Electrical Cable (Intersection)
A plus-shaped intersection for a power grid, used for splitting one power cable into three.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
- Loot crates
- 61 crates
- Item ID
- 189
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 49
- Engram points
- 24
How to craft Electrical Cable Intersection
Electrical Cable Intersection is crafted from 1 ingredient. The engram unlocks at level 49, costs 24 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 2.4 XP.
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Electrical Cable Intersection is found in 61 loot crates.
Loot crates
61 crates
- 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 YellowFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Yellow BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Lost Island YellowLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Yellow BonusLost Island · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' 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 '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 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · 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 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' 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 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASE
Electrical Cable (Intersection) — Detailed Guide
Splitting a power line
Electrical Cable (Intersection) is a cross-shaped piece of the power grid in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. In the game's words it is "A plus-shaped intersection for a power grid, used for splitting one power cable into three." Cables like this carry electricity from a Generator to an 
Electrical Outlet, and the outlet then powers electrical devices close to it. According to the ARK Wiki, one intersection links to as many as four other cables or outlets, which lets a single generator feed several devices.
Engram and crafting
The engram unlocks at level 49 for 24 engram points, and level 49 is also the crafting requirement. One intersection costs 2 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot and comes out of a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator after 3 seconds, giving 2.4 XP.
Snapping it into place
The piece snaps to the rigid electrical cables, which the wiki names as the Inclined Intersection, Straight and Vertical types. Cables that are not snapped together can still be joined with a 
Flexible Electrical Cable.
Durability, weight and loot
It has 100 durability and counts as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives cannot harm it. The wiki also lists aggressive creatures that cannot damage it, among them the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Thylacoleo and 
Titanoboa. Each intersection weighs 3, and a stack of 100 weighs 300. Loot is another source: 61 crate types can contain it, such as the Aberration Purple, Red and Yellow crates and their bonus versions, which our records list for Aberration, Valguero and Crystal Isles.