Blue Gem
This strange Gem has unusual properties that makes it ideal for increasing the structural integrity of items, armor, and structures.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Loot crates
- 60 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Blue Gem guides
How to get Blue Gem
Blue Gem is found in 60 loot crates.
Loot crates
60 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- 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
- 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
- Quake Biolum 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Biolum 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Forest 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Forest 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
Blue Gem — Detailed Guide
A gem for sturdier gear and buildings
Blue Gem is a crafting resource that first came with Aberration and is found in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game description: "This strange Gem has unusual properties that makes it ideal for increasing the structural integrity of items, armor, and structures." Besides Aberration, the ARK Wiki lists it on Fjordur, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, Valguero, Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2.
Mining Blue Gems
A 
Stone Pick mines them from blue crystal formations in the Luminous Marshlands and in aberrant zones, for example The Emerald Forest on Valguero, Lost Ark Grotto on Lost Island and Beiygjaheimr on Fjordur. 
Roll Rat diggings can hold them as well, but picking up their debris makes the Roll Rat aggressive. Loot is another source: our records count 60 crate types that can contain Blue Gem, among them Aberration Purple, Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Purple.
What it goes into
The two games differ here. Our ASE records count 13 recipes, for example the Hazard Suit pieces (from 5 Blue Gem for the boots to 25 for the hat and the shirt), 
Element, the 
Pliers and the 
Tek Phase Pistol at 15 each, the 
Karkinos Saddle and the 
Mek Backpack at 80 each, and the 
Metal Cliff Platform at 200. Our ASA records count 2 recipes: the Mek Backpack with 80 and 
Element (Chunk) with 15. The wiki adds that making one of every item on its own list takes exactly 458 Blue Gems.
Weight and stacking
One gem weighs 0.5 and a stack holds 100, so a full stack weighs 50.