Vertical Electrical Cable
A vertical cable for transmitting electricity up and down cliffs.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
- Loot crates
- 61 crates
- Item ID
- 191
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 49
- Engram points
- 16
Video guides: search YouTube for Vertical Electrical Cable guides
How to craft Vertical Electrical Cable
Vertical Electrical Cable is crafted from 1 ingredient. The engram unlocks at level 49, costs 16 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 1.2 XP.
How to get Vertical Electrical Cable
Vertical Electrical Cable is found in 61 loot crates.
Loot crates
61 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Fjordur YellowFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Yellow BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 61 crates
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Lost Island YellowLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Yellow BonusLost Island · ASE
- 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 YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASE
Vertical Electrical Cable — Detailed Guide
Running power up and down cliffs
ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended both call this upright cable segment the Vertical Electrical Cable. The in-game text is the same in both: "A vertical cable for transmitting electricity up and down cliffs." For ASE, the ARK Wiki places it in a power grid, where cables link a Generator to an 
Electrical Outlet and the outlet supplies electrical devices close by.
Engram, recipe and weight
Our ASE and ASA records give the same values. The engram unlocks at level 49 for 16 engram points. A segment costs 2 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot, takes 3 seconds to craft and gives 1.2 XP; the ARK Wiki names the 
Fabricator and the 
Tek Replicator as crafting stations. Each piece weighs 1 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 100. Crates are another source: 61 crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration Red and Aberration Yellow crates on Aberration, Valguero and Crystal Isles.
Snapping segments together
A vertical segment attaches to any rigid cable piece, whether a Straight cable, an Inclined Intersection or another Vertical segment. Where two pieces did not snap, a 
Flexible Electrical Cable can connect them. The wiki notes one current limit: it cannot connect to an Electric Generator that stands on a mobile base.
What can damage it
The cable has 100 durability and counts as a wooden structure. Bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives do it no harm. The wiki also lists aggressive creatures unable to damage it, among them the 
Araneo, 
Dilophosaur, 
Kaprosuchus, 
Piranha, 
Thylacoleo and 
Vulture.