ARK Survival Ascended Boosted Crafting Guide: How To Craft High-Level Loot

Crafting is a fundamental aspect of the ARK Survival Ascended experience, but beyond basic crafting, players must delve into high-level item creation as they approach the endgame. Understanding the methods for crafting top-tier gear is essential, yet the process may not be entirely clear.

This guide offers valuable insights into crafting high-level gear and loot in ARK Survival Ascended, ensuring you're well-prepared for the game's more challenging encounters. Without further delay, let's dive into the tips and strategies to elevate your crafting capabilities.

How To Craft High-Level Loot in ARK Survival Ascended

Similar to our guide on enhancing melee damage, the foundation of our high-level crafting guide revolves around our character levels, specifically focusing on the "Crafting skill" attribute and a specific item known as Focal Chili. When used in combination, these two items not only increase our general crafting skill but also provide boosts when crafting any of the numerous blueprints in the game, which is our ultimate goal.

To initiate the process, you'll need the Mindwipe Tonic, essentially a re-speccing item that allows us to reallocate all the points spent on our character's levels, concentrating them all into the Crafting skill. The Focal Chili has a similar effect but imparts a boost when crafting recipes instead of blueprints.

Here are the crafting requirements for both the Mindwipe Tonic and Focal Chili:

Mindwipe Tonic:

• 24 × Cooked Prime Meat, Cooked Prime Fish Meat, Cooked Lamb Chop, or Prime Meat Jerky
• 200 × Mejoberry
• 72 × Narcotic
• 72 × Stimulant
• 20 × Rare Mushroom
• 20 × Rare Flower
• 1 × Water

Focal Chili:

• 9 × Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky
• 5 × Citronal
• 20 × Amarberry
• 20 × Azulberry
• 20 × Tintoberry
• 10 × Mejoberry
• 1 × Water

Once you've incorporated these items to boost your crafting skill, whenever you craft a new item using your Smithy or Fabricator, you'll achieve an elevated crafting value. However, this enhancement only applies when crafting with a blueprint; using an Engram from your inventory won't provide the boost and will yield only the base item.

By employing the Mindwipe Tonic and Focal Chili, you can easily obtain a weapon at the capped level. However, you may need to roll or craft the item multiple times, as the crafting percentage boost is randomly determined.

For example, crafting a Simple Pistol blueprint with a 200% stat might result in different percentages with each attempt, such as 250%, 290%, 310%, and so on. Having more resources to craft increases your chances of rolling for a better boost.

There you have it—a quick and comprehensive method on how to enhance your crafting skill and effortlessly craft higher-level items in ARK Survival Ascended. Credit goes to YouTuber Teachers Game Too for their contribution to discovering this strategy. For a more detailed exploration, check out their full video below.