Smoke Grenade

Cover instead of damage

Rather than hurting anything, a Smoke Grenade bursts into a wide cloud of smoke that hides whatever is inside it, in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended alike. Its description: "Releases a lot of smoke to obscure your plans. Pulling the pin starts a 5 second timer to an explosion." The ARK Wiki puts the cloud's radius at roughly 3 foundations and says the smoke lasts for around 40 seconds.

Using the smoke

• It suits stealthy attacks and escapes, though wild creatures can still see the thrower.
• Several grenades thrown together make a denser wall of smoke.
• Thrown through windows or over walls, it can distract other players.

The first explosive engram

The wiki calls it the earliest explosive a player can unlock and the only one that can be crafted by hand; the Poison Grenade supersedes it. Its engram costs 18 engram points and becomes available at level 24, and our data names Sparkpowder as the prerequisite. Crafting takes place in the inventory, lasts 5 seconds and gives 11.35 XP. One grenade costs:

• 15 Fiber
• 10 Charcoal
• 6 Hide
• 5 Sparkpowder
• 5 Thatch
• 3 Flint
• 2 Wood or Fungal Wood
• 1 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

Weight, loot and an ASA recipe

Each grenade weighs 0.5 and they stack to 10, so a full stack weighs 5; durability is 40. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 32 crate types can contain it, for example the Astraeos Blue, Astraeos Desert Blue, Astral T-Rex and Extinction Cave Blue crates. In ASA it is also an ingredient: 8 Smoke Grenades go into the BattleRig RearEnd-Mod: Smokescreen, the one recipe our records list for it.