Tek Bow
When infused with Element Shards, will 3-D print high velocity explosive arrows at a cost of Element Shards. Can also fire other arrow types.
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Genesis: Part 2
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 13 crates
- Item ID
- 605
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 53
Learn these first
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Bow guides
How to craft Tek Bow
Tek Bow is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by manual, costs 53 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 5 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
4,200Stone
2,100Chitin/Keratin
450Obsidian
400MetalCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×525, Polymer ×225, Metal Ingot ×200.
How to get Tek Bow
Tek Bow is found in 13 loot crates.
Loot crates
13 crates
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- 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
Tek Bow — Detailed Guide
A bow that prints its own arrows
Recorded as Tek Bow in ARK: Survival Ascended and as TEK Bow in ARK: Survival Evolved, this weapon arrived with Genesis: Part 2; the ARK Wiki also lists it for Genesis: Part 1, Fjordur and Lost Island. It forms its arrows out of 
Element Shards: "When infused with Element Shards, will 3-D print high velocity explosive arrows at a cost of Element Shards. Can also fire other arrow types."
Arrow types and firing modes
- Fuel: Element Shards are the only ammunition, and you need no arrows in your inventory; the bow forms the type you have selected. The choices are normal/metal, explosive, tranq and flame arrows, and each uses a different amount of fuel and durability.
- Switching: the reload button (R on PC) cycles to the next arrow type, an ammo cycling feature the
Tek Grenade Launcher shares. - Modes: double-tapping that button toggles between projectile mode and instant hit mode, in which the arrow strikes whatever you aim at straight away. Instant shots cannot damage structures, while projectile shots can; turrets are able to aim at projectile shots, but not at instant ones.
- Charge: the longer you draw, up to 1 second, the faster the arrow flies, reaching bullet speed at full charge.
Under water and against Rock Elementals
The bow can be fired under water, and its explosive arrows deal full damage to 
Rock Elementals. It can only be used once its engram is learned.
Engram and recipe
The engram costs 53 engram points, requires level 116 and has the 
Compound Bow as its prerequisite. The bow is crafted in a Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek; a craft takes 10 seconds and gives 5 XP:
- 225
Polymer (or 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule) - 200
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 100
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 75
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste) - 60
Element (or 
Red Element)
It weighs 12, does not stack and has 55 durability. In loot, 13 crate types can contain it, for example Genesis Purple and the hard versions of the Genesis Part 2 missions Bulbdog Fetch, Circuit Chase and Ferox Cull.