Re-Fertilizer
Spread these seeds of concentrated nutrients around and what was once harvested may yet regrow, even nearby a structure!
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 70 crates
- Item ID
- 382
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 38
- Engram points
- 20
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Re-Fertilizer guides
How to craft Re-Fertilizer
Re-Fertilizer is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 38, costs 20 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
4Flint
2StoneCrafted along the way: Sparkpowder ×4.
How to get Re-Fertilizer
Re-Fertilizer is found in 70 loot crates.
Loot crates
70 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 70 crates
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe 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
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost 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
- 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
- Scorched Buried BlueThe 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
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
Re-Fertilizer — Detailed Guide
Letting harvested resources grow back
Re-Fertilizer is a crafted consumable in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that makes plants, trees and even rocks return where they were harvested before. It is a separate item from 
Fertilizer, which is one of its ingredients. The in-game text puts it like this: "Spread these seeds of concentrated nutrients around and what was once harvested may yet regrow, even nearby a structure!"
How it works
Put it on the hotbar and use it on the spot you want, or activate it from the inventory. The effect covers a tight area, about the size of a single foundation. The ARK Wiki stresses that it does not speed up respawns. What it does is let resources come back next to foundations when their respawn time has already passed and a nearby foundation was blocking them. In single player the wiki expects it to fail almost every time, blaming that mode's broken respawn mechanics.
Mind where you stand
A regrown tree or rock can appear right on the survivor, trapping them inside it. That can kill the character; the inventory can then be taken back from the body, but on official servers the anti-meshing system may destroy the body, and the whole inventory is lost with it.
Crafting Re-Fertilizer
The engram unlocks at level 38 for 20 engram points, and the ARK Wiki lists the inventory as the place to craft it. One craft gives 1 and takes:
- 4
Sparkpowder - 3
Oil (or Oil (
Tusoteuthis)) - 1 Fertilizer
- 1
Rare Flower - 1
Rare Mushroom
Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 1 XP. Each one weighs 0.3, so a full stack of 100 weighs 30. Our records list it on 14 maps, among them The Island, Scorched Earth, Astraeos and Fjordur, and 70 crate types can contain it, among them the Aberration Red crates and the Aberration surface Red and Yellow crates.