Tek Transmitter
Transmits items, Survivors, and creatures to other ARKs! Requires Tek Engram to use.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 21 crates
- Item ID
- 429
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Default
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Transmitter guides
How to craft Tek Transmitter
Tek Transmitter is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 33 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
5,120Stone
5,000Metal
2,560Chitin/Keratin
640ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×2,500, Cementing Paste ×640, Polymer ×320.
How to get Tek Transmitter
Tek Transmitter is found in 21 loot crates.
Loot crates
21 crates
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- 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
Show all 21 crates
- 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 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Tek Transmitter — Detailed Guide
Sending gear, survivors and tames between servers
The Tek Transmitter belongs to the end game of ARK: Survival Evolved. It moves items, tamed creatures and your own character to other servers of the same cluster. The item text reads: "Transmits items, Survivors, and creatures to other ARKs! Requires Tek Engram to use." It works much like an obelisk: things are uploaded at the transmitter and downloaded on another ARK. When it is switched on, a beam of light shoots into the sky, much as a beacon does.
Getting the Tekgram and building it
The Tekgram is earned by defeating the 
Dragon (Beta), the 
Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta) or the 
Dinopithecus King (Beta), and any higher difficulty of these fights grants it as well. The transmitter is built in a Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek from:
- 40
Element (or 
Red Element) - 2500
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 250
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 80
Black Pearl - 320
Polymer (
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule also work)
Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 33 XP. The finished item weighs 4 and does not stack.
What it can do
- Water creatures: it can send aquatic tames to other ARKs, which before cryopods was only possible through deep sea or underwater supply crates.
- Guardian portals: transmitters can open guardian portals. The portal it creates is a sphere 6 foundations in radius, and a circular floor built from 6 rings, squares and triangles alternating, still fits within it safely.
- No fuel: it runs without any fuel at all.
Limits to keep in mind
- Items sent through it cannot be reached by tribe mates.
- Survivors cannot travel to other servers while carrying boss battle tribute items.
- As a Tek structure it takes damage only from a short list: explosives, Tek Saddles and the
Tek Rifle (whose shots cause blood splatter on it), the 
Titanosaur and 
Arthropluera, corrupted and enraged creatures, titans, bosses and the 
DodoRex.
Our records count 21 crate types that can contain it, including the Astraeos Orbital Legendary crate and the Genesis Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange and Purple crates on Genesis Part 2.