Electrical Outlet
An outlet for an electrical grid. When connected to a generator via cables, this provides power to all nearby devices that use electricity.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 61 crates
- Item ID
- 187
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 49
- Engram points
- 16
Video guides: search YouTube for Electrical Outlet guides
How to craft Electrical Outlet
Electrical Outlet is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 49, costs 16 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 4.44 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
16Metal
9Silica PearlsCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×8, Electronics ×3.
How to get Electrical Outlet
Electrical Outlet 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 Outlet — Detailed Guide
Where the grid meets the machines
The Electrical Outlet passes power from an electrical grid on to the machines around it in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game introduces it as "An outlet for an electrical grid." Once cables link it to a generator, every nearby device that runs on electricity draws power from it.
Attaching it correctly
An outlet must be fitted where a cable ends, for example above a vertical cable or at the free tip of a straight cable or an intersection. It snaps only onto the rigid cable types (inclined, intersection, straight and vertical); the 
Flexible Electrical Cable will not take it.
Range and backup power
It reaches devices within roughly 2.5 foundations or walls. The ARK Wiki describes a typical layout: generator in the middle of a foundation, one vertical cable, outlet on top, which reaches devices just under 4 foundations away. Only the cable the outlet was first attached to supplies it, so a second source wired to its other side does nothing. For a backup supply, join both sources with an intersection and place the outlet on one free end of it. Like pipes, cables pass straight through buildings.
Devices that need it
Powered items listed by the wiki include the 
Cryofridge, 
Refrigerator, 
Auto Turret, 
Remote Keypad, 
Air Conditioner, 
Chemistry Bench and 
Elevator Track, plus the 
Lamppost and the 
Omnidirectional Lamppost.
Crafting the outlet
It unlocks at level 49 for 16 engram points and is crafted in a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator from 5 
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot), 15 
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood) and 3 
Electronics. A craft takes 3 seconds and gives 4.44 experience. Each outlet weighs 7.5, so a full stack of 100 comes to 750. As a structure it counts as wooden, which protects it from fists, stone weapons and ranged hits without explosives. Loot can supply it too: 61 crate types can contain it, including the Aberration Purple, Red and Yellow crates.