Fish Basket
Trap certain fish in this basket to tame and transport them!
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 91 crates
- Item ID
- 498
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 13
- Engram points
- 6
Maps
Found on 2 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Fish Basket guides
How to craft Fish Basket
Fish Basket is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 13, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 0.5 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
How to get Fish Basket
Fish Basket is found in 91 loot crates.
Loot crates
91 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration GreenAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Green BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- 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
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' 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 'Code Red' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' 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 'Life Support' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' 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 'One Tough Moeder' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ruffle Some Feathers' EasyGenesis Part 1 · 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 'Stage 1' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' 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 'Survive the ARK' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' 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 'Terminus' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Alpha)' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Beta)' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Gamma)' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Fish Basket — Detailed Guide
A trap for small water creatures
The Fish Basket is a placeable trap in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended for catching, taming and moving small aquatic creatures. "Trap certain fish in this basket to tame and transport them!" It was introduced with Aberration, and the ARK Wiki lists it for Valguero, Fjordur, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2 and Aquatica as well.
Catching a creature
Put the basket on the ground close to the target; it works above or below the water line. After a few seconds of setup it is ready, and a quick press of E while looking at it captures the creature, leaving you with a Filled Fish Basket. That filled basket spoils after 40 minutes, but standing in water with it on your hotbar refreshes it. Placing it down releases the creature, and only do that in water, because a fish released on land dies instantly. Trapping the fish in a tent first keeps it from swimming off while you set the basket.
Which creatures it works on
- Tamed on release: the
Coelacanth, 
Piranha and 
Sabertooth Salmon. Their level stays at what they spawned with, and they cannot gain experience. The 
Trilobite can be caught too, but it may seem to eat berries while its food bar never moves, and it eventually starves. - Single use: the
Leech, 
Diseased Leech and 
Lamprey vanish for good once they latch onto someone or something, and they drop out of the tribe's tame count. - Transport: tamed
Anglerfish, 
Ichthyosaurus and 
Manta can be carried in a basket to another body of water, and catching them resets their breeding timer.
A Filled Fish Basket cannot be transferred, so release the creature and cryo it instead.
Crafting and weight
The engram unlocks at level 13 for 6 engram points. The basket is crafted in the inventory from 60 
Fungal Wood, 120 
Fiber and 40 
Thatch, taking 5 seconds and giving 0.5 XP. Each basket weighs 4 and they stack to 5, so a full stack weighs 20. Since it counts as a thatch structure, it is vulnerable to all damage apart from non-explosive ranged attacks. Loot can supply them as well: 91 crate types can contain one, including the Aberration Blue, Green and Purple crates.