Rocket Homing Missile

A rocket that steers itself

Added with Scorched Earth, the Rocket Homing Missile is a projectile for ARK: Survival Evolved that corrects its own path; the ARK Wiki also calls it Homing Missile Ammo. In-game it is an "Advanced projectile with trajectory auto-correction." The wiki calls it useful for killing fast-moving and flying creatures, which are otherwise hard to hit.

Locking on and decoys

A missile needs a few seconds and a clear view of its target before it locks on, which makes it awkward in tight spaces. A flare fired into the sky can pull it away: the missile then chases the flare rather than the target. The wiki also notes that it cannot be loaded into a Rocket Launcher that has a skin applied.

Engram and recipe

The engram unlocks at level 90 and costs 25 engram points. Missiles are crafted one at a time in a Fabricator or a Tek Replicator, each in 1 second for 8 XP, from:

• 50 Gunpowder
• 40 Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste
• 20 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 20 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 15 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 5 Electronics

The wiki points out that every material can be found on The Island, but learning the engram means travelling to another map.

Weight, maps and loot

A missile weighs 0.1, so a full stack of 100 weighs 10. Our records list it on 7 maps, for example Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero and Fjordur. In loot, 31 crate types can contain it, including the Dragon Hoard, the Astral Pulmonoscorpius Royalty crate, the Astraeos Desert Red crates and the hard and medium Bulbdog Fetch mission crates on Genesis Part 2.