Polymer

Polymer

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These incredibly strong, lightweight plates can be shaped and then heat treated into casings for anything.

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Resource

Type

Resource

Rarity

Uncommon

Renewable

Yes

Refineable

No

Combustible

No

Item

Weight

0.25

Stack size

100

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 163 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi Polymer 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_Polymer.PrimalItemResource_Polymer'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 48

Engram points

6 EP

Crafting XP

2.24 XP

Crafting time

2s

Used to craft

150 items

Crafted in

•  Fabricator
•  Tek Replicator
•  Exo-Mek

Ingredients

2 × Obsidian

2 × Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste

Polymer is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is used to make durable tools, weapons and armor (and a couple other Misc Items).

Overview

Polymer is an artificial material crafted at the Fabricator using 2x Obsidian and 2x Cementing Paste.

 Organic Polymer, a natural version of Polymer that can be obtained from killing  Kairuku,  Hesperornis,  Mantis,  Karkinos, and harvesting bee hives. It can always be used in place of Polymer, but is not as ideal because it has a spoil timer and can only stack up to 20, while regular Polymer can stack up to 100.

 Corrupted Nodule is also a natural version of Polymer, found on Extinction. It can be harvested from dead Corrupted Creatures in the Wasteland.

On Ragnarok, however, if you have tamed a  Griffin, a really good strategy would be flying over to the beach of the volcano area (with black sand), divebomb a bunch of  Mantises, and with the  Griffin's fast speeds fly over to your home, and use the  Organic Polymer as a substitute for the normal Polymer.

Crafting

Polymer is used to craft the following items:

Tools

•  Canteen
•  Charge Battery
•  Gas Mask
•  GPS
•  Soap
•  Spray Painter
•  Transponder Node
•  Transponder Tracker

Armor

•  Heavy Miner's Helmet
•  Riot Armor
•  SCUBA Leggings
•  SCUBA Tank
•  Tek Armor

Saddles

•  Megalodon Tek Saddle
•  Mosasaur Tek Saddle
•  Rex Tek Saddle
•  Rock Drake Tek Saddle
•  Tapejara Tek Saddle
•  Tropeognathus Saddle

Electric Devices

•  Air Conditioner
•  Refrigerator
•  Elevator Structures

Structures & Storage

•  Behemoth Gateway
•  Chemistry Bench
•  Industrial Cooker
•  Industrial Forge
•  Industrial Grinder
•  Vault

Weapons

•  Assault Rifle
•  Auto Turret
•  C4 Charge
•  C4 Remote Detonator
•  Compound Bow
•  Fabricated Pistol
•  Fabricated Sniper Rifle
•  Metal Arrow
•  Pump-Action Shotgun
•  Riot Shield
•  Rocket Launcher
•  Rocket Propelled Grenade

Full list of items crafted with Polymer

Gathering

Weight Reduction

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

Creature	Reduction
Argentavis	50%

Video Tutorial

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Quick tutorial on how to get polymer.

Notes

• Polymer is likely ARK: Survival Evolved's version of real life materials like fiberglass and lead, or metal alloys.
• Given how expensive Polymer can be, Only use it when you can (if you live in the mountains or volcano specifically). Organic polymer is a good alternate, and can be found on virtually every map easily.
• Regular polymer can not be used to craft ghillie armor, and cannot be used to tame the moschops.