Crystal

Crystal

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This strange crystalline material can be shaped into lenses, used as an electronics component, or mixed into powerful explosives.

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Resource

Type

Resource

Rarity

Uncommon

Renewable

Yes

Refineable

No

Combustible

No

Item

Weight

1.0

Stack size

100

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 77 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi Crystal 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_Crystal.PrimalItemResource_Crystal'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

183 items

Hexagon Exchange

Exchange yields

10 pieces

Hexagons

115

Crystal is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved used for crafting various items. It is especially useful in the end-game.

Gathering

Crystal are best gathered with a metal pick or with certain creatures; stone picks can work but provide a very low drop chance. It can be acquired by mining white crystals. White crystals are the primary source which can be mined, stalactites in caves also provide crystal. Some others are just decorative. An even better way to gather crystal is the lunar biome on genesis by harvesting the crystal bushes with a Bronto, this can be boosted even more with a mate on a Deinonychus, because a Deinonychus can jump equally how much weight the rider has. You can also use a Magmasaur, Anky, Tek Stryder, and many other dinosaurs to harvest white crystals as well. The Stryder, while not having the greatest collection rate, is the best resource collector in general due to being able to connect to dedicated storage boxes in your base and send resources back to them from anywhere on the map.

Crystal
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Ankylosaurus	★★★★★
Dunkleosteus	★★★★★
Mantis	★★★★☆
Metal Pick	★★★★☆
Excavation Rig	★★★☆☆
Phoenix	★★★☆☆
Therizinosaur	★★★☆☆

Weight Reduction

The following creatures reduce the weight of Crystal by the listed amount while it is in their inventory:

Creature	Reduction
Argentavis	50%
Dunkleosteus	50%
Helicoprion	50%
Ravager	50%

Scorched Earth

In the Scorched Earth DLC, the Artifact Caves and the Wyvern Trench host rich crystal nodes which yield a very high amount of crystal. One single node can yield hundreds crystals if farmed efficiently and these nodes can usually be found in bulk.

Aberration

In the Aberration DLC, crystals can be harvested from Green Gem, Blue Gem, or Red Gem patches at a much higher efficiency than white crystal patches. White crystals are also much more rare, with the colored gems being common throughout the map.

Extinction

In the Extinction DLC, crystals can be harvested from Lampposts, Benches and Tables in the Sanctuary.

Locations

For resource data maps including other resources as well for popular modded maps, see each ARK Resource Data maps.

ARK: Survival AscendedARK: Survival Evolved

The IslandScorched Earth

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Crafting

Crystal is needed to craft the following items:

•  Air Conditioner
•  Air Jar
•  Aqualyrium
•  Astrocetus Tek Saddle
•  Astrodelphis Starwing Saddle
•  Behemoth Tek Gate
•  Behemoth Tek Gateway
•  Bio-Grinder
•  Bladewasp Hive
•  C4 Charge
•  C4 Remote Detonator
•  Camera
•  Candy Cane Club Skin
•  Cannon Shell
•  Charge Battery
•  Chemistry Bench
•  Clockface
•  Cloning Chamber
•  Cluster Grenade
•  Companion Spykit
•  Cruise Missile
•  Cryofridge
•  Cryopod
•  Desert Goggles and Hat
•  Egg Incubator
•  Electric Prod
•  Electronic Binoculars 
•  Embryo Incubator
•  Fabricator
•  Flashlight Attachment
•  Gas Collector
•  Gas Mask
•  Gene Scanner
•  Gene Storage
•  Glow Stick
•  Goo Gun
•  Greenhouse Ceiling
•  Greenhouse Door
•  Greenhouse Doorframe
•  Greenhouse Double Door
•  Greenhouse Double Doorframe
•  Greenhouse Triangle Ceiling
•  Greenhouse Triangle Roof
•  Greenhouse Wall
•  Greenhouse Window
•  Hazard Suit Boots
•  Hazard Suit Gloves
•  Hazard Suit Hat
•  Hazard Suit Pants
•  Hazard Suit Shirt
•  Heavy Miner's Helmet
•  Holiday Lights
•  Holo-Scope Attachment
•  Homing Underwater Mine
•  Improvised Explosive Device
•  Industrial Forge
•  Industrial Grill
•  Industrial Grinder
•  Industrial Preserving Bin
•  Infectarium
•  Lamppost
•  Large Tek Wall
•  Laser Attachment
•  M.D.S.M.
•  M.R.L.M.
•  M.S.C.M.
•  Magnifying Glass
•  Makeshift Megalab
•  Medium Tek Teleporter
•  Megalodon Tek Saddle
•  Mining Drill
•  Mirror
•  Monodon Saddle
•  Mosasaur Tek Saddle
•  Night Vision Goggles
•  Oil Pump
•  Omnidirectional Lamppost
•  Poison Grenade
•  Radio
•  Refrigerator
•  Rex Tek Saddle
•  Rhyniognatha Saddle
•  Rift Generator
•  Riot Helmet
•  Riot Shield
•  Rock Drake Tek Saddle
•  Rocket Homing Missile
•  Rocket Pod
•  Rocket Propelled Grenade
•  Scope Attachment
•  Scout Remote
•  SCUBA Mask
•  Seafin Glider Suit
•  Shastasaurus Submarine Saddle
•  Sloped Greenhouse Roof
•  Sloped Greenhouse Wall Left
•  Sloped Greenhouse Wall Right
•  Small Tek Teleporter
•  Spray Painter
•  Spyglass
•  Tapejara Tek Saddle
•  Tek Binoculars 
•  Tek Boots
•  Tek Bow
•  Tek Bridge
•  Tek Catwalk
•  Tek Ceiling
•  Tek Chestpiece
•  Tek Claws
•  Tek Crop Plot
•  Tek Dedicated Storage
•  Tek Dinosaur Gate
•  Tek Dinosaur Gateway
•  Tek Door
•  Tek Doorframe
•  Tek Double Door
•  Tek Double Doorframe
•  Tek Floating Foundation
•  Tek Forcefield
•  Tek Foundation
•  Tek Gauntlets
•  Tek Generator
•  Tek Gravity Grenade
•  Tek Grenade
•  Tek Grenade Launcher
•  Tek Hatchframe
•  Tek Helmet
•  Tek Hoversail
•  Tek Jump Pad
•  Tek Ladder
•  Tek Leggings
•  Tek Light
•  Tek Ocean Platform
•  Tek Phase Pistol
•  Tek Pillar
•  Tek Ramp
•  Tek Remote Camera
•  Tek Replicator
•  Tek Rifle
•  Tek Sensor
•  Tek Shield
•  Tek Shoulder Cannon
•  Tek Stairs
•  Tek Sword
•  Tek Teleporter
•  Tek Thalassian Hoversail
•  Tek Transmitter
•  Tek Trapdoor
•  Tek Triangle Ceiling
•  Tek Triangle Floating Foundation
•  Tek Triangle Foundation
•  Tek Trident
•  Tek Trough
•  Tek Wall
•  Tek Window
•  Tek Windowframe
•  Thalassian Ammo
•  Thalassian Pistol
•  Thalassian Rifle
•  Toilet
•  Train Engine
•  Transponder Node
•  Transponder Tracker
•  Tripwire Narcotic Trap
•  Tropeognathus Saddle
•  Unassembled Enforcer
•  Unassembled Exo-Mek
•  Unassembled Mek
•  Unassembled Sir 5rM8
•  Unassembled TEK Hover Skiff
•  Vacuum Compartment
•  Vacuum Compartment Moonpool
•  Water Jar

Crystal is also needed to craft the following legacy items:

•  Alchemy Table 
•  Bloodforge
•  Cryo Hospital
•  Glass 
•  Hydrosphere
•  Industrial Forge 
•  Mini Charge Battery
•  Cutlass 
•  Glass Vase 
•  Revival Platform 
•  TEK Implant Chamber 
•  TEK Kibble Processor 
•  TEK SCUBA Mask 
•  Salt 
•  Solwyn Saddle

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
180.0	New Mountain & Underwater Crystal.
180.1	Decreased Mountain & Underwater Crystal Resources amounts by 50%.
245.0	Added crystal resources to the half tropical half lava island.
259.0	Added lots of crystal to all caves except the Tek Cave.

Gallery

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  Crystals on top of the Volcano
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  Crystals glow at night, making them clearly visible from a distance
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  Rich Crystal nodes (Scorched Earth)