Tek Boots

Boots that cancel fall damage

Tek Boots belong to the Tek Armor set in ARK: Survival Evolved and cover the feet. The description: "Highly advanced boots capable of absorbing the impact of falling from high distances. Equipping requires learning this Tekgram." They carry an armor rating of 180 and 300 durability while weighing only 3.

What Element does for them

Charged with Element, the boots absorb fall damage entirely, so the wearer survives a drop from any height. They also let you climb: most slopes under 90° can be walked up, much as a Thylacoleo climbs, with a blue shock wave at each step, lights under the soles and heavy footfalls.

To charge them, drag Element onto the boots' icon; 1 Element gives a full 100% charge. With Element in your inventory, a fall that would hurt you automatically spends one piece to charge the boots and cancel the damage.

Tekgram and crafting

The Tekgram must be learned before the boots can be worn. The wiki names the Beta Broodmother Lysrix, the Beta Rockwell and the Desert Titan as sources, and the harder versions of those fights also grant it. A Tek Replicator or Exo-Mek makes them in 5 seconds for 3.58 XP from:

• 450 Metal Ingot, or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 120 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 120 Crystal, or Primal Crystal
• 55 Black Pearl
• 20 Element, or Red Element

Repairs need the same materials minus the Element: 450 Metal Ingot, 120 Polymer, 120 Crystal and 55 Black Pearl.

Other ways to get a pair

49 crate types can contain Tek Boots, among them the Dragon Hoard, the Desert Titan reward and the hard and legendary Astraeos Orbital and Extinction Orbital crates.