Fiber
Delicately collected strands of plant. Perfect for making thread, cloth, or rope.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 74 crates
- Item ID
- 75
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Resource (Not an Engram)
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Fiber guides
How to get Fiber
Fiber is gathered best by Megatherium, Therizinosaur; found in 74 loot crates.
Best gatherers
TherizinosaurLoot crates
74 crates
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Lost Colony Cave BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- 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
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- 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
Fiber — Detailed Guide
The most used crafting material
According to the ARK Wiki, no other item is used in as many recipes as Fiber, a plant resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its item text calls it plant strands collected with care, ideal for thread, cloth or rope.
Ways to gather it
Picking plants by hand is the easiest way and needs no tools, but there are more efficient methods. A 
Metal Sickle gathers far more, though it cannot be crafted before level 30. Tames are another efficient option: the wiki names the 
Therizinosaur, 
Dire Bear, 
Moschops and 
Gigantopithecus, and our records add the 
Megatherium. Taming a Gigantopithecus has no level requirement, though the wiki calls it risky without proper means of defense.
Supply crates can contain it as well; the wiki mentions white and green ones, and our records count 74 crate types, including the Fishing Items (Net) and Fishing Items (Pole) rewards and Fjordur Green.
Where it goes
Our recipe data counts 460 recipes that use Fiber in ASA and 499 in ASE. Some examples: in ASE, a 
Net Projectile needs 180, a 
Zip-Line Anchor 100, a 
Jar of Pitch 85, a 
C4 Charge and 
Cloth Pants 50 each, and a 
Cloth Shirt 40. In ASA, 
Companion Camping Gear takes 80, and the 
Companion Ammo Box and 
Companion Rucksack 60 each. Several arrows need only 2 or 3.
The wiki's wider list covers every armor type, saddles, thatch and wooden buildings, crop plots, kibble, the 
Refining Forge, the 
Parachute, the 
Spyglass and the 
Simple Bed.
Light to carry
A strand weighs 0.01 and a stack holds 300, so even a full stack weighs only 3. It is recorded on 14 maps.