Mortar and Pestle
This simple stone contraption can be used to grind resources into new substances.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 57 crates
- Item ID
- 106
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 6
- Engram points
- 6
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Mortar and Pestle guides
How to craft Mortar and Pestle
Mortar and Pestle is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 6, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 7.25 XP.
How to get Mortar and Pestle
Mortar and Pestle is found in 57 loot crates.
Loot crates
57 crates
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · ASE
- 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
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- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost 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 GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Mortar and Pestle — Detailed Guide
A station for grinding
The Mortar and Pestle is a crafting station in ARK: Survival Evolved that breaks resources down into other useful items. Its description: "This simple stone contraption can be used to grind resources into new substances." The ARK Wiki gives 
Narcotic as an example, ground from 
Narcoberry and 
Spoiled Meat. After starting a craft you do not have to stay next to it; the XP keeps coming in for as long as the crafting runs. The same recipes can also be made in the 
Chemistry Bench, which the wiki describes as the more advanced option.
Unlocking and building one
The engram unlocks at level 6 for 6 engram points. One costs 65 
Stone and 15 
Hide, crafts in 5 seconds and gives 7.2 XP. It weighs 4 and stacks to 100, with a full stack weighing 400. Our records list it on 9 maps and count 57 loot crate types that can contain it, including the Aberration White, Fjordur Green and Genesis Blue crates.
Where it can stand and how it breaks
It can only be placed on a surface built by a player, for example foundations, ceilings or 
Wooden Tables. Despite the stone look, it counts as a thatch structure: anything except non-explosive ranged attacks can damage it, and the ARK Wiki warns that it takes damage easily. The wiki also describes a hiding trick: where a 
Stone Pillar pokes through a ceiling tile, the Mortar and Pestle fits fully inside it, and an enemy would only find it by chance or by demolishing the structure.