Scout Remote

Flying the Scout drone

The Scout Remote is an Extinction item in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that hands a survivor direct control of a Scout. Its description is short: "Controls Scout drone in Extinction." The remote was added in version 285.104.

How the remote works

To deploy it, hold the remote and press Lmb, preferably somewhere open. After a few seconds the survivor is holding a pair of binoculars and a Scout appears. The player steers the drone until pressing E. The Scout goes back into the inventory with Rmb, or once its cooldown runs out.

• Pressing "c" turns on thermal view.
• Left-clicking a creature or a player gives nearby tames an order similar to attacking that target.
• The Scout can also restore the Mek's health quickly.
• On console, the wiki warns against using it with a shoulder mount: the "Dismount" command then fails to exit the remote. Flying the drone out of range gets you out of that state.

Crafting it in a Tek Replicator

Our records list the remote as a Tek Replicator item with no engram. The recipe:

• 30 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 20 Element Dust or Red Element Dust
• 20 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 5 Electronics

A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 11.35 XP. The remote weighs 0.5, has a stack size of 1 and a durability of 1. The binoculars it shows later became an item of their own, the Electronic Binoculars of Genesis: Part 1, which serve a different function.