Linked Storage Box

A shared tribe inventory

The Linked Storage Box is a powered storage structure in ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki ties its arrival to the Bob's Tall Tales Steampunk Ascent, which launched alongside Aberration for ASA, and our records file it under the Steampunk DLC. Items put into one box can be taken out of another anywhere on the map, provided the boxes are powered; the wiki compares it to a tribe-shared cloud.

Power, slots and access

• Power: the box runs on electricity, and every box needs power to show the tribe's linked inventory.
• Start-up: the first time a box is switched on, it has a 5 minute cooldown before it can be used.
• Capacity: the linked inventory holds 50 slots. Items inside will not drop off on their own; a player or a Sir-5rM8 has to take them out.
• Platforms: when the box is under a Platform Saddle, the weight of its contents is not counted against the platform creature.
• Access: the wiki notes that any player can open another tribe's linked inventory and use it.

Crafting the box

The engram unlocks at level 100 for 33 engram points. Each box takes 5 seconds to craft, gives 3.7 XP and needs:

• 400 Crystal
• 300 Metal Ingot
• 300 Cementing Paste
• 120 Electronics
• 100 Polymer
• 60 Black Pearl

A box weighs 4 and they stack to 5, so a full stack weighs 20. Our records list 5 loot crates that can contain it: Aberration Red and its bonus version on Aberration and Valguero, Aberration Surface Red and its bonus version on Aberration, and the Astral Rock Drake crate. The box itself appears on 9 maps in our data.