Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap
Metal tap providing water from pipe system.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 60 crates
- Item ID
- 200
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 40
- Engram points
- 18
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap guides
How to craft Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 40, costs 18 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 3.78 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
32Stone
20Metal
16Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×10, Cementing Paste ×4.
How to get Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap is found in 60 loot crates.
Loot crates
60 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, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Fjordur PurpleFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Purple BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- 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
- 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 PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap — Detailed Guide
Drawing water from a pipe network
The Metal Water Tap in ARK: Survival Ascended, called 
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap in ARK: Survival Evolved, is the point where players get water out of an irrigation network. The ASA description reads: "This metal tap allows access to the water in an irrigation network. Can refill containers, irrigate crop plots, or provide a refreshing drink." The ASE text is shorter and simply calls it a metal tap supplying water from the pipe system.
What the tap does
- Drinking: players can drink straight from it.
- Crop Plots: it waters them through irrigation.
- Containers: a
Tek Canteen, 
Canteens, 
Water Jars or 
Waterskins fill up when put into the tap's inventory.
Keep walls clear of the spot where it goes. According to the wiki, both opening its inventory and drinking from it require line of sight.
Connecting it to pipes
The tap snaps onto straight, inclined, vertical and intersection pipes, made of metal or of stone, but it will not attach to the flexible pipe of either material. In ASE, the wiki says the game counts pipes and taps joined to it as connected to a water source that is always on. It also warns that in ASE the tap only takes water from the pipe it was first attached to; a second source plugged into its other side supplies nothing. The suggested fix for a system with a backup source is to join both sources with an intersection and put the tap on one of its free ends.
Crafting, weight and protection
The engram unlocks at level 40 for 18 engram points, and crafting also requires level 40. The wiki names the 
Smithy and the 
Argentavis Saddle as places to build it. The recipe:
- 15
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 10
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 4
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste
It takes 3 seconds. The tap weighs 4 and stacks to 100, for 400 per full stack. Our records count 60 crate types that can contain it, Aberration Blue and Aberration Red among them, and list it on 14 maps. As a metal structure it takes damage only from Titans, Bosses, the 
DodoRex, the 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera, Corrupted Creatures, Enraged Creatures, explosives, Tek Saddles and the 
Tek Rifle.