Cloning Chamber

Duplicating tamed creatures

The Cloning Chamber is a Tek structure in ARK: Survival Evolved that makes copies of your creatures. The ARK Wiki calls it an end-game tool, and its description reads: "Enables you to generate clones of your creatures!" A Tek Generator has to power it, and every clone is paid for in Element Shards.

Getting the Tekgram and building it

Killing any one of the Rockwell (Alpha), the Crystal Wyvern Queen (Alpha), the Manticore (Alpha) or the Dragon (Alpha) unlocks the Tekgram. The recipe:

• 5500 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 800 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 550 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 200 Black Pearl
• 100 Element or Red Element

The wiki infobox names the Exo-Mek as a place to craft it. The chamber weighs 4 and stacks to 1, and our records list it on 12 maps.

How a clone is made

Place the creature on the platform and choose one of the Clone options, which shows how many Element Shards that creature needs. Put the shards into the chamber's inventory and start with the same option; after that the process runs on its own. Cost and duration both depend on the creature type and its level: a clone takes roughly 40 minutes at the least and up to about 4 days. The inventory takes at most 48000 Element Shards, enough for creatures up to level 450, though the wiki notes that some lower-level creatures still cost more than that limit and cannot be cloned.

What carries over, and what cannot be cloned

• Imprinting drops to 0%, but the clone stays imprinted on the same player.
• A spayed or neutered original gives a spayed or neutered clone.
• If the original was mutated by Mutagen, the clone is too, though the wiki warns that bred clones still do not pass the mutated stat on to their young.

Most creatures can be cloned, the Phoenix among them. The exceptions include Corrupted Creatures, the Noglin, the Forest Wyvern, Fenrir (a unique creature from defeating Fenrisúlfr), the Tek Stryder, and the Titanosaur and the Desert, Forest and Ice Titans, which are too large for the chamber.

Keep the Tek Generator running: if it shuts off, the clone is cancelled, the shards spent are lost and the creature shown on the platform is removed from the game.