Metal Water Intake
Metal irrigation intake for water source.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 88 crates
- Item ID
- 197
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 40
- Engram points
- 15
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Water Intake guides
How to craft Metal Irrigation Pipe - Intake
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Intake is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 40, costs 15 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 4.8 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
40Stone
30Metal
20Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×15, Cementing Paste ×5.
How to get Metal Irrigation Pipe - Intake
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Intake is found in 88 loot crates.
Loot crates
88 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
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- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Fjordur PurpleFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Purple BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · 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
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Metal Water Intake — Detailed Guide
The start of a metal irrigation line
The Metal Water Intake is the piece that feeds water into an irrigation network in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. On the ARK Wiki it goes by the name 
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Intake, and it is the metal entry point of a pipe system that moves water across land. To work, its lower end has to sit in water. Any natural water source will do, and the wiki adds that placement can sometimes extend beyond the water onto the shore, especially on beaches.
How it supplies water in each game
In ASE, any pipes and taps hooked up to the intake count as having a constant, active water source. The ASA rules are given as distances. There the intake provides water within 3000 Unreal Engine units, equal to 10 foundations, and links up with Stone or 
Metal Water Reservoirs up to 10000 units away, about 33 foundations. Every structure that consumes water checks for a source within 3000 units of itself, again 10 foundations.
The intake snaps onto the straight, tap, inclined, vertical and intersection pieces of both the Metal Irrigation Pipe and the Stone Irrigation Pipe sets.
Crafting the Metal Water Intake
Its engram unlocks at level 40 and costs 15 engram points. The wiki lists a 
Smithy, a 
Tek Replicator and an 
Exo-Mek as crafting spots, as well as the 
Argentavis, 
Castoroides and 
Thorny Dragon saddles. One craft takes 3 seconds, gives 4.8 XP and uses:
- 15
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 10
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 5
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste
Weight, loot and damage
Each intake weighs 5, and with a stack size of 100 a full stack weighs 500. Our records place it on 14 maps, and 88 crate types can contain it, among them the Aberration Blue, Aberration Purple and Aberration Red crates and their bonus versions. It counts as a metal structure and takes damage only from explosives, Titans, bosses, a 
Titanosaur, the 
Arthropluera, the 
DodoRex, Corrupted or Enraged Creatures, the 
Tek Rifle and Tek Saddles.