Spray Painter
Apply a dye to this, then shoot it at structures to paint them. Hold Alt Fire + Hotkey Number to set painting region.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 6 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 53 crates
- Item ID
- 388
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 53
- Engram points
- 30
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Spray Painter guides
How to craft Spray Painter
Spray Painter is crafted from 6 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 53, costs 30 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 231.75 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
1,040Stone
520Chitin/Keratin
100Metal
70ObsidianCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×130, Metal Ingot ×50, Polymer ×35.
How to get Spray Painter
Spray Painter is found in 53 loot crates.
Loot crates
53 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · 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 Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Spray Painter — Detailed Guide
Painting structures with less dye
The Spray Painter is a tool in ARK: Survival Evolved for colouring structures. The ARK Wiki notes that it paints quickly and spends less dye than a 
Paintbrush would. Its in-game description: "Apply a dye to this, then shoot it at structures to paint them. Hold Alt Fire + Hotkey Number to set painting region."
Using the Spray Painter
- Loading a colour: drag a dye onto the tool to set the colour it sprays.
- Choosing regions: switch each colour region on or off with a key combination.
- Spraying: hold the fire button and move the crosshair across every structure piece; the enabled regions take on the loaded colour. The dye drains slowly as you spray, and a grey bar under the tool in the inventory shows how much is left.
- Refilling: once it runs dry, pressing the melee button refills it with the same colour.
Limits of the tool
It works while mounted and, since version 264.5, underwater as well. Changing tools or mounting resets its region settings. It cannot pick out a separate part of a painted area, and it does not paint creatures, other players or yourself; the wiki refers to Warpaint for that last case.
Crafting and finding one
The engram unlocks at level 53 for 30 engram points. The wiki names the Fabricator and the 
Tek Replicator as crafting places, and the recipe is:
- 60
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 50
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 40
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 35
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 20
Oil or Oil (
Tusoteuthis) - 5
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Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 231.75 XP. The tool weighs 0.5, has 100 durability and does not stack. Our records count 53 crate types that can contain it, among them Aberration Blue and Aberration Surface Blue, and list it on 12 maps.