ResourceASE + ASA
Organic Polymer
These incredibly strong, lightweight plates are somehow naturally made in certain creatures. Incredibly hazardous to human health if consumed.
Weight0.25
Stack20
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 51 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Resource (Not an Engram)
Maps
Found on 9 maps
The IslandScorched EarthAberrationExtinctionLost ColonyThe CenterAstraeosRagnarokValguero
Video guides: search YouTube for Organic Polymer guides
How to get Organic Polymer
Organic Polymer is found in 51 loot crates.
Loot crates
51 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Alpha DeathwormThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Alpha Deathworm and Iceworm QueenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Corrupted GigaThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Corrupted GiganotosaurusThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Corrupted Paraceratherium, Corrupted Reaper King, and Enraged Corrupted TriceratopsThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Corrupted RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Corrupted SpinoThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Corrupted WyvernThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Deathworm and IcewormThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Enraged Corrupted RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Enraged Trike, Corrupt Paracer, Corrupt ReaperThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Iceworm QueenRagnarok · ASA
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe 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
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Organic Polymer — Detailed Guide
A natural stand-in for Polymer
Organic Polymer is a resource that comes from certain creatures and plants in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Any recipe that takes regular 
Polymer accepts it, and when both are in a 
Fabricator or 
Tek Replicator the regular Polymer gets used first. The item text warns: "Incredibly hazardous to human health if consumed." It means it: eating a piece deals 500 damage, enough to kill most players outright.
Where it comes from
- Creatures: it is harvested from a killed
Kairuku, 
Mantis, 
Hesperornis or 
Karkinos, and the 
Deathworm can drop it. A 
Wooden Club, 
Sword or 
Chainsaw improves the yield. The wiki also singles out the 
Bloodstalker, and a 
Moschops with high harvesting points, as strong gatherers. 
Achatina: a tamed one produces it together with 
Cementing Paste. Kept inside the Achatina it spoils three times slower, lasting 1 hour 30 minutes.- Plants: the white, bulb-shaped plants in the element areas of Aberration, Valguero and Fjordur give it when gathered by hand or with a
Therizinosaur or 
Tek Stryder. - Bee's Cave: the beehives there on Crystal Isles, where a
Magmasaur or 
Doedicurus can collect thousands in minutes. - Carcasses: the beached
Ichthyosaurus on Valguero and the carcasses at Bolbjord on Fjordur. 
Gacha: a tamed one may make it as a rare product, though 
Gacha Crystals cannot hold it, as it keeps spoiling inside them.
Industrial Grinder: grinding items that were made with Polymer returns Organic Polymer.
Spoilage and storage
Out of an Achatina, a piece spoils in 30 minutes. A 
Preserving Bin accepts it without slowing the spoiling, and a 
Refrigerator will not take it at all. Each piece weighs 0.25 and a stack holds 20, so a full stack weighs 5. Feeding it to creatures does them no harm.
Ghillie gear and other recipes
According to the wiki, the Ghillie Suit pieces can only be made with the organic kind. Our data shows 5 recipes in each game: 
Ghillie Leggings take 8, the 
Ghillie Chestpiece 6, the 
Ghillie Mask 5 and 
Ghillie Gauntlets 3, with 
Ghillie Boots (4) in ASE and the 
BattleRig RearEnd-Mod: Sludgetrail (20) in ASA. Loot adds more: 51 crate types can contain it, such as the Aberration Purple and Aberration Surface Yellow crates.