Cementing Paste
This thick, waterproof paste could be used as mortar, or to thicken another substance.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 95 crates
- Item ID
- 144
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 13
- Engram points
- 3
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Cementing Paste guides
How to craft Cementing Paste
Cementing Paste is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 13, costs 3 engram points, takes 1 seconds, gives 1.2 XP.
How to get Cementing Paste
Cementing Paste is gathered best by Beelzebufo, Castoroides; found in 95 loot crates.
Best gatherers
Beelzebufo
CastoroidesLoot crates
95 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Beaver DamAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
Show all 95 crates
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital MediumAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Beaver DamThe Island, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Beaver DenRagnarok · ASE
- Big Beaver DamFjordur · ASE
- Extinction Orbital HardExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital LegendaryExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital MediumExtinction · ASA
- Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / 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
- Giant Beaver DenRagnarok · ASA
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Large Beaver DamRagnarok · ASA / 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
- 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
- Orbital Drop HardExtinction · ASE
- Orbital Drop LegendaryExtinction · ASE
- Orbital Drop MediumExtinction · ASE
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Small Beaver DamFjordur · ASE
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA
Cementing Paste — Detailed Guide
A binder found in a huge number of recipes
Cementing Paste is a thick, light paste that ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended use as an ingredient in a long list of mid- and high-level items. Our data counts 190 recipes in ASA and 189 in ASE that call for it, from ammunition and saddles to 
Polymer, so a steady supply pays off for any tribe.
Crafting it
The engram unlocks at level 13 for 3 engram points. Paste is made in a 
Mortar and Pestle or a 
Chemistry Bench from:
- 4
Chitin, Keratin or 
Shell Fragment - 8
Stone
One craft takes 1 second and gives 1.2 experience.
Creature sources
Beelzebufo: it eats insects, for example the 
Meganeura and the 
Titanomyrma, and turns them into paste.
Castoroides: listed in our data as a creature that gathers it.
Giant Beaver Dam: a dam holds a large amount, but looting it makes the beavers attack.
Achatina: a tamed one slowly makes 
Achatina Paste, which substitutes for cementing paste. It produces 1 per minute until it holds 100, and wild ones now and then leave paste on the ground.
Where the paste ends up
A few examples from our ASE records: the 
Castoroides Saddle takes 140 and the 
Dunkleosteus Saddle 120, a 
Cannon Shell needs 40 and a 
C4 Charge 5, and the paste also goes into Polymer (2), Fresh Cement (7) and 
Night Vision Goggles (12). On the ASA side, examples include 
BattleRig parts such as the Harvest Saw front-end mod (160) and the 
Car Engine WC (120).
Weight and loot
Each paste weighs 0.01 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs just 1. Loot is another source: 95 crate types can contain it, including the Aberration Blue, Aberration Green and Aberration Surface Blue crates. The ARK Wiki also recalls that the paste was once a popular trading currency between tribes, because it was tedious to make and needed for so many high-level items.