Coal
Have you been naughty?
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 1 crate
Video guides: search YouTube for Coal guides
How to get Coal
Coal is found in 1 loot crate.
Loot crates
1 crate
- Raptor Claus GiftThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
Coal — Detailed Guide
Coal and the winter events
Coal is a resource in ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved, and the ARK Wiki links it to the ARK: Winter Wonderland events: it goes into crafting various items those events brought. Its description is one question: "Have you been naughty?" According to the wiki, players find it in the gift-pack style supply crates that Raptor Claus drops; our records list one crate type that can contain it, the Raptor Claus Gift.
Its role in each event
The ARK Wiki traces how its use changed. In ARK: Winter Wonderland, and again in ARK: Winter Wonderland 2, a 
Cooking Pot summoned the 
DodoRex for 300 Coal. From Winter Wonderland 3 through Winter Wonderland 6, handing 1 Coal to 
GachaClaus gets a holiday item in return.
Crafting with Coal
Our records count 41 recipes that use Coal in ASA and 37 in ASE, among them emotes and skins. The 
Caroling Emote and 
Santa Emote take 5, while the ASA list shows the Holiday Kiss, 
Mistletoe and Snow Angel emotes at 10. The winter beanies in these lists cost 2 each and the Nutcracker Slingshot 10; in the ASE list, the 
Santa Costume Skin takes 30.
Weight, spoilage and transfers
In ASA a piece weighs 5, the same value the ARK Wiki gives, and a full stack of 200 weighs 1000; our ASE record lists a weight of 1. Coal spoils after 1814400 seconds, which is 504 hours or 21 days. The ARK Wiki adds that Coal could be transferred before ARK: Winter Wonderland 4, but now, like Mistletoe, it cannot be moved to other Arks.