Black Coloring
This substance can be used to color certain items and structures.
Details
- Category
- Dye
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Dye (Crafted/Gathered)
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Black Coloring guides
How to craft Black Coloring
Black Coloring is crafted from 3 ingredients, and one craft makes 5. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 2 XP.
How to get Black Coloring
Black Coloring is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- 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
- 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
Show all 44 crates
- 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
Black Coloring — Detailed Guide
Black dye for gear and buildings
Black Coloring is a dye in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. In the game's words: "This substance can be used to color certain items and structures." Each unit is a single-use item.
Where the color goes
Armor, weapons and saddles can be colored region by region with it, the ARK Wiki explains. For structures and creatures, load it into a 
Paintbrush or 
Spray Painter first.
Cooking a batch
Dyes are cooked in a 
Cooking Pot or 
Industrial Cooker. One batch takes 10 seconds, gives 2 XP and produces 5 Black Coloring. The standard recipe:
- 15
Narcoberry - 2
Charcoal - 1
Water
The wiki notes that ASA uses a different mix: 6 Narcoberry, 6 
Stimberry and 1 Water.
Weight and loot
A unit weighs 0.1 and a stack holds 100, so a full stack weighs 10. Crates are a second source: 44 crate types can contain it, for example Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Purple on Genesis Part 2. We have it on 12 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Crystal Isles, Lost Island and Fjordur.