Bunk Bed

A respawn point with half the cooldown

The Bunk Bed gives a player and their tribe a place to respawn and to fast-travel from in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. It is the upgraded form of the Simple Bed, and its in-game text reads: "This modern bunk-style bed has two mattresses, and a high thread count. Acts as a respawn point for you and your tribe with half cooldown time."

Respawning, travel and resting

• Respawn: after dying, you can choose any bed you own on the respawn map rather than a random spawn. Beds are not used up, any tribe member can use them again and again, and compared with the Simple Bed the respawn cooldown is cut in half.
• Fast travel: from the bed you can jump to any other bed you have access to, and sleeping bags work with beds both ways. Everything you carry drops at the bed you leave from, so store your items first.
• Lying down: two players can lie on it at once. Logging out while lying there leaves you in a sleeping pose on the bed, even if it moves on a platform, and you can still be hurt or killed.
• Hardcore: that mode has no respawns, so beds serve only for fast travel there.

Crafting the Bunk Bed

The engram unlocks at level 54 for 28 engram points, with the Simple Bed as its prerequisite. It is crafted in a Fabricator or a Tek Replicator from:

• 320 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 280 Fiber
• 200 Pelt, Hair, or Wool
• 120 Hide
• 80 Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule

Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 50.8 XP. The ARK Wiki finds the cost steep for a bed that is not used often, and suggests it for platform saddles, since other beds might be destroyed easily there.

Placement, weight and toughness

Bunk Beds go on foundations and ceilings, and renaming them from the radial menu helps tell several beds apart when picking a respawn or travel point. One weighs 4 and they stack to 3, for a full-stack weight of 12. The bed counts as a stone structure, which only some attacks can damage: explosives, metal weapons, the Tek Sword and the cannon among them, plus creatures such as the Deathworm, Magmasaur and Roll Rat. Our records list it on 14 maps and count 63 crate types that can contain it, for example Aberration Blue and Aberration Purple.