Bug Repellant

Bug Repellant

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This gnarly paste makes you nearly invisible to bugs, bats and spiders. Just don't attack them or get too close, and they'll ignore you! Effect lasts 10 minutes.

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Consumable (values pertain to Humans)

Spoils in

5h

Item

Weight

0.1

Stack size

100

Added in

v217.0

Spawn Command

cheat gfi BugRepellant 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_BugRepellant.PrimalItemConsumable_BugRepellant'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 16

Engram points

12 EP

Crafting XP

4 XP

Crafting time

8s

Crafted in

•  Mortar and Pestle
•  Chemistry Bench
•  Equus Saddle

Required stations

Mortar and Pestle

Crafting yields

6 pieces

Ingredients

Resources breakdown [Expand]

6 × Pelt, Hair, or Wool

2 × Narcotic

10 × Narcoberry

2 × Spoiled Meat

2 × Raw Meat

4 × Citronal

4 × Rockarrot

Total Base Ingredients

10 ×	Narcoberry
4 ×	Citronal
6 ×	Pelt, Hair, or Wool
2 ×	Raw Meat
4 ×	Rockarrot

Ingredients (Chemistry Bench)

Resources breakdown [Expand]

24 × Pelt, Hair, or Wool

8 × Narcotic

40 × Narcoberry

8 × Spoiled Meat

8 × Raw Meat

16 × Citronal

16 × Rockarrot

Total Base Ingredients

40 ×	Narcoberry
16 ×	Citronal
24 ×	Pelt, Hair, or Wool
8 ×	Raw Meat
16 ×	Rockarrot

Bug Repellant is a consumable in ARK: Survival Evolved. Upon use, it reduces the aggressiveness of certain insects and other creatures towards the user.

The specific results of the effect are:

•  Titanomyrma,  Meganeura, and  Leeches will ignore the user unless attacked first.
•  Araneo,  Arthropluera,  Onyc,  Manta, and  Mantis will act the same way as the  Gigantopithecus, passive, but aggressive when touched, which allows the user to tame these creatures non-violently.
•  Hyaenodon reduces its detection range of any player or creature with the bug repellant effect active.
• Be warned,  Pulmonoscorpius won't change their curious behavior and sense your presence. However, they may not attack you even if touched the first few times. Should one approach you, stay still and shield yourself. If they attack, a sword will take them easily.

The effect lasts for 10 minutes. During the duration of the effect, a translucent pale green haze will be emitted from the user and their tames.

The Bug Repellant is also the  Pachyrhinosaurus' favorite taming food, where it fills up 25 food-units per Bug Repellant.

Usage

Bug Repellant can be extremely useful for survivors and their tames that venture into caves, as it greatly reduces the threat of being attacked by a variety of dangerous cave creatures. It is also necessary for the taming process of those creatures. Additionally, it can make oceanic and coastal ventures somewhat less dangerous, as it will help you avoid attack from  Manta swarms.

Spoil times

Unlike most other items crafted in the  Mortar and Pestle and  Chemistry Bench, bug repellant can spoil, so preservation may be required.

Container	Spoiling Time	Spoiling Time in Scorched Earth
Player Inventory	5h	4h 30m
Player Inventory (with  Preserving Salt *)	10h	9h
Tamed Dino	20h	18h
Tamed Dino (with  Preserving Salt *)	1d 16h	1d 12h
Preserving Bin	2d 2h	1d 21h
Preserving Bin (with  Preserving Salt *)	4d 4h	3d 18h
Smokehouse	3d 3h	2d 19h 30m
Refrigerator	20d 20h	18d 18h
Fenrir,  Ice Wyvern or  Winter Drakeling	20d 20h	18d 18h
Fenrir,  Ice Wyvern or  Winter Drakeling (with  Preserving Salt *)	41d 16h	37d 12h

*Keep in mind that a full stack of preserving salts will spoil in 2 hours for all of these containers and must be restocked periodically in order to maximize the spoil time.

For more information, see Spoilage.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
217.0	Bug Repellant is added to the game.
242.3	Bug Repellent now repels  Leeches and bug repellent now works when applied to your Tamed Dinos.