Flashlight Attachment
This flashlight sheds light out in a wide area, but makes you easier to see too. Attach this to a supporting weapon to shine light from a weapon. Supports: Sniper Rifle, Pistols, Longneck Rifle, Shotguns, and Assault Rifle.
Details
- Category
- Attachment
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 92 crates
- Item ID
- 202
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 52
- Engram points
- 18
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Flashlight Attachment guides
How to craft Flashlight Attachment
Flashlight Attachment is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 52, costs 18 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 76 XP.
FabricatorRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
100Metal
30Silica PearlsCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×50, Electronics ×10.
How to get Flashlight Attachment
Flashlight Attachment is found in 92 loot crates.
Loot crates
92 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
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- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Fjordur PurpleFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Purple 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
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · 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
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Flashlight Attachment — Detailed Guide
Light mounted on a gun
The Flashlight Attachment goes onto a supported weapon in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended and lets it cast light. The game's description: "This flashlight sheds light out in a wide area, but makes you easier to see too." It fits the 
Assault Rifle, 
Longneck Rifle, Sniper Rifle, 
Shotguns and Pistols.
Compared with a torch
The ARK Wiki notes that, unlike a torch, the flashlight keeps working underwater and does not wear down over time. Its beam covers only a forward arc, which means pointing the weapon where you want light. It uses the durability of the weapon it sits on. The wiki also calls it a great help in the caves and dungeons of Ragnarok.
Switching it on
Drag the attachment onto the weapon, put the weapon in a hotbar slot, select that slot and press N, the "toggle weapon attachment" key, which can be rebound. Double-tapping the reload key (R on PC by default) also turns it on. The wiki warns that N has to be pressed again whenever you change to other tools, items or actions such as opening the inventory.
Crafting and loot
The engram unlocks at level 52 for 18 engram points. The wiki names the 
Tek Replicator as a crafting station. One attachment takes 40 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot, 40 
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal and 10 
Electronics; crafting takes 10 seconds and gives 76 XP. It weighs 0.1 and does not stack. Our records list 92 crate types that can contain it, for example the Aberration Blue, Aberration Purple and Aberration Red crates, and list the item for 9 maps.