Tree Sap Tap
Attach this to a large tree to tap its sap over time.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 71 crates
- Item ID
- 236
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 36
- Engram points
- 18
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tree Sap Tap guides
How to craft Tree Sap Tap
Tree Sap Tap is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 36, costs 18 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 1.5 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
320Stone
200Metal
160Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×100, Cementing Paste ×40.
How to get Tree Sap Tap
Tree Sap Tap is found in 71 loot crates.
Loot crates
71 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · 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
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · 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
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA
Tree Sap Tap — Detailed Guide
Tapping redwoods for Sap
The Tree Sap Tap is a structure in ARK: Survival Evolved used to obtain 
Sap. Its in-game line: "Attach this to a large tree to tap its sap over time." The ARK Wiki is precise about the tree: it has to be a mature redwood in the Redwood Forests, recognisable by its deep bark.
Placing it on the trunk
Fix the tap under the canopy, high on the trunk: the wiki gives a minimum of 11 units off the ground. To reach it for harvesting, the wiki lists a ladder, a 
Tree Platform and the grappling hook, or standing on a 
Griffin, a 
Wyvern or a dismounted Quetz.
Sap output
- Rate: about 1 Sap every 10 minutes 20 seconds.
- Capacity: the wiki gives two figures for one tap, 20 Sap gathered over about 4 hours and 30 Sap over about 6 hours, and notes that a server's stack multipliers can change the maximum.
- Several taps per tree: allowed, but each one collects at 1 divided by the number of taps on the tree, so 2 taps each run at half the normal rate. The tree's total output stays the same; extra taps only add storage, 20 per tap.
- First start: a new tap stays idle until someone opens its inventory once after it has been placed. The wiki also lists this as a bug in ASE.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 36 for 18 engram points, with 
Cementing Paste listed as its prerequisite. A tap takes 3 seconds to craft, gives 1.5 XP and costs 100 
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) and 40 Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste). The ARK Wiki names the 
Argentavis Saddle as one place to craft it.
Hiding, sharing and loot
A tribe that wants its taps out of sight has to pick a tree whose trunk is screened by younger saplings; the wiki notes that taps can double as an unobtrusive way of claiming land. Taps can also be unlocked for public use. Each one weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 71 crate types that can contain a tap, for example the Aberration Blue and Green crates on Aberration and Valguero and the Aberration Surface Blue crate, and list it on 14 maps.