Tesla Coil
An electrical defense tower that can burn, stun, or inflict damage vulnerability. Can be configured to automatically attack hostiles within range. Consumes s to fire. Requires Power to activate.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Steampunk
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 7 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 103
- Engram points
- 30
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tesla Coil guides
How to craft Tesla Coil
Tesla Coil is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 103, costs 30 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 70 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
300Silica Pearls300polymer, organic polymer, or corrupted nodule
200MetalCrafted along the way: Electronics ×100, Metal Ingot ×100.
How to get Tesla Coil
Tesla Coil is found in 7 loot crates.
Loot crates
7 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Tesla Coil — Detailed Guide
An electric defense tower
The Tesla Coil is an automatic defensive turret in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. According to the ARK Wiki, it was introduced with the Steampunk Ascent expansion in the Bob's Tall Tales DLC. Its electrical attacks can burn or stun a target, or make it take more damage, and the coil can be set to fire at hostiles in range on its own. It needs power to switch on and consumes Crystals to fire. The wiki, whose page is still a work in progress, names three attack types: Charged, Bright and Volatile.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 103 for 30 engram points, with the 
Heavy Auto Turret as its prerequisite. The coil is built in a Fabricator, a 
Tek Replicator or with an 
Exo-Mek. The ARK Wiki recipe:
- 500
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 300
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 200
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 100
Electronics
A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 70 XP.
Weight and loot
A Tesla Coil weighs 4 and does not stack. Our loot data lists 7 crate types that can contain it, among them Aberration Red, Aberration Surface Red, Astraeos Orbital Hard and Astraeos Orbital Legendary. Our records place it on 9 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Lost Colony and Astraeos.