Climbing Pick
Climb up and hang from nearly any surface with these!
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 36 crates
- Item ID
- 497
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 34
- Engram points
- 16
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 6 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Climbing Pick guides
How to craft Climbing Pick
Climbing Pick is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 34, costs 16 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
16MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×8.
How to get Climbing Pick
Climbing Pick is found in 36 loot crates.
Loot crates
36 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Dungeon BlueAberration · ASE
- Aberration Dungeon PurpleAberration · ASE
- Aberration Dungeon RedAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Dungeon YellowAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA / ASE
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- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA / ASE
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astral Rock DrakeThe 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
- 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
- MinotarchosAstraeos · ASA
- NamelessThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Quake Biolum 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Biolum 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Forest 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- SeekerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, 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
Climbing Pick — Detailed Guide
A tool for sheer walls
The Climbing Pick lets a survivor in ARK: Survival Evolved scale vertical walls and obstacles. It was introduced with Aberration, a map full of vertical terrain where it sees plenty of use, and it can also be found on Valguero, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island and Fjordur. The item text: "Climb up and hang from nearly any surface with these!"
How a climb works
Walk up to a cliff, rock or wall until a small green arc appears in front of you; if no arc shows, that surface cannot be climbed. The primary attack attaches you, and each further press moves you to the spot the arc marks, which can be in almost any direction. The colour of the arc matters:
- Green: shows where the next move will take you.
- Blue: the next move lets go of the surface, and you jump up or down to land safely at the target.
- Red: that move is not possible.
Pressing Spacebar drops you from the wall at once. While falling, the attack button grabs the surface again, but this costs the pick a lot of durability, so the wiki advises against doing it often. During an Earthquake, moving while a tremor hits knocks you off; climbing between tremors is still safe.
Durability and other uses
With 65 durability, the pick wears down with every climbing move, not only the first grab, so check its condition before a long climb. The secondary attack swings it as a weapon, also while hanging on a wall, and on the ground it harvests stone, metal and crystal. Near bases, keep in mind that climbing on player-built walls damages them, apart from Metal and Tek walls.
Crafting the Climbing Pick
The engram unlocks at level 34 for 16 engram points. A pick takes 5 seconds to craft and gives 1 XP, and the ARK Wiki lists the 
Argentavis Saddle among the places to make it. It needs:
- 10
Fiber - 8
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 4
Green Gem - 2
Fungal Wood
Fragmented Green Gem cannot be used in this recipe. The pick weighs 2 and does not stack. Loot can supply one too: 36 crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Blue and the Aberration Dungeon crates.