Boomerang
Your trusty ranged weapon.
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 52 crates
- Item ID
- 42
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 10
- Engram points
- 2
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 5 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Boomerang guides
How to craft Boomerang
Boomerang is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 10, costs 2 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1 XP.
How to get Boomerang
Boomerang is found in 52 loot crates.
Loot crates
52 crates
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
Show all 52 crates
- Mission 'Ruffle Some Feathers' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Alpha)' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Beta)' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Gamma)' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Cave BlueScorched Earth and Astraeos · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA / ASE
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
Boomerang — Detailed Guide
A throwing weapon for knockouts
Scorched Earth brought the Boomerang to ARK: Survival Evolved as a ranged weapon. Its in-game line is short: "Your trusty ranged weapon." You can swing it in melee or throw it, in a way similar to the 
Spear, but the ARK Wiki points out that its main job is to knock targets out: like the 
Wooden Club, it deals more torpor than damage, and the wiki rates it a great tool for early taming.
Unlocking and crafting
The engram unlocks at level 10 and costs 2 engram points. Each Boomerang takes:
- 15
Fiber - 5
Sand - 3
Wood or 
Fungal Wood
A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 1 XP. One weighs 0.2 and they stack to 10, so a full stack weighs 2.
No durability, but it can snap
The Boomerang has no durability at all, unlike most weapons, which means it can in theory be used without limit. The drawback, according to the wiki, is a slight chance that it breaks instantly when used, and that can be dangerous in the middle of a fight. The wiki advises keeping several in your inventory until you have a better weapon.
How it flies
- After hitting a target it flies straight back to you; after a miss it circles back counterclockwise.
- A second Boomerang cannot be thrown until the first one has returned.
- The thrown attack causes more torpor than a melee hit, so the wiki does not recommend it for close combat.
- Thrown at the ground during a tame, it bounces back to you quickly instead of taking its normal flight path.
- An unarmored player goes down in about 3 hits.
- It can also gather resources from trees and corpses.
Loot and maps
Our records count 52 loot crates that can contain a Boomerang, for example the Easy, Medium and Hard crates of the Genesis Part 2 missions 'Choose Your Own Adventure' and 'Code Red'. Besides Scorched Earth, the ARK Wiki lists it for Crystal Isles, Fjordur, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island, Ragnarok and Valguero. The wiki dates it to version 246.0.