Note

A sheet for leaving messages

The Note is a writable item in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. ASA names it Note (Player), ASE simply Note, and the ASA item text sums it up as "A writable note." A survivor writes a message on it and leaves it in a crate or another storage container, where other players can find and read it. The ARK Wiki also suggests notes as home-made Explorer Notes placed in player structures, only without the illustrations and special interface.

Writing within the limits

The text box closes again quickly. The wiki's advice is to type fast, or to prepare the message beforehand in a text editor and paste it in. A note holds at most 200 characters, line breaks included, and the game gives no sign when that limit is reached, so an editor that counts characters helps.

Custom recipes in a Cooking Pot

Notes also create custom recipes, which the ASE item text mentions as well. Put the note into a Cooking Pot together with the ingredients, leave the inventory, then hold E and choose the Make Recipe option. Our ASE data also lists one recipe that uses a note as an ingredient: the Cigarette, which takes 1.

Crafting and finding notes

The engram is available at level 1 and, per the wiki, costs 0 engram points. A note is crafted in the inventory from 3 Thatch and 1 Fiber; it takes 1 second and gives 0.1 XP. With ingredients that common, the wiki points out, notes can be crafted in large numbers to collect tiny amounts of XP. The wiki gives the weight as 0.005, and a note stacks to 1. Our records count 6 crate types that can contain one, the Aberration White, Island White and Scorched White crates and their Bonus versions, and list it on 14 maps.