Unassembled Exo-Mek
Craft this item to assemble a new Exo-Mek.
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Genesis: Part 2
- Recipe
- 5 ingredients
- Item ID
- 599
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Unassembled Exo-Mek guides
How to craft Unassembled Exo-Mek
Unassembled Exo-Mek is crafted from 5 ingredients. The engram unlocks without a level requirement, costs 0 engram points, takes 30 seconds, gives 60 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Crafted in
Tek Replicator
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
4,800Stone
2,400Chitin/Keratin
1,700Metal
600ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×850, Cementing Paste ×600, Polymer ×300.
Unassembled Exo-Mek — Detailed Guide
Deploying an Exo-Mek
The Unassembled Exo-Mek is the item used to deploy an 
Exo-Mek, from the Genesis: Part 2 content of ARK: Survival Evolved. The in-game text is brief: "Craft this item to assemble a new Exo-Mek." Using it places an Exo-Mek right where the survivor is standing. The wiki calls this item an inactive successor to the 
Mek, which is an armed robot meant to fight off creatures and hostiles.
Getting the Tekgram
Only a survivor who has learned its Tekgram can craft it, and that Tekgram is earned by beating Rockwell Prime on any difficulty. Placing it is another matter: any survivor can deploy one, with or without the Tekgram. The wiki lists the Exo-Mek as a place to craft it.
Recipe and weight
The materials are:
- 850
Metal Ingot - 350
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 300
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 40
Element or 
Red Element - 35
Black Pearl
Crafting takes 30 seconds and grants 60 XP. The finished item weighs 500 and has a stack size of 1. Our records list it on 12 maps, including The Island, Aberration, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, Crystal Isles and Fjordur.
Element, decay and the tame limit
A Mek left without Element self-destructs. An Exo-Mek does not: once its Element runs out it goes permanently inactive and never dies that way. It is still subject to the creature decay timer when nobody checks on it for a long time, and it counts toward the tribe tame limit.