Tek Grenade Launcher

A Tek launcher for grenades

The Tek Grenade Launcher sends grenades farther than a survivor could throw them by hand. It belongs to the Genesis: Part 1 content, the wiki also lists it for Genesis: Part 2, and our records carry it in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The in-game text reads: "An advanced launcher that can shoot various grenade types and can enable on-impact explosions. Equipping this requires learning its Tekgram."

Unlocking the Tekgram

The Tekgram comes from beating Moeder on Alpha difficulty, and it is required both to craft the launcher and to wield it. The one exception the wiki mentions is the Built Fjord Tough gauntlet mission, where the weapon can be used without it.

Ammunition and controls

The launcher draws its grenades from the survivor's inventory, which has to hold them. These grenades work:

• Grenade
• Tek Grenade
• Cluster Grenade
• Smoke Grenade
• Poison Grenade
• Tek Gravity Grenade

The melee key (Ctrl by default) opens the ammo setup for each slot, and the attachment key (N, or R pressed twice, by default) switches impact explosions on or off. Detonation can be timed or on impact, and the ARK Wiki notes this makes it the only way to have a timed grenade such as the Tek Grenade go off on impact. The wiki also states that a 296.6% crafted launcher loaded with a Tek Grenade can reach 2,743 damage per grenade against unarmored creatures.

Recipe and repairs

Crafting takes 15 seconds and grants 180 XP, and the wiki infobox lists the Exo-Mek as a crafting station. The ingredients, with the substitutes the wiki accepts:

• 420 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 180 Polymer (or Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule)
• 180 Crystal (or Primal Crystal)
• 80 Black Pearl
• 60 Electronics
• 40 Element (or Red Element)

Unlike almost all other Tek weapons and armor, it needs Element for repairs, which the wiki calls costly and possibly unintended. Our repair data lists 90 Polymer, 210 Metal Ingot, 90 Crystal, 20 Element, 40 Black Pearl and 30 Electronics. The launcher has 140 durability and weighs 12.

Loot crates

Our records list 13 crate types that can contain it. The listed examples are all on Genesis Part 2: the Genesis Blue crate and hard missions such as Bulbdog Fetch, Circuit Chase, Downriver Run, Ferox Cull and Maewing Poach.