M.S.C.M.
Mek Siege Cannon Module. Equip a Mek with this module to arm it with a powerful long-range siege cannon. Unequipping reduces durability. Requires Cannon Shells to fire.
Details
- Category
- Armor
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Extinction
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 18 crates
- Item ID
- 513
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 97
- Engram points
- 40
Maps
Found on 2 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for M.S.C.M. guides
How to craft M.S.C.M.
M.S.C.M. is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 97, costs 40 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 26.8 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
2,880Stone
1,440Chitin/Keratin
800Metal
360ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×400, Cementing Paste ×360, Polymer ×180.
How to get M.S.C.M.
M.S.C.M. is dropped by 1 creature; found in 18 loot crates.
Dropped by
Loot crates
18 crates
- Desert TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Forest TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Ice TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan EasyExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan HardExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan MediumExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 18 crates
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
M.S.C.M. — Detailed Guide
The Mek's siege cannon
The M.S.C.M., short for Mek Siege Cannon Module, is a weapon module for the 
Mek, introduced with the Extinction expansion and listed for ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Fitted to a Mek, it adds a long-range siege cannon that fires 
Cannon Shells. Its rate of fire is slow, but each shot deals massive damage, whether it hits survivors, creatures or structures.
Firing in turret mode
Pressing C puts the Mek into turret mode: it kneels down and leans on its sword. In that stance the cannon can be aimed, and holding primary fire shoots after a short warm-up, followed by a brief cooldown before the next shot. The Mek cannot move in turret mode and takes double damage, and the module itself gives no passive armor. A higher quality module does not raise the damage of its shots.
Durability and unequipping
The module has 5000 durability, and its description cautions: "Unequipping reduces durability." The ARK Wiki puts the loss at 1200 durability each time it is taken off.
Crafting and other sources
The engram unlocks at level 97 for 40 engram points. The module is crafted in the 
Exo-Mek, taking 10 seconds for 26.8 XP, from:
- 400
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 200
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 180
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 30
Element or 
Red Element - 30
Black Pearl
Our records also list the Mek as a creature that drops it, and 18 loot crates can contain it, among them the 
Desert Titan, 
Forest Titan and 
Ice Titan crates and the 
King Titan crates of Extinction. It weighs 200 and has a stack size of 1.
Titanosaur taming and maps
The ARK Wiki calls it among the easiest tools for taming a 
Titanosaur: a headshot deals 4800 torpor. Extinction has no Titanosaurs, but the Mek and the module can be uploaded and then downloaded on maps where they spawn. The wiki lists the module for Extinction, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island and Fjordur; our records also list Lost Colony.