Red Element

A Lost Colony resource

Red Element is a crafting resource in ARK: Survival Ascended that belongs to the Lost Colony DLC; our records list it on the Lost Colony map. The in-game text: "A strange, highly advanced material humming with energy. It dissolves when transferred across ARKs."

How to get Red Element

One craft takes 5 seconds and turns 2 Element and 50 Blood Pack into 1 Red Element. It also turns up in loot: 3 crate types can contain it, namely Lost Queen Easy, Lost Queen Medium and Lost Queen Hard.

What Red Element goes into

Our database counts 33 recipes that use it. Many of them are Cursed gear, for example:

• Armor: Cursed Flak pieces take 5 each, Cursed Riot pieces 10 and Cursed Tek pieces 20, for the boots, chestpiece, gauntlets, helmet and leggings alike.
• Tools: the Cursed Chainsaw (5), Cursed Metal Hatchet (1) and Cursed Metal Pick (1).
• Weapons: the Cursed Assault Rifle, Cursed Compound Bow and Cursed Fabricated Sniper Rifle (10 each), the Cursed Fabricated Pistol (5) and the Cursed Crossbow (1).

It also goes into two other resources, Exsanguinated Red Element and Red Element Shard, each recipe using 1 Red Element.

Weight

At 0.01 per unit and a stack size of 100, a full stack weighs 1.