Flexible Electrical Cable
Connects nearby cables dynamically.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
- Item ID
- 496
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 49
- Engram points
- 24
Video guides: search YouTube for Flexible Electrical Cable guides
How to craft Flexible Electrical Cable
Flexible Electrical Cable is crafted from 1 ingredient. The engram unlocks at level 49, costs 24 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 1.2 XP.
4MetalFlexible Electrical Cable — Detailed Guide
A cable that bends to fit
The Flexible Electrical Cable is a power line piece in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that links two nearby cable ends dynamically. Its in-game text says just that: "Connects nearby cables dynamically."
Keeping the connection
If the cable network around it changes, the ARK Wiki explains, the cable can be attached again to nearby 
Electrical Cables, whether Inclined Intersection, Straight, Vertical or other Flexible pieces, through the Refresh Connection option, which restores the electrical path.
Crafting
The engram unlocks at level 49 for 24 engram points. Each cable takes 2 
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) and is crafted in a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator in 3 seconds, giving 1.2 XP. A cable weighs 1 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 100. The wiki dates it to patch 293.100.
Durability
It counts as a wooden structure, so bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks cannot damage it. The wiki also lists aggressive creatures that cannot hurt it, for example the 
Direwolf, 
Raptor, 
Sabertooth, 
Titanoboa, 
Thylacoleo and 
Terror Bird.