Obelisk

Obelisk

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Structure

Type

Structure

Health

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Item slots

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Crafting

Used to craft

3 items

Obelisks are the massive, floating towers that emit light in  ARK: Survival Evolved. They are also referred to as pillars, towers, arks, spires, or mega-beacons. At the beginning of your journey, no matter where you spawn, chances are high you'll spot them right away by simply looking around.

Currently, there are 3 Obelisk towers on each of the official maps except for Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2:

• Red Obelisk
• Green Obelisk
• Blue Obelisk

It should be noted however that the Obelisks on Extinction have no Terminal under them. Genesis: Part 2 only has half-broken Obelisks in the Survive the ARK mission backgrounds.

In addition, The Island, Aberration and Extinction all contain extra Terminals, namely the Tek Cave Terminal, Rockwell Terminal, and Forest, Ice, Desert, and King Titan Terminals respectively.

Location

Below are the locations of Obelisks on each map. The x, y, z-coordinates in the chart above are for the use of the "Set Player Position" command (setplayerpos <x> <y> <z>).

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	79.8	17.4	-260680	238890	-11211
Green	58.9	72.3	178440	71520	-10079
Blue	25.4	25.6	-195131	-196368	33846
Tek Cave Terminal	43.1	39.1	-87011	-54601	33489

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	08.3	59.0	37440	-211231	2000
Green	34.8	15.8	-377280	42745	-13600
Blue	50.7	81.2	250560	195130	-8500

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	71.0	39.2	-86400	168000	-16300
Green	50.0	74.3	194400	0	-12500
Blue	17.3	34.0	-128000	-261600	-15400

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	35.0	85.7	467670	-196500	-14200
Green	57.0	38.2	-154580	91700	11600
Blue	18.1	17.3	-428370	-417890	-13700

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	80.8	20.3	-237600	246400	53500
Green	22.5	77.7	221600	-220000	57300
Blue	18.9	16.1	-271200	-248800	66700
Rockwell Terminal	42.7	36.7	-106400	-58400	-102900

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	77.6	76.9	215200	220800	-45600
Green	50.6	29.7	-162400	4800	-22000
Blue (Crater Forest)	25.4	22.5	-217600	-199200	-108700
Blue (Snow Dome)	21.8	78.2	225600	-225600	15250
Desert Terminal	97.1	90.2	321600	376800	-60350
Forest Terminal	15.9	50.5	4000	-272800	-146000
Ice Terminal	6.7	85.8	286400	-346400	-40800
King Terminal	3.4	49.2	-6400	-372800	37000

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	76.1	17.1	-268098	213453	-176
Green	48.8	76.1	213656	-9431	-12816
Blue	09.3	17.3	-266886	-331803	588

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	63.8	58.4	?	?	?
Green	51.4	25.4	?	?	?
Blue	25.6	56.7	?	?	?

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	28.6	63.79	?	?	?
Green	62.68	56.93	?	?	?
Blue	25.15	34.37	?	?	?

Obelisks are accesible from the underground realms of Asgard (red), Jotunheim (blue) and Vanaheim (green).

Color	Lat	Lon	X	Y	Z
Red	79.3	96.3	?	?	?
Green	17.7	80.7	?	?	?
Blue	74.6	7.4	?	?	?

Summoning Bosses

One of the main functions of Obelisk Terminals is to summon bosses available on a map.

In singleplayer, you cannot summon bosses at every terminal, but sometimes need specific points. For example, on The Island, you can only summon Broodmother Lysrix at the Green Obelisk, Megapithecus at the Blue Obelisk, and the Dragon at the Red Obelisk, and on Aberration, Rockwell can only be summoned at his own Terminal.

On servers however, bosses, with the exception of Titans, can be summoned at all valid Terminals, including Supply Crates.

Crafting

 Cryopods and  Tek Replicator can be crafted in this inventory or in a supply crate. The items used to craft one will take the entire inventory of the beacon.

Server Traveling

See also:  CrossARK Transfers

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One of the features of the Obelisk is the Character Data Transmission. By saving your character data, you'll be able to transfer your character to a different server, or send items and dinos across different servers.

How To Transfer

Obelisk Console

To transfer your data, approach the console located right under the Obelisk Tower.

For cluster servers will display as "Travel to another server", for single-player "Upload survivor"

Once you activate the console (default E, , , ), you'll be prompted with a UI.

At the top right side, you'll see a button "TRANSMIT ARK DATA". Press the button to get the options for the data transmission (see screenshot), so that you can upload your character data.

Once you've uploaded your character data, you can join a different server and during the character creation, you'll now be able to load in the character that you've uploaded. Currently characters can only be downloaded from the same types of servers, i.e. PVP character to another PVP server, PVE to another PVE server.

Note: The process has been simplified even further. Survivors only need to place items in the ARK DATA inventory, and log off their current map. The game will do the rest for you

Repairing

Servers that have lost their interactive obelisk terminals can spawn them back in with these commands while looking at the terminal:

• Red Terminal: spawnactor "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Structures/TributeTerminal_Red.TributeTerminal_Red'" 160 0 0
• Blue Terminal: spawnactor "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Structures/TributeTerminal_Blue.TributeTerminal_Blue'" 160 0 0
• Green Terminal: spawnactor "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Structures/TributeTerminal_Green.TributeTerminal_Green'" 160 0 0

Notes/Trivia

• Since patch 246.0, upload of items is limited to 50 stacks and upload of dinos is limited to 20.
• The Green Obelisk used to be where the red one is, the red where the blue one is, and the blue where the green one is.
• In Extinction Chronicles, one of the notes say that the Obelisks in Extinction are prototypes and in general Obelisks are energy sources.
• In Aberration, it’s show that despite the enormous size of the Obelisks, they appear to be only the most visible part of a much larger corresponding structure outside the ARK, which is hidden on other maps, revealed when that ARK was damaged.
• In singlelayer, when uploading spoilable items, including those not refrigerable (like Leech Blood or Organic Polymer) and taking them out again, the spoil timer will refresh. As such, and obelisk is a very cheap alternative of a refrigerator.
  • You can transfer to another server and anything in character inventory will refresh spoil timers.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
171.3	Improved the look of the Obelisks at night-time.
174.31	Fixed a stat math problem with Downloading Dinos via the Obelisks.
181.0	Obelisk terminals no longer get an auto-demolish timer.
243.5	Fixed Obelisk Terminal activation collision.
246.0	Cross-ARK travel & Cross-Official-Server Transfer are now available via Obelisk Terminals.
249.1	Fix to allow new Halloween items to be transferable in Obelisk terminal.
254.5	Added Tek Replicator to obelisk inventories.
256.35	Obelisks no longer default to the Transfer Data Tab.
257.52	TEK Replicator is now craftable at the Obelisk.
259.0	Obelisks in singleplayer/non-dedicated now have each boss spawned from a specific obelisk. Transfers can only be done via the obelisk. Obelisks now save inventory in singleplayer.
259.32	Added an ambient sound to the Obelisk.
260.0	Obelisk now has an ambient sound.
261.0	Tek Replicator can now only be crafted at the Obelisks in singleplayer.
262.0	Obelisk pads are correctly colourized. Obelisk laser beam is now aligned with the terminal center.
298.37	Cryopods and  Cryofridges are now craftable in an obelisk terminal inventory.
299.26	Cryopods are now able to be crafted at obelisk.
321.14	No longer able to delete/destroy the obelisk via admin commands (previously deleted ones are now restored).

Gallery

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  Panorama of all three Obelisks as seen from the Cragg's Island, as seen before update v. 216.0

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  Bottom of the Green Obelisk

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  Side of the Green Obelisk in Southern Jungle, before v. 216.0

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  Red obelisk with a Supply Crate marker to scale, as seen before v. 216.0

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  Obelisk Concept Art. The 4th concept appearing the closest to the ingame obelisk.

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