Metal Arrow
An armor-and-hide piercing metal arrow.
Details
- Category
- Ammunition
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 89 crates
- Item ID
- 373
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 79
- Engram points
- 35
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Arrow guides
How to craft Metal Arrow
Metal Arrow is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 79, costs 35 engram points, takes 0.5 seconds, gives 0.03 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
24Stone
12Chitin/Keratin
6Metal
2ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×3, Cementing Paste ×3, Polymer ×1.
How to get Metal Arrow
Metal Arrow is found in 89 loot crates.
Loot crates
89 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astral DeinosuchusThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MammothThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MegalodonThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MosasaurThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral TusoteuthisThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Extinction Cave BlueExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave RedExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave YellowExtinction · ASA
- Island Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Ice Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Underwater BlueThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater RedThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater YellowThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- King Titan EasyExtinction · ASA
- King Titan HardExtinction · ASA
- King Titan MediumExtinction · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried PurpleThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried RedThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried YellowThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Wild BroodmotherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Metal Arrow — Detailed Guide
An arrow that pierces armor
The Metal Arrow is an arrow in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its in-game description is short: "An armor-and-hide piercing metal arrow." The ARK Wiki, describing it for ASE, calls it an advanced arrow fired from the 
Compound Bow or the 
Fabricated Crossbow, and notes that it is too heavy for the plain 
Bow and 
Crossbow.
How it performs
The wiki puts the piercing effect at a -90% armor bypass. It calls the arrow surprisingly useful in PVP, where it gets past the armor that high-end players count on, and a hit to the head can kill outright. Fully charged, it deals more damage than the 
Longneck Rifle firing 
Simple Rifle Ammo and more than the 
Fabricated Sniper Rifle.
It works at full strength against the 
Rubble Golem, which the wiki counts as a plus on Scorched Earth cave runs. The regular 
Rock Elemental is the exception: the arrow does not break through and takes the same 90% damage reduction that most physical attacks do. An arrow that stays unbroken can be collected again from a surface, a corpse or an unconscious creature it is stuck in.
Unlocking and crafting Metal Arrows
The engram requires level 79 and 35 engram points, and our records list the Compound Bow as its prerequisite. Arrows come from a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator, one per craft; each takes 0.5 seconds and gives 0.025 XP. The recipe:
- 3
Thatch - 3
Fiber - 3
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 1
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste) - 1
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule
Weight and loot
An arrow weighs 0.4 and a stack holds 100, so a full stack weighs 40. Our records count 89 crate types that can contain Metal Arrows, among them the Aberration Red crates on Aberration and Valguero and the Aberration Surface Red and Yellow crates, and list the arrow on 9 maps, such as The Island, Lost Colony, Astraeos and Ragnarok.