Chemistry Bench
Place materials in this to transmute chemical substances with extreme efficiency!
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 6 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 56 crates
- Item ID
- 411
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 82
- Engram points
- 65
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Chemistry Bench guides
How to craft Chemistry Bench
Chemistry Bench is crafted from 6 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 82, costs 65 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 33 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
6,050Stone
3,000Chitin/Keratin
1,000Metal
750Silica Pearls
500Obsidian
100FlintCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×750, Metal Ingot ×500, Polymer ×250, Electronics ×250, Sparkpowder ×100.
How to get Chemistry Bench
Chemistry Bench is found in 56 loot crates.
Loot crates
56 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 56 crates
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · 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
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · 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
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
Chemistry Bench — Detailed Guide
Bulk crafting at the Chemistry Bench
The Chemistry Bench is a crafting station in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that takes over the work of the 
Mortar and Pestle on a larger scale. The game describes it with "Place materials in this to transmute chemical substances with extreme efficiency!"
How it compares with the Mortar and Pestle
According to the ARK Wiki, it makes the refined Mortar and Pestle recipes in bulk at 2/3 of the usual cost. A single use takes 4 times the materials and returns 6 times the product, and the craft runs 4 times faster; the wiki puts the result at 12 times the output rate of the Mortar and Pestle. Its 
Gunpowder example: a Mortar and Pestle needs 100 
Charcoal, 100 
Sparkpowder and 1 minute 40 seconds to produce 100 Gunpowder, while the bench turns 100 Charcoal and 100 Sparkpowder into 150 Gunpowder in 12.5 seconds.
To run at all, it needs a connection to a powered grid and a supply of 
Gasoline.
Engram, prerequisites and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 82 for 65 engram points, and crafting it also requires level 82. Its listed prerequisites are the 
Beer Barrel, the Fabricator and the Mortar and Pestle. The bench itself is built in a Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator, taking 5 seconds and giving 33 XP. Ingredients, with the alternatives the wiki accepts:
- 250
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 250
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 250
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 250
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 250
Electronics - 100 Sparkpowder
Weight, loot and damage
It weighs 4 and does not stack. Our records list 56 loot crates that can contain it, such as Aberration Red, Aberration Red Bonus, Aberration Surface Red and Aberration Surface Yellow, and place it on 9 maps. The wiki treats it as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks cannot damage it. Its list of aggressive creatures that cannot harm it either includes the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth and 
Titanoboa.