Water Reservoir
Attach this to pipes to store rain, irrigation, or manually deposited water for later use. Will automatically irrigate nearby crops if attached to a tap.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 56 crates
- Item ID
- 183
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 17
- Engram points
- 7
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Water Reservoir guides
How to craft Water Reservoir
Water Reservoir is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 17, costs 7 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 1.5 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
20Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×5.
How to get Water Reservoir
Water Reservoir is found in 56 loot crates.
Loot crates
56 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- 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
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- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · 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
Water Reservoir — Detailed Guide
Storing water for a base
The Water Reservoir is a standing water tank in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. It holds up to 200 water and acts as a temporary supply for an irrigation network when the usual water source is cut off. Its in-game text adds that, with a tap attached, it waters nearby crops on its own. It used to be called the Water Tank, and a placed reservoir still shows that old name.
How it fills
- Pipes: connected irrigation pipes feed it, but not when the pipe draws its water from a
Water Well. - Condensation: it gains water slowly at all times, even with no rain or snow.
- Weather: rain and snowfall fill it much more quickly.
- By hand: a
Tek Canteen, 
Canteen, 
Water Jar or 
Waterskin can be emptied into it.
A Waterskin, Water Jar or Canteen cannot be refilled straight from the reservoir. Instead, attach a tap to a pipe the reservoir is connected to; water then flows from the tap for drinking or for filling skins and jars. One full reservoir holds enough for two Waterskin, for one Water Jar, or for 2/3 of a Canteen.
Placement in each game
In ASE it snaps onto stone or metal irrigation pipes in their straight, inclined, vertical and intersection forms. In ASA it works like a water pipe itself, supplying water within 3000 Unreal Engine units, about 10 foundations, and linking within 10000 units, roughly 33 foundations. The wiki also notes it cannot go on rafts or platform saddles because it needs a connection to water pipes, and that destroying the pipe it sits on destroys the reservoir with it.
Crafting, weight and loot
The engram unlocks at level 17 for 7 engram points. The reservoir is crafted in the inventory from 30 
Stone and 5 
Cementing Paste (
Achatina Paste also works), in 3 seconds, for 1.5 XP. Each weighs 4 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 400. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 56 crate types can contain it, such as the Astraeos Blue and Astraeos Desert Blue crates and the Genesis Cyan crate on Genesis Part 2.
What cannot hurt it
It counts as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives do not damage it. A long list of aggressive creatures cannot either, including the 
Beelzebufo, 
Carbonemys, 
Ferox, 
Onyc, 
Sabertooth Salmon and 
Velonasaur.