Mini Charge Battery

A small battery for charge-powered gear

The Mini Charge Battery holds charge and passes it on to electrical devices in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game explains: "Stores Charge from Charge Pets & Power Nodes, and can be placed in various Electrical Devices to power them." According to the ARK Wiki it arrived with the Wasteland War pack of the Bob's Tall Tales DLC; our records file it under Wasteland.

Mini versus full-size

The wiki describes it as working just like the Charge Battery. The main difference is capacity: the mini version stores 50 units of charged light, the normal one 500, and the normal one also costs more resources and more engram points. The mini can run electrical devices for a short time, and the Charge Lantern needs either of the two batteries.

Recharging it

• Store it in the inventory of a Makeshift Megalab, City Terminal or Charge Node.
• Place it in the inventory of Lantern Pets or a Tek Stryder; they charge any battery they carry.
• Carry an empty battery and interact with a Glowbug that still has charge available.

Two batteries that are only partly charged can be merged by dragging one on top of the other.

Engram and crafting

The engram costs 5 engram points, and in ASA it unlocks at level 45. Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 1 XP. One battery needs:

• 5 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 5 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 4 Crystal (or Primal Crystal)
• 2 Electronics

The wiki names a Smithy and a Tek Replicator as crafting places, along with an Argentavis Saddle, Castoroides Saddle, Helicoprion Saddle or Thorny Dragon Saddle. The battery weighs 0.25 and stacks to 1, and our records list it on 9 maps, among them The Island, Extinction, Lost Colony and Valguero.