Homing Underwater Mine
Place this underwater to create an explosive trap that floats, homes, and explodes when touched.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 7 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 77 crates
- Item ID
- 396
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 88
- Engram points
- 30
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Homing Underwater Mine guides
How to craft Homing Underwater Mine
Homing Underwater Mine is crafted from 7 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 88, costs 30 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 56 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
930Stone
450Silica Pearls
440Chitin/Keratin
360Metal
100Flint
100Charcoal
90ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×180, Electronics ×150, Cementing Paste ×110, Gunpowder ×100, Sparkpowder ×100, Polymer ×45.
How to get Homing Underwater Mine
Homing Underwater Mine is found in 77 loot crates.
Loot crates
77 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · 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
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Homing Underwater Mine — Detailed Guide
A floating trap that chases intruders
Called Underwater Mine in ARK: Survival Ascended and Homing Underwater Mine in ARK: Survival Evolved, this explosive also goes by Water Mine or Sea Mine on the ARK Wiki. Its description: "Place this underwater to create an explosive trap that floats, homes, and explodes when touched." Once placed, it holds its spot in the water until an enemy survivor comes near; then it pursues the target and detonates on contact, dealing massive damage.
Who it spares, and how raiders respond
A mine does not go after the player who placed it, nor after that player's tames. The wiki rates it a strong choice for guarding water bases, but also notes the high crafting cost: even large tribes find it hard to build up many. To get past them, raiders are advised to send a decoy creature or player first to draw the mines' attention.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 88 for 30 engram points, and our records list the 
Improvised Explosive Device and the 
Metal Water Reservoir as prerequisites. Crafting needs level 88 and happens in a Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator; the wiki gives 5 seconds per mine, and each craft yields 56 XP. Ingredients, with the alternatives the wiki accepts:
- 150
Electronics - 100
Gunpowder - 45
Polymer (or 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule) - 30
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 30
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 20
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste) - 15
Oil (Oil (
Tusoteuthis) also works)
Weight, stacks and loot
Each mine weighs 5, and 10 fit in a stack, for 50 per full stack. Our records count 77 loot crates that can contain one, such as the Aberration Purple and Aberration Surface Yellow crates, and list the mine on 14 maps.