Simple Bed
Thatch may not make the most comfortable mattress, but this bed acts as a respawn point for you and your tribe.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 60 crates
- Item ID
- 128
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 7
- Engram points
- 8
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Simple Bed guides
How to craft Simple Bed
Simple Bed is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 7, costs 8 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 8.1 XP.
How to get Simple Bed
Simple Bed is found in 60 loot crates.
Loot crates
60 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue 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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- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- 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, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
Simple Bed — Detailed Guide
A respawn point you choose
In ARK: Survival Evolved, the Simple Bed lets you and your tribe come back to life at a spot of your choosing and travel between beds. Its item text puts it plainly: "Thatch may not make the most comfortable mattress, but this bed acts as a respawn point for you and your tribe." After a death you can pick any bed you own as your respawn location instead of a random respawn, and the respawn map marks every bed available to you. Unlike a 
Hide Sleeping Bag, the bed is not used up: any tribe member can use it over and over, with a 5-minute cooldown between uses.
Fast travel between beds
Use a bed, either with the use key or through the radial menu, to travel to any other bed you have access to. 
Beds and sleeping bags are interchangeable for this: you can go from a bed to a bag and back. There is a catch: everything you carry drops at the bed you leave, so put your items away first. Hardcore mode removes respawning altogether, and a death costs you the character, which leaves beds and sleeping bags with fast travel as their only use.
Lying down
Hold the use key and select Lay on Bed from the radial menu to lie down; you heal faster lying on a bed. If you log out there, your character remains lying in a sleeping pose, also when the bed is on a moving dynamic platform or during an earthquake. You can still be hurt or killed in bed, though not by your own tribe members. The lying action is disabled on Primitive+.
Crafting and placing it
The engram unlocks at level 7 for 8 engram points. The bed is crafted in your inventory in 5 seconds for 8.1 XP, from:
- 80
Thatch - 40
Hide - 30
Fiber - 15
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood)
It weighs 8 and stacks to 3. Beds go on foundations and ceilings, and renaming them through the radial menu makes it easier to tell several apart when you respawn or travel. The bed counts as a thatch structure: anything apart from non-explosive ranged attacks can damage it. Its upgraded version is the 
Bunk Bed. Our records list it on 12 maps and count 60 crate types that can contain it, Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan among them.