Water Well

A stone water tap from Scorched Earth

The Water Well is a water structure introduced with Scorched Earth, called Water Well in ARK: Survival Evolved and Water Well (Primitive Plus) in ARK: Survival Ascended. The game sums it up: "This stone tap allows access to the water in an irrigation network. Can refill containers, irrigate crop plots, or provide a refreshing drink."

Setting it on a Water Vein

A well has to be placed on top of a Water Vein; the ARK Wiki notes that these veins are spread across the Scorched Earth map. Once in place, the well fills up slowly, holds up to 1000 units of water and refills by itself whenever water is used from it.

Irrigation in ASE and ASA

In ASE, stone and metal Irrigation Pipes snap to the well to build an irrigation system for your plants. Straight, vertical and inclined pipes can start the line, but a pipe intake will not snap to the well. On official servers, the wiki adds, nothing except the Water Well may be built on or around a Water Vein, and that includes pipes.

In ASA, the well irrigates crops and taps wirelessly, along with other utilities, inside a fixed radius that the wiki still lists as to be determined. A reservoir placed within the well's base range extends that coverage to the reservoir's area.

Engram, recipe and maps

The engram unlocks at level 15 for 10 engram points. The well is crafted in the inventory in 3 seconds and gives 6 XP. It takes:

• 50 Stone
• 30 Thatch
• 20 Fiber
• 15 Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste
• 10 Wood or Fungal Wood
• 10 Flint

Each well weighs 7.5, so a stack of 100 weighs 750. In loot, 14 crate types can contain one, such as the Scorched Blue and Scorched Blue Bonus crates and the Astraeos Desert Blue and Purple crates. Outside Scorched Earth, the wiki lists the well on Crystal Isles, Ragnarok, Fjordur, Valguero, Genesis: Part 2 and Lost Island.