Cactus Sap
Cut of cactus that giving sap and when it is consumed hydrates your body
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Loot crates
- 50 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Cactus Sap guides
How to get Cactus Sap
Cactus Sap is found in 50 loot crates.
Loot crates
50 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- 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
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 50 crates
- 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
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Cactus Sap — Detailed Guide
Food and water from cacti
Cactus Sap is a resource harvested from cacti in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its tooltip promises that eating it will hydrate you, and it is also an ingredient in three recipes. The item was introduced in Scorched Earth, and the ARK Wiki also places it on Crystal Isles, Fjordur, Lost Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Extinction and both parts of Genesis.
Harvesting the sap
Sap comes from the cacti that grow around a map. Smaller cacti give it to bare hands, though a 
Whip gathers more efficiently. Larger cacti need a tool, for example a Pick or Hatchet, and the ARK Wiki rates the 
Chainsaw as the most efficient tool for them. On Extinction the cacti grow in the Desert Dome, and Genesis: Part 1 has frozen cacti in its Arctic Biome that also give sap.
Hunger, thirst and the two games
One ARK Wiki note says the tooltip does not match what happens: eating the sap currently only sates hunger on the Scorched Earth map, and harvesting is what gives water. Another note separates the games. In ASE the sap itself gave no hydration, which came from harvesting the cactus instead; in ASA the sap provides hydration on its own.
Recipes, weight and spoilage
In both games the sap goes into these three items:
Cactus Broth, which takes 30 Cactus Sap- Clay, which takes 1
Propellant, which takes 1
A piece weighs 0.1 and a stack holds 100, for a full stack weight of 10. It spoils after 10 minutes (600 seconds). Our records count 50 loot crate types that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan crates of Genesis Part 2.