Pheromone Dart
A dart full of refined Ammonite chemicals, inject on a target to enrage nearby wild creatures. For use in a Longneck rifle. Can not be used with attachments.
Details
- Category
- Ammunition
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 41 crates
- Item ID
- 418
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 90
- Engram points
- 60
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Pheromone Dart guides
How to craft Pheromone Dart
Pheromone Dart is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 90, costs 60 engram points, takes 1 seconds, gives 0.05 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
4MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×2.
How to get Pheromone Dart
Pheromone Dart is found in 41 loot crates.
Loot crates
41 crates
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost 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
Show all 41 crates
- 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
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Pheromone Dart — Detailed Guide
Turning wild creatures on a target
The Pheromone Dart is 
Longneck Rifle ammunition in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game describes it as "A dart full of refined Ammonite chemicals, inject on a target to enrage nearby wild creatures. For use in a Longneck rifle. Can not be used with attachments." Whoever it hits becomes the target of every wild creature around for 30 seconds, and the ARK Wiki notes that even passive or skittish ones, 
Parasaurs for example, join the attack. The rage effect covers a fairly large radius, but Bosses and boss minions are not affected.
What players do with it
- Drawing in large numbers of creatures, for example inside caves.
- Distracting enemies while making a quick escape.
- Getting Troodons to attack tames that give a lot of XP, such as baby
Wyverns, for taming purposes. - Shooting the creature a rival tribe is taming, a
Quetzal or 
Giganotosaurus for example; the creatures pulled in by the rage may even kill the enemy players.
On singleplayer servers, the wiki says, it is rarely useful.
Crafting it and finding Ammonite Bile
With the 
Tranquilizer Dart as its prerequisite, the engram needs level 90 and 60 engram points. A 
Fabricator or 
Tek Replicator makes one dart in 1 second for 0.05 XP from 3 
Ammonite Bile, 2 
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) and 1 Tranquilizer Dart. The bile is harvested from 
Ammonites, which are found in deep ocean waters and some underwater caves; attacking one draws the aggression of all creatures nearby. According to the wiki, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction and other servers without an ocean have no Ammonite Bile unless it is transferred in, which leaves the dart uncraftable there.
Spoiling back into a Tranquilizer Dart
The dart spoils in 2 hours, and neither a 
Preserving Bin nor a 
Refrigerator slows that down. Once spoiled it turns into an ordinary Tranquilizer Dart. Each dart weighs 0.2 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 20. 41 crate types can contain them, for example the Lost Colony Cave Red and Lost Colony City Yellow crates and the Bulbdog Fetch mission crates of Genesis Part 2.