Thatch
Sticks torn from trees. Useful for primitive bindings.
Details
- Category
- Resource
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
- Loot crates
- 72 crates
- Item ID
- 74
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Resource (Not an Engram)
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Thatch guides
How to craft Thatch
Thatch is crafted from 1 ingredient, and one craft makes 5. The engram costs 0 engram points, takes 0.2 seconds, gives 1 XP.
Industrial GrinderHow to get Thatch
Thatch is gathered best by Triceratops, Brontosaurus, Megaloceros; found in 72 loot crates.
Triceratops
Brontosaurus
Megaloceros
Castoroides
TherizinosaurLoot crates
72 crates
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASE
- Fishing Items (Net)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Fishing Items (Pole)The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · ASE
- 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
Show all 72 crates
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Lost Colony Cave BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Thrall ArcherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DeadeyeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall DemolisherThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall EnforcerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall GunslingerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall HeraldThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall MarauderThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall PiercerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall ScattershotThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall SnarerThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Thrall WardenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Thatch — Detailed Guide
A resource torn from trees
Thatch is a resource that is easy to come by in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and it turns up in a long list of recipes, many of them early-game ones. Its in-game text reads: "Sticks torn from trees. Useful for primitive buildings." A piece weighs 0.02 and a stack holds 200, for a full-stack weight of 4.
Gathering it
You collect it from trees with bare fists or with tools. The ARK Wiki notes that Picks are the more efficient tool for Thatch compared with Hatchets. Creatures can also harvest it by attacking trees; the wiki names the 
Mantis, 
Gacha and 
Brontosaurus as the most efficient, and our records also list the 
Triceratops, 
Megaloceros and 
Castoroides as gatherers.
It can be produced in an 
Industrial Grinder too: 1 
Wood becomes 5 Thatch in 0.2 seconds, for 1 XP.
Thatch as fuel
Thatch burns, though the wiki says it gives the shortest burn time of the fuels. Each unit lasts:
Campfire, 
Cooking Pot and 
Refining Forge: 7.5 seconds
Standing Torch: 1 minute, 40 seconds
What Thatch goes into
Our database counts 273 recipes that use it in ASA and 266 in ASE. Among them are flags such as the 
Dragon Flag, 
Manticore Flag and 
Spider Flag at 30 each, the 
Spear Bolt at 20, the 
Metal Arrow at 3 and the 
Stone Arrow at 2. 
Fertilizer takes 50, and the wiki adds that Thatch is required for making Fertilizer in a 
Compost Bin. Other uses the wiki names include the 
Simple Bed, 
Parachute, 
Preserving Bin, 
Bola, 
Stone Pick, 
Stone Hatchet, Campfire and Cooking Pot, along with thatch, wooden and stone buildings.
Loot and maps
The wiki mentions white, green and blue supply drops as sources. Our records count 72 crate types that can contain Thatch, for example the Fjordur Green crate, the Aberration White crates on Aberration and Valguero, and the Fishing Items (Net) and Fishing Items (Pole) crates. Our records list it on The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok and Valguero.