How To Get Gunpowder In Ark

A powerful propellant. Necessary for any firearm or explosive.

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Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 108 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi Gunpowder i 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_Gunpowder.PrimalItemResource_Gunpowder'" 1 0 0

Ingredients

Resource breakup [Expand]

Ingredients (Chemistry Bench)

Resources breakdown [Expand]

Exchange yields

20 pieces

Hexagons

150

Gunpowder is a resources in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is created in a Mortar and Pestle, the Chemistry Bench and in the Equus Saddle. It is used for crafting weapons and ammunition.

Crafting

Gunpowder is used to craft the following items:

Some types of Dyes

Full list of items crafted with Gunpowder

Crafting Method

One easy method to create massive amounts of gunpowder is to chop a big quantity of woods, identify the wood in a campfire/forge (not a standing torch equally they fire wood much slower), and utilize an Ankylo to mine flint and stone needed for the sparkpowder ingredient. Once full of flint and stone, the wood should have finished burning and produced charcoal, giving the second ingredient needed to make the gunpowder. Another method to acquire vast amounts of charcoal is to chop down burnt trees on the burnt islands of The Heart and around volcano surface area of Ragnarok, as they drib it as a resource likewise.

Notes/Trivia

Since Charcoal is acquired at such a low level, it is brash to store it, if you have the means, to relieve having to waste matter called-for wood later on without cooking anything.
Gunpowder blueprints tin no longer exist spawned. If the "cheat giveitemnum 108 1 0 ane" command is used there will merely spawn i item of gunpowder. You MUST acquire the engram prior to be able to make gunpowder.

Changelog

Patch	Changes
312.65	Increased the cost of Gunpowder in the Hex Substitution to 150 hexagons.

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