Tripwire Narcotic Trap
Place two of these nearby each other to create a poisonous trap. However, its noxious effect renders creatures untameable that are directly knocked out by it.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 6 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 66 crates
- Item ID
- 321
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 29
- Engram points
- 9
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tripwire Narcotic Trap guides
How to craft Tripwire Narcotic Trap
Tripwire Narcotic Trap is crafted from 6 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 29, costs 9 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1.95 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
75Narcoberry
24Stone
15Spoiled Meat
12Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Narcotic ×15, Cementing Paste ×3.
How to get Tripwire Narcotic Trap
Tripwire Narcotic Trap is found in 66 loot crates.
Loot crates
66 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
- 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
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- 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
Tripwire Narcotic Trap — Detailed Guide
A gas trap that builds torpor
The Tripwire Narcotic Trap is a trap in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that releases gas when its wire is tripped. Its short description: "Place two of these near each other to create a poisonous trap." Each craft gives one trap, and the wire only forms between two traps set close together, so a working trap takes two. The ARK Wiki compares it to the 
Improvised Explosive Device, which works nearly the same way.
Who sets it off
Tribe members and allied creatures are immune to the gas, yet you and your own creatures can still trigger your own trap by walking into the wire. Hitting a trap with hands, tools or weapons sets it off together with any trap linked to it, while the demolish option on a friendly trap lets you pick it up and place it somewhere else. After a while the link between two traps breaks.
Using it while taming
A creature knocked out by the trap itself cannot be tamed. The wiki suggests using the gas to raise torpor and finishing the knockout with tranq arrows or a slingshot; the trap itself does no damage, and the target takes very little. One set of two traps adds 240 torpor and costs 30 
Narcotic, which comes to 8 torpor per narcotic. Wild creatures seem not to turn aggressive toward the traps, which helps with creatures that run when attacked. A creature knocked out by the trap still loses food while unconscious, letting you starve a fragile one such as a 
Dimetrodon without heavy damage before a proper knockout.
Recipe and storage
The engram unlocks at level 29 for 9 engram points. Crafting takes 5 seconds, gives 1.95 XP and uses:
- 15 Narcotic
- 3
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 4
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 35
Fiber - 6
Hide - 1
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal
A trap weighs 0.5 and they stack to 10, so a full stack weighs 5. Our records give it 40 durability, list it on 14 maps and count 66 crate types that can contain it, among them the Aberration Blue and Aberration Surface Blue crates. The wiki gives 186.0 as the version that added it.