Rocket Launcher

A launcher for rockets and missiles

The Rocket Launcher is a weapon in ARK: Survival Evolved that fires the Rocket Propelled Grenade or the Rocket Homing Missile. The game introduces it as "Mankind's ultimate portable killing device."

Warfare and siege knockouts

The ARK Wiki describes it as a warfare weapon and as a tool for what it calls siege knockouts of creatures such as the Titanosaur, Rock Elementals, Karkinos and Astrocetus. It is more precise than emplacements, but it badly hurts taming effectiveness. That makes it a better fit for PVP, where it is used to destroy structures and to subdue those creatures.

Damage and durability

Since patch 255, quality no longer matters for rocket launchers: every launcher is primitive, and blueprints of any quality turn into primitive ones. In exchange, each rocket now deals 1800 damage instead of the original 1500. The wiki lists a durability of 50, and a launcher can fire up to 20 rockets before it breaks.

Two more points from the wiki: rockets that hit a Tek Shield bounce back at whoever fired them, and the launcher cannot be learned on the Official No Tame servers.

Engram, recipe and loot

The engram sits at level 87 and costs 32 engram points. Crafting happens in a Fabricator or Tek Replicator, takes 15 seconds and gives 243 XP. The recipe:

• 80 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 60 Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste
• 50 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

The launcher weighs 20 and does not stack. It also appears in loot: 215 crate types can contain it, among them the Aberration Red crates and the Astral Mammoth and Astral Megalodon crates. Our records list it on 9 maps.