Gasoline

Fuel for advanced machines

In ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, Gasoline powers a range of machines, from the Electrical Generator to the Motorboat. The game sums it up as "An advanced fuel. Can only be used in machines designed to consume it." According to the ARK Wiki, the machines that run on it include the Electrical Generator, Fabricator, Chemistry Bench and Industrial Grill, the Industrial Forge and Industrial Grinder, the Motorboat, and the Chainsaw, Mining Drill and Zip-Line Motor Attachment.

Refining it from Oil and Hide

The standard recipe uses 6 Oil and 5 Hide and yields 5 Gasoline after 30 seconds in a Refining Forge or an Industrial Forge; Oil (Tusoteuthis) can replace the regular Oil. With enough raw materials loaded, an Industrial Forge can turn out up to 100 Gasoline in one go. The cost was lower once: patch 260 raised the Oil from 3 to 6, and although the patch notes presented that as a singleplayer change, the wiki says multiplayer was affected as well.

Gas-crafted Gasoline

There is a second route too. Gasoline can be made from a Congealed Gas Ball, at the Chemistry Bench once the Gas Collector engram is learned, or from a Green Gem or Fragmented Green Gem. In the bench, this gas-crafted option shows a pink version of the Oil icon, yet crafting it gives ordinary Gasoline.

Recipes that take Gasoline

In ASA our records show 3 recipes that use it: Element-Imbued Gasoline (1), the Tribe Tower (100) and Craft BattleRig (1). In ASE the one recorded recipe is Flamethrower Ammo, which takes 10 Gasoline.

Weight, maps and loot

Each unit weighs 0.1 and it stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 10. Our records list Gasoline on 9 maps, from The Island and Scorched Earth to Lost Colony and Astraeos, and 85 loot crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Purple and Aberration Surface Yellow.