Rocket Propelled Grenade
A small but powerful explosive, primarily used with rocket launchers.
Details
- Category
- Ammunition
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 85 crates
- Item ID
- 243
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 87
- Engram points
- 8
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Rocket Propelled Grenade guides
How to craft Rocket Propelled Grenade
Rocket Propelled Grenade is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 87, costs 8 engram points, takes 1 seconds, gives 3.6 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
340Stone
160Chitin/Keratin
40Flint
40Charcoal
24Metal
20ObsidianCrafted along the way: Gunpowder ×40, Sparkpowder ×40, Cementing Paste ×40, Metal Ingot ×12, Polymer ×10.
How to get Rocket Propelled Grenade
Rocket Propelled Grenade is found in 85 loot crates.
Loot crates
85 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 85 crates
- Astral DeinosuchusThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MammothThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MegalodonThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral MosasaurThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral TusoteuthisThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Desert TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Extinction Cave BlueExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave RedExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Cave YellowExtinction · ASA
- Fjordur RedFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Red BonusFjordur · ASE
- Forest TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Ice TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Island Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Ice Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island Underwater BlueThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater RedThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- Island Underwater YellowThe Island and Astraeos · ASA
- King Titan EasyExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan HardExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan MediumExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Lost Island RedLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Red BonusLost Island · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried PurpleThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried RedThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried YellowThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Thrall DemolisherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
- Wild BroodmotherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Rocket Propelled Grenade — Detailed Guide
Ammunition for rocket weapons
The 
Rocket Launcher and the 
Rocket Turret both fire the Rocket Propelled Grenade, or RPG, an explosive recorded for ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game describes it as "A small but powerful explosive, primarily used with rocket launchers." Each rocket is used up when fired.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 87 for 8 engram points, crafting also requires level 87, and our records list the 
Grenade as its prerequisite. The wiki names the Fabricator and the 
Tek Replicator as crafting stations. One rocket takes:
- 40
Gunpowder - 20
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste) - 12
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 10
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 10
Polymer (
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule also work)
Crafting takes 1 second and gives 3.6 XP. The ARK Wiki calls it cheaper than the 
C4 Charge: a rocket needs no 
Electronics, Hide or Fiber and saves 35 Gunpowder and 15 Crystal, though it takes 7 more Metal Ingots and 15 more Cementing Paste.
Damage and handling
Against a creature with no saddle, one RPG does 1400 damage. The wiki passes on a view from the Steam Forums that rockets are meant more for buildings than for creatures, with many players reporting unpredictable results against anything other than player-built objects. Even so, they can help in caves against groups of smaller creatures such as 
Onycs, or enrage a 
Giganotosaurus so that it dismounts its rider. Two cautions apply: in close quarters a rocket can heavily damage your own creatures or you, and 
Auto Turrets can shoot RPGs down.
Weight, maps and loot
Each rocket weighs 0.1 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 10. Our records list it on 9 maps, among them The Island, Aberration, Lost Colony and Astraeos, and 85 loot crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Red.