Red Coloring
This substance can be used to color certain items and structures.
Details
- Category
- Dye
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Dye (Crafted/Gathered)
Maps
Found on 3 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Red Coloring guides
How to craft Red Coloring
Red Coloring is crafted from 3 ingredients, and one craft makes 5. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 2 XP.
How to get Red Coloring
Red Coloring 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
Red Coloring — Detailed Guide
A basic dye made from tintoberries
Red Coloring is one of the dyes in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. "This substance can be used to color certain items and structures." Applied directly, it colors regions of armor, weapons and saddles; loaded into a 
Paintbrush or a 
Spray Painter, it paints structures and creatures. Each dose is used up when it is applied.
Cooking a batch
Dyes are cooked in a 
Cooking Pot or an 
Industrial Cooker, and one batch gives 5 Red Coloring. The recipe on our records, which matches the ARK Wiki for ASE:
- 15
Tintoberry - 2
Charcoal - 1
Water
For ASA, the wiki lists a simpler mix of 12 Tintoberry and 1 Water. A batch takes 10 seconds and gives 2 XP.
Weight and other sources
Red Coloring weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 10, light enough to keep a supply on hand. Our records list it for The Island, Scorched Earth and The Center, and 44 crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Green and Genesis Red crates on Genesis Part 2.