Small Crop Plot
A small garden plot, with a fence to keep out vermin.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 57 crates
- Item ID
- 129
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 10
- Engram points
- 9
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Small Crop Plot guides
How to craft Small Crop Plot
Small Crop Plot is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 10, costs 9 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 5.3 XP.
How to get Small Crop Plot
Small Crop Plot is found in 57 loot crates.
Loot crates
57 crates
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · ASE
- 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 GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- 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 GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Small Crop Plot — Detailed Guide
A starter plot for berries
The earliest farming plot you can craft in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended is the Small Crop Plot, according to the ARK Wiki. The game describes it as "A small garden plot, with a fence to keep out vermin." It holds 200 water and can go anywhere on reasonably flat ground.
Getting a crop going
A plot needs three things before anything grows:
- A berry seed. Every type of berry seed works here; other seeds require a larger plot.
- Water. The usual setup is a Stone Tap or Metal Tap linked to a water source. Rain or a
Waterskin also work but are less reliable, and a Waterskin inside the plot only waters it automatically after you choose consume on it. 
Fertilizer. Fertilizer from a 
Compost Bin or a 
Dung Beetle lasts longest but takes a while to produce, so 
Feces can be the easier start.
With water and fertilizer in place, a seed put into the plot's inventory is planted after a few seconds. The plant passes through several stages over several day cycles. From the Fruitling stage on it can be harvested again and again: it holds up to 300 berries of its type and slowly grows them back after each harvest. To replace a plant, hold 'E' for the radial menu and pick 'destroy plant'.
Notes from the ARK Wiki
- A plot kept watered and fertilized never has to be reseeded.
- Crops rot slowly while left in the plot, but at the regular rate once the fertilizer runs out.
- Each yield has a small chance of adding a new seed that can start another plot.
- Feces keep spoiling inside the plot whatever nitrogen is left, and putting them in bulk can waste some.
- It counts as a wooden structure: hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks do not damage it, and neither can aggressive creatures such as the
Raptor, 
Sabertooth, 
Direwolf, 
Titanoboa or 
Terror Bird.
Crafting the plot
The engram unlocks at level 10 for 9 engram points. The plot is crafted in the inventory from 25 
Stone, 20 
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood), 15 
Fiber and 10 
Thatch, taking 5 seconds and giving 5.3 XP. A plot weighs 4 and they stack to 100, a full stack weighing 400. Our records count 57 crate types that can contain it, Aberration White and Fjordur Green among them, and list it on 14 maps.