Electrical Generator
A large machine that converts gasoline into electricity.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 41 crates
- Item ID
- 186
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 49
- Engram points
- 24
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Electrical Generator guides
How to craft Electrical Generator
Electrical Generator is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 49, costs 24 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 13.2 XP.
FabricatorRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
70Metal
30Silica PearlsCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×35, Electronics ×10.
How to get Electrical Generator
Electrical Generator is found in 41 loot crates.
Loot crates
41 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 41 crates
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Fjordur YellowFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Yellow BonusFjordur · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Island YellowLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Yellow BonusLost Island · ASE
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
Electrical Generator — Detailed Guide
Power source for an electric base
The Electrical Generator turns 
Gasoline into electricity in ARK: Survival Evolved; its description reads "A large machine that converts gasoline into electricity." In ASE the current runs through cables to an 
Electrical Outlet, which feeds nearby machines such as a 
Refrigerator, 
Air Conditioner, 
Auto Turret, 
Chemistry Bench, 
Egg Incubator or 
Cryofridge.
Fuel and running time
It burns 1 Gasoline every 60 minutes, and a full load lasts 33 days and 8 hours. The cables have an 8-day decay timer, though, so the wiring needs attention long before the fuel runs out.
Power range in ARK: Survival Ascended
The ARK Wiki notes that in ASA the generator powers things wirelessly within 3,000 Unreal Engine units (about 10 foundations), and that every consumer looks for a source within 10,000 units, roughly 33 foundations. In ASE the connection has to be wired.
Wear on Scorched Earth
Scorched Earth adds a maintenance chore: a running generator wears down over time, and housing it in Adobe walls cooled by Air Conditioners makes no difference. Roughly every real-time day it needs repairing, otherwise it breaks completely. Wear is far slower whenever no player is close enough to render it, and on official servers with offline damage prevention it stops entirely while every tribe member is offline. A wind turbine on the same grid also helps, because the generator can be told to switch on only once the turbines shut down.
Crafting and handling
The engram needs level 49 and 24 engram points. A generator costs 25 
Metal Ingot (
Scrap Metal Ingot also works) and 10 
Electronics; crafting one lasts 3 seconds and gives 13.2 experience. It weighs 5, and a full stack of 100 weighs 500. It stops working when submerged. Being treated as wooden, it cannot be harmed by bare hands, stone weapons or ranged attacks that do not explode, and a long list of small aggressive creatures, among them the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth and 
Titanoboa, cannot damage it. Our records show 41 crate types that can contain one.