Water Jar
Safely carries a lot of water, but is also a bit heavy.
Details
- Category
- Tool
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 60 crates
- Item ID
- 15
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 26
- Engram points
- 12
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Water Jar guides
How to craft Water Jar
Water Jar is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 26, costs 12 engram points, takes 0.5 seconds, gives 3.25 XP.
How to get Water Jar
Water Jar is found in 60 loot crates.
Loot crates
60 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration GreenAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Green BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- 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 BlueFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Blue BonusFjordur · ASE
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- 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 BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost 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 BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
Water Jar — Detailed Guide
Water that stays in the jar
The Water Jar is a tool in ARK: Survival Evolved for carrying drinking water: "Safely carries a lot of water, but is also a bit heavy." It holds 200 units of water, and its water does not drain away over time the way a 
Waterskin's does. The cost is weight: a jar weighs 5, and the ARK Wiki calls it far heavier than the Waterskin, which makes carrying several awkward. The 
Canteen supersedes it.
Crafting a jar
The engram is learned at level 26 for 12 engram points, and the jar is crafted in the inventory from:
- 7
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 5
Hide - 2
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal
Each craft gives 3.2 XP, and the stack size is 1.
Drinking and refilling
- Drinking: pick Use Item on the jar in the inventory, or put it on the hotbar and press its key. A filled jar gives two drinks before it is empty.
- Refilling: use the jar while standing in rain or in shallow water. A
Metal Irrigation Pipe - Tap or a 
Stone Irrigation Pipe - Tap also fills a jar placed in its inventory. - Scorched Earth: there the jar does lose water over time, as all water containers do.
Iced Water Jar and Beer Jar
A filled jar left in a 
Refrigerator or 
Tek Trough for 60 seconds becomes an Iced Water Jar. Drinking it raises hyperthermal insulation by 84 and lowers hypothermal insulation by the same amount, which helps in hot places such as the Lava Cave or Scorched Earth; it also helps remove Heatstroke. Taken out, it reverts to a plain Water Jar 240 seconds later, while inside the fridge its spoil time stretches to almost 2 real-life years. A 
Beer Barrel turns empty jars and 
Beer Liquid into 
Beer Jars. Our records count 3 recipes that use the Water Jar, among them the Beer Jar and the Iced Water Jar.
Troughs and loot
Gachas eat Water Jars placed in a 
Feeding Trough; with little nutrition in them, the jars are eaten first and tend to disappear quickly. Loot can supply jars as well: 60 crate types can contain one, for example the Aberration Blue and Aberration Green crates. Our records list the Water Jar on 14 maps.