Propellant
Used to manufacture highly flammable substances.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 53 crates
- Item ID
- 121
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 22
- Engram points
- 12
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Propellant guides
How to craft Propellant
Propellant is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 22, costs 12 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1 XP.
How to get Propellant
Propellant is found in 53 loot crates.
Loot crates
53 crates
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- 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
Show all 53 crates
- 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
- 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
- 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
Propellant — Detailed Guide
Propellant in ammunition and weapons
Propellant is a crafted resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that goes into ammunition and weapons, the 
Flame Arrow among them. The in-game text: "Used to manufacture highly flammable substances." It was introduced with Scorched Earth, and the ARK Wiki also lists it on Fjordur, Lost Island, Valguero, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles and Genesis: Part 2. Our records place it on 9 maps, including The Island, Astraeos and Lost Colony.
Grinding it
The engram unlocks at level 22 for 12 engram points. The work happens in a 
Mortar and Pestle or a 
Chemistry Bench, and each craft yields 1 Propellant from:
- 1
Sulfur - 1
Cactus Sap, or 
Blood Sap instead - 1
Oil, or Oil (
Tusoteuthis) instead
A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 1 XP.
What Propellant goes into
The two games differ here. Our ASE records count 4 recipes:
Cluster Grenade: 35
Flamethrower Ammo: 10
Oil Jar: 3- Flame Arrow: 1
In ASA the count is 2: the Flame Arrow, again with 1, and the 
Incendiary Ship Cannonball, which takes 10.
Weight and crates
One unit weighs 0.5 and a stack holds 100, a full stack weighing 50. Loot is a second source: 53 crate types can contain Propellant, including the Astraeos Desert Red and Astraeos Desert Yellow crates and the Genesis Blue crate on Genesis Part 2.