Sparkpowder
Created by grinding flint with stone in a Mortar and Pestle or Chemistry Table.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 62 crates
- Item ID
- 107
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 6
- Engram points
- 3
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Sparkpowder guides
How to craft Sparkpowder
Sparkpowder is crafted from 2 ingredients, and one craft makes 2. The engram unlocks at level 6, costs 3 engram points, takes 1 seconds, gives 0.06 XP.
How to get Sparkpowder
Sparkpowder is found in 62 loot crates.
Loot crates
62 crates
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Astraeos Orbital EasyAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital EasyExtinction · ASA
- Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / 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
Show all 62 crates
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Lost Colony Cave BlueLost Colony · 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
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Orbital Drop EasyExtinction · ASE
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Raptor Claus GiftThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Sparkpowder — Detailed Guide
Ground from flint and stone
Sparkpowder is a crafting resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. In the game's words it is "Created by grinding flint with stone in a Mortar and Pestle or Chemistry Table." It serves as a fuel and as an ingredient in various recipes, 
Gunpowder among them; the wiki adds that gunpowder is what firearm ammunition calls for.
Crafting Sparkpowder
The engram unlocks at level 6 and costs 3 engram points. One grind uses 2 
Flint and 1 
Stone, takes 1 second, gives 0.06 XP and yields 2 Sparkpowder. Besides the 
Mortar and Pestle, the wiki names the 
Chemistry Bench as a place to make it.
Fuel for the Preserving Bin
The 
Preserving Bin burns Sparkpowder as its main fuel, and perishables such as Meat and Berries then last 10 times as long before they spoil. Together with Oil, it is also used in the bin to make 
Cooked Meat Jerky and 
Prime Meat Jerky.
Recipes that call for it
Our database counts 24 recipes in ASE that use Sparkpowder. A few of them, with the amount each one takes:
- Consumables:
Stimulant (2), 
Re-Fertilizer (4), Salted Jerky and Salted Prime Jerky (3 each) - Dyes: 1 each for colorings such as
Brick Coloring, 
Navy Coloring and 
Slate Coloring - Structures: Chemistry Bench (100),
Fabricator (50), Barrel of Gunpowder (60) - Tools and weapons:
Radio (40), 
Flare Gun (10), Sticky Bomb (160), 
Poison Grenade (18), 
Smoke Grenade (5)
Weight, maps and loot
Sparkpowder weighs 0.1 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 10. Our records list it on 7 maps (The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, The Center, Ragnarok and Valguero), and 62 crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration White crates, Extinction Orbital Easy and the Fishing Items (Net) and Fishing Items (Pole) entries.