Fish Trap
Immobilizes small fish to harvest for meat.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 11
- Engram points
- 10
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Fish Trap guides
How to craft Fish Trap (Primitive Plus)
Fish Trap (Primitive Plus) is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 11, costs 10 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 8 XP.
Fish Trap — Detailed Guide
A trap for catching fish meat
The Fish Trap comes from the Primitive Plus DLC for ARK: Survival Evolved. The in-game description sums up its job: "Immobilizes small fish to harvest for meat." It should not be confused with the 
Fish Basket, which is the fish trap that the Aberration DLC added.
Bait, meat and timing
Once bait is inside, the trap produces raw fish meat, and now and then 
Raw Prime Fish Meat as well. The ARK Wiki suggests coming back every 15 to 30 minutes to collect the meat. It calls these traps a good way to gather a lot of fish meat, and for the best results it recommends setting up several of them close to one another.
Unlocking and building it
The engram unlocks at level 11 and costs 10 engram points. A trap is made from:
Thatch
Fiber
WoodCrafting takes 5 seconds, yields one trap and gives 8 XP. A trap weighs 2 and up to 10 fit in one stack, so a full stack weighs 20.