Industrial Forge
Refines resources in bulk. Powered by gasoline.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 59 crates
- Item ID
- 407
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 80
- Engram points
- 90
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Industrial Forge guides
How to craft Industrial Forge
Industrial Forge is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 80, costs 90 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 5 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Advanced Workbench (Primitive Plus)Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
11,200Stone
5,600Chitin/Keratin
800ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×2,500, Cementing Paste ×1,400, Polymer ×400.
How to get Industrial Forge
Industrial Forge is found in 59 loot crates.
Loot crates
59 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red 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 RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 59 crates
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe 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
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- 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
- Outpost: Molten Works EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe 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
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
Industrial Forge — Detailed Guide
Bulk refining at 20 times the speed
The Industrial Forge is a large crafting station in ARK: Survival Evolved that refines resources in bulk and runs on gasoline. The ARK Wiki puts its speed at 20x that of the 
Refining Forge. It turns Metal into 
Metal Ingot, Oil and Hide into 
Gasoline, and Wood into 
Charcoal. The in-game description is brief: "Refines resources in bulk. Powered by gasoline."
Fuel and full loads
Gasoline is the only fuel it takes: put some in along with the materials and turn the forge on. The wiki gives these figures for a full load:
- Metal: 29,700
Metal in 99 slots burns 17 Gasoline and gives 14,850 Metal Ingots. - Oil: 7000
Oil in 70 slots plus 6000 
Hide in 30 slots takes 29.2 minutes and 2 Gasoline and yields 5,831 Gasoline. - Wood: 9,900
Wood in 99 slots needs 11 Gasoline and 2 hours 45 minutes to become 9,900 Charcoal, handy for making 
Gunpowder in quantity.
When making gasoline, leave one slot free to start the forge before filling it. The second gasoline it burns comes from the fresh output, so the net gain is 5,830. Keep watch while oil is refining: left alone, the forge can burn the gasoline it has just made, so switch it off once the 29.2 minutes are up and before a third one is used.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 80 for 90 engram points. The forge is crafted in a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator; it takes 5 seconds, gives 5 XP and costs:
- 2500 Metal Ingot or
Scrap Metal Ingot - 250
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 600
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 400 Oil or Oil (
Tusoteuthis) - 400
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule
It weighs 50 and does not stack. Our records count 59 crate types that can contain one, for example the Aberration Red crates and the Aberration Surface Red and Yellow crates.
Placing and protecting it
- It fits on a single foundation, but hiding it completely takes a 3x3x6 enclosure.
- It cannot go on platform saddles, and it stops working if any part of it is under water.
- The game treats it as a stone structure, so only certain weapons and creatures can damage it. The ARK Wiki lists metal weapons, explosives, the
Cannon, the 
Ballista Turret and the 
Tek Sword among them, along with Alpha Creatures, bosses, titans and the 
DodoRex.