Dino Leash
Electronic leash to keep your dinos from wandering too far.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Extinction
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 85 crates
- Item ID
- 527
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 22
- Engram points
- 6
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Dino Leash guides
How to craft Dino Leash
Dino Leash is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 22, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 8 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
80Stone
42Metal
40Chitin/Keratin
10Obsidian
3Silica PearlsCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×21, Cementing Paste ×10, Polymer ×5, Electronics ×1.
How to get Dino Leash
Dino Leash is found in 85 loot crates.
Loot crates
85 crates
- Astraeos Orbital EasyAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital EasyExtinction · ASA
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ruffle Some Feathers' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Alpha)' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Beta)' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Gamma)' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Orbital Drop EasyExtinction · ASE
- 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
Dino Leash — Detailed Guide
Keeping tames inside a set area
The Dino Leash is an electronic device that holds tamed creatures in place within a range you choose. It is in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. It came with Extinction, the ARK Wiki also lists it for Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island and Fjordur, and our records add The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok and Valguero. In the game's words: "Electronic leash to keep your dinos from wandering too far."
Power and settings
The leash needs power to work, from Solar Energy or another source of electricity. Its inventory has 12 slots, where batteries can be placed to charge it. Interacting with the leash gives these options:
- switch it on or off;
- open the inventory to add batteries;
- set the controlled range to Minimum, Small, Medium or Large, marked by a red circle;
- demolish it and get back half of the materials.
Only tamed creatures standing inside the range at the moment the leash is switched on get locked, and they show a red lock icon above their heads. Flying creatures are also kept below a certain height above the leash. A creature that is ridden and then dismounted becomes locked too, and several leashes can be combined for a longer range.
Quirks the wiki warns about
The ARK Wiki reports that creatures often lose their lock after a server restart, and that wandering tames tend to get stuck at the edge of the area. The Medium range is a little smaller than a trough's range, so a leash placed in the middle of a feeding trough setup keeps raised creatures from walking out of trough range. Out in the wild, the wiki suggests walling a leash in with a metal foundation and walls or a door, with no ceiling so solar power still reaches it.
Recipe in each game
The engram unlocks at level 22 for 6 engram points. In ASA a leash takes 20 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot, 5 
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule, and 1 
Electronics; ASE uses 20 Metal Ingot, 5 Polymer and 1 Electronics. Crafting takes 5 seconds for 8 XP. The leash weighs 4 and stacks to 100, or 400 for a full stack. Our records count 85 crate types that can contain it, among them Extinction Orbital Easy, Astraeos Orbital Easy and several Genesis crates such as Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan.