Black Pearl

Black Pearl

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A rare resource from the bottom of the sea...

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Resource

Type

Resource

Rarity

Rare

Renewable

Yes

Refineable

No

Combustible

No

Item

Weight

2.0

Stack size

200 / 5000

Added in

v238.0

Spawn Command

cheat gfi BlackPearl 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_BlackPearl.PrimalItemResource_BlackPearl'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

48 items

Hexagon Exchange

Hexagons

300

Black Pearls are a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. They can be obtained by harvesting dead  Trilobite,  Deathworm,  Eurypterid,  Ammonite,  Tusoteuthis,  Alpha Tusoteuthis and  Alpha Mosasaur. They can also drop as rare loot when catching fish with a  Fishing Rod.  Gachas can also produce many items as well as black pearls depending on the gacha. The  Phoenix will also rarely poop them out instead of its usual  Silica Pearls.

Black Pearls are used in crafting and are a key component in Tek Tier crafting recipes.

Gathering

Black Pearl
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Chainsaw	★★★★☆
Therizinosaur	★★★☆☆
Excavation Rig	★★☆☆☆
Megalodon	★★☆☆☆
Metal Pick	★★☆☆☆

Use an  Ichthyosaurus or  Manta to hunt  Eurypterid. They have no knockback and don’t gain any  Torpidity, which the Eurypterids can massively inflict. This allows you to attack and kill them effortlessly. Be wary however, the eurypterid also rapidly drains the stamina of tamed dinos and will leave you vulnerable to the other terrors of the deep.

 Otters have an ability to rarely collect Black Pearls from fish corpses.

There is an another way to hunt them is to hit one with a  Grappling Hook and then use a fast water mount to drag it to the shore, where it can be harvested by a  Therizinosaur for extra pearls.

An End-Game way is making use of a  Megalodon, equipped with the  Megalodon Tek Saddle, it can kill a  Tusoteuthis with the element pulses. When killed, the Megalodon can harvest the Black Pearls very easy. (Also works with / on  Mosasaurus, but harvesting with Megalodon gives more Black Pearls, and the Mosasaur is harder to kill.)

 Beelzebufo do increased damage against  Eurypterid and also gather black pearls at an increased rate.

While a  Eurypterid only drops a few pearls, an  Alpha Mosasaur drops 100 Black Pearls and an  Alpha Tusoteuthis drops 75.

Weight Reduction

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

Creature	Reduction
Argentavis	50%
Dunkleosteus	50%

Genesis: Part 2

In space Black Pearls can be found in large amounts if flying islands have giant pearls attached to it.

Ragnarok

A black variant of the clam, like  Silica Pearls, can be found in Ragnarok. These can be harvested for 5-20 black pearls. Black Pearl collection from said clams now scales with the Harvest Amount setting of your server.

Scorched Earth

Black Pearls are dropped by Deathworms and Alpha Deathworms in the desert.

Aberration

A black variant of the clam, like  Silica Pearls, can be found near the rivers at Graves of the Lost. These can be harvested for 5-20 black pearls, but can be dangerous due to radiation and nearby threats (such as  Nameless,  Rock Drake and any aggressive dino dropped from above). Moreover, unlike the clams that gives Silica Pearls, the clams disregards loot drop multiplier from server setting, and as such does not give extra Black Pearls at any rate past 1.

Extinction

In Extinction, Black Pearls can be produced by  Gacha. This allows one to easily acquire large amounts of Black Pearls by feeding  Stone and other resources to a Gacha. Using the Gacha is the best way to get black pearls.

Black Pearls are also dropped by large corrupted carnivores such as  Corrupted Spino,  Corrupted Rex,  Corrupted Wyvern, and  Corrupted Giganotosaurus in the north. These creatures have a small chance of dropping 1-7 black pearls.

Crystal Isles

A black variant of the clam, like  Silica Pearls, can be found in the Crystal Isles. They can be located in the water bubbles in the Eldritch Isle. These can be harvested for 5-20 black pearls. Black Pearl collection from said clams now scales with the Harvest Amount setting of your server.

Valguero

A black variant of the clam, like  Silica Pearls, can be found in Valguero. These can be harvested for black pearls.

Crafting

Black Pearl is used to craft the following items:

• Absorbent Substrate
• Astrocetus Tek Saddle
• Astrodelphis Starwing Saddle
• Broth of Enlightenment
• Camera
• Cloning Chamber
• Cruise Missile
• M.S.C.M.
• Rex Tek Saddle
• Tek Forcefield
• Unassembled Mek

Consumption

Black Pearls are the preferred, but not exclusive, food of Tusoteuthis.

• Black Pearls restore 30 Food and grant 50 Taming Affinity.

Locations

• Ragnarok
• Aberration

Below are all of the black pearl locations for Ragnarok. For a larger map including the other resources, see the Strategic Resource Map.

Black Pearl

Below are all of the black pearl locations for Aberration. For a larger map including the other resources, see the Strategic Resource Map.

Black Pearl

Notes

• When dropped on the ground, Black Pearls appear as black clams instead of the standard boxes.
• In Mobile black pearls can be obtained in dungeons from chests but very rare Free gifts also give black pearls(×20) sometimes.
  • Dungeon chest can drop black pearls in numbers of(×10)(×20)(×30)