Cruise Missile

A guided Tek missile

The Cruise Missile is a single-use Tek weapon in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki dates it to Genesis: Part 1 and lists it on Genesis: Part 2 too. Its description: "A powerful Tek missile that can be controlled remotely or fired and forgotten. Equipping this requires learning its Tekgram."

Flying the missile

After launch the missile can be steered onto a target. Activating it a second time lets it go: from then on it keeps flying the way it points until it strikes something. The wiki warns about one edge case. Flying it above the sky limit kills the player, who then respawns right where they died with the missile view still on screen.

Crafting cost

Each missile takes 15 seconds to craft and awards 243 XP; the ARK Wiki names the Exo-Mek as a place to craft it. The recipe:

• 212 Polymer (Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule also work)
• 256 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 160 Crystal (or Primal Crystal)
• 14 Element (or Red Element)
• 26 Black Pearl
• 128 Electronics

Weight and loot

A missile weighs 20 and does not stack. Our records count 13 crate types that can contain it, including the Genesis Blue crate and hard mission crates on Genesis Part 2 such as Bulbdog Fetch, Circuit Chase and Ferox Cull.