Delivery Crate

Sending supplies by balloon

The Delivery Crate is a box with a Gasbag balloon fixed to it, used in ARK: Survival Evolved to fly items to a spot you choose. In the game's words: "A box with a Gasbag attached that can be used to deliver items to another location." The ARK Wiki describes it as a way to float supplies back to your base through the air, handy before you have tamed a Gasbags.

Setting a destination

• Open the map and set a marker where the crate should go (the default key is P while the map is open).
• Place the Delivery Crate and hold E to bring up its menu.
• Open Locations and pick your marker.

Once it is on its way, the crate shows on your map. It breaks apart when it lands, and the items inside fall into an Item Cache that runs on the server's spoil timer.

Limits and risks

• A delivery can carry up to 5000 in weight.
• Each player can have only one balloon in the air at once.
• An underground destination does not work: the crate comes down above ground at the marked spot.
• Other players may shoot the balloon down and help themselves to what is inside.
• Touching a tek forcefield, your own included, makes it crash.
• You can follow it with a grappling hook; give the rope some slack, because landing on the balloon by mistake brings it down.
• Unlike the APS Mailbox, it flies to the coordinates marked on the map, and the wiki suggests putting a Note inside before sending as a way to pass on messages.

Engram and recipe

The engram unlocks at level 16 for 6 engram points. One crate costs:

• 25 Wood or Fungal Wood
• 20 Thatch
• 10 Fiber
• 1 Gasbags bladder

Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 3.7 XP. A crate weighs 4, and with a stack size of 100 a full stack weighs 400. Loot is another source: 37 crate types can contain one, for example the Easy, Medium and Hard crates of the Genesis Part 2 missions 'Choose Your Own Adventure' and 'Code Red'. The crate first came with Extinction, and our records also place it on Fjordur, Lost Island and Genesis Part 2. The wiki dates it to version 285.104.