loot crate types that can contain it, such as Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan.