Chainsaw (Scorched Earth)

Chainsaw

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The fastest way to cut a tree.

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DLCs

Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Genesis: Part 1, Crystal Isles, Lost Island

Weapon

Type

Tool

Ammo used

 Gasoline

Melee damage

14

Item

Weight

20.0

Durability

80.0

Added in

v246.0

Found in Supply Crate

Yellow

Spawn Command

cheat gfi ChainSaw 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/ScorchedEarth/WeaponChainsaw/PrimalItem_ChainSaw.PrimalItem_ChainSaw'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 55

Engram points

21 EP

Crafting XP

120 XP

Crafting time

15s

Prerequisites

• Shotgun

Crafted in

• Fabricator
• Tek Replicator

Required stations

Fabricator
Refining Forge

Ingredients

Resources breakdown [Expand]

75 × Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule

50 × Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste

50 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

25 × Electronics

25 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

75 × Silica Pearls

Total Base Ingredients

75 ×	Silica Pearls
75 ×	Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule
50 ×	Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste
75 ×	Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

The Chainsaw is a tool in the Scorched Earth-DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. The chainsaw is a very powerful weapon, while at the same time, great at harvesting. It is found in yellow drops on the Scorched Earth DLC. It uses Gasoline as Fuel/Ammo.

Usage

The chainsaw is used to obtain resources such as chitin, wood, and hide in higher quantities. It runs on  Gasoline. It shows the current amount of gas in the weapon as a percentage with the number next to it the amount of gas in your inventory. Additionally, the chainsaw is very effective at harvesting oil, scrap metal, electronics, and element dust from slain Enforcers and Tek Dinos.

Gathering

Resource	Efficiency
Wood	★★★★★
Organic Polymer	★★★★★
Hide	★★★★★
Bio Toxin	★★★★★
Cactus Sap	★★★★★
Raw Mutton	★★★★★
Scrap Metal	★★★★☆
Element Dust	★★★★☆
Oil	★★★★☆
Chitin or Keratin	★★★★☆
Electronics	★★★★☆
Black Pearl	★★★★☆
Raw Prime Meat	★★★★☆
Corrupted Nodule	★★★★☆
Raw Meat	★★★★☆
AnglerGel	★★★☆☆
Thatch	★★★☆☆

Notes

• The chainsaw will harvest large quantities of resources that you would normally get from an object - a Mantis usually gives 0-16 Organic Polymer when harvested with normal tools but can give around 30+ depending on the quality of the chainsaw.
• Higher quality Chainsaws are expensive to repair. You can somewhat offset the Polymer costs by using Organic Polymer, but make sure harvest enough with your Chainsaw before it breaks!
• The chainsaw deals torpor while dealing damage to a target.
• Melee damage does affect the DPS of a chainsaw and is more efficient at destroying stone structures than metal tools.
• Damage caps at 755.3% and Durability caps at 1390.
• The engram for the Chainsaw requires the engram for a Shotgun. This is a possible reference to the Evil Dead movies, in which the protagonist Ash uses a double-barrel shotgun and a chainsaw attached to his right arm in place of his hand.
• It is incapable of functioning underwater similar to a firearm due to this farming  Eurypterid can prove difficult due to their deep spawns, in maps like Genesis: Part 2 this proves possible to Eurypterids spawning far more shallow allowing them to move onto land for harvesting.