Boot Weights

Walking on the sea floor

Boot Weights are an armor attachment, filed as a skin, that our records list for ARK: Survival Ascended. The in-game text reads: "Rock weights that can be strapped onto boots to allow walking on the ocean floor." The ARK Wiki ties them to the Aquatica release, and the version that added them is 360.1.

On the bottom a survivor walks as if on land: once the weights sit on any pair of boots, they drag the wearer down whenever in water. In water they also make sinking slower and jumps a lot higher; the wiki likens this to the Lunar Biome of Genesis: Part 1 with its low gravity. Descending this way costs no stamina, unlike swimming downward.

Crafting the weights

The engram unlocks at level 3 and costs 3 engram points. They are crafted in the survivor's own inventory in 5 seconds from:

• 20 Fiber
• 5 Stone

The finished attachment weighs 10.

Other uses and limits

• Underwater teleporters: with weighted boots, no Hydrospheres or Vacuum Compartments are needed to use Tek Teleporters placed under water.
• Tek Armor: the wiki counts them as the third skin that works on Tek Armor, next to the Zip-Line Motor Attachment and the Federation Exo Armor Skins.
• On land: wearing them out of the water does not lower jump height.
• Low gravity: in areas such as the Lunar Biome they have no effect.