Cannon Ball
A gigantic ball of heavy metal, capable of demolishing very strong structures.
Details
- Category
- Ammunition
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 36 crates
- Item ID
- 257
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 34
- Engram points
- 5
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Cannon Ball guides
How to craft Cannon Ball
Cannon Ball is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 34, costs 5 engram points, takes 1 seconds, gives 0.4 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
175Stone
160Metal
80Chitin/Keratin
30Flint
30CharcoalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×80, Gunpowder ×30, Sparkpowder ×30, Cementing Paste ×20.
How to get Cannon Ball
Cannon Ball is found in 36 loot crates.
Loot crates
36 crates
- 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
Show all 36 crates
- 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
Cannon Ball — Detailed Guide
Ammunition for the Cannon
The Cannon Ball is ammunition used with the 
Cannon in ARK: Survival Evolved. The ARK Wiki calls it a giant steel ball that does large damage from a distance, and the game itself says: "A gigantic ball of heavy metal, capable of demolishing very strong structures." The wiki adds that structures take more damage from the Cannon than from a 
Catapult Turret or a 
Ballista Turret.
Use in knockouts
Cannon Balls also feature in the wiki's notes on knocking creatures out. Against the 
Titanosaur and the 
Rock Elemental, head shots work best, while the 
Karkinos should be hit in the body. Every hit on a knockout point of one of these creatures deals 450 damage.
Crafting cannon balls
The engram unlocks at level 34 and costs 5 engram points. Each ball is made in a 
Smithy or an 
Argentavis Saddle, one per craft, in 1 second for 0.4 XP, from:
- 80
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 30
Gunpowder - 20
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 4
Obsidian
Weight and loot
A single ball weighs 20 and has a stack size of 1. Our records count 36 crate types that can contain it, such as the easy, medium and hard crates of the Bulbdog Fetch and Circuit Chase missions on Genesis Part 2, and list it on 9 maps.