Scissors
Used for cutting hair & other materials!
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 59 crates
- Item ID
- 161
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 21
- Engram points
- 10
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Scissors guides
How to craft Scissors
Scissors is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 21, costs 10 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
12MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×6.
How to get Scissors
Scissors is found in 59 loot crates.
Loot crates
59 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral T-RexThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave BlueThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave GreenThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Cave RedThe Island, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Cave YellowThe Island, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Show all 59 crates
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · 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
- Ragnarok Cave RedRagnarok · ASA
- Ragnarok Cave YellowRagnarok · ASA
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Cave BlueScorched Earth and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched Cave RedScorched Earth, Aberration, Astraeos, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Scorched Cave YellowScorched Earth, Aberration, and Astraeos · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center Cave YellowThe Center · ASA
Scissors — Detailed Guide
Haircuts and wool
Scissors are a tool in ARK: Survival Evolved with two jobs: cutting survivors' hair and shearing tamed 
Ovis. The game keeps the description short: "Used for cutting hair & other materials!" A haircut can change a survivor's hairstyle and produces 
Human Hair, which can stand in for Pelt. Shearing an Ovis gives 
Wool, another Pelt substitute.
Limits when cutting hair
Scissors cannot make hair longer than it currently is. They also make it possible to colour a survivor's hairstyle with Dye. They wear out fast: a pair has 40 durability, and the ARK Wiki notes that they last only a few uses before they need repairing.
Crafting a pair
Unlocking the engram takes level 21 and 10 engram points. Scissors are made in a 
Smithy, or by an 
Argentavis Saddle, from:
- 35
Flint - 5
Obsidian - 6
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot)
Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 1 experience. The Obsidian is the hard part for low-level players, since it usually lies in dangerous areas.
Weight and loot
A pair weighs 2. Instead of crafting, you can also find them: 59 crate types can contain Scissors, such as the Island Blue and Astraeos Blue crates and the 
Astral T-Rex crate. Our data lists them on 9 maps.