Laser Attachment
This advanced aiming device places a red dot where the weapon is pointed. Attach this to a supporting weapon to add a laser sight. Supports: Pistols, Assault Rifle, Shotguns, Longneck Rifle, Sniper Rifle.
Details
- Category
- Attachment
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 87 crates
- Item ID
- 216
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 59
- Engram points
- 24
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Laser Attachment guides
How to craft Laser Attachment
Laser Attachment is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 59, costs 24 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 136 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
180Metal
120Silica PearlsCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×90, Electronics ×40.
How to get Laser Attachment
Laser Attachment is found in 87 loot crates.
Loot crates
87 crates
- 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 PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- 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
- 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
- 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 Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Lost Island YellowLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Yellow BonusLost Island · ASE
- 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: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- 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 / ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
Laser Attachment — Detailed Guide
A red dot for firearms
The Laser Attachment is a weapon add-on in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that marks your point of aim. In the game's words: "This advanced aiming device places a red dot where the weapon is pointed." Its description lists the supported guns as pistols, the 
Assault Rifle, shotguns, the 
Longneck Rifle and the Sniper Rifle.
Turning it on and using it well
Like the 
Flashlight Attachment, it is switched on and off with N, or by double tapping the reload key (R by default on PC). The ARK Wiki sees it as an aid for close and medium range: in daylight the dot fades from view at long distances, and with crosshairs enabled it adds much less. In that respect it differs from the Scope and 
Holo-Scope Attachments.
The wiki's notes add two more uses. In dark places it can stand in for the Flashlight Attachment: if the dot suddenly shifts, something has moved in front of you. In VR, where the HUD is not fully supported and the crosshairs are off by default and badly placed, the laser makes accurate hip-fire much easier. On most guns, the Assault Rifle above all, the laser model looks misaligned, but that is purely cosmetic and does not change where the beam points.
Crafting the attachment
Unlocking the engram requires the Flashlight Attachment, level 59 and 24 engram points. It is made in a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator in 10 seconds and gives 136 XP:
- 50
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 60
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 40
Electronics
Carrying it and finding one
At a weight of 0.1 it barely affects your load, and it has a stack size of 1. 87 crate types can contain it, among them Aberration Purple, Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Purple. Our records list it on 9 maps, including The Island, Extinction, Lost Colony and Astraeos.