Stone Irrigation Pipe - Tap

Drawing water from a stone pipe network

ARK: Survival Ascended calls this structure the Stone Water Tap, and ARK: Survival Evolved names it Stone Irrigation Pipe - Tap. Its ASA item text sums up its three jobs: "Can refill containers, irrigate crop plots, or provide a refreshing drink." The ASE description is a single line about a stone water tap dispenser.

Using the tap

Survivors can drink from it, and it waters Crop Plots. To fill a container, put it in the tap's inventory; the ARK Wiki names Waterskins, Water Jars, Canteens and the Tek Canteen. Both drinking and the inventory need line of sight, which means the tap has to be placed clear of any wall that would block it.

Connecting it to pipes

The tap snaps onto straight, inclined, vertical and intersection pipes, in stone as well as metal. It cannot be attached to the flexible pipes of either material. In ASE, water reaches the tap only through the pipe it was first attached to; a second pipe from another source on the opposite side adds nothing. For a backed-up system, the wiki recommends joining the sources with an intersection and putting the tap on one of that intersection's free ends.

Engram, recipe and loot

The engram unlocks at level 17 for 5 engram points, and the tap is crafted in the player's inventory from 10 Stone and 15 Wood or Fungal Wood. A craft takes 3 seconds. Each tap weighs 7.5 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 750. Our records count 52 loot crates that can contain it, for example Aberration White, Fjordur Green and Genesis Blue, and list it on 14 maps.

What leaves it unharmed

The wiki treats the tap as a wooden structure. Hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives cannot damage it, and neither can the aggressive creatures on the wiki's list, which includes the Dilophosaur, Compy, Raptor, Direwolf and Sabertooth.