Electronics
This multipurpose computer chip can be used to create electronic devices.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 40 crates
- Item ID
- 162
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 48
- Engram points
- 6
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Electronics guides
How to craft Electronics
Electronics is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 48, costs 6 engram points, takes 2 seconds, gives 0.76 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
2MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×1.
How to get Electronics
Electronics is found in 40 loot crates.
Loot crates
40 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 40 crates
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe 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
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Thrall ArcherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DeadeyeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DemolisherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall EnforcerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall GunslingerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall HeraldThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall MarauderThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall PiercerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall ScattershotThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall SnarerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall WardenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
Electronics — Detailed Guide
The chip inside electrical gear
Electrical devices in ARK: Survival Evolved are built from Electronics, a crafted resource. The item text reads: "This multipurpose computer chip can be used to create electronic devices."
Crafting a chip
The engram unlocks at level 48 for 6 engram points. A craft takes 2 seconds, gives 0.76 XP and yields one chip from:
- 3
Silica Pearls or 
Silicate - 1
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot
The ARK Wiki names the 
Fabricator as the place to make them, and the 
Tek Replicator works too. A chip weighs 0.01 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs just 1.
Other sources
The wiki notes that Electronics can also be gathered from TEK creatures. On Extinction, dead 
Enforcers and 
Defense Units yield them, as do the 
Lampposts, Benches and Tables of the Sanctuary and parts of the city ruins. In addition, 40 crate types can contain them, including Aberration Red, Aberration Surface Red and Aberration Surface Yellow.
What they go into
Our ASE recipe data links Electronics to 68 items, with very different amounts. Among the examples, an 
Electrical Outlet needs 3 and a 
C4 Charge 5, while the 
Chemistry Bench and the 
Egg Incubator take 250 each. Other examples are the 
Auto Turret at 70, the 
Bio-Grinder at 60, the 
M.O.M.I. at 50, the 
Laser Attachment at 40 and the 
Holo-Scope Attachment at 30. Gear for exploring uses them too: 18 for the 
Heavy Miner's Helmet, 15 for the 
Night Vision Goggles and 10 for the 
Flashlight Attachment. The 
Cryofridge needs 15 and the 
Electrical Generator 10.
The wiki also lists the 
GPS, the 
Transponder Tracker, the 
Electric Prod and the 
Refrigerator among the items made with them.