Flare Gun
A single-use flare launcher. Fires a bright ball of Sparkpowder to temporarily light an area.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 27 crates
- Item ID
- 181
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 15
- Engram points
- 6
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Flare Gun guides
How to craft Flare Gun
Flare Gun is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 15, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 0.24 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
12Flint
6Stone
2CharcoalCrafted along the way: Sparkpowder ×12, Gunpowder ×2.
How to get Flare Gun
Flare Gun is found in 27 loot crates.
Loot crates
27 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave BlueThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave GreenThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave YellowThe Island, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
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- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave YellowRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Cave BlueScorched Earth and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
- The Center Cave YellowThe Center · ASA
Flare Gun — Detailed Guide
A one-shot light in the sky
The Flare Gun is a single-use launcher in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended: "A single-use flare launcher. Fires a bright ball of Sparkpowder to temporarily light an area." Its burning flare lights up a large area, which helps others find where you are, and gives off more light than 
Standing Torches or 
Campfires. The gun breaks once its one flare has been fired.
Unlock and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 15 for 6 engram points, with 
Gunpowder listed as its prerequisite. It is crafted in the inventory in 5 seconds for 0.24 XP, from:
- 10
Sparkpowder - 4
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood) - 2 Gunpowder
- 2
Fiber
One gun weighs 0.5 and they stack to 10, a full stack weighing 5. Our records give it 40 durability and list it on 14 maps. Loot is an option too: 27 crate types can contain it, among them the Island Blue, Astraeos Blue and Astraeos Desert Blue crates and the 
Astral T-Rex crate.
How flares behave
- A flare keeps burning until it hits the ground; the ARK Wiki suggests firing straight up.
- Flares deal no damage to creatures or players.
- They interrupt
Rocket Homing Missiles, pulling them toward the flare. - Dyes recolour the gun along with its flare and the light it casts. One Dye covers a single gun or a full stack of ten, and the wiki adds that white flares make surprise flashbangs against players without
Plant Species Z. - The
Fireworks Flaregun Skin turns the flare into a patriotic firework as it peaks.