Tapejara Tek Saddle
Equip a Tapejara with this to ride it, enabling the rider to fire plasma projectiles. Using requires learning this Tekgram.
Details
- Category
- Saddle
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 13 crates
- Item ID
- 470
Saddle & engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tapejara Tek Saddle guides
How to craft Tapejara Tek Saddle
Tapejara Tek Saddle is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 86 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
8,000Stone
5,000Metal
4,000Chitin/Keratin
1,000ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×2,500, Cementing Paste ×1,000, Polymer ×500.
How to get Tapejara Tek Saddle
Tapejara Tek Saddle is dropped by 1 creature; found in 13 loot crates.
Dropped by
TapejaraLoot crates
13 crates
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 13 crates
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Tapejara Tek Saddle — Detailed Guide
Plasma fire from the saddle
The Tapejara Tek Saddle is the upgraded version of the 
Tapejara Saddle, in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its ASA description reads: "Equip a Tapejara with this to ride it, enabling the rider to fire plasma projectiles. Using requires learning this Tekgram." The ASE item text is shorter and simply calls it a TEK saddle for the 
Tapejara.
Seats, armor and the laser helmet
Like the regular saddle, it carries three seats, and it gives more armor: our records list an armor rating of 45 and 120 durability. While riding, press the melee key (Ctrl by default) to switch on the laser helmet. Every shot uses 4% of the equipped 
Element, so one Element is good for 25 shots.
Engram and recipe
According to the wiki, the engram unlocks when you defeat the 
Ice Titan, the 
Dragon on Gamma difficulty or the 
Manticore on Beta. Crafting happens in a Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek, takes 10 seconds and gives 86 XP:
- 2500
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 500
Polymer (or 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule) - 370
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 140
Black Pearl - 55 Element (the wiki also allows
Red Element)
In ASE our recipe lists plain Polymer, Metal Ingot and Crystal, with no alternatives given. The 55 Element matches the Element cost of the other Tek Saddles, except the 
Rex Tek Saddle, the 
Astrocetus Tek Saddle and the 
Rock Drake Tek Saddle.
Weight and loot
The saddle weighs 20 and does not stack. In loot, 13 crate types can contain it, among them the Dragon Hoard and the hard versions of the Genesis Part 2 missions Circuit Chase, Downriver Run and Maewing Poach. Our records list it on 9 maps, such as The Island, Aberration, Valguero and Lost Colony.