Steam Forge
A steam-powered megaforge that can refine resources at incredible speeds. Requires Element to be activated.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Steampunk
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 5 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 94
- Engram points
- 36
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Steam Forge guides
How to craft Steam Forge
Steam Forge is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 94, costs 36 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 5 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
20,800Stone
10,400Chitin/Keratin
2,000Obsidian
600Silica PearlsCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×3,450, Cementing Paste ×2,600, Polymer ×1,000, Electronics ×200.
How to get Steam Forge
Steam Forge is found in 5 loot crates.
Loot crates
5 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Steam Forge — Detailed Guide
An Element-fuelled megaforge
Running on 
Element, the Steam Forge is a crafting station in ARK: Survival Ascended that refines resources. In the game's words: "A steam-powered megaforge that can refine resources at incredible speeds. Requires Element to be activated." The ARK Wiki says it was introduced with Steampunk Ascent and gives it a bigger inventory.
A better metal ratio
Other forges work at the usual 2:1, two Metal for each 
Metal Ingot. The Steam Forge turns 3 
Metal into 2 Metal Ingot, and the wiki puts its pace at 60 Metal into 40 Metal Ingot every 6.5 seconds. One Element keeps it going for 1 hour, enough for about 31,830 Metal or for turning 10,254 wood into charcoal. A 
Tek Generator cannot run it.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 94 for 36 engram points and has the 
Industrial Forge as its prerequisite. The forge is crafted in a Fabricator; a craft takes 5 seconds and gives 5 XP. It costs:
- 3250 Metal Ingot
- 1000
Polymer - 600
Cementing Paste - 500
Crystal - 200
Electronics
The forge item weighs 50. Our records count 5 crate types that can contain it, such as Aberration Red, Aberration Surface Red and the 
Astral Rock Drake loot, and list it on 9 maps, among them The Island, Astraeos and Lost Colony.