Silk
Obtained from the Moth creatures. Used to craft desert clothes and the tent.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Loot crates
- 56 crates
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Silk guides
How to get Silk
Silk is found in 56 loot crates.
Loot crates
56 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- 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
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- 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
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
Silk — Detailed Guide
A resource for desert gear
Silk is a crafting resource in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and its description says what it is for: "Obtained from the Moth creatures. Used to craft desert clothes and the tent." The ARK Wiki says it was introduced with Scorched Earth and also places it on Ragnarok, Valguero, Extinction, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, Fjordur, Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2.
Gathering Silk
Killing a 
Lymantria is one source, and the wiki names the 
Sabertooth and the 
Metal Hatchet as the most effective harvesters. Silk also comes from the purple and white flowers scattered across the desert, which can be picked with a Sickle or by hand at a very low rate; the wiki is unsure whether picking by hand is limited to ASA. White flowers grow along the banks of dry river beds.
Recipes that take Silk
Our records count 3 recipes in ASA and 7 in ASE. Both games use it for:
Tent: 10
Whip: 10
Desert Goggles and Hat: 3
The ASE data adds the Desert Cloth Armor pieces: 15 for 
Desert Cloth Pants, 12 for 
Desert Cloth Shirt, 10 for 
Desert Cloth Boots and 8 for 
Desert Cloth Gloves.
Weight and loot
Silk weighs 0.01 and stacks to 200, so a full stack weighs 2. Our records count 56 crate types that can contain it, such as the Astraeos Desert Blue and Purple crates on Astraeos and the Genesis Blue and Cyan crates on Genesis Part 2.