Metal is an important resource in ARK: Survival Evolved as it is needed to craft other resources or items. In our metal guide, we show you where to find metal and how to farm it most effectively.
If you play ARK: Survival Evolved, you will have noticed how often you need metal bars just for the different saddles. Of course, metal is also used to craft other items or resources, so knowing where to find it and how to farm it most effectively is important. At the end of our guide, we will show you what and how you can make something from this precious resource.
This is what awaits you in our guide:
In general, you can extract metal from many types of rock, but the yield varies among these. Most of the metal is obtained directly from metal stones, these look smooth and a bit golden compared to ordinary stones.
However, it will not be easy to get to them, since the metal stones, or stones with a large amount of metal, are often found in areas that are difficult to access, or in areas that you can only get to with the help of tamed dinosaurs.
Among them are:
In Aberration, the rocks that provide the most metal are the gold metal rocks or the blue-black (Luminous Region) rocks.
On The Island you can find metal rocks and metal stones in the following regions:
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There is a significantly higher occurrence of metal in Aberration. The following regions have the most:
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On Scorched Earth, you will find the most metal in the following areas:
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Throughout Extinction, you will repeatedly come across metal stones or rocks.
In Genesis: Part 1 you can find metal in the following regions:
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On the Genesis: Part 2 map, you can find metal in the following regions:
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In The Center, you will find the most metal deposits in the following regions:
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Metal stones and rocks can be found everywhere on Ragnarok. However, it is less present in the Deathsands.
On Valguero, you can find most of the metal in the following places:
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Here's where to find the metal on the Crystal Isles:
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Here's where you'll find most of the metal on Lost Island:
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As mentioned above, many metal deposits are difficult to access, as some are on mountain tops or underwater. You can of course do this alone with the appropriate armor, but it's often easier to rely on a flying creature and a water creature to get you to those places quickly and safely. In our taming guides, for example, the Griffin or the Plesiosaurus, we have already written instructions for taming and breeding such creatures. You can easily find them on Guided using our search function.
To farm the metal on your own, simply use a pickaxe, metal pickaxe, or mining drill that you craft for it. Make a few more tools to be on the safe side, since the pickaxes in particular break quickly when mining.
Craft Pickaxe: In order to craft a pickaxe in your inventory, you need level 1 and 0 engram points, as well as the following:
Crafting takes 5 seconds.
Craft a Metal Pickaxe: For a Metal Pickaxe, you need level 20 and 6 engram points, as well as the following resources:
You can craft the metal pickaxe in a forge.
Craft Mining Drill: When you are in Genesis: Part 1, you can also craft the Mining Drill with the following resources at level 80 and 35 engram points:
You can craft the Mining Drill in the Fabricator or TEK Replicator in 15 seconds. You need gasoline to run it.
Of course, you can also farm metal with a tamed dinosaur. The Ankylosaurus with its club is best suited for stone and metal farming. His club can easily crush the hard rock, and you don't have to waste resources on items.
The stones and rocks you farmed metal from will respawn approximately 1 hour after they are destroyed.
When smelted in a Refining Machine, Industrial Machine, Magmasaurus, or Phoenix, the Metal Stone becomes a Metal Ingot.
2x Metal Rock = 1x Metal Ingot
Metal bars are necessary for the production of all items, for example, saddles or platform saddles.
However, you can also produce items directly from metal stones:
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