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Modern Grill
StructureASE + ASA

Modern Grill

Perfect for cooking meat in bulk, staying warm, and providing light. Must use crude oil as a fuel source.

Weight4
Stack3
Unlocks atLv 4930 pts

Details

Category
Structure
Games
ASE + ASA
Expansion
Base

Engram

How you unlock it

Required level
49
Engram points
30
How to unlock
Manual

Maps

Found on 1 map

Base

How to craft Modern Grill (Primitive Plus)

Modern Grill (Primitive Plus) is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 49, costs 30 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 10 XP.

Ingredients

For one craft

125Stone
10Iron Ingot (Primitive Plus)
5Cementing Paste

Raw materials

If you craft every ingredient yourself

165Stone20Chitin/Keratin10iron ingot (primitive plus)

Crafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×5.

Modern Grill — Detailed Guide

An oil-fired grill for Primitive Plus bases

The Modern Grill is a cooking structure from the Primitive+ DLC for ARK: Survival Evolved. In game it is described as "Perfect for cooking meat in bulk, staying warm, and providing light. Must use crude oil as a fuel source." The ARK Wiki confirms that Crude Oil is the only fuel it takes, and that the grill also gives off some light and heat.

Foods it can cook

According to the wiki, the grill handles a range of meats and fish, plus pancakes:

  • Meat and Prime Meat
  • Fish, Fish Fillet and Prime Fish Meat
  • Poultry, Bacon, Spare Ribs and Lamb Chop
  • Pancakes

The wiki notes that no other cooking station makes pancakes.

Building one

Our records list the engram at level 49 for 30 engram points. A grill takes 5 seconds to craft, gives 10 XP and requires:

It weighs 4. Our database gives a stack size of 3, so three grills together weigh 12.

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