Metal Ingot

Metal Ingot is referred to as "Iron Ingot" in the Primitive Plus DLC

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Created by refining metal ore in a forge.

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Resource

Type

Resource

Rarity

Common

Renewable

Yes

Refineable

No

Combustible

No

Item

Weight

1.0

Stack size

300 / 5000

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 73 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi MetalIngot 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_MetalIngot.PrimalItemResource_MetalIngot'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Used to craft

356 items

Crafted in

Ingredients

2 × Metal

Hexagon Exchange

Exchange yields

5 pieces

Hexagons

195

Purchase (Mobile)

Purchase yields

50 pieces

Purchased in

Metal Foundry

Cost

125 ×

Molds

The Metal Ingot is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. It's an essential ingredient for most mid-game and late-game equipment.

The Industrial Forge can produce up to 40 Metal Ingots at once if enough raw materials are available.

Crafting[]

To craft metal ingots you will need to put Metal in a Refining Forge or Industrial Forge. 2 pieces of Metal can be smelted to create a Metal Ingot.

Quantity	Refining Time Refining Forge	Refining Time Industrial Forge	Refining Time Phoenix	Refining Time Magmasaur
1 × Metal Ingot	20s	1.3s	5s	10s
15 × Metal Ingot	5m	20s	about 1m 15s	2m 30s
100 × Metal Ingot	33m 20s	2m 13s	about 8m 33s	16m 40s

Metal Ingots are used to craft a lot of items, including:

Full list of items crafted with Metal Ingot

Gathering[]

Weight Reduction[]

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

Creature	Reduction
Magmasaur	75%
Argentavis	50%

Video[]

Changelog[]

Patch	Changes
312.65	Metal Ingot stack size has been increased to 300.