Embryo Incubator
Deployable device for warming and monitoring up to ten embryos at once. Requires electricity to run.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Steampunk
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 5 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 89
- Engram points
- 24
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Embryo Incubator guides
How to craft Embryo Incubator
Embryo Incubator is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 89, costs 24 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 100 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
150Silica Pearls120polymer, organic polymer, or corrupted nodule
100MetalCrafted along the way: Electronics ×50, Metal Ingot ×50.
How to get Embryo Incubator
Embryo Incubator is found in 5 loot crates.
Loot crates
5 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Embryo Incubator — Detailed Guide
An incubator for embryos instead of eggs
The Embryo Incubator is a powered structure in ARK: Survival Ascended that keeps embryos warm. The ARK Wiki says it came with the Bob's Tall Tales DLC, inside the Steampunk Ascent bundle. Its description reads: "Deployable device for warming and monitoring up to ten embryos at once. Requires electricity to run."
How it compares with the Egg Incubator
It does for embryos roughly what the 
Egg Incubator does for eggs, with space for 10 at a time. Taking an embryo from a pregnant creature calls for a 
Gene Scanner. You cannot adjust a temperature here; the incubator instead applies a fixed 10% Incubation Boost that cuts incubation time by that share.
Keep it powered: without electricity an embryo inside it loses health, whereas an embryo held in any other inventory simply spoils. For aquatic embryos, the wiki says the incubator has to be placed underwater.
Unlocking and crafting
The engram unlocks at level 89 for 24 engram points, and level 89 is also needed to craft it. Our records list the 
Refrigerator as its prerequisite. The recipe:
- 850
Metal Ingot - 350
Crystal - 220
Cementing Paste - 150
Wood - 120
Polymer - 50
Electronics
A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 100 XP.
Weight, loot and maps
An incubator weighs 25, and up to 5 fit in one stack, which then weighs 125. Our records name 5 crate types that can contain it: Aberration Red and Aberration Red Bonus (Aberration and Valguero), Aberration Surface Red and Aberration Surface Red Bonus (Aberration), and 
Astral Rock Drake. It is recorded on 9 maps, among them The Island, Scorched Earth, Lost Colony, Astraeos and Valguero.