Handmill
This simple stone contraption can be used to grind resources into new substances.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 25
- Engram points
- 8
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Handmill guides
How to craft Handmill (Primitive Plus)
Handmill (Primitive Plus) is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 25, costs 8 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 7.25 XP.
Handmill — Detailed Guide
A grinding station for Primitive Plus
The Handmill is a Primitive Plus structure in ARK: Survival Evolved, described in game as "This simple stone contraption can be used to grind resources into new substances." It works as a step up from the 
Mortar and Pestle and is where a number of Primitive Plus ingredients are made.
What you grind in it
- Sack of Flour and Corn Starch
- Salt
Ground Soybean and Ground Cashew- Organic Oil
- Clay
- Bonemeal Fertilizer
Several of these feed further recipes; 
Biscuit Batter, for example, needs both Sack of Flour and Salt.
Building it
The engram unlocks at level 25 and costs 8 engram points. The recipe is cheap: 50 
Stone and 30 
Wood. Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 7.25 XP. A Handmill weighs 4, and unplaced ones stack to 100.
Protecting it
It counts as a thatch structure, so almost anything can damage it; only non-explosive ranged attacks leave it alone.