Grenade
Pulling the pin starts a 5 second timer to an explosion. Make sure you've thrown it by then.
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 6 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 79 crates
- Item ID
- 6
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 38
- Engram points
- 20
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Grenade guides
How to craft Grenade
Grenade is crafted from 6 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 38, costs 20 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 11.35 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
30Flint
30Charcoal
4MetalCrafted along the way: Gunpowder ×30, Sparkpowder ×30, Metal Ingot ×2.
How to get Grenade
Grenade is found in 79 loot crates.
Loot crates
79 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
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- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Extinction Cave BlueExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Extinction Cave RedExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Extinction Cave YellowExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Fjordur PurpleFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Purple BonusFjordur · ASE
- Island Cave BlueThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave YellowThe Island, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- King Titan EasyExtinction · ASA
- King Titan HardExtinction · ASA
- King Titan MediumExtinction · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Outpost: Molten Works EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave YellowRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- The Center Cave YellowThe Center · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
Grenade — Detailed Guide
A thrown explosive on a 5-second fuse
The Grenade is an explosive in ARK: Survival Evolved. Its in-game description: "Pulling the pin starts a 5 second timer to an explosion. Make sure you've thrown it by then." If it is still in hand when the timer runs out, it explodes and hurts the user. The ARK Wiki calls its damage good: it works well on weaker creatures, survivors and weaker structures, while stronger targets need several grenades, and its damage and radius make it handy against enemies grouped together.
Making grenades at the Smithy
Level 38 and 20 engram points unlock the engram. A 
Smithy crafts a grenade in 5 seconds for 11.4 XP; along with the 
Improvised Explosive Device, it is one of two explosives made at the Smithy. The wiki also lists the 
Exo-Mek, the 
Tek Replicator, and the 
Thorny Dragon Saddle, 
Castoroides Saddle and 
Argentavis Saddle. Each grenade takes:
- 30
Gunpowder - 20
Stone - 15
Fiber - 5
Hide - 4
Oil, or Oil (
Tusoteuthis) - 2
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot)
Saddle ammunition and other notes
Grenades also serve as ammunition for the 
Tropeognathus Saddle. They cannot be used underwater, though throwing one into water still works. Each is single use, weighs 0.5 and stacks to 10, so a full stack weighs 5. Players who idle long enough with one in hand will sometimes see a small cosmetic toss. The wiki names the Tek Grenade as its successor and notes that it is not the same item as the Tek Gravity Grenade, Cluster Grenade, Poison Grenade or Smoke Grenade.
The wiki mentions level 35 purple supply crates as a source, and our records count 79 crate types that can contain the Grenade, including the Aberration Blue, Purple and Red crates.