Plant Species X Seed

A seed for a living defense

Planting the Plant Species X Seed produces a defensive plant in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game description: "Plant this in a viable Large Crop Plot to grow a frightening-looking defensive plant, which will shoot poisonous spores at any interlopers!" The grown plant fires venomous projectiles. The ARK Wiki compares their effect to Dilophosaur venom: a hit blinds and slows the target, and it also raises the target's torpor.

Finding seeds

A Plant Species X drops a seed when it is killed. The wiki names two more sources: red bushes at mountain tops, where the seed is a rare drop, and swamps, where it can now be found in large numbers. Our records list the seed on 8 maps: The Island, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok and Valguero.

Growing the plant

It grows in a Large Crop Plot supplied with Fertilizer and Water. The wiki gives these growth times, all counted in in-game time:

• Seeded: 1 minute
• Seedling to Midling: about 7 days
• Midling to Growthling: about 5 days
• Growthling to Fruitling: about 1 to 2 days

A second variant of the seed, which only admin commands can spawn, is fully grown after about 30 seconds in a crop plot.

Platform rules and taming

Since patch 242.0 the seed can no longer be planted in a Large Crop Plot that sits on a platform saddle. Private servers can turn platform turrets back on, Plant Species X included, through a server setting, and the plant can be grown on rafts. The seed is also used to tame the Procoptodon.

Each seed weighs 0.01 and a stack holds 100, which weighs 1 in total.