Wasteland Lights

Lights from the Wasteland War pack

Wasteland Lights were introduced in ARK: Survival Ascended with the Wasteland War adventure pack, part of the ARK: Bob's Tall Tales DLC. The ARK Wiki treats them as an upgrade over primitive light sources like the standing or wall torch. Their in-game text: "Requires electricity to activate. Lights an area without adding much heat." One item holds 5 different variants.

Fuel, power and the Bonfire

The lights can burn the same fuel as standing and wall torches, and a generator can power them as well, as it does for lampposts. When a generator is switched on and the lights are within its range, it keeps them lit permanently. The Bonfire variant behaves differently: it is the only one that takes AnglerGel as fuel, it cannot be powered at all, it doubles as a campfire for cooking food, and it goes through fuel much more quickly.

Crafting the lights

The engram unlocks at level 48 for 10 engram points and requires the Standing Torch engram. They are crafted in a Fabricator, and the wiki also lists the Tek Replicator. The recipe:

• 10 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 8 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 1 Electronics

Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 7.2 XP. Each one weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list them on 9 maps, among them The Island, Lost Colony and Astraeos.

What cannot damage them

They count as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks leave them unharmed. The wiki also lists a long line of aggressive creatures that cannot damage them, for example the Raptor, Direwolf, Sabertooth, Titanoboa and Pulmonoscorpius.