Chainsaw
The fastest way to cut a tree.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 66 crates
- Item ID
- 283
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 55
- Engram points
- 21
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Chainsaw guides
How to craft Chainsaw
Chainsaw is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 55, costs 21 engram points, takes 15 seconds, gives 30 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
1,600Stone
800Chitin/Keratin
150Obsidian
150Metal
75Silica PearlsCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×200, Polymer ×75, Metal Ingot ×75, Electronics ×25.
How to get Chainsaw
Chainsaw is found in 66 loot crates.
Loot crates
66 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- BeylaThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- ErymanthianAstraeos · ASA
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- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- HatiThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- KalydoniosAstraeos · ASA
- ManticoreScorched Earth and Astraeos · ASA
- MinotarchosAstraeos · ASA
- 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
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works 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 Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Desert CrateScorched Earth · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, 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 / ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- SköllThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- SteinbjörnThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
Chainsaw — Detailed Guide
A gasoline tool for fast harvesting
Introduced with the Scorched Earth expansion, the Chainsaw is a Gasoline-powered tool found in both ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved. Its in-game line keeps it brief: "The fastest way to cut a tree." The ARK Wiki counts it among the best ways to harvest Wood, Hide and Chitin or Keratin in large amounts.
It also works well on slain Tek creatures, 
Enforcers and 
Defense Units, yielding 
Electronics, 
Element Dust, Oil and 
Scrap Metal. Its fast hit rate lets it double as a good melee weapon, and Melee Damage affects its DPS.
Engram and recipe
Unlocking the engram takes level 55 and 21 engram points. The wiki names the 
Fabricator and the 
Tek Replicator as places to craft it. A craft takes 15 seconds, gives 30 XP and needs:
- 75
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule - 50
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 50
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 25 Electronics
Durability, weight and repairs
The Chainsaw has 80 durability. Our records give it a weight of 20 in ASA and 1 in ASE. Repairing a higher quality chainsaw gets expensive; the wiki suggests Organic Polymer to soften the Polymer cost, while reminding you to harvest enough before the saw breaks. It also destroys Stone Structures more efficiently than other metal tools.
Underwater limits and loot
The saw cannot be used underwater, except on Aquatica. For that reason the wiki calls 
Eurypterids hard to farm where they spawn at the bottom of the ocean. On Genesis: Part 2 they spawn in shallower water and can move onto land, where harvesting them works. Loot is another way to get one: 66 crate types can contain it, for example the Astraeos Desert Blue, Purple and Red crates.