Gene Storage

Where extracted traits are kept

Gene Storage is a powered container for creature traits in ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved; the ARK Wiki files it under the Bob's Tall Tales DLC. The game describes it like this: "A specialized storage container for traits harvested from creatures. Requires a GeneScanner and power to access the stored traits."

Using it with a Gene Scanner

Traits are extracted with a Gene Scanner. While holding that scanner, a survivor can open the trait inventory of a Gene Storage, provided the structure has power, and it holds up to 200 traits. Power is needed only to get at them: the wiki notes that stored traits do not decay while the Gene Storage is switched off.

Building one

The engram unlocks at level 86 for 17 engram points, with the Gene Scanner as its prerequisite, and level 86 is also needed to craft it. The wiki names the Fabricator as the crafting station. A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 3.7 XP, using the wiki's recipe:

• 700 Metal Ingot
• 500 Crystal (or Primal Crystal)
• 300 Cementing Paste
• 220 Polymer
• 120 Electronics

It weighs 4 and does not stack. Our records list it on 9 maps, among them The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration and Astraeos.