Shipyard

Building ships on the water

The Shipyard constructs ships in ARK: Survival Ascended. It is a large structure that came with Tides of Fortune, an adventure pack from the Bob's True Tales DLC. The game describes it as "An large Structure used to construct, fast-travel, and manage Ships. Must be placed in water." Two multi-level wooden platforms make up the structure, and ships dock in the space between them.

What the Shipyard does

• Construction: new ships are built and deployed in the docking area, which has to be free of obstructions.
• Docking: steering a ship between the two platforms docks it automatically.
• Repair: the Repair Ship Using Resources option on the radial wheel restores a docked ship to full health instantly, drawing resources from either the shipyard's inventory or the ship's own.
• Storage: the inventory accepts only resources used for building ships; no other items can be moved in.

Recipe and DLC access

The engram unlocks at level 42 for 24 engram points. The Shipyard is crafted in a Smithy, and the wiki also lists the Argentavis Saddle, the Helicoprion Saddle and the Tek Replicator. It takes:

• 100 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 1200 Wood or Fungal Wood
• 600 Thatch
• 300 Fiber

Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 100 XP. The finished item weighs 80 and has a stack size of 1. Learning the engram, crafting the Shipyard and using it all require the DLC it belongs to. Astraeos owners, however, no longer need Tides of Fortune for it since the final Astraeos update: they can learn, craft and use it, and they can build the Trireme too.