Tek Remote Camera

A camera you watch from a console

The Tek Remote Camera lets you keep an eye on a spot from a distance, with the live picture shown on a Tek Surveillance Console. It arrived with Genesis: Part 2, and the ARK Wiki lists it on Fjordur, Lost Island and Genesis: Part 1 as well; it is recorded in both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. In the game's words: "Craft this item from Surveillance Console to assemble a new Remote Camera. Will transmit live imagery to nearby linked console."

Linking and remote control

Put the camera into the Surveillance Console's inventory to link the two. After that you can place the camera and watch it through the Tek Surveillance Console. While you monitor it, you can speak through the camera and open creature radial wheels from afar. The ARK Wiki notes two limits: the camera gives no ride prompts when you interact with creatures this way, and it cannot demolish structures remotely.

Recipe and decay

The camera is crafted from the Tek Surveillance Console in 5 seconds for 8 XP, using:

• 80 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 25 Electronics
• 25 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 10 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 1 Element or Red Element

It weighs 4 and stacks to 1. Unlike most Tek structures, it decays in only about 4 days, according to the ARK Wiki.