Bola
Wind it up and throw!
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 27 crates
- Item ID
- 50
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 9
- Engram points
- 8
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Bola guides
How to craft Bola
Bola is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 9, costs 8 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1 XP.
How to get Bola
Bola is found in 27 loot crates.
Loot crates
27 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave BlueThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave GreenThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave YellowThe Island, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Show all 27 crates
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave YellowRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Cave BlueScorched Earth and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center Cave YellowThe Center · ASA
- Thrall SnarerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Bola — Detailed Guide
A thrown snare
The Bola is a throwing weapon in ARK: Survival Evolved with a short in-game description: "Wind it up and throw!" A hit roots the target in place for 25 seconds if it is a player and 30 seconds if it is a creature, though a trapped target can still fight back. Every bola is used up after a single throw.
Combat and taming
It immobilizes enemy survivors and small creatures, and the ARK Wiki rates it as good for taming as well as for combat, since many of the useful early-game creatures can be caught with it. The wiki suggests that a handful of bolas with a 
Wooden Club or two is often enough to tame 
Parasaurs and 
Raptors. The Chain Bola supersedes it.
Creatures it can and cannot hold
The wiki's list of affected creatures includes, for example, the 
Dodo, 
Dilophosaur, Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Terror Bird, 
Pteranodon, 
Equus, 
Megaloceros and 
Yeti, as well as humans. The 
Allosaurus, 
Argentavis, 
Brontosaurus, 
Carnotaurus, 
Giganotosaurus and Alpha Raptor are among the creatures it does not affect.
Crafting and carrying
The engram unlocks at level 9 for 8 engram points. Bolas are crafted in the inventory from 15 
Fiber, 10 
Thatch, 3 
Stone and 3 
Hide, each one in 5 seconds for 1 XP. A bola weighs 0.5 and 10 fit in a stack, so a full stack weighs 5. 27 crate types can contain them, such as Island Blue, Astraeos Blue, Astraeos Desert Blue and the 
Astral T-Rex crate. Our records list the Bola on 9 maps.