Megalodon Tek Saddle
Equip a Megalodon with this to ride it, enabling the rider to fire plasma projectiles. Using requires learning this Tekgram.
Details
- Category
- Saddle
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 13 crates
- Item ID
- 457
Saddle & engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Megalodon Tek Saddle guides
How to craft Megalodon Tek Saddle
Megalodon Tek Saddle is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 86 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
8,000Stone
5,000Metal
4,000Chitin/Keratin
1,000ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×2,500, Cementing Paste ×1,000, Polymer ×500.
How to get Megalodon Tek Saddle
Megalodon Tek Saddle is dropped by 1 creature; found in 13 loot crates.
Dropped by
MegalodonLoot crates
13 crates
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- 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
- 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
Show all 13 crates
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Megalodon Tek Saddle — Detailed Guide
Tek gear for the Megalodon
The Megalodon Tek Saddle is the upgraded version of the 
Megalodon Saddle, used for riding a tamed 
Megalodon in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. In ASA its description reads: "Equip a Megalodon with this to ride it, enabling the rider to fire plasma projectiles. Using requires learning this Tekgram." The ASE description is a single short line naming it the Tek saddle for the Megalodon.
What the Tek version adds
According to the ARK Wiki it gives more armor than the regular saddle, and pressing the melee key (Ctrl by default) while riding switches on a laser helmet. Our records give it an armor rating of 45 and 120 durability; the saddle weighs 20 and does not stack (stack size 1).
Tekgram and recipe
The ARK Wiki ties the Tekgram to killing the Gamma Dragon. The saddle is crafted in a Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek; a craft takes 10 seconds and gives 86 XP. Ingredients:
- 2500
Metal Ingot (in ASA, 
Scrap Metal Ingot also counts) - 500
Polymer (in ASA also 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule) - 370
Crystal (in ASA also 
Primal Crystal) - 140
Black Pearl - 55
Element (
Red Element also works, per the ARK Wiki)
The wiki notes that this 55 Element matches every other Tek saddle except the 
Rex Tek Saddle, the 
Rock Drake Tek Saddle and the 
Astrocetus Tek Saddle.
Where else it turns up
Outside crafting, 13 loot crate types can contain it, for example the Dragon Hoard and the Hard versions of Genesis Part 2 missions such as 'Bulbdog Fetch', 'Circuit Chase' and 'Ferox Cull'. Our records list it on 9 maps.