Bison Saddle
Equip a Bison with this to ride it.
Details
- Category
- Saddle
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 4 crates
Saddle & engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 50
- Engram points
- 22
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Related
Video guides: search YouTube for Bison Saddle guides
How to craft Bison Saddle
Bison Saddle is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 50, costs 22 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 25 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
600Stone
300Chitin/Keratin
100MetalCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×75, Metal Ingot ×50.
How to get Bison Saddle
Bison Saddle is dropped by 1 creature; found in 4 loot crates.
Dropped by
Loot crates
4 crates
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave YellowRagnarok · ASA
Bison Saddle — Detailed Guide
Riding a tamed Bison
With the Bison Saddle on, a tamed 
Bison can be ridden in ARK: Survival Ascended. The in-game text keeps it short: "Equip a Bison with this to ride it."
Engram and materials
The engram unlocks at level 50 and costs 22 engram points; crafting also requires level 50. The saddle is made in a 
Smithy from:
- 275
Hide - 150
Fiber - 75
Cementing Paste - 50
Metal Ingot
A craft takes 10 seconds, yields one saddle and gives 25 XP.
Armor and weight
The saddle has an armor rating of 25. It weighs 20 and has a stack size of 1.
Finding a saddle instead of crafting it
Our records list the Bison itself as a creature that can drop the saddle, and 4 crate types that can contain it: Astraeos Orbital Legendary on Astraeos, the Dragon Hoard (recorded for Scorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok and Valguero), and Ragnarok Cave Red and Ragnarok Cave Yellow on Ragnarok. The saddle is recorded on 9 maps, among them The Island, Aberration and Lost Colony.