Tek Canteen

A canteen with triple capacity

The Tek Canteen is a water container in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that came with Genesis: Part 2. The game describes it this way: "Holds three times the water of a standard canteen. Can cool the water for extra refreshment." The ARK Wiki puts its capacity at 900 units of water, triple what the ordinary Canteen carries, and it is also available on Genesis: Part 1, Lost Island and Fjordur.

Hot and cold modes

Two modes, hot and cold, are switched from the inventory by hovering over the canteen and choosing the mode option. Whichever mode is active when you drink decides the insulation you get:

• Hot: 421 hypothermal and -210 hyperthermal insulation.
• Cold: 421 hyperthermal and -210 hypothermal insulation.
• Drinking from both modes: 211 hypothermal and 211 hyperthermal insulation.

In either mode a drink also gives a buff that cuts stamina drain for 60 seconds. Unlike the buff of the Iced Canteen, the wiki notes, this one does not stack, though its timer runs longer.

Drinking and refilling

Select Use Item on the canteen in your inventory, or press its hotbar key, to drink; a full canteen gives 9 drinks before it is empty. To refill it, use it while standing in rain or shallow water, or place it in a Stone Irrigation Pipe - Tap or a Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap. On Scorched Earth it slowly loses water, as every water container does there. The wiki also mentions that it can be put into Feeding Troughs and Tek Troughs, which is most likely a bug.

Engram and crafting

The engram needs level 101 and 6 engram points, with the Water Jar and the Fabricator as prerequisites. A canteen is crafted in a Tek Replicator or an Exo-Mek in 5 seconds and gives 120 XP. The recipe:

• 10 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 6 Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste
• 5 Element or Red Element
• 2 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

The wiki calls it one of the cheapest items made in the Tek Replicator. It weighs 2 and has a stack size of 1. Our records count 44 crate types that can contain it, among them the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Orange crates on Genesis Part 2.