Tek Surveillance Console
Deployable device for crafting and viewing live footage from Remote Cameras. Powered by Tek Generator.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Genesis: Part 2
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 610
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 108
- Engram points
- 60
Maps
Found on 4 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Surveillance Console guides
How to craft Tek Surveillance Console
Tek Surveillance Console is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 108, costs 60 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 16 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
4,000Stone
2,000Chitin/Keratin
1,500Metal
1,500Silica Pearls
500ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×750, Cementing Paste ×500, Electronics ×500, Polymer ×250.
How to get Tek Surveillance Console
Tek Surveillance Console 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 Surveillance Console — Detailed Guide
Watching an area through remote cameras
The Tek Surveillance Console is a Tek structure in ARK: Survival Evolved that lets a survivor watch over an area using a set of linked cameras. Its in-game text: "Deployable device for crafting and viewing live footage from Remote Cameras. Powered by Tek Generator." The ARK Wiki compares the idea to the 
Scout Remote. The console came with Genesis: Part 2 in patch 329.5 and can also be found on Fjordur, Lost Island and Genesis: Part 1.
Setting up the cameras
Tek Remote Cameras are crafted inside the console's own inventory and then placed wherever they are useful. Pressing E on the console opens the camera view; it turns with the mouse or the analog stick, and a panel in the top left corner shows the camera's name, coordinates and range along with the main controls. From outside, E jumps back to the last camera used. Holding E brings up a wheel with these options:
- open the last camera or the inventory
- unlock the console or give it a pin code
- rename or delete it
Acting through the console
Through a camera, a survivor can use the full radial menu of a structure except the demolish and inventory prompts, and the full radial menu of a creature apart from inventories and riding. The wiki calls it the first structure that can be spoken through remotely; the 
Radio was the first item to do so. The cameras have a maximum range of 3000m, and the console can link unpaired cameras that were spawned in with commands.
Crafting cost
Unlocking the engram takes level 108 and 60 engram points. The console is built in a Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek, taking 5 seconds and giving 16 XP, from:
- 500
Electronics - 250
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 250
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 50
Black Pearl - 10
Element (or 
Red Element)
It weighs 4 and stacks to 5, so a full stack weighs 20. Our records count 20 crate types that can contain it, such as the Genesis Blue, Green and Purple crates on Genesis Part 2.