War Map
A map of the island upon which you can draw your plans.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 55 crates
- Item ID
- 337
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 51
- Engram points
- 15
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for War Map guides
How to craft War Map
War Map is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 51, costs 15 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1.6 XP.
How to get War Map
War Map is found in 55 loot crates.
Loot crates
55 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue 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 WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Show all 55 crates
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · 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 GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
War Map — Detailed Guide
Your map, hung on a wall
The War Map is a structure in ARK: Survival Evolved that shows an enlarged copy of your own map of the server you are playing on. Its description: "A map of the island upon which you can draw your plans." With a 
Paintbrush you can mark places on it.
Engram and materials
You unlock it at level 51 for 15 engram points. The materials are 4 
Fiber, 2 
Wood (
Fungal Wood also works) and 1 
Hide. A craft takes 5 seconds and gives 1.6 XP.
Hanging it up
War Maps fix straight onto the face of a wall and do not snap to other structures. Place them with care, as the wall's texture can show through the map. It counts as a thatch structure, and anything except ranged attacks without explosives can damage it.
Loading your own image
Custom images in Ark PNT files can be loaded onto a War Map if the file name ends in _Sign_WarMap_C. The image is 512x512 with a 1:1 ratio in-game. Unlike other objects that take loaded images, the War Map lays the picture over the existing map rather than swapping it out. Each pixel's brightness sets its transparency: white is fully see-through, black fully opaque, and colored pixels mix their color into the map below. That rules out using it as a larger 
Painting Canvas for custom art. The map is also drawn with slight perspective and is not a perfect square, so the wiki recommends marking spots in-game with a paintbrush, then exporting and editing the result.
Weight and loot
It weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list it on 12 maps, including The Island, Ragnarok, Valguero and Genesis Part 1, and 55 crate types can contain it, Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Green among them. The wiki gives 220.0 as the patch that added it.