Standing Torch

A lit torch on a wooden post

The Standing Torch is a placeable light in ARK: Survival Evolved that brightens and warms the area right around it. The ARK Wiki compares it to a Campfire or a Hand Torch as a source of both light and heat, though it gives off less light than a Hand Torch carried in the hand. As a step up, the wiki points to the Lamppost, which hooks into an electrical power grid and is a more advanced version.

Fuel and inserted torches

After placing it, you load it with fuel and light it. It burns Thatch, Wood, AnglerGel or Sparkpowder, and AnglerGel turns the flame blue. Every time the torch is lit it uses up one piece of fuel, which is why the wiki warns against switching it on and off repeatedly with AnglerGel: the gel is wasted fast that way.

A Torch can also be placed in it as the light source. The wiki finds this handy when that torch carries a skin, such as the Torch Sparkler Skin, or when it has a higher quality and therefore lasts longer. By the wiki's numbers, a standard torch with 40 durability points burns for 2 hours, 57 minutes and 20 seconds, and torches made from a better blueprint burn longer.

Effect on temperature

The torch provides at most +100 hypothermal insulation and -50 hyperthermal insulation; the farther away you stand, the weaker the effect.

Crafting and storage

The engram unlocks at level 7 for 6 engram points. The torch is crafted in your inventory in 5 seconds, gives 0.9 XP and needs:

• 8 Thatch
• 3 Wood or Fungal Wood
• 1 Flint
• 1 Stone

Each torch weighs 4 and a stack holds 3, so a full stack weighs 12. It counts as a thatch structure, which means anything apart from non-explosive ranged attacks can damage it. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 49 crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan, Genesis Green and Genesis Red crates on Genesis Part 2.