Metal Machete
A sharp metal machete used for harvesting specialized consumables.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 30
- Engram points
- 25
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Machete guides
How to craft Metal Machete (Primitive Plus)
Metal Machete (Primitive Plus) is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 30, costs 25 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 5 XP.
Metal Machete — Detailed Guide
A harvesting blade from Primitive Plus
The Metal Machete is a Primitive+ DLC item for ARK: Survival Evolved, described in game as "A sharp metal machete used for harvesting specialized consumables." Our database files it as a tool, while the ARK Wiki lists it among melee weapons. With it, players can collect bonus amounts of several fresh foods and Feathers from a handful of creatures.
Bonus harvests by creature
According to the wiki, harvesting with the machete gives bonus amounts of:
- Fresh Poultry and Feathers:
Dodo, 
Terror Bird, 
Argentavis, 
Quetzal and 
Pelagornis - Fresh Fat:
Mammoth, Stego and 
Phiomia - Fresh Bacon: Phiomia
- Fresh Spare Ribs: Trike
The wiki adds that it gathers Primitive Plus materials ahead of base game materials, at a raised rate.
Crafting and durability
Our records put the engram at level 30, and it costs 25 engram points. The machete is made in a 
Smithy or an 
Advanced Workbench (Primitive Plus) from:
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WoodCrafting takes 5 seconds and gives 5 XP. The finished machete weighs 2, has a stack size of 1 and comes with 40 durability.