Gunpowder

Gunpowder
A powerful propellant. Necessary for any firearm or explosive.
Resource
Type	Resource
Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Refineable	No
Combustible	No
Item
Weight	0.1
Stack Size	100
Spawn Command cheat giveitemnum 108 1 0 0 or cheat GFI Gunpowder 1 0 0 or cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_Gunpowder.PrimalItemResource_Gunpowder'" 1 0 0
Crafting
Required level	Level 15
Engram Points	2 EP
Crafting XP	0.2 XP
Crafting Time	1s
Prerequisites	Sparkpowder
Unlocks	Barrel of Gunpowder Flare Gun Grenade Simple Bullet Simple Rifle Ammo Tek Gravity Grenade
Used to craft	32 items
Crafted in	Mortar and Pestle Chemistry Bench Equus Saddle
Required Stations	Mortar and Pestle Campfire
Crafting Yields	6 Pieces
Ingredients
Resources breakdown [Expand] 1 × Sparkpowder 1 × Stone 1 × Flint 1 × Charcoal 1 × Wood or Fungal Wood Total Base Ingredients 1 × Stone 1 × Wood or Fungal Wood 1 × Flint
Ingredients (Chemistry Bench)
Resources breakdown [Expand] 4 × Sparkpowder 2 × Stone 4 × Flint 4 × Charcoal 4 × Wood or Fungal Wood Total Base Ingredients 2 × Stone 4 × Wood or Fungal Wood 4 × Flint
Hexagon Exchange
Exchange Yields	20 Pieces
Hexagons	150

Gunpowder is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is created in a Mortar and Pestle and is used for crafting weapons and ammunition.

Crafting

Gunpowder is used to craft the following items:

• Advanced Bullet
• Advanced Rifle Bullet
• Advanced Sniper Bullet
• Barrel of Gunpowder
• C4 Charge
• Cannon Ball
• Cannon Shell
• Cluster Grenade
• Flame Arrow
• Flare Gun
• Forest Coloring
• Grenade
• Homing Underwater Mine
• Improvised Explosive Device
• Oil Jar
• Parchement Coloring
• Pink Coloring
• Poison Grenade
• Rocket Homing Missile
• Rocket Pod
• Rocket Propelled Grenade
• Royalty Coloring
• Silver Coloring
• Simple Bullet
• Simple Rifle Ammo
• Simple Shotgun Ammo
• Sky Coloring
• Sticky Bomb
• Tan Coloring
• Tangerine Coloring
• Tek Gravity Grenade
• Tek Grenade

• Some types of Dyes

Full list of items crafted with Gunpowder

Crafting Method

One easy method to create massive amounts of gunpowder is to chop a large quantity of wood, place the wood in a campfire/forge (not a standing torch as they burn wood much slower), and use an Ankylo to mine flint and stone needed for the sparkpowder ingredient. Once full of flint and stone, the wood should have finished burning and produced charcoal, giving the second ingredient needed to make the gunpowder. Another method to acquire vast amounts of charcoal is to chop down burnt trees on the burnt islands of The Center and around volcano area of Ragnarok, as they drop it as a resource as well.

Notes

Since Charcoal is acquired at such a low level, it is advised to store it, if you have the means, to save having to waste burning wood later on without cooking anything.

Trivia

• Gunpowder blueprints can no longer be spawned. If the "cheat giveitemnum 108 1 0 1" command is used there will only spawn one item of gunpowder. You MUST learn the engram prior to be able to make gunpowder.