Scope Attachment
The carefully shaped crystal lenses in this scope grant the user a telescopic aim when firing. Attach this to a supporting weapon to gain more accurate aiming. Supports: Pistols, Machined Shotgun, Machined Sniper and Longneck Rifle.
Details
- Category
- Attachment
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 92 crates
- Item ID
- 137
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 35
- Engram points
- 13
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Scope Attachment guides
How to craft Scope Attachment
Scope Attachment is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 35, costs 13 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 49 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
80MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×40.
How to get Scope Attachment
Scope Attachment is found in 92 loot crates.
Loot crates
92 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
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- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Fjordur PurpleFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Purple BonusFjordur · 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, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · 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
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Scope Attachment — Detailed Guide
A telescopic sight for firearms
The Scope Attachment is an add-on for guns in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that gives a magnified sight picture. The game describes it like this: "The carefully shaped crystal lenses in this scope grant the user a telescopic aim when firing." According to the item text it fits pistols, the Machined Shotgun, the Machined Sniper and the 
Longneck Rifle.
What the zoom really does
Looking through the scope magnifies the view roughly 3x and narrows the field of view. The ARK Wiki points out that it does not make a weapon more accurate as such; it helps you see the target, and in exchange the gun sways while zoomed, which makes small targets hard to hit. Pistols are the exception: on the 
Simple Pistol and the 
Fabricated Pistol the scope adds no sway, so it costs nothing there. On a shotgun the gain is close to zero, because the spread already limits the range at which magnification would help.
For players in VR mode, the scope gets in the way more than it helps, since its overlay follows where the headset looks rather than where the barrel points; the wiki reports the same issue with the 
Holo-Scope Attachment and Tek weapon scopes. The reticle is styled on the German Post design.
Unlocking and crafting the scope
The engram unlocks at level 35 for 13 engram points, with the 
Spyglass as its prerequisite. It is crafted in a 
Smithy, and an 
Argentavis Saddle can make it too, from:
- 40
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 20
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 5
Stone
Each craft takes 10 seconds and gives 49 experience. At 0.1 weight a spare scope is barely noticeable in the inventory. Loot is another source: 92 crate types can contain it, among them the Aberration Blue, Purple and Red crates. Our data lists it on 9 maps.