GPS
Detects strange energy from the three Obelisks to triangulate your exact location on the island.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 49 crates
- Item ID
- 71
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 52
- Engram points
- 21
Video guides: search YouTube for GPS guides
How to craft GPS
GPS is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 52, costs 21 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 15 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
80Stone
60Silica Pearls
40Chitin/Keratin
40Metal
10ObsidianCrafted along the way: Electronics ×20, Metal Ingot ×20, Cementing Paste ×10, Polymer ×5.
How to get GPS
GPS is found in 49 loot crates.
Loot crates
49 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Fjordur YellowFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Yellow BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 49 crates
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Lost Island YellowLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Yellow BonusLost Island · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASE
GPS — Detailed Guide
Your exact position on the map
The GPS is a tool in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that pinpoints where you stand. The game explains how: "Detects strange energy from the three Obelisks to triangulate your exact location on the island." The name is short for Global Positioning System. For ASA, though, the ARK Wiki notes that the GPS cannot be obtained through normal methods.
More than a compass
Like the 
Compass, it shows the direction you are travelling, and on top of that it displays your current latitude and longitude. The wiki points out how handy this is for pinning down places of interest, such as the location of your base or the spots where 
Supply Crates and 
Deep Sea Loot Crates spawn. One warning from the wiki: a dark dye can hide the labels that tell latitude from longitude, so it is better not to dye the GPS at all.
Crafting a GPS
The wiki gives the ASE engram as level 52 for 21 engram points; our ASA record carries the same level and points despite the wiki note above. A GPS is made in a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator in 5 seconds, gives 15 XP and needs:
Electronics
Polymer
Organic Polymer
Corrupted NoduleIt weighs just 0.5, has 40 durability and does not stack. Our records count 49 crate types that can contain it, for example the Aberration Purple, Red and Yellow crates and their bonus versions.