Oil Jar
Throw it to create an oil slick which can be lit on fire! This sticky substance can also slow down people which step in it!
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 19 crates
- Item ID
- 124
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 24
- Engram points
- 15
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Oil Jar guides
How to craft Oil Jar
Oil Jar is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 24, costs 15 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 11.35 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
4Flint
3Sulfur
3Cactus Sap
3Oil
3Charcoal
2StoneCrafted along the way: Propellant ×3, Gunpowder ×3, Sparkpowder ×3.
How to get Oil Jar
Oil Jar is found in 19 loot crates.
Loot crates
19 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA / ASE
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Show all 19 crates
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
Oil Jar — Detailed Guide
A jar of flammable oil
Throwing an Oil Jar in ARK: Survival Evolved leaves a sticky, flammable slick on the ground. The description starts with "Throw it to create an oil slick which can be lit on fire!" and adds that the sticky oil slows down anyone who steps in it. The jar arrived with Scorched Earth, and our records list it on 7 maps: Scorched Earth, Fjordur, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, Valguero, Ragnarok and Genesis Part 2.
Lighting the slick
Plenty of fire sources look as if they should ignite the oil, but the ARK Wiki says only three do: a thrown 
Torch, a 
Flame Arrow shot into it, or a 
Flamethrower's flames. An unlit puddle disappears after 5 minutes; a lit one burns for 30 seconds and is then gone. Several jars can be thrown in a connected line to form a trail of fire that burns creatures and players who touch it, and burning oil destroys thatch and wood tier structures along with a few others.
How survivors use it
- Defense: a ring of oil around a base can be set alight as enemies come close.
- Raids: the wiki calls it good against smaller bases, and jars can be scattered over the ground before being lit.
- Combos: together with bolas or large bear traps it gives early and mid game players a cheap way to deal with nearby threats.
- Tight spaces: in a confined area, creatures and players can be kept burning until they die.
- Taming: burning Oil Jars can be used in taming the
Phoenix. - Farm animals: the wiki names it the quickest and most cost-effective way to cull farm animals such as
Kairuku.
One caution from the wiki: if burning oil touches a spike wall, it can keep damaging the player who lit it for the whole burn, which is likely a bug.
Crafting and carrying
The engram unlocks at level 24 for 15 engram points. Jars are made in the inventory from 3 
Propellant, 3 
Gunpowder and 5 
Clay; each craft takes 5 seconds and gives 11.35 XP. A jar weighs 0.5 and they stack to 10, so a full stack weighs 5, and durability is 40. Loot is another option: 19 crate types can contain one, among them the Astraeos Desert Blue and Astraeos Desert Purple crates and the easy and hard Outpost: Molten Works crates on Lost Colony.