Tek Teleporter

Moving tribe and tames across the map

The Tek Teleporter is a Tek structure in ARK: Survival Evolved that sends survivors and creatures from one teleporter pad to another, wherever on the map it stands. Wild creatures can travel too, though the wiki notes that this no longer works on official PVE servers.

Tekgram and recipe

The Tekgram is a boss reward. The wiki's list of sources includes the Alpha Rockwell, Rockwell Prime, the Alpha Dinopithecus King, the Dragon, the Manticore and the Forest Titan. Once it is learned, a Tek Replicator or Exo-Mek builds the teleporter in 5 seconds for 33 XP, from a large bill of materials:

• 2500 Metal Ingot, or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 1200 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 600 Crystal, or Primal Crystal
• 150 Black Pearl
• 85 Element, or Red Element

The finished item weighs just 4. 14 crate types can contain one, for example the Astraeos Orbital Hard and Astraeos Orbital Legendary crates and the hard versions of Genesis Part 2 missions such as Bulbdog Fetch and Ferox Cull.

Power and placement

• Power: teleporting costs nothing, but the pad must be powered by a Tek Generator. Power enters at the terminal, so the generator has to be in range of that post. Place the generator first so an enemy foundation cannot block it.
• Footprint: the pad is a wide disk, roughly 8 tiles across. Only the front edge with the activation post has to sit on a foundation, but covering the whole area with foundations stops tames from getting stuck underneath.
• Water: swimming survivors and creatures cannot use it, so sea creatures can only travel this way inside a Vacuum Compartment.

Sharing it with others

Teleporters can be renamed, which helps because destinations show up as bed icons when you choose where to go. The Enable Public Teleportation option, added in patch 273.62, lets survivors from other tribes use your pad if they have learned the engram. The wiki warns that they can then pull your own creatures away if they stand on a public pad, so keep tames off it unless you are travelling. Before patch 260.0, each jump also cost Element Shards, more for heavier loads.

What can damage it

It counts as a Tek structure, so only a short list can harm it: explosives, Bosses, Titans, the Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Corrupted Creatures, Enraged Creatures, the Titanosaur, the Arthropluera and the DodoRex.