Compass
Use this to find which direction you are travelling.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 16 crates
- Item ID
- 136
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 8
- Engram points
- 5
Video guides: search YouTube for Compass guides
How to craft Compass
Compass is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 8, costs 5 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1.9 XP.
How to get Compass
Compass is found in 16 loot crates.
Loot crates
16 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration GreenAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Green BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Fjordur BlueFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Blue BonusFjordur · ASE
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- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
Compass — Detailed Guide
Telling which way you are heading
The Compass is a navigation tool in ARK: Survival Evolved, and our records also list it for ARK: Survival Ascended. As its in-game text says, it shows the direction you are traveling. The blue arrow on it always points north. The ARK Wiki adds that the map still matters if you want to avoid getting lost, and it names the 
GPS as the tool that supersedes the Compass.
Recipe and engram
In ASE the engram unlocks at level 8 for 5 engram points. A Compass takes 5 
Metal, 5 
Flint and 30 
Fiber. It can be crafted in the inventory or at a 
Smithy, and the wiki also lists the 
Tek Replicator, 
Thorny Dragon Saddle, 
Argentavis Saddle and 
Castoroides Saddle. Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 1.9 XP. It weighs 0.5, and the stack size is 1.
The Compass in ASA
Players looking for the Compass in ASA should know that the ARK Wiki says it cannot be obtained there through normal methods.
Still worth carrying?
Since patch 278, the player icon on the map is an arrow that shows which way you face, as long as the Show Player Map Location setting is enabled; the wiki calls the Compass practically redundant with that setting on. Our records also list 16 crate types that can contain a Compass, among them the Aberration Blue and Aberration Green crates on Aberration, Valguero and Crystal Isles.