Catapult Turret
Mount this to throw destructive Boulders at your enemies, particularly effective against Structures.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 200
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 31
- Engram points
- 25
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Catapult Turret guides
How to craft Catapult Turret
Catapult Turret is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 31, costs 25 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 209 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
600MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×300.
How to get Catapult Turret
Catapult Turret is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 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
- 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
Show all 44 crates
- 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
Catapult Turret — Detailed Guide
A siege engine aimed at buildings
The Catapult Turret, often just called the Catapult, is an emplacement in ARK: Survival Evolved that a survivor mounts to hurl 
Boulders. The game puts it directly: "Mount this to throw destructive Boulders at your enemies, particularly effective against Structures." Next to the 
Ballista Turret it leans toward attacking bases. The ARK Wiki explains that its shots travel in an arc, so they can clear tall walls and hit whatever stands behind them, while it is weaker than the Ballista Turret when firing straight at a target. Besides Boulders it can also throw Jars of Pitch.
Unlocking and building one
The engram unlocks at level 31 for 25 engram points, and our records list the Ballista Turret as its prerequisite. The Catapult is crafted in a 
Smithy from:
- 400
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 390
Stone - 300
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 100
Thatch - 100
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Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 209 XP. The materials add up to a huge weight, yet the finished turret weighs just 4, and its stack size is 1.
Ammunition and taming
Boulders are crafted inside the turret itself and nowhere else, according to the wiki. The wiki also notes that the Catapult is used to knock out certain creatures for taming, and it names the 
Karkinos among them.
What can damage it
The turret counts as a stone structure. Metal weapons deal 5% damage to it and explosives 150%, a 
Cannon around 137% and a Ballista Turret 40%. Alpha creatures and bosses deal 10%, while the 
Titanosaur reaches about 462%. Creatures such as the 
Deathworm, the 
Magmasaur and the 
Roll Rat can damage it as well.
Maps and loot
Our records list the Catapult on 12 maps, The Island, Ragnarok and Fjordur among them. 44 crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue and Genesis Red crates on Genesis Part 2.