Makeshift Megalab
An extremely powerful laboratory making chemical substances. Requires element to be activated.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Wasteland
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 92
- Engram points
- 50
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Makeshift Megalab guides
How to craft Makeshift Megalab
Makeshift Megalab is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 92, costs 50 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 33 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
60Silica Pearls
40MetalCrafted along the way: Electronics ×20, Metal Ingot ×20.
Makeshift Megalab — Detailed Guide
An Element-powered chemistry lab
The Makeshift Megalab is a crafting structure in ARK: Survival Ascended. The ARK Wiki describes it as an Element-powered counterpart to the 
Chemistry Bench, with a larger inventory and quicker crafting. Its in-game text: "An extremely powerful laboratory making chemical substances. Requires element to be activated." The wiki files it under Bob's Tall Tales and says it arrived with Wasteland War.
Extra jobs it can do
Besides chemical substances, it can make 
Element and 
Element-Imbued Gasoline. It can also apply Equipment Traits: depending on the trait, they go onto armor or onto melee, projectile or firearm weapons.
Building a Megalab
The engram needs level 92 and 50 engram points, and the Megalab is crafted in a Fabricator. The materials, with the alternatives the wiki accepts:
- 450
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 300
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 250
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 150
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 100
Sparkpowder - 20
Electronics
The craft takes 5 seconds and gives 33 XP. The finished structure weighs 4 and does not stack.
Maps
Our records list it on 9 maps, among them The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony and Astraeos.