Loadout Mannequin

A stand that holds a whole loadout

The Loadout Mannequin is a structure in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that keeps a set of gear ready to wear. Its description: "Deployable device to store and display Equipment and current damage state." The ARK Wiki explains that it stores a survivor's armor and hotbar items, and interacting with it puts its contents on you.

Setting it up

• Armor: each part of the figure takes the matching armor piece.
• Other items: nearly anything else fits in its inventory too, from consumables and ammunition to tools and weapons. A hotbar grid beside the name box shows which items of the loadout can be picked up.
• Look: you can name it and choose from several poses, some of them frozen frames of emotes.

A warning about the dermis

The figure you see is actually a dermis kept in the mannequin's inventory, and it can be exchanged for your own dermis, another player's or a dino's. The wiki warns that if the dermis inside is not human, putting armor in with the Swap All or Put all option of the interaction wheel appears to delete those pieces for good.

Crafting the mannequin

The Training Dummy comes first; then the engram unlocks at level 23 for 8 engram points. A Smithy or an Exo-Mek builds it in 5 seconds for 1 XP from:

• 500 Thatch
• 500 Fiber
• 200 Wood (or Fungal Wood)
• 10 Hide

Maps, weight and crates

It arrived with Genesis: Part 2, and the wiki also lists Fjordur, Lost Island, Genesis: Part 1 and Aquatica; our records add The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok and Valguero. A mannequin weighs 4 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 400. 44 crate types can contain one, for example Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Green.