Cursed Compound Bow
A high-tech bow made of durable alloy, can launch arrows at high velocity. Requires arrows to fire.
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Lost Colony
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 13 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Halloween Event Drop (Lost Colony)
Maps
Found on 1 map
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How to craft Cursed Compound Bow
Cursed Compound Bow is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 5 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
2,120Stone
1,060Chitin/Keratin
190Obsidian
170MetalCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×265, Polymer ×95, Metal Ingot ×85.
How to get Cursed Compound Bow
Cursed Compound Bow is found in 13 loot crates.
Loot crates
13 crates
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense HardLost Colony · ASA
Show all 13 crates
- Outpost: Outpost Defense MediumLost Colony · ASA
Cursed Compound Bow — Detailed Guide
A Halloween bow on Lost Colony
The Cursed Compound Bow is a weapon in ARK: Survival Ascended that belongs to the Lost Colony DLC. In our records it appears on the Lost Colony map, and its unlock is listed as a Halloween event drop there. The game describes it like this: "A high-tech bow made of durable alloy, can launch arrows at high velocity. Requires arrows to fire."
What goes into one bow
The recipe calls for:
- 95
Polymer - 85
Metal Ingot - 75
Cementing Paste - 10
Red Element
Each craft yields one bow after 10 seconds and gives 5 XP. The finished bow weighs 12 and has a stack size of 1.
Crates that can contain it
Loot is another source: our records count 13 crate types that can contain the bow. Examples are the 
Neophyte crate, listed on The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration and several other maps besides Lost Colony, and a set of Lost Colony outpost crates: Outpost: Breeding Pits Easy, Medium and Hard, and Outpost: Lost Resource Cache Easy and Hard.