Refining Forge

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Requires wood, thatch, or sparkpowder to activate. Put unrefined resources in this to refine them.

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Structure

Type

Crafting

Health

2,500

Item slots

24 / 8

Fuel

Thatch (7.5 seconds)

Wood (30 seconds)

Sparkpowder (1 minute)

AnglerGel (4 minutes)

Decay time

16d

Item

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

Crafting

Required level

Level 20

Engram points

21 EP

Crafting XP

74.4 XP

Prerequisites

Campfire

Unlocks

Industrial Forge

Used to craft

8 items

Crafted in

Inventory

Ingredients

125 × Stone

5 × Flint

65 × Hide

20 × Wood or Fungal Wood

40 × Fiber

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

Usage[]

To use the Refining Forge, one needs to put either Thatch, Wood, Sparkpowder or 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:

400 Thatch, or
100 Wood, or
50 Sparkpowder, or
12.5 AnglerGel

Can exactly melt:

300 Metal (150 Metal Ingots), and/or
600 Oil & 500 Hide (500 Gasoline)

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	Oil
Thatch	7.5s	0.75	1.5
Wood	30s	3	6
Sparkpowder	1m	6	12
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	Oil
Thatch	12m 30s	75	150
Wood	50m	300	600
Sparkpowder	1h 40m	600	1200
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	2 × Metal	20s	300 × Metal	50m
Gasoline x 5	6 × Oil 5 × Hide	30s	240 × Oil 200 × 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: