C4 Remote Detonator
This device uses radio waves to detonate all primed C4 packages on the same frequency.
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 91 crates
- Item ID
- 42
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 65
- Engram points
- 24
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 14 maps
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How to craft C4 Remote Detonator
C4 Remote Detonator is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 65, costs 24 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 53 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
440Stone
220Chitin/Keratin
150Silica Pearls
120Metal
40ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×60, Cementing Paste ×55, Electronics ×50, Polymer ×20.
How to get C4 Remote Detonator
C4 Remote Detonator is found in 91 loot crates.
Loot crates
91 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral MegalodonThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MosasaurThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral TusoteuthisThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Extinction Cave BlueExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave RedExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave YellowExtinction · ASA
- Fjordur RedFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Red BonusFjordur · ASE
- 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 Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island Underwater BlueThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater RedThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater YellowThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- King Titan EasyExtinction · ASA
- King Titan HardExtinction · ASA
- King Titan MediumExtinction · ASA
- Lost Island RedLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Red BonusLost Island · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried PurpleThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried RedThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried YellowThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
- Wild BroodmotherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
C4 Remote Detonator — Detailed Guide
Placing and setting off C4
Every 
C4 Charge is placed and set off with the C4 Remote Detonator, a handheld device in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its description: "This device uses radio waves to detonate all primed C4 packages on the same frequency." Holding it, the left mouse button sticks a charge in place and the right mouse button sets off the charges. It is not a single-use item.
A tactic from the wiki
The ARK Wiki describes using it against creatures: if a wild or tamed creature is on neutral, you can plant C4 all around it, then run and blow every charge at once.
Unlock and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 65 for 24 engram points, after the 
Electronics engram, and the detonator is made in a Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator from:
- 20
Polymer (or 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule) - 50 Electronics
- 10
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 10
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 15
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste)
Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 53 experience.
Durability, weight and loot
A detonator has 40 durability and weighs 0.5, and only one fits per slot. Loot is another source: 91 crate types can contain it, such as the Aberration Purple and Red crates and the Aberration Surface Purple crates, and our data lists it on 14 maps.