Tek Sensor
An advanced detection and activation system used to automate nearby devices and structures. Requires Tek Generator power.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Genesis: Part 1
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 57 crates
- Item ID
- 588
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
Maps
Found on 4 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Sensor guides
How to craft Tek Sensor
Tek Sensor is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks without a level requirement, costs 0 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 50 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
190Metal
160Stone
80Chitin/Keratin
45Silica Pearls
20ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×95, Cementing Paste ×20, Electronics ×15, Polymer ×10.
How to get Tek Sensor
Tek Sensor is found in 57 loot crates.
Loot crates
57 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 'Choose Your Own Adventure' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Code Red' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Life Support' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'One Tough Moeder' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ruffle Some Feathers' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 1' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 2' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Stage 3' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Star Dolphin' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Survive the ARK' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Terminus' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Alpha)' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Beta)' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test (Gamma)' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Final Test' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Tek Sensor — Detailed Guide
Detection and automation
The Tek Sensor is a Tek structure in ARK: Survival Evolved. It arrived with Genesis: Part 1 and is used on Genesis: Part 2 as well. Its description: "An advanced detection and activation system used to automate nearby devices and structures. Requires Tek Generator power." The sensor notices survivors and creatures inside a set radius and can trigger structures that use a pin code.
A helper for taming pens
The ARK Wiki suggests it as part of a taming pen. A sensor can switch pin-coded structures on and off by itself, which removes the risk of having to close a Gate yourself.
Tekgram and recipe
Defeating Moeder on Gamma difficulty grants the Tekgram. Crafting takes 5 seconds and rewards 50 XP; the ARK Wiki lists the Tek Replicator and the 
Exo-Mek as places to make it. The materials are:
- 80
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 22
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 15
Electronics - 10
Polymer (
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule also count) - 5
Element (or 
Red Element)
Each sensor weighs 4 and has a stack size of 1. Our records count 57 loot crate types that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Cyan, Green and Orange crates of Genesis Part 2.