Plant Species Z Seed
Plant this in a viable large crop plot to grow a charge-infused plant, that will protect you against enemies and provide you with fruits!
Details
- Category
- Seed
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Plant Species Z Seed guides
How to get Plant Species Z Seed
Plant Species Z Seed is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- 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
Show all 44 crates
- 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
- 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
Plant Species Z Seed — Detailed Guide
Seeds of a defensive plant
Planting a Plant Species Z Seed grows the 
Plant Species Z in ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved; the seed first came with the Aberration DLC. The description promises "a charge-infused plant, that will protect you against enemies and provide you with fruits!" once the seed goes into a viable large crop plot. Besides Aberration, the ARK Wiki lists the seed on Crystal Isles, Fjordur, Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2.
Collecting seeds from a wild plant
A wild Plant Species Z cannot be harvested. Instead, a survivor waits next to it: every 60 seconds the plant pulls in its tentacle and spits out a seed, which then has to be picked up within 30 seconds before it decomposes. The ARK Wiki mentions a bug where some seeds vanish a second or two after landing; a foundation placed where the seed lands catches it. On Fjordur, seeds can also come, rarely, from the oval-topped plants in the Space cave.
Growing and using the plant
Given Fertilizer and water in a 
Large Crop Plot, the seed grows into a Plant Species Z. The grown plant puts 
Plant Species Z Fruits into your inventory; these act like a flash-bang grenade and blind both survivors and creatures briefly. The seeds are also a taming food: the ARK Wiki lists the 
Bulbdog, 
Featherlight, 
Glowtail, 
Shinehorn and 
Cosmo, and says creatures with a passive charge light, the Bulbdog for one, favor them over all other food.
Weight and storage
A seed weighs 0.01 and a stack of 100 weighs 1. According to the ARK Wiki the seeds do not spoil. Our records count 44 crate types that can contain them, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Orange crates on Genesis Part 2.