Tek Generator
Powers Tek Structures and electrical structures wirelessly! Requires Element to run, and Tek Engram to use.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 454
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Default
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Generator guides
How to craft Tek Generator
Tek Generator is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 33 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
8,000Stone
4,800Metal
4,000Chitin/Keratin
1,000ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×2,400, Cementing Paste ×1,000, Polymer ×500.
How to get Tek Generator
Tek Generator is found in 20 loot crates.
Loot crates
20 crates
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis 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
Show all 20 crates
- 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
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Tek Generator — Detailed Guide
Cable-free power
The Tek Generator supplies electricity to devices without cables in ARK: Survival Evolved. In the game's words: "Powers Tek Structures and electrical structures wirelessly! Requires Element to run, and Tek Engram to use." The ARK Wiki adds that it can run every normal electrical device, that no other generator can feed Tek devices, and that it is needed to maintain underwater bases.
Getting the Tekgram
According to the wiki, the Tekgram comes from defeating one of these: the 
Desert Titan; the 
Megapithecus on medium (beta); or, on easy (gamma), the 
Manticore, 
Rockwell, the 
Dinopithecus King or the 
Crystal Wyvern Queen. The wiki names the Tek Replicator and the 
Exo-Mek as crafting places; a craft takes 5 seconds and gives 33 XP. Ingredients, with the alternatives the wiki accepts:
- 2400
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 500
Polymer (
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule also work) - 250
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 120
Black Pearl - 30
Element (or 
Red Element)
Element use
At the base radius of 1.0, one Element or 100 Element shards keeps it running for 18 hours. Each additional unit of radius adds 0.33 Element to that: a 2.0× radius burns 1.33 Element every 18 hours, 5.0× burns 2.32 and 10.0× burns 3.97. As fuel, one Red Element or 123 Red Element shards lasts 22 hours.
Coverage
In ASE the powered area grows in steps of 0.5: a diameter of 3 foundations at 1.0×, 19 at 5.0× and 37 at 10.0×. For ARK: Survival Ascended the wiki gives a range of 10,000 Unreal Engine units, about 33 foundations, and every power consumer searches that area for a source.
Placement and loot
Tek Turrets and some other Tek structures can sit on rafts and similar mobile bases, but a Tek Generator placed on one is useless. The wiki also notes that it is not subject to durability decay, and that until patch 281.107 electrical storms on Scorched Earth affected it. It weighs 4. Our records count 20 crate types that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Cyan and Orange crates of Genesis Part 2.