Stone Irrigation Pipe - Intake

Where an irrigation line begins

ARK: Survival Ascended calls this structure the Stone Water Intake, and ARK: Survival Evolved names it Stone Irrigation Pipe - Intake. It is the stone piece that brings water into an irrigation network. The ASA item text: "The stone intake for an irrigation network that transports water over land." In ASE the description is shorter and simply calls it a stone water intake for irrigation.

Placing it in water

For water to flow through the pipes, the intake's lower end has to sit in water. Any natural water source works, and the ARK Wiki notes that placement can sometimes reach past the water onto the shore, the beach in particular. It snaps onto stone and metal irrigation pipes, whether straight, tap, inclined, vertical or intersection pieces.

How it supplies water in each game

• ASA: the intake provides water within 3000 Unreal Engine units (10 foundations) and links to Water Reservoirs, stone or metal, within 10000 units, roughly 33 foundations. Anything that uses water looks for a source within 3000 units (10 foundations) of itself.
• ASE: every pipe and tap linked to the intake counts as having a constant, active water source.

Recipe, weight and durability

The engram unlocks at level 17 for 5 engram points. An intake costs 25 Stone, is crafted in the inventory in 3 seconds and gives 1.8 XP. It weighs 5 and stacks to 100, for a full stack weight of 500. The wiki says it is treated as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks cannot damage it, and neither can a number of aggressive creatures, among them the Raptor, Sabertooth, Titanoboa and Vulture. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 94 crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Blue and Aberration Surface Blue.