Slate Coloring
This substance can be used to color certain items and structures.
Details
- Category
- Dye
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 408
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Dye (Crafted/Gathered)
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Slate Coloring guides
How to craft Slate Coloring
Slate Coloring is crafted from 4 ingredients, and one craft makes 5. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 2 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
2Flint
1StoneCrafted along the way: Sparkpowder ×1.
How to get Slate Coloring
Slate Coloring is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- 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
- 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
Show all 44 crates
- 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
Slate Coloring — Detailed Guide
A dye for gear, saddles and buildings
Slate Coloring is one of the dyes in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game description is brief: "This substance can be used to color certain items and structures." Put on armor, weapons or saddles, it colours their paint regions. Loaded into a 
Paintbrush or a 
Spray Painter instead, it is used to paint structures and creatures. The ARK Wiki marks each unit as single use.
Cooking a batch
The dye is made in a 
Cooking Pot or an 
Industrial Cooker, and every craft yields 5. The two games use different recipes. The ARK Wiki's main recipe, which applies to ASE, is:
- 12
Narcoberry - 6
Stimberry - 1
Sparkpowder - 1
Water
For ASA the wiki gives a shorter list without Sparkpowder: 6 Narcoberry, 6 Stimberry and 1 Water. Crafting takes 10 seconds and gives 2 XP.
Weight and where it turns up
A unit weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 10. Our records place it on 12 maps, among them The Island, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles and Fjordur, and 44 crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Green and Orange crates on Genesis Part 2.