Tranq Spear Bolt
A massive bolt with a tranq dart mounted on the front. Used as an underwater tranquilizer projectile with the Harpoon Gun. If it doesn't break, you can recover the spear bolt.
Details
- Category
- Ammunition
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 469
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 72
- Engram points
- 40
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tranq Spear Bolt guides
How to craft Tranq Spear Bolt
Tranq Spear Bolt is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 72, costs 40 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 9.3 XP.
SmithyHow to get Tranq Spear Bolt
Tranq Spear Bolt is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- Lost Colony Cave RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost 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
Show all 44 crates
- 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
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
Tranq Spear Bolt — Detailed Guide
Torpor ammunition for the water
The Tranq Spear Bolt is a spear bolt fitted with a tranquilizer dart, used in ARK: Survival Evolved to knock creatures out. Its in-game description: "A massive bolt with a tranq dart mounted on the front. Used as an underwater tranquilizer projectile with the Harpoon Gun. If it doesn't break, you can recover the spear bolt."
How it performs
According to the ARK Wiki, the 
Harpoon Launcher is the only weapon that fires it. Each hit deals about 36 damage and adds 300 torpor. The weapon's damage modifier scales both values the same way: a harpoon gun at 300% triples the damage and the torpor. Underwater it knocks creatures out with ease, but on land it falls short, as the bolt does not fly far.
Recovering bolts and other limits
- A fired bolt that does not break can be picked up again, but it comes back as a regular
Spear Bolt. - It is made from a Spear Bolt, yet a Ballista cannot load it.
- The wiki expects high-quality
Crossbows with the 
Tranq Arrow to overtake it in the end, as no known method gives a high-quality Harpoon Launcher; neither the Beacon nor loot crates drop one.
Crafting the bolt
The engram unlocks at level 72 for 40 engram points. Each bolt combines 1 Spear Bolt and 1 
Tranquilizer Dart and is crafted in a 
Smithy or an 
Argentavis Saddle. A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 9.3 XP. A bolt weighs 0.4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 40.
Loot and maps
Our records count 44 crate types that can contain the bolt, among them the Easy and Hard crates of the Genesis Part 2 mission 'Bulbdog Fetch'. It is recorded on 12 maps, including The Island, Aberration, Genesis Part 1, Crystal Isles and Fjordur. The wiki dates it to version 258.0.