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Refining Forge
Refining Forge
Requires wood, thatch, or sparkpowder to activate. Put unrefined resources in this to refine them.
Type
Health
2,500
Item slots
24 / 8
Fuel
Thatch Thatch (7.5 seconds)
Wood Wood (30 seconds)
Sparkpowder Sparkpowder (1 minute)
AnglerGel AnglerGel (4 minutes)
Decay time
16d
Weight
4.0
Stack size
100
Spawn Command
cheat giveitemnum 124 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi forge 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Misc/PrimalItemStructure_Forge.PrimalItemStructure_Forge'" 1 0 0
Required level
Engram points
21 EP
Crafting XP
74.4 XP
Prerequisites
Used to craft
Crafted in
Ingredients
125 × Stone Stone
5 × Flint Flint
65 × Hide Hide
40 × Fiber Fiber

The Refining Forge is a structure in ARK: Survival Evolved that is used to refine Metal Metal into Metal Ingot Metal Ingot and Oil Oil into Gasoline Gasoline. It is unlocked at Level 20.

Usage[]

To use the Refining Forge, one needs to put either Thatch Thatch, Wood Wood, Sparkpowder Sparkpowder or AnglerGel AnglerGel inside. See table below for more information. The Refining Forge also can not be sitting on a foundation that's in water.

Once the fuel and refining materials are inside the forge, you light the fire to begin refining. Durations for the fuel and the refining materials are given in the tables below.

To make the most efficient use of fuel, the amount of refining materials and fuel should be balanced to not waste fuel once the refining is complete.

For common examples:

Can exactly melt:

Fuel[]

Each fuel will burn for a different amount time. The table below shows how long each fuel will burn and what a single piece of fuel can theoretically refine (Minimum amounts of ingredients are given in the Refining section).

Each Fuel Burn Time Metal Metal Oil Oil
Thatch Thatch 7.5s 0.75 1.5
Wood Wood 30s 3 6
Sparkpowder Sparkpowder 1m 6 12
AnglerGel AnglerGel 4m 24 48

Each fuel stacks to a maximum of 100, except thatch, which stacks to 200. The table below shows how long one stack of each fuel will burn and how much that is able to refine.

Stack of Fuel (x100) Burn Time Metal Metal Oil Oil
Thatch Thatch 12m 30s 75 150
Wood Wood 50m 300 600
Sparkpowder Sparkpowder 1h 40m 600 1200
AnglerGel AnglerGel 6h 40m 2400 4800

An excellent offline calculator is available for automating these calculations, or you can use the following online calculator.

Refining[]

Each resource takes a different amount time to refine. The following table gives the duration to refine each resource for different amounts of ingredients

Resource Minimum Ingredients Refining Time Stack of Ingredients Refining Time
Metal Ingot Metal Ingot 2 × Metal Metal 20s 300 × Metal Metal 50m
Gasoline Gasoline x 5 6 × Oil Oil
5 × Hide Hide
30s 240 × Oil Oil
200 × Hide Hide
20m

An online calculator for automating the calculations is available at tristan.games (Just click the industrial tab)

Both Gasoline and Metal can smelt at the same time with both timers running simultaneously.

Notes[]

  • The Refining Forge is treated as a wooden structure and can not be damaged by hands, stone weapons, or non-explosive ranged attacks.
  • The following aggressive creatures can not damage the Refining Forge:


Painting and Color Regions[]

X mark

The Refining Forge is not currently paint-able, however this object may be re-mapped to include paint regions in a future update.

For more information on Paint Regions and how to use them, please view the Blue Coloring Dye, Paintbrush Paintbrush, or Spray Painter Spray Painter pages.

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