Rock Drake Tek Saddle
Equip a Rock Drake with this to ride it, enabling the rider to fire plasma projectiles. Using requires learning this Tekgram.
Details
- Category
- Saddle
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 13 crates
- Item ID
- 505
Saddle & engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
Maps
Found on 8 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Rock Drake Tek Saddle guides
How to craft Rock Drake Tek Saddle
Rock Drake Tek Saddle is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 86 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
7,280Stone
4,700Metal
3,640Chitin/Keratin
910ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×2,350, Cementing Paste ×910, Polymer ×455.
How to get Rock Drake Tek Saddle
Rock Drake Tek Saddle is dropped by 1 creature; found in 13 loot crates.
Dropped by
Rock DrakeLoot crates
13 crates
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 13 crates
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Rock Drake Tek Saddle — Detailed Guide
The Rock Drake saddle with a plasma cannon
The Rock Drake Tek Saddle is the upgraded form of the 
Rock Drake Saddle in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. With it you can ride a tamed 
Rock Drake and shoot from its back: "Equip a Rock Drake with this to ride it, enabling the rider to fire plasma projectiles. Using requires learning this Tekgram." The ARK Wiki says it was introduced in Aberration and lists Lost Island, Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2 as further places it appears.
Using the plasma cannon
While riding, press the melee key (Ctrl by default) to fire. Every shot drains 4% of the equipped 
Element, so one Element covers 25 shots. Compared with the regular saddle it offers more armor, and like its predecessor the saddle camouflages along with the drake and rider. It has 3 seats.
The ARK Wiki notes two oddities. Console players cannot switch to first person while using this saddle. And plasma can be fired while the drake is invisible without ending the invisibility; whether that is intended is not known.
Unlocking and crafting
The engram is unlocked by defeating 
Rockwell on Beta (Medium) difficulty. The saddle is crafted in a Tek Replicator or with an 
Exo-Mek, which takes 10 seconds and gives 86 XP. Ingredients:
- 2350
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 455
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 325
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 185
Black Pearl - 75 Element or
Red Element
Among Tek saddles, only the 
Astrocetus Tek Saddle needs more Element (82); this one ranks second at 75.
Stats and other sources
Armor is 45, durability 120 and weight 20. Through console commands, saddle armor can go as high as 634.8. Our records also name the Rock Drake and the 
Corrupted Rock Drake as creatures that drop the saddle, and 13 crate types can contain it, for example the Dragon Hoard and the Hard versions of the Genesis Part 2 missions 'Ferox Cull' and 'Circuit Chase'.