C4 Charge

C4 Charge

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This advanced explosive can annihilate structures.

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Weapon

Type

Explosive

Ammo for

 C4 Remote Detonator

Explosive damage

6899 (2 meter radius)

Item

Weight

0.1

Stack size

100

Durability

100

Single use

Yes

Found in Supply Crate

Red

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 43 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi C4 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Test/PrimalItemC4Ammo.PrimalItemC4Ammo'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 65

Engram points

12 EP

Crafting XP

145 XP

Crafting time

5s

Prerequisites

•  Improvised Explosive Device

Crafted in

•  Fabricator
•  Tek Replicator
•  Exo-Mek

Required stations

Fabricator
Refining Forge
Mortar and Pestle
Campfire

Ingredients

Resources breakdown [Expand]

60 × Gunpowder

60 × Sparkpowder

30 × Stone

60 × Flint

60 × Charcoal

60 × Wood or Fungal Wood

10 × Crystal or Primal Crystal

5 × Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste

50 × Fiber

5 × Hide

5 × Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule

5 × Electronics

5 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

15 × Silica Pearls

Total Base Ingredients

30 ×	Stone
5 ×	Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule
10 ×	Crystal or Primal Crystal
50 ×	Fiber
60 ×	Wood or Fungal Wood
5 ×	Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste
60 ×	Flint
5 ×	Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
15 ×	Silica Pearls
5 ×	Hide

Overview

The C4 Charge is one of the explosives in ARK: Survival Evolved. It sticks to whatever it is thrown at, including creatures and players, and can only be thrown/used with the  C4 Remote Detonator. It cannot stick to platforms or anything built on platforms (this includes the raft as it is considered a platform) but you can place the c4 near the raft (floor or other structure) and the explosive radius can damage the structures.

Damage

The charge deals 1500 damage to a creature without a saddle.

List of explosive damage versus various materials as of Patch 257:

Weapon/Structure	Thatch	Wood	Stone	Metal	Tek
C4 Charge	*	11813	*	3544	788
Grenade	788	788	1838	237	53
Improvised Explosive Device (pair)	*	7875	**	**	**
Rocket Propelled Grenade	*	7350	*	2205	596
Tek Rifle	1260	536	294	29	185
Tek Grenade	2625	1115	612	59	385
Cannon	*	*	3446	355	40

^* The damage is greater than the health-points of structures of that material
^** IEDs are currently just about impossible to place on stone, metal, or Tek structures.

Notes

• A maximum of 50 C4 Charges can be placed at any given time. When more than 50 charges are placed, any additional charges will cause the oldest to disappear.
• Metal doors can be destroyed with exactly 2 C4 Charges. Maximum damage is achieved by placing and detonating one charge at a time.
• C4 Can be activated with the remote in a Distance of 50 Foundations Long.
• It is most efficient to craft 60 C4 charges in a fabricator at one time, using one gasoline and consuming 3600 gunpowder, 600 crystal, 300 cementing paste, 3000 fiber, 300 hide, 300 polymer and 300 electronics. This will fill 68 of the fabricator's 70 inventory slots.
• Take note that punching a placed C4 charge is a way to detonate it for that off chance someone manages to get the remote out of your hands.
• C4 is the most efficient way to destroy structures in pvp considering its high damage and explosion radius. However this also makes it quite dangerous to detonate while in confined spaces.
• C4 does not damage beehives.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
178.0	C4's now attach properly to structures in some cases where they couldn't.
180.2	You can now properly attach C4 to enemy structures again.
181.0	C4 can now be placed & detonated underwater.
185.1	Fixed C4 ammo problem.
201.5	Fixed inability to place C4's after placing rotational actors, or to place them on certain walls.
213.0	C4 now attach properly to Platform Saddled Dinos & Rafts.
220.4	C4 can now be placed on areas that already have max structures.
242.4	Fixed issue where turrets wouldn't target someone who had C4's stuck all over their body.
242.5	Can no longer Detonate creature-attached C4 through structure walls.
252.9	Attached C4 is now always targeted by Turrets where possible Fixed C4 on groundable Flyers taking effect when they're not over-water.
252.83	Made all Flyers except for Quetz and Wyvern become 'grounded' if you put a C4 on them.
253.95	Non-Quetz flyers can no longer carry characters that have C4 on them.
253.98	Fixed bug where Flyer-Carried C4's would disappear on Clients after a distance.
254.94	C4 attached to Dinos or Platform Saddles can no longer be remote detonates through world geometry.
255.0	C4 now does approximately 70% more damage to Structures than Rockets. C4-carrying Flyers now move at a fixed slow speed.
256.0	Limited one C4 attached per dino.
276.5	Fixed Dino-attached C4 to not apply damage if it explodes through a mesh.
278.0	Fixed a case which would allow players mounted on certain creatures to throw/place C4 a lot further.
278.73	Separated C4 into their own structure limit category with a limit of 150 per 50m.
279.252	Quetz c4 bomber exploit fixed.
289.100	Can no longer place C4 on platform saddles.
295.102	Can now place C4 near ORP protected structures, except near foundations.
315.2	C4 will no longer float when attached to dinos that have been cryo'd.
316.18	Fixed a bug which allowed you to blow up 2 pieces of C4 without consuming them.
321.1	Managarmr can no longer dash when C4 is attached.
329.21	Fixed a bug which prevented being able to place C4 with Gamepad.
329.27	Prevented C4 from being attached to the  Canoe.
332.1	Fixed a bug which prevented players from being able to place C4 properly.
332.1	Shadowmane can no longer jump/blink when it has C4 attached to it.