Tek Sword
Cuts through metal and armor when infused with Element, and supports a Charge Attack. Equipping requires learning this Tekgram
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 473
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Default
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Sword guides
How to craft Tek Sword
Tek Sword is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 15 seconds, gives 180 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
2,880Stone
1,440Chitin/Keratin
1,350Metal
360ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×675, Cementing Paste ×360, Polymer ×180.
How to get Tek Sword
Tek Sword is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- Astraeos Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- Desert TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Dragon HoardScorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Extinction Orbital HardExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital LegendaryExtinction · ASA
- Forest TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Ice TitanExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan EasyExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan HardExtinction · ASA / ASE
- King Titan MediumExtinction · ASA / ASE
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- 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
- 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 'The Rhino 500' EasyGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Rhino 500' HardGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'The Rhino 500' MediumGenesis Part 1 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Orbital Drop HardExtinction · ASE
- Orbital Drop LegendaryExtinction · ASE
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense MediumLost Colony · ASA
Tek Sword — Detailed Guide
An Element-powered blade
The Tek Sword is a melee weapon of the end game in ARK: Survival Evolved. It belongs to the Tek tier and is an upgrade over the Metal Sword. Its in-game text: "Cuts through metal and armor when infused with Element, and supports a Charge Attack. Equipping requires learning this Tekgram". Using it takes two things, the learned Tekgram and some 
Element as fuel, and a shield can be held in the off-hand at the same time.
Earning the Tekgram
In ASE the Tekgram comes from defeating the 
Dinopithecus King, the 
Forest Titan or the 
Fenrisúlfr, or from winning the Ragnarok Boss Fight on Beta or a higher difficulty. For ARK: Survival Ascended, the ARK Wiki names the 
Nunatak and the Ragnarok Boss Fight at Beta difficulty or above. The wiki adds that the sword itself may be a reward from The Rhino 500 mission on Genesis.
Crafting and repair
The wiki lists the Tek Replicator and the 
Exo-Mek as crafting stations. One sword takes 15 seconds and gives 180 XP; the materials are:
- 675
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 180
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule - 180
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 80
Black Pearl - 40 Element or
Red Element
A repair costs 450 Metal Ingot, 120 Polymer, 120 Crystal and 55 Black Pearl in our records. The sword weighs 15 and has 140 durability.
In combat
- Charge attack: right-click starts a charge that resembles the one of the Tek gauntlets but deals more damage. With a shield, hold right-click to raise it first, then left-click to attack. Pressing either button mid-charge ends the attack at once.
- Against structures: thatch, wood, adobe and stone take 437.5 damage, metal 87.5 and Tek tier 70. An
Auto Turret takes 437.5 and a 
Tek Turret 350. - Limits: it cannot harvest, and the wiki gives 159.4% as the damage cap for swords that were not spawned in.
- Movement: the charge works while grappling without breaking the hook, and in the air while moving upward, though not while falling. Repeated charges can keep a player airborne, which the wiki points to for crossing a boss arena such as the one of the
Corrupted Master Controller. The sword also cancels the no-fall-damage effect of a 
Tek Jump Pad.
Loot crates can hold it too: 44 crate types, for example Astraeos Orbital Legendary, Extinction Orbital Hard, the 
Desert Titan crate on Extinction and the Dragon Hoard.