Electrical Generator

See also:  Tek Generator

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Electrical Generator

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A large machine that converts gasoline into electricity.

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Structure

Type

Electricity

Health

1,000

Item slots

8

Fuel

 Gasoline

Decay time

16d

Item

Weight

5.0

Stack size

100

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 186 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Pipes/PrimalItemStructure_PowerGenerator.PrimalItemStructure_PowerGenerator'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 49

Engram points

24 EP

Crafting XP

52.8 XP

Unlocks

•  Motorboat
•  Night Vision Goggles
•  Oil Pump
•  Straight Electrical Cable

Crafted in

•  Fabricator
•  Tek Replicator
•  Exo-Mek

Required stations

Fabricator
Refining Forge

Ingredients

Resources breakdown [Expand]

25 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

10 × Electronics

10 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

30 × Silica Pearls

Total Base Ingredients

30 ×	Silica Pearls
35 ×	Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

The Electrical Generator uses  Gasoline to create Electricity which it distributes to connected Electric Cables.

Fuel

The burn rate of gasoline is 1 every 60 minutes. A fully stocked generator will run for 33 days and 8 hours. Be careful, however, because electrical cables have a decay timer of 8 days.

Gasoline	Burn Time
1	1h
100	4d 4h
800	33d 8h

Coverage (ASA)

In  ARK: Survival Ascended it provides wireless electricity in range of 3,000 Unreal Engine units (10 foundation units). Any power consumer checks an area of 10,000 Unreal Engine units (~33 foundation units) for a power source, as opposed to wired powering as required in  ARK: Survival Evolved.

Electrical Items

List of items that requires power from the  Electrical Generator to work (through an  Electrical Outlet placed nearby those structures):

•  Lamppost
•  Omnidirectional Lamppost
•  Cryofridge
•  Refrigerator
•  Air Conditioner
•  Elevator Track
•  Auto Turret
•  Egg Incubator
•  Remote Keypad
•  Chemistry Bench

Scorched Earth

• Electrical Generators lose durability while turned on. Placing the Electrical Generator inside an Adobe Building with Air Conditioners does not stop this decay. They need to be repaired around every real-time day or the generator will be destroyed. A generator placed on the same power grid as a wind turbine can be set to power on when the turbines shut off.
• When beyond rendering distance from any player, electrical generators lose durability much more slowly.
• While on an official online server, Electrical Generators will not lose health so long as no tribe member is online and the server has offline damage prevention.

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Notes

• It does not work if submerged.

• The Electrical Generator is treated as a wooden structure and can not be damaged by hands, stone weapons, or non-explosive ranged attacks.
• The following aggressive creatures can not damage the Electrical Generator:

•  Araneo
•  Archaeopteryx
•  Basilisk
•  Beelzebufo
•  Carbonemys
•  Cnidaria
•  Compy
•  Dilophosaur
•  Dimorphodon
•  Diplodocus
•  Direwolf
•  Dung Beetle
•  Equus
•  Eurypterid
•  Ferox
•  Giant Bee
•  Ichthyornis
•  Insect Swarm
•  Kaprosuchus
•  Lamprey
•  Leech
•  Meganeura
•  Microraptor
•  Nameless
•  Onyc
•  Pachy
•  Piranha
•  Pulmonoscorpius
•  Raptor
•  Sabertooth
•  Sabertooth Salmon
•  Terror Bird
•  Thylacoleo
•  Titanoboa
•  Titanomyrma
•  Velonasaur
•  Vulture

Painting and Color Regions

The Electrical Generator is not currently paint-able, however this object may be re-mapped to include paint regions in a future update.

For more information on Paint Regions and how to use them, please view the Dye,  Paintbrush, or  Spray Painter pages.

Changelog

Patch	ASE Changes
173.0	Fixed bug where Generator with cables attached could not get its inventory accessed.

Gallery

A simple demonstration of how electricity works in ARK. The cables near the activated generator glow yellow and transmit power to the outlets. Objects that require electricity near the outlet will automatically connect to it.