Clay
Created by grinding Sand with Cactus Sap in a Mortar and Pestle.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 52 crates
- Item ID
- 27
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 5
- Engram points
- 3
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Clay guides
How to craft Clay
Clay is crafted from 2 ingredients, and one craft makes 2. The engram unlocks at level 5, costs 3 engram points, takes 1 seconds, gives 0.06 XP.
Handmill (Primitive Plus)How to get Clay
Clay is found in 52 loot crates.
Loot crates
52 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · 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
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- 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
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Clay — Detailed Guide
Clay from sand and sap
Clay is a resource that arrived with Scorched Earth and is used in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, for example in adobe building pieces. The in-game text explains where it comes from: "Created by grinding Sand with Cactus Sap in a Mortar and Pestle."
Crafting Clay
The engram unlocks at level 5 for 3 engram points. One craft turns 2 
Sand and 1 
Cactus Sap into 2 Clay in 1 second, for 0.06 XP. The ARK Wiki lets 
Blood Sap stand in for Cactus Sap and names the 
Mortar and Pestle, the 
Chemistry Bench and the 
Equus Saddle as places to make it.
Other ways to get it
- Ragnarok: piles of Clay can be harvested in some areas near water.
- Crystal Isles: Anthills give Clay when harvested.
- Extinction: a
Gacha can produce it through 
Gacha Crystals. - Genesis: on Genesis: Part 2 and Genesis: Part 1, the Hexagon Exchange sells it for 45
Hexagons. - Loot: the wiki names White Supply Crates, and our records count 52 crate types that can contain it, such as Astraeos Desert Blue and Genesis Blue.
What Clay goes into
In ASA our records count 23 recipes, all of them adobe structures; for example the 
Adobe Foundation takes 80 Clay, the Adobe Large Wall 160, the 
Adobe Staircase 200 and the 
Behemoth Adobe Dinosaur Gateway 900. ASE has 37, and next to the adobe pieces they include 
Jar of Pitch (60 Clay), Brick (1) and the 
Thorny Dragon Saddle (85).
Weight and taming
Clay weighs 0.05 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 5. The wiki adds one more use: Clay can tame 
Rock Elementals.