Transponder Tracker
Uses strange energy from the three Obelisks to triangulate all Transponder Nodes on the specified frequency.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 32 crates
- Item ID
- 368
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 66
- Engram points
- 30
Video guides: search YouTube for Transponder Tracker guides
How to craft Transponder Tracker
Transponder Tracker is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 66, costs 30 engram points, takes 10 seconds, gives 204 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Fabricator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
1,040Stone
520Chitin/Keratin
240Silica Pearls
200Metal
100ObsidianCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×130, Metal Ingot ×100, Electronics ×80, Polymer ×50.
How to get Transponder Tracker
Transponder Tracker is found in 32 loot crates.
Loot crates
32 crates
- 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 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 32 crates
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Transponder Tracker — Detailed Guide
Tracking with Transponder Nodes
Paired with 
Transponder Nodes, the Transponder Tracker lets you follow a tagged player or creature in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. In the game's words, it "Uses strange energy from the three Obelisks to triangulate all Transponder Nodes on the specified frequency."
Tagging and finding a target
- Hold the tracker in your hand while carrying Transponder Nodes in your inventory.
- Get close to a player or creature, tamed or wild, and throw a node a short distance; it sticks the way a C4 charge does.
- Right-click with the tracker to see the target's heading and distance in a green on-screen message.
- Change the frequency with the N key (RB on Xbox) for more specific tracking. The default frequency is 70.
Crafting the tracker
The engram unlocks at level 66 for 30 engram points. A Fabricator or 
Tek Replicator crafts it in 10 seconds, for 204 XP, from:
- 80
Electronics - 50
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 30
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 25
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 20
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot
Weight, durability and loot
The tracker weighs 0.5, has 40 durability and does not stack. Our records count 32 crate types that can contain it, for example Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Purple. One caution from the ARK Wiki: in ASA the tracker cannot be obtained through the normal methods.