Gacha Crystal

A crystal that turns into a random item

Consuming a Gacha Crystal from the inventory releases an item, and which item depends on what the Gacha that produced it was told to make: the result comes from that Gacha's item wheel. The crystal exists in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its in-game line is simply "Contains miscellaneous items".

Where the crystals come from

A Gacha drops them, and during the Winter Wonderland event GachaClaus drops them as well. The ARK Wiki connects the item to Extinction, also lists it on Genesis: Part 2, and gives 285.104 as the version that added it.

What a plain crystal can hold

The wiki sorts the possible contents into four rarity groups:

• Common: Stone, Thatch, Sand, Fiber, Flint, Raw Salt, Fungal Wood and Fragmented Green Gem
• Uncommon: Crystal, Oil, Silk, Clay, Silica Pearls, Congealed Gas Ball and Blue Crystalized Sap
• Rare: Metal, Obsidian, Sulfur, Sap, Black Pearls, Organic Polymer and Red Crystalized Sap
• Very rare: Element Dust

Crystals with a quality grade

Now and then a Gacha makes a crystal with a quality of primitive, ramshackle or apprentice. Those draw from a separate pool of gear and structures. On the weapon and tool side the wiki lists, for example, the Crossbow, Pike, Sword, Longneck Rifle, Assault Rifle and Metal Pick. Armor comes from the Chitin, Flak and Riot pieces plus the Heavy Miner's Helmet. Structures in that pool include the Small Crop Plot, Medium Crop Plot and Large Crop Plot, several dinosaur gates and gateways, the Water Reservoir and the Metal Tree Platform, and the Canteen (Full), Water Jar (Full) and Waterskin (Filled) can turn up too.

Weight and stacking

Each Gacha Crystal weighs 1, and a slot holds only 1 of them, so crystals do not stack.