Minigun Turret
Mount this to fire a hail of Advanced Rifle Bullets at your enemies. Powered by the rider.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 68 crates
- Item ID
- 408
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 94
- Engram points
- 80
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Minigun Turret guides
How to craft Minigun Turret
Minigun Turret is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 94, costs 80 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 320 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
3,400Stone
1,700Chitin/Keratin
1,000Metal
300ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×500, Cementing Paste ×425, Polymer ×150.
How to get Minigun Turret
Minigun Turret is found in 68 loot crates.
Loot crates
68 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 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
- 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 RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · 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
- Scorched Buried BlueThe 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
Minigun Turret — Detailed Guide
A mounted gun for Advanced Rifle Bullets
The Minigun Turret is a stationary emplacement in ARK: Survival Evolved that a player mounts to aim and shoot. Its description: "Mount this to fire a hail of Advanced Rifle Bullets at your enemies. Powered by the rider." Like the 
Rocket Turret, it needs no fuel source. The ARK Wiki puts its damage at about 30 per shot and its ammo storage at 24 inventory slots, and it keeps working underwater, for instance on top of a tamed 
Plesiosaur.
Aiming and handling
- Aggro first: shots only register on creatures that have been aggravated, which is behind the common belief that the turret is bugged.
- Sight: bullets do not land at the center of the sight; line targets up with the vertical arrow's tip.
- Accuracy: fired in small bursts it is about as accurate as the assault rifle.
- Placement: keep it away from unbreakable rock walls; turning into one throws you off the turret and leaves destroying it as the only fix.
- Rider: creatures can still hurt the rider, even ones that cannot damage the turret.
What can break it
The turret counts as a stone structure. Among the damage sources the wiki lists are explosives (150%), metal weapons (5%), the 
Ballista Turret (40%), Alpha Creatures (10%), Bosses (10%), and the 
DodoRex and 
Dodo Wyvern (300% each). The wiki adds that its damage per second can counteract the 250 hp a second regeneration of the DodoRex, though at a high cost.
Crafting the turret
The engram unlocks at level 94 for 80 engram points, and the turret is made in a 
Fabricator or a 
Tek Replicator from:
- 500
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 150
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule - 125
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 100
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Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 320 XP. The raw materials are heavy enough to overload even large creatures, yet the finished turret weighs only 4. Our records list 68 crate types that can contain it, such as the Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Yellow crates, and list it for 12 maps.