Scout

Creature

Group

Mechanical Creatures

Fuel

Element

Threat Level

Low

Release Versions

285.104
Nov 6, 2018

779.29
Nov 6, 2018

528.23
Nov 6, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

678.15
Sep 1, 2021

DLCs

Extinction, Genesis: Part 2

Spawn Command

cheat summon Scout_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Extinction/Dinos/Scout/Scout_Character_BP.Scout_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Scout (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Scout_Character_BP_STA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Scout_Character_BP_STA.Scout_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

No¹

No

¹ Must be crafted from a Blueprint at a City Terminal or Tek Replicator.

Torpor Immune

Yes

Data

XP for kill

12 XP

Special Loot Chance

100%

Feces Size

Small

Drag Weight

149

Radiation Immune

No

Immobilized By

Habitat

Common Rare
Untameable Cave

The Scout is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved. This creature has been added in the DLC Extinction.

The Scout is a flying drone which can be found throughout the map, predominantly in the derelict city area. It acts as part of the automated defense, alerting enforcers to hostile targets.

Basic Info[]

Manual[]

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Santiago, the author of the Manuals, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

“

Model Number

UAV RQ-7Y

Threat Level

Low

Primary Function

Reconnaissance

Field Manual 31-581

Field Observations

By itself, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle RQ-7Y is hardly a concern. Though many of them can be found monitoring the empty streets the abandoned city, they're not aggressive, and their offensive capabilities are limited. If attacked, they rely on bursts from their thrusters to either take evasive maneuvers or ram the aggressor, and they have no real armaments to speak of. This makes obtaining intact processing cores and spare parts a trivial matter, and as a result we've constructed a number of our own.

Personal Use

Shifting some of our resources to focus on RQ-7Y construction has been more than worth the investment. I managed to turn our TEK binoculars into a remote control system for them, and as a result our scouting teams have been able to cover more ground with far less risk. They simply deploy the RQ-7Y with a specialized grenade, then use its enhanced vision to scout ahead, scan for allied IFFs and track targets. Just don't try to ride the damn thing. I didn't think I'd have to explain that considering how small it is, but three crashes later, here we are...

„

~ Santiago

Behavior[]

The Scout and the Enforcer serve as an automated security force that patrols the futuristic city of Extinction.

Appearance[]

Scouts appear as small mechanical drones that fly around the skies of Sanctuary, leaving a trail in their wake.

Color Scheme and Regions[]

This section displays the Scout's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Scout. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Scout will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

This information can be used to alter the Scout's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Scout's "thruster highlights" magenta.

Region 0:
Thruster Highlights

8

21

23

28

32

34

36

51

53

Region 1:
Body Highlights

8

21

23

28

32

34

36

51

53

Region 2:
Thruster Highlights

8

21

23

28

32

34

36

51

53

Region 3:
Outer Body Highlights

8

21

23

28

32

34

36

51

53

Region 4:
Body

8

21

23

28

32

34

36

51

53

Region 5:
Energy

2

3

5

7

25

26

28

53

Drops[]

Oil

Electronics

Scrap Metal

Element Dust

Base Stats and Growth[]

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
Attribute	Base Value	Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	3	+0.225	?
Stamina	90	+180	?
Oxygen	0	?	?
Food	7	+3.5	?
Weight	0	?	?
Melee Damage	0	?	?
Movement Speed	0.5%	N/A	?
Torpidity	0	+0	N/A

For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
Movement [u/s]	Wild	Tamed¹	Tamed²	Wild	Tamed¹	Tamed²	Stamina
Walking	245	?	?	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Swimming	300	?	?	?	?	?	?
Flying	600	?	?	?	?	?	?

¹These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed.
²These are the speeds of the creature tamed and non-imprinted.
For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.

Attack Values
RangedAttack	Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
	Stamina Cost	Base	Minimum	Activation
	5	6000	0	0
Attack Type	Damage	Projectile Values			Torpor Values		Status Effect: Stamina			Status Effect: Torpidity
Attack Type	Damage	Life	Impulse	Radius	Base	Mult	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount
Projectile
Explosion	2.85	50	70


Dash		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
		Stamina Cost	Base	Minimum	Activation
		9	0	0	0

Combat[]

This section describes how to fight against the Scout.

General[]

Scouts are difficult to fight on foot, as they have erratic movement and the tendency to dodge as one takes aim with ranged weaponry. Upon hitting the scout the scout will put up a shield and proceed to circle around you. The shield will make projectiles do one damage.

Strategy[]

It is recommended to use a ranged weapon or large tame as scouts often move out of melee range. Several hits will eventually down the scout, causing it to explode and drop a blueprint .

Weaponry[]

A bow, crossbow or longneck rifle work best if attempting to destroy a scout on foot, otherwise any large or ranged tame can easily destroy a scout.

Dangers[]

While not posing itself as a threat, it can mark anyone and anything that is not part of the machine workforce within the city, causing both nearby Enforcer and Defense Unit to engage the marked target.

Weakness[]

Scouts are completely unable to directly harm creatures when wild, relying on enforcers to eliminate those enemies that the scout marks.

Taming[]

Scout cannot be tamed by default. To be able to own one of such creature, one must craft them from the following:

To be able to craft anything better than a level 1, roaming Scouts have to be destroyed. On death, it leaves behind a blueprint as a dropped package at where it died. All Blueprints above Journeyman can only be made in the replicator with various level (scaled to the wild that was killed), stat and grade.

Upon deployment with at least 20 Element Dust, the survivor who deployed it will take control of the mechanical drone and fly around. The Scout will consume element dust from the player's inventory, with the energy gained from doing so varying depending on the quality of the blueprint.

Utility[]

A built scout can be deployed by throwing a pod resembling a grenade. Upon deployment, the player will look through a pair of Tek binoculars ( Scout Remote), seeing from the perspective of the scout. The scout can be used to perform short-medium range reconaissance and mark friendly and hostile targets. The environment will appear black and white, while creatures are highlighted in blue, green, yellow, red and teal. Blue represents creatures that are not currently hostile, green represents friendly tames, yellow represents creatures that are currently fleeing, red represents creatures that are currently hostile, and teal represents creatures that have died.

You can mark targets with a laser beam. To remove the mark hold the action button down and drag the laser beam indicator off of the target you had marked.

Roles[]

Danger Seeker - The Scout can scan for nearby hidden allies and enemies and mark them.

Mek Healer - When hovering near a Mek or Tek Stryder, the Scout will rapidly heal it. Make sure to get the scout very close, almost touching, the dino inorder for it to work. You will see the arms of the scout begin to repair your tame

Aggro Master - Scouts are notably cheap, capable of flight - even inside caves - and able to be controlled with atomic precision, all while still being able to get the attention of nearby aggressive creatures without making any kind of "mention" to the player that deployed them. Together, those attributes make them perfect for moving wild creatures to were you want them, be it just away from you, a trap, or a smoldering pit of lava. A practical example of this function is using them to take the Wild Giganotosaurus found in the Tek Cave out of the way.

Scouting - The moment a player gets close to an Element Vein, it is triggered and have to be completed or abandoned(will disappear). However, Scout will not trigger the Element Vein, so one can observe the difficulty of an Element Vein via a Scout without having to do it.

Collectibles[]

Resource	Efficiency
Raw Meat	?

Spotlight[]

Notes/Trivia[]

Scouts are one of the only 3 creatures that aren't capable of inflicting damage with their attack with the others being Diplodocus and Lymantria.
You will not be able to mount when the scout is deployed since it acts like a mount mechanism itself.
You can whistle to bring it back by right clicking when it is deployed.
The marked tags seems to only be visible when equipping the scout(un-deployed or not). unclear if intended or not
"TEK Binoculars" was referenced by Santiago in Scout's Manual, which was one of the planned standalone update for Tek.

Changelog[]

Patch	Changes
285.104 Extinction Expansion Release	Scout is added to the game
286.103	Scouts no longer drop Eggs Enabled Scouts to be crafted at City Terminals
287.100	Fixed terminal crafted Scouts being overpowered Can no longer be placed inside a Cryopod Attempts to fix issue with tracker appearing on players when it shouldn't be
287.110	When controlling a Scout, any voice chat comes through the Scout rather than the player controlling it Gashed attacks no longer affect robots
288.113	Improved tagging accuracy Improvements to player inspection mechanic Scout will now show floating damage text when damaged
289.100	Fix for Scout being destroyed by its owner's Turrets on spawn Mesh Memory Optimizations for Scout Remote
311.209	Scout can no longer push tamed creatures
329.5 Genesis: Part 2 Expansion Release	Scout is added to Genesis: Part 2