Gas Collector

Collecting gas from cave vents

The Gas Collector is a resource collector in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its description says what it does: "Place on a Gas Vent to extract Congealed Gas Balls over time." According to the ARK Wiki, the gas is radioactive and comes from vents inside caves, and the collector has to stand on top of one of the Gas Veins found on the Aberration map. The balls it produces are a crafting ingredient.

Output and capacity

One Congealed Gas Ball comes out roughly every 20–25 seconds; the interval varies a little. The collector holds 24 stacks of 100, and filling it up takes about 900 minutes, give or take some 10 minutes. You can check its contents without opening it, as the glass section fills up with the gas balls inside.

Wear and damage

Its health drops very slowly over time, since the corrosive gas wears the structure down, so plan on repairing it now and then. It counts as a thatch structure: any attack except a non-explosive ranged one can damage it.

Building a collector

The engram unlocks at level 40 and costs 35 engram points. A collector is built in a Smithy or on an Argentavis Saddle in 5 seconds, giving 13 XP, from the following, where the ARK Wiki and our ASA data accept either material:

• 75 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 60 Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste
• 40 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 20 Red Gem or Red Crystalized Sap

Our ASE recipe data lists the same amounts with Metal Ingot, Cementing Paste, Crystal and Red Gem.

Weight, crates and where it appears

The collector weighs 28 and has a stack size of 1. 34 crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Red and Genesis Blue. It was introduced with Aberration; the wiki also names Crystal Isles, Fjordur, Lost Island, Genesis: Part 2 and Valguero, and our records add The Island, Scorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos and Ragnarok.