Tek Light
Useful for spelunking, they can be attached to any surface, self powered by Element Shards , or linked to generators, and picked-up after placement.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 472
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Default
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Light guides
How to craft Tek Light
Tek Light is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 50 seconds, gives 30 XP.
Tek ReplicatorRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
640Stone
320Chitin/Keratin
180Metal
80ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×90, Cementing Paste ×80, Polymer ×40.
How to get Tek Light
Tek Light 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 Light — Detailed Guide
A light from the Tek tier
The Tek Light is an end-game lighting structure in ARK: Survival Evolved and belongs to the Tek Tier set of items. Its description: "Useful for spelunking, they can be attached to any surface, self powered by Element Shards, or linked to generators, and picked-up after placement." The ARK Wiki adds that walls and ceilings count among those surfaces.
Three ways to power it
Element Shards: placed in its inventory, they let the light run on its own.
Tek Generator: the light can be connected to one.
Electrical Outlet: it also runs from an outlet fed by an 
Electrical Generator, which most Tek appliances cannot do.
Getting the Tekgram
The Tekgram comes from boss fights. In ASE the requirement is a win over both bosses of the Ragnarok Boss Fight, or over the 
Dinopithecus King, on Gamma difficulty or higher. For ARK: Survival Ascended the wiki gives a different requirement: a win over 
Nunatak in the Ragnarok Boss Fight, again on Gamma or above.
Crafting cost
A craft takes 50 seconds and gives 30 XP, and the wiki names the 
Exo-Mek as one place to make it. The ingredients:
- 90
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 40
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 20
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 2
Element or 
Red Element - 1
Black Pearl
Decay, damage and loot
Unlike most Tek structures, it decays in only about 8 days. For damage it still counts as a Tek structure, so only explosives, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, the 
Arthropluera and 
Titanosaur, Corrupted and Enraged Creatures, Titans, bosses and the 
DodoRex can harm it. Each light weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Loot can supply them as well: 20 crate types can contain a Tek Light, including Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Red on Genesis Part 2. Our records list 12 maps for it.