Bookshelf
A large bookshelf to store blueprints, notes, and other small trinkets in.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 305
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 19
- Engram points
- 15
Video guides: search YouTube for Bookshelf guides
How to craft Bookshelf
Bookshelf is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 19, costs 15 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 7.25 XP.
How to get Bookshelf
Bookshelf 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
Bookshelf — Detailed Guide
A shelf for blueprints and notes
In ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, the Bookshelf is a container that only accepts certain items. The game describes it as "A large bookshelf to store blueprints, notes, and other small trinkets in." Its 100 inventory slots take only these, according to the ARK Wiki:
Notes- Blueprints
Specimen Implants- Recipes
Placement and durability
The shelf needs no foundation and can be set down anywhere on the ground. It has 2000 hit points and counts as a thatch structure, open to damage from anything except ranged attacks that do not explode.
Crafting a Bookshelf
The engram unlocks at level 19 for 15 engram points. A Bookshelf is crafted in the inventory in 5 seconds for 7.2 XP and costs 100 
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood), 45 
Thatch and 35 
Fiber.
Weight and crates
A shelf weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records show 44 crate types that can contain one, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Orange and Genesis Purple crates of Genesis Part 2. The wiki dates the Bookshelf to patch 177.0.