Industrial Grinder

The Industrial Grinder in ARK: Survival Evolved is a crafting machine used to grind up crafted items into a quarter of their crafting ingredients.

Usage
The Grinder can grind up many crafted items, such as tools, weapons, armor, structures, and saddles. Doing so will return 1/4 the cost of each resource used to craft the item, rounded up, but capped at 100 of each resource.

Recipes
Some resources can be ground into other resources:

The actual amount of XP is affected by the XP multiplier setting of your game or server.

How it works
Put in the Industrial Grinder's inventory, then select the "Turn On" button. To grind up Wood or Stone, put them in the Grinder's inventory and then select the appropriate blueprint (Thatch or Flint). To grind up items for resources, put them into the Grinder's inventory, select the item to grind, then select the "Grind Selected Item" button or for items with more than one in a stack, grind the entire stack using the "Grind Selected Stack" button. Certain items cannot be ground up for resources, for example, Rafts, and are marked with a crossed out circle in the Grinder's inventory.

To avoid using too much Gasoline by leaving the Grinder running, just use a single Gasoline at a time. This runs the Grinder for 15 minutes, enough time to grind about 42 stacks of 100 Wood or Stone. As only 1000 ground up resources can be queued at once, this would require constant player attention for this time.

Experience
Excluding Mobile, The Industrial Grinder gives a good amount of experience when grinding up Wood and Stone. See the chart above for experience yields. However, you do not receive any experience for using the "Grind Selected Item/Stack" options.

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