Tek Dedicated Storage

Bulk storage for a single item

Tek Dedicated Storage is a small Tek container in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that keeps large amounts of one item type in one place. Its in-game line is short: "Holds a large amount of a single resource." According to the ARK Wiki it joined the Tek building tier with the ARK: Homestead major patch, and dedicated storage was first part of Structures Plus.

How it accepts and hands out items

The first item you put in decides what the box takes; after that it accepts only that item until it has been emptied and then cleared. Perishable items and anything with durability or multipliers are refused. From its menu you can send items straight in, or set it to withdraw, which places a stack in your inventory as far as your weight limit allows. The Transfer All button empties it regardless of weight, although the Maximum Inventory limit still applies. Unlike the Structures Plus original, the vanilla box opens through the inventory, but it lacks the punch-to-deposit feature of the mod. A caution about Artifacts: taking out stored Artifacts you already carry makes the retrieved one disappear.

Snapping and decay

Units snap to each other at the sides and on top, and snapped units need neither ground support nor a nearby foundation. Placement on a platform is not possible. The wiki puts their decay timer on official servers at 80 days as of 329.9, longer than for any other structure, but only when 2 or more are snapped together; a single unit gets fast decay of 12 hours.

Bosses that give the Tekgram

You need the engram to craft the storage, though not to use it. The wiki names these fights, and harder versions of them also count:

• The Island: Dragon (Beta)
• Scorched Earth: Manticore (Beta)
• Aberration: Rockwell (Beta)
• Extinction: Desert Titan
• Genesis: Corrupted Master Controller (Gamma)
• Crystal Isles: Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta)

For now, the Ragnarok, Valguero and The Center versions of the Dragon do not grant it.

Materials and weight

It is made in a Tek Replicator or Exo-Mek in 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) and gives 10 XP:

• 125 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 75 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 55 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 4 Black Pearl
• 3 Element or Red Element

Each unit weighs 20, so a full stack of 100 weighs 2000. In loot, 20 crate types can contain it, including the Genesis Blue, Green and Purple crates, and our records list it on 14 maps.