Refining Forge
Requires Wood, Thatch, or Sparkpowder to activate. Put unrefined resources in this to refine them.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 87 crates
- Item ID
- 124
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 20
- Engram points
- 21
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Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Refining Forge guides
How to craft Refining Forge
Refining Forge is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 20, costs 21 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 18.55 XP.
How to get Refining Forge
Refining Forge is found in 87 loot crates.
Loot crates
87 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
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- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Fjordur BlueFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Blue BonusFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · ASE
- 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 BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost 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
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA
Refining Forge — Detailed Guide
Where metal and oil get refined
The Refining Forge is a crafting station in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. According to the ARK Wiki it produces 
Metal Ingot from Metal and 
Gasoline from Oil, and both jobs can run together, each on its own timer. The in-game description: "Requires Wood, Thatch, or Sparkpowder to activate. Put unrefined resources in this to refine them."
Fueling and lighting the forge
Four fuels work in it: Thatch, Wood, 
Sparkpowder and 
AnglerGel. Loading fuel and materials is not enough on its own; the fire has to be lit before refining begins. The wiki recommends matching the amount of fuel to the amount of material, so that none is left burning after the job is done. Its reference amounts are 400 
Thatch, 100 
Wood, 50 Sparkpowder or 12.5 AnglerGel: any one of these melts exactly 300 
Metal into 150 Metal Ingot and/or turns 600 
Oil and 500 
Hide into 500 Gasoline. Thatch stacks to 200, while the other fuels stack to 100. The forge also cannot be placed on a foundation that is underwater.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 20 for 21 engram points, and our data names the 
Campfire as its prerequisite. The forge is crafted in the inventory in 5 seconds for 18.6 XP and needs:
- 125
Stone - 65 Hide
- 40
Fiber - 20 Wood or
Fungal Wood - 5
Flint
A forge weighs 4, and a full stack of 100 weighs 400. Crates can hold it as well: 87 crate types in our records can contain one, among them the Aberration Blue, Green and Purple crates and their bonus versions. It is listed on 14 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Lost Island and Fjordur.
Resistance to damage
The wiki treats the forge as a wooden structure: hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks do not damage it. It also lists aggressive creatures that cannot harm it, such as the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Kaprosuchus, 
Thylacoleo and 
Titanoboa.