Fabricated Crossbow

Lost Colony's repeating crossbow

Lost Colony brought the Fabricated Crossbow to ARK: Survival Ascended as a follow-up to the Crossbow that removes some of the older weapon's drawbacks. Instead of a single arrow, it holds up to 10 before it needs reloading, and each shot hits harder than one from the Crossbow, at the cost of a slightly longer reload. Like the Crossbow, it works underwater too. The ARK Wiki describes it as almost a mix of 3 weapons in one.

Getting one

The engram unlocks at level 58 for 18 engram points, with the Crossbow as prerequisite. The ARK Wiki names the Fabricator and the Tek Replicator as crafting places. Each crossbow takes 10 seconds, gives 9 XP and needs:

• 160 Polymer (Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule also work)
• 80 Fiber
• 60 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 35 Cementing Paste (or Achatina Paste)

It weighs 8 and has 100 durability. Our records list it on 9 maps and count 16 crate types that can contain it, such as the Dragon Hoard, Lost Colony Cave Red, Lost Colony City Red and Outpost: Breeding Pits Hard.

Standard, Marksman and Spread

• Standard uses one arrow per shot, just like the regular Crossbow.
• Marksman zooms in a fair way and fires one stronger bolt that uses 3 arrows of the selected type, at a slower rate of fire roughly like a Longneck Rifle. The wiki puts its damage, and with it the torpor, at about 24% above Standard.
• Spread fires all 10 loaded arrows at once across a wide area in front of you, similar to a Pump-Action Shotgun, and costs 10 times the durability.

Since update v77.29 the crossbow remembers its firing mode when you equip it again or switch ammo.

Arrows and bolts it fires

The selected ammo can be switched the way it is on the Tek Grenade Launcher. The ARK Wiki lists these damage values: Metal Arrow 130/172, Stone Arrow 95/126, Flame Arrow 55/73 and Tranq Arrow 35/46. The Spear Bolt and Tranq Spear Bolt also fit, though the wiki marks both as bugged. It also takes the Net Projectile, plus the Grappling Hook and Zip-Line Anchor, which the wiki lists at 0 damage.