Unassembled TEK Hover Skiff

A vehicle that starts life as an item

The Unassembled TEK Hover Skiff comes from the Genesis: Part 1 DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. You craft it, and the craft produces a Hover Skiff ready to be driven. The item text reads "Craft this item to assemble a new TEK Hover Skiff." Our records carry a different description: a TEK-tier flying platform that can carry creatures with a tractor beam.

Tekgram and recipe

The Tekgram is earned by defeating the Corrupted Master Controller on Gamma difficulty. Either a Tek Replicator or an Exo-Mek can craft the skiff; a craft takes 5 seconds, gives 1 XP and uses:

• 4100 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 372 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 268 Electronics
• 168 Element or Red Element
• 62 Oil or Oil (Tusoteuthis)
• 60 Crystal or Primal Crystal

When the craft completes, the Hover Skiff appears somewhere within a five-meter radius. Driving it does not depend on the Tekgram: any survivor may take the controls of a deployed skiff.

Weight, decay and tame count

The unassembled item weighs 800 and does not stack. After deployment the game treats the Hover Skiff as a creature. Where creature decay has not been switched off, a skiff left alone long enough falls under the creature decay timer, 8 days by default. It also takes up one slot of the Dino Tame Limit, and adding the first structure to it, a foundation for example, raises that by 19 to a total of 20 under default settings.

Maps

Our map records list Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, Lost Island and Fjordur.