Flame Arrow
Lights the target on fire, and can also light oil slicks.
Details
- Category
- Ammunition
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 7 crates
- Item ID
- 172
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 26
- Engram points
- 15
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Flame Arrow guides
How to craft Flame Arrow
Flame Arrow is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 26, costs 15 engram points, takes 1 seconds, gives 0.05 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
1Sulfur
1Cactus Sap
1OilCrafted along the way: Propellant ×1.
How to get Flame Arrow
Flame Arrow is found in 7 loot crates.
Loot crates
7 crates
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth and Lost Island · ASE
- 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 · ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
Flame Arrow — Detailed Guide
Fire damage from a bow
Shot from a 
Bow, 
Crossbow or 
Compound Bow, the Flame Arrow hits with regular arrow damage and then sets the target burning. It is ammunition in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its description reads: "Lights the target on fire, and can also light oil slicks."
How the burn works
According to the ARK Wiki, the burn lasts 8 seconds and does roughly 22 damage per second to players, with higher damage against larger creatures; herbivores take reduced fire damage. The wiki calls the arrow very effective against carnivores and large creatures, and weapon damage raises its initial hit. Other points from the wiki:
- It damages plant turrets and any structure that counts as wood, wind turbines and generators among them, but it does not damage
Electrical Cables. - In Genesis Part 2 it can hurt carnivore plants.
- It has no effect on rock elementals and does not aggro them.
- An arrow that does not break can be collected afterwards by walking over it, and what you get back is a
Stone Arrow.
Crafting and weight
The engram unlocks at level 26 for 15 engram points. Each Flame Arrow is crafted from 1 Stone Arrow and 1 
Propellant in 1 second, for 0.05 XP. An arrow weighs 0.2 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 20.
Maps and loot
The arrow was introduced with Scorched Earth. The ARK Wiki also lists it on Fjordur, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, Valguero, Ragnarok and Genesis: Part 2, and our records also list Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center and Astraeos. In loot, 7 crate types can contain it, for example the Dragon Hoard and the Scorched Green, Scorched White and Scorched Cave Red crates. It was added in version 246.0.