Silica Pearls
These pearls are made almost entirely of Silicon. Can be refined into Silicon plates.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Loot crates
- 63 crates
- Item ID
- 160
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Resource (Not an Engram)
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Silica Pearls guides
How to get Silica Pearls
Silica Pearls is dropped by 1 creature; found in 63 loot crates.
Dropped by
Aberrant TrilobiteLoot crates
63 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Beaver DamAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
Show all 63 crates
- 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
- Beaver DamThe Island, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Beaver DenRagnarok · ASE
- Big Beaver DamFjordur · ASE
- 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
- Giant Beaver DenRagnarok · ASA
- 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
- Large Beaver DamRagnarok · ASA / ASE
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Quake Biolum 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Biolum 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 1Aberration · ASA / ASE
- Quake Radiation 2Aberration · ASA / ASE
- 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 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
- Small Beaver DamFjordur · ASE
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · 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
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Silica Pearls — Detailed Guide
A base material for electronics
Silica Pearls are a gathered resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The item text reads: "These pearls are made almost entirely of silicon. Can be refined into silicon plates." The ARK Wiki counts them among the base ingredients of 
Electronics and stresses their importance for the technical side of the game.
Where to collect them
The ocean floor and underwater caves both hold pearls, and clams carry them too. Clams usually sit in groups of about 5, need no tool and are picked up by hand; one clam normally gives 2 to 4 pearls, and a higher melee damage percentage does not raise that number. The wiki names more sources:
- the deepest parts of the ocean, and shallower spots by the icy coast of the snow biome
- looting a
Giant Beaver Dam - the corpses of
Trilobites, 
Leech, 
Eurypterid and 
Ammonite (our records list the Aberrant Trilobite as a source) - the
Phoenix, whose droppings are silica pearls instead of feces - an
Otter or 
Anglerfish harvesting a 
Coelacanth, for small amounts
On The Center, river beds inland and the hot springs near the volcanic island hold them too, though 
Piranhas and 
Sabertooth Salmon live there and make the trip risky for new players. On Scorched Earth they turn up at an Oasis and along the central riverbed, in the water as well as on dry ground. A 
Whip gathers them quickly, and they sparkle at night, which makes them easy to spot.
What they are crafted into
Our records list 25 recipes per game that use Silica Pearls. In both games these include armor such as the 
Riot Chestpiece and 
Riot Leggings (40 each), the 
SCUBA Mask and the 
Desert Goggles and Hat (3 each), plus many saddles, with amounts ranging from 25 for the 
Spino Saddle to 320 for the 
Mosasaur Platform Saddle. The ASA list also holds the Cursed Riot pieces, the 
Dreadnoughtus Platform Saddle and the 
Gigadesmodus Platform Saddle. The ASE list includes Electronics (3), Glass (2), the 
Mirror (100), the 
Riot Shield (120) and the Alchemy Table (50). The wiki marks Glass, the Alchemy Table and the Mammoth Side Saddle as legacy items, and its usage list also names items such as the 
Pearl Boots, 
Pearl Helmet, 
Carving Knife and 
Underwater Crop Plot.
Weight and loot
A pearl weighs 0.02 and a stack holds 100, so a full stack weighs 2. Our records place them on 14 maps, and 63 crate types can contain them, for example Aberration Purple and Aberration Surface Yellow. Dropped on the ground, they look like white clams.