ARK Survival Ascended TEK Transmitter: How To Craft & Uses

In ARK Survival Ascended, TEK items and structures are regarded as powerful end-game assets, offering various benefits to enhance your ARK experience. Some structures serve as upgraded versions of their counterparts, while others, like the TEK Transmitter, are futuristic devices designed for unique tasks.

If you're eager to understand what the TEK Transmitter is and how to set it up in your end-game base, continue reading. The following sections provide a detailed breakdown of crafting and utilizing the TEK Transmitter in ARK Survival Ascended.

How To Craft the TEK Transmitter in ARK Survival Ascended

The official description of TEK Transmitter describes them as devices that allow players to transmit their items and tames of one character between other servers in a cluster. This is quite a useful mechanic, and due to its utility, its crafting requirements are pretty high as well, so let's take a look at the crafting items needed to craft the TEK Transmitter below:

• TEKgram is acquired after defeating Dragon Boss in Alpha or Beta.
• 40 × Element
• 2500 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 250 × Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 80 × Black Pearl
• 320 × Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule

To craft the device, you'll also need access to a TEK Replicator, so if you don't have one, be sure to check out our guide on how to get the TEK Replicator here. Luckily, you don't need any fuel to power the device, but using it does require some understanding of the transfer limitations, so let's discuss how the TEK Transmitter works next.

How Does the TEK Transmitter Work in ARK Survival Ascended?

Just like with regular Obelisks, you can upload items, characters, and creatures using the TEK Transmitter and download them on other ARKs. When activated, it shoots a beam of light into the sky, similar to a beacon. If it's destroyed, the items and dinos (Cryopods) will drop and not be available until you transmit them again.

It also allows the transfer of water dinos via Cryopods to other ARKS, which could only be done through Deep Sea Loot Crates or underwater Supply Crates before Cryopods. This makes them extremely useful for PvP in the case that your tribe is located on a different server and you want specific dinos from your single-player ark to be transported over.

The device is treated as a TEK structure and can only be damaged by Explosives, the Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, an Arthropluera, a Titanosaur, and the island bosses (other creatures and items that can damage it may come in future DLCs). But overall, the TEK Transmitter is the ideal end-game tool for when you're ready to take your gear and dinos into other arks and explore what they have to offer.

So there you have it, a quick and comprehensive breakdown of how to craft the TEK Transmitter and how it's used in ARK Survival Ascended. So, once you're ready to see what other ARKs have to offer, this device is exactly what you need.