Bug Repellant
This gnarly paste makes you nearly invisible to bugs, bats, and spiders. Just don't attack them or get too close, and they'll ignore you! Effect lasts 10 minutes.
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 69 crates
- Item ID
- 85
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 16
- Engram points
- 12
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Bug Repellant guides
How to craft Bug Repellant
Bug Repellant is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 16, costs 12 engram points, takes 8 seconds, gives 1 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
10Narcoberry
2Spoiled MeatCrafted along the way: Narcotic ×2.
How to get Bug Repellant
Bug Repellant is found in 69 loot crates.
Loot crates
69 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 69 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
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- 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
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Bug Repellant — Detailed Guide
A paste that calms insects and cave creatures
Bug Repellant, a consumable paste in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, changes how a range of insects and other creatures treat you. The in-game description: "This gnarly paste makes you nearly invisible to bugs, bats, and spiders. Just don't attack them or get too close, and they'll ignore you! Effect lasts 10 minutes." While the effect runs, a translucent pale green haze surrounds you and your tames.
Effect by creature
The ARK Wiki breaks the effect down by species:
- Ignore you unless you attack first:
Titanomyrma, 
Meganeura and 
Leeches. - Passive until touched:
Araneo, 
Arthropluera, 
Onyc, 
Mantis and 
Manta behave like a 
Gigantopithecus, which lets you tame them without fighting. - Shorter detection range: a
Hyaenodon notices anyone under the effect only from a smaller distance. - Still curious:
Pulmonoscorpius keep their curious behaviour and still sense you, though they may hold back the first few times they are touched.
The wiki calls it useful on trips into caves with your tames, and on coastal or ocean trips, where it helps you avoid Manta swarms.
Crafting Bug Repellant
You unlock the engram at level 16 for 12 engram points. The paste is mixed in a 
Mortar and Pestle or a 
Chemistry Bench; a craft takes 8 seconds and gives 1 XP. Ingredients:
- 6
Pelt, Hair, or Wool - 4
Citronal - 4
Rockarrot - 2
Narcotic
Spoilage, weight and loot
Unlike most items from those two stations, this paste spoils, with a spoil time of 5 hours, and the ARK Wiki notes that a stored supply may need preserving. Each unit weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 10. Loot is another source: 69 crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration Blue and Aberration Purple crates. Our records list it on 9 maps, among them The Island, Aberration and Astraeos.
Favourite food of the Pachyrhinosaurus
For the 
Pachyrhinosaurus, Bug Repellant is the favourite taming food, and each one fills 25 food units.