ResourceASE + ASA

Sap

A thick blob of unrefined sap.

Weight0.5

Stack30

Details

Category: Resource
Games: ASE + ASA
Expansion: Base
Loot crates: 77 crates

Engram

How you unlock it

Required level: None
Engram points: 0
How to unlock: Resource (Not an Engram)

Maps

Found on 9 maps

The IslandScorched EarthAberrationExtinctionLost ColonyThe CenterAstraeosRagnarokValguero

Video guides: search YouTube for Sap guides

How to get Sap

Sap is found in 77 loot crates.

Loot crates

77 crates

Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA

Show all 77 crates

Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / 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 PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
Lost Colony Cave YellowLost 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
NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall ArcherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall DeadeyeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall DemolisherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall EnforcerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall GunslingerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall HeraldThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall MarauderThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall PiercerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall ScattershotThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall SnarerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thrall WardenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA

Sap — Detailed Guide

A resource tapped from trees

Sap is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that goes into several recipes. The in-game text calls it "A thick blob of unrefined sap." Despite that wording, the ARK Wiki notes that a forge cannot refine it. It is a different item from Cactus Sap, Blue Crystalized Sap and Red Crystalized Sap.

Gathering it map by map

Sap is collected with a Tree Sap Tap placed on a Redwood Tree. Taps collect slowly, so the wiki suggests several on different trees for a steady supply, and it notes a bug where a tap may not collect until its inventory has been opened once. Other sources it lists:

Scorched Earth: the furry Joshua trees in the Badlands and High Desert drop sap now and then when harvested with a pick or hatchet of any tier, a Chainsaw, or a Moschops leveled in sap harvesting.
Extinction: the redwoods there cannot be reached, but Joshua trees in the desert near the Desert Titan Cave can be harvested the same ways, and a Gacha that produces sap is another option.
Ragnarok: taps on the large redwoods near the red obelisk.
Valguero: besides taps, tree stumps, including those on the small island in the lake, and old broken trees on small islands.
Crystal Isles: small evergreen trees across the north; a wyvern biting them gets sap without the wood.
Fjordur: mushroom-shaped bushes in the Caverns of Time, plus some hard-to-spot trees.
Genesis Part 1 and Genesis Part 2: buying it from HLN-A on the Hexagon Exchange.

An Archaeopteryx set to wander near Redwood or Joshua trees slowly gathers it as well, around 1-2 sap every 5 to 10 minutes. Loot adds more: 77 crate types can contain sap, Aberration Blue and Aberration Purple among them, and the wiki mentions supply crates in ASA.

Recipes that use sap

Our recipe data counts 7 uses in ASE and 6 in ASA. The Camera, in ASE, takes the most at 100 per craft, and Barrel Storage needs 30 in both games. Smaller amounts go into Sweet Vegetable Cake (4), Mushroom Brew (3), Absorbent Substrate (2), Superior Kibble (1) and Resin (1). A Rhyniognatha can also turn sap into Resin in its inventory, and as fishing bait sap attracts only the Coelacanth. Sap weighs 0.5 and stacks to 30, so a full stack weighs 15.